Chapter 140: Team Selection

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The song "Powder Snow", in the history that Zhou Xiao experienced, the total sales volume was more than 9o, and the sales volume that year was about 750,000. This number is not small, but the record sales of O5 and O6 have begun to decline in the end, with the quality and topicality of the song "Powder Snow", if it had been done a few years earlier, it would have been relatively simple to sell millions.

is like what Zhou Xiao is doing now.

Receiving the million certification for the second time in his life is a big deal for the Japanese entertainment industry, Zhou Xiao, who has just debuted for less than a year, is simply a big pervert for the Japanese audience, because he has now created three million singles, and one of them has already exceeded two million, and it is probably only a matter of time before SMAP will exceed two million, and the five million sales of three singles are unprecedented.

Not only that, but he even made a movie with a box office of 2o billion during this time and published two or three novels! This kind of efficiency and strength is even terrifying.

And with this trend, another news soon came out.

ZARD's new single from Sakai Spring Water will be composed by Zhou Xiao!

Although being has begun to decline, Sakai Spring is still the star in the industry, usually providing her with music, but they are all big-name composers in being, and now a newcomer who has just debuted for a year provides music, I have to say that Zhou Xiao has really become a new favorite in the industry. It's just that for Zhou Xiao's soaring number of singles, writing songs for Sakai Spring Water won't sell too much, and the sales of powerful singers will usually only be reflected in albums rather than singles.

In terms of music, Zhou Xiao, who has only released two singles for almost a year after his debut, doesn't seem to have any interest in releasing singles one by one, and the news again shows that this time he is going to release an album!

Between albums and singles in Japan, singles with one or two songs are usually in the early 1,000 yen, such as Zhou Xiao's first single priced at 1o5o yen. is barely regarded as a cheap single, and when it comes to Zhou Xiao's second single "Powder Snow", it is not at this price. This single that has worked the packaging and content will cost 135o yen to buy, although it doesn't actually go up much, but even if it's 300 yen, multiplied by a huge base of at least one million, its increased sales are still in 100 million.

And will include a full 12 songs, including an album with a DVD, its price is even more powerful, Zhou Xiao's initial price positioning of this album is 34oo yen. Although it is slightly more expensive than the 3ooo yen Japanese regular album, seeing that he is now in a popular state, people who buy albums should not care too much about this.

Zhou Xiao is also very concerned about the promotion of the album, and after the album sales information was revealed, he soon appeared on a live music program on TBS and sang the title song of the album "Zeus".

Aunt Miyuki Nakajima's lyrics and songwriting skills are vividly reflected in this song, coupled with a fairly mature arrangement, when Zhou Xiao sings this song, it can be said that the whole of Japan is a sensation!

At that time, Zhou Xiao on TV was holding the microphone and swaying his body with the rhythm. Behind him is the band playing strong rhythmic music, the drum kit is uplifting, and Zhou Xiao's lyrics are also wonderful.

"This song ......" many people thought of that name.

They don't think that this song was made by Miyuki Nakajima, because Zhou Xiao sang his own feelings. And in terms of arrangement, it's not at all Miyuki Nakajima's way, so what does it feel like...... It is probably Zhou Xiao who imitated Miyuki Nakajima's style and wrote a rock version of "Zeus" for himself.

Although there are many people who think so, there are still many more people who still have doubts in their hearts, this song. Is it really Zhou Xiao who did it?

What really eliminated this doubt was a fax from the TV station on the second day of the TV program. The fax reads: "I am Miyuki Nakajima, Mr. Zhou Xiao's ship really resembles my style at the beginning of hearing it, but now I haven't thought of any melodies close to this song, I think Mr. Zhou Xiao should have imitated my music style, and after adding his own unique understanding of music, he made this excellent work that seems to be very close to me, but actually kneades me with his own style perfectly." Mature and vibrant, intense and rhythmic, this is a rare masterpiece. ”

Such a statement once again caused a lot of waves in the entertainment industry and TV stations, it is rare to see young people who are praised by Miyuki Nakajima, and now Zhou Xiao has undoubtedly become a very special existence of Japanese music, on the one hand, he is not a person with his own system like Tetsuya Komuro, but on the other hand, he has also brought Japanese music to a considerable height with a changeable style.

For Zhou Xiao, the most important publicity for this album is still to fall on his own title program, and now, this title program has become his most important move, because whether it is the website, the publicity of the Twelve Women's Orchestra, the promotion of his own album, or the promotion of the title program, and almost everything such as the exhibition, it will finally fall on the first issue of this title program, if this first episode of the program can not achieve very, very good results, I'm afraid that even with a lot of publicity, it will run into great problems.

Therefore, in addition to participating in variety shows, Zhou Xiao also attaches great importance to the preparation of this episode.

AZX first bought several cameras for the company to use, professional cameras are not cheap, the million yen level is just the most ordinary model, just these cameras, it cost more than 10 million dollars, and the hardware is far from enough, all kinds of sound investment, lighting, indoor and outdoor recording and other equipment need a large amount of money investment, before the production of this program, AZX is just a small company that has to rent any equipment, when the program team is pulled up, AZX already has the most advanced equipment in the industry.

In addition to hardware,It's also very important for the choice of people,Zhou Xiao, who entrusted all the qiē to Uncle Inoue, was not disappointed,Several people recruited by the uncle are all seniors with considerable experience,Plus other experienced staff provided by the daily TV program team,This has become Zhou Xiao's confidence,Because he himself has no experience,Even if he has a good idea,Without these experienced seniors,What he makes will still be unknown,From this point of view, Zhou Xiao and these invited people complement each other.

There's also the choice of guests, which is just as important for the show.

Because the setting of the title program is a program for Zhou Xiao to do various things, there is no need for the TV station to provide an anchor to carry out the process for the time being, but a fixed appearance is also necessary, and Zhou Xiao can't pretend to be a fool and complain by himself. After many selections, Zhou Xiao set his sights on the funny combination Black Mayonnaise.

Although they have debuted in 98, as a funny group, the accumulation period of 2 years is still very short, even if the real strength of the two of them is very good, the real strength will not be until 2oo5 years after their debut, 7 years after their debut, after winning the M-1 championship that year, the career really began to rise, for funny artists, ten years is just the beginning, which is very normal.

But this is good news for Zhou Xiao, the two of them are not worth enough now, and their popularity is not enough, even if Zhou Xiao's show is only a late-night show, it is also a good opportunity for them.

Another important part of the first episode of the program is the Women's Twelve Orchestra, especially Li Xuejiao's performance, it can be said that the real protagonists of this first episode of the program are this group of young girls, not only in front of the camera to express themselves, they also need to play the best music to satisfy Zhou Xiao.

"Uncle Inoue, has the meeting of the Black Mayonnaise been arranged?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"It's already arranged, and you can interview them at any time." Uncle Inoue said. (To be continued!)