Chapter 44: Homemade Singles

However, although Zhou Xiao is a genius, Nagato Daxing is not ready to give him too many opportunities to promote and sing, on the one hand, being does not have too much experience and publicity in this area, on the other hand, he is also a little cautious.

Zhou Xiao is only 18 years old, this age is impetuous and simple, not publicity? Do something else? Nagato Daxing would not think that Zhou Xiao really has the ability to sell millions of singles on the one hand and make books and movies on the other hand, after all, Zhou Xiao has not shown his genius in these aspects, and he only shows singing.

Just ask, what would such a kid who has almost arrogant confidence in himself think if he can't sell sales at all after releasing a single? Do you think the company didn't give him publicity, or do you see your own level?

Presumably, anyone will blame others first, blame the company, this is a person's instinct.

When the time comes, he will come out again to clean up the mess, rush the sales of this single, and take this opportunity to completely control him......

This is the true purpose of Nagato Daiyuki.

After a few days of intensive study, Zhou Xiao finally determined the final melody of the two songs with the various gods of the company, and the overall melody was basically the same as the two songs in Zhou Xiao's memory, but the details were more rocky, if you listen to it to the average layman, you may not be able to hear any difference at all.

However, the determination of the final melody is still far from the progress of the single, and the next thing to be done is the arrangement of the music, Zhou Xiao does not understand this aspect at all, but he did not directly hand over all the arrangement work, he asked the company to teach him all kinds of things about arrangement when teaching him music knowledge, these things are equally important to him, because he can't always find others to help arrange the music, almost all the music in his mind is the result of modern arrangement, And if he only gives out the melody tune, it is likely that the arranger will arrange the tune into something completely different from what he has in mind, Zhou Xiao certainly does not doubt the strength of the composers in being, but he doesn't want the music in his mind to easily lose its original appearance and never appear in the world again.

While the arrangement work was in full swing and the whole company was eagerly waiting for the full version of the two songs, several news about the signing of a new singer-songwriter by being company was also faxed to major media.

It's just this kind of thing...... Nobody cares at all......

From May to June 2000, who was in the entertainment industry?

On Being's side, in addition to Sakai Izumizu and B'z Erlao, the most popular person is Mai Kuraki, whose third single "Secretofmyheart" released on April 26 also continued the advantage of the first two singles and won the oricon sales chart...... 2nd place. Don't think it's easy to take this second place! The second place in 2014 Oricon sold more than 10,000 a week and occasionally sat in this position, but if you push the time back to 14 years ago, this second place is by no means easy to get, what is the first single of 426 this week? This week's first single is enough to be passed down to the world, and in various surveys in Japan, it has been ranked at the top of the "cherry blossom song" and "graduation song" for many years, "Sakurasaka" by Masaharu Fukuyama! Mai Kuraki didn't lose to this one at all.

Masaharu Fukuyama's "Sakurasaka" finally sold 2.28 million copies, and more than ten years later, AKB48 worked hard, selling multiple versions together, holding handshakes, and attaching voting coupons for the general election that year, even if it was blessed with so many plug-ins, AKB48's highest-selling single still did not exceed 2 million copies, which shows how powerful Masaharu Fukuyama's song is.

But it was such a powerful song, but it didn't win the final championship in this year's single sales, because above him was an even more powerful figure, the southern stars, Yoshisuke Kuwata sold 2.88 million CDs with their "TSUNAMI", which was 600,000 copies ahead of Masaharu Fukuyama in 2000.

In addition, Ayumi Hamasaki is also an invincible year in the world, although in this year's highest sales of a single single, her SEASONS is only ranked fifth, but she can't stand her more, in 2000 a year, she released seven singles! In addition to the sales of "M" released by zuihou in one day this year, she will be counted in 2001, and her six singles are selling well, plus other sales in various ways, so that zuihou will get more than 21.7 billion yen in sales this year, opening up the second place Mai Kuraki more than 5 billion!

In the preparation of the song, the company's senior management has also begun to prepare intensively for the release of the single.

Originally, the release of a single had to go through a lot of preparations, first of all, the suppression company had to notify the suppression time, the distribution company also had to notify and sign the contract, the shooting of the MV, the selection of the director, the formation of the crew, the preparation of the MV script, the discussion of each sub-shot, and the director's understanding of the song...... Countless trivial and necessary things are arranged during this time, and then one by one.

But for Zhou Xiao's single, everything was compressed to the simplest state, and in the end, the sales time of this first single was set for June 7, about half a month later. Ayumi Hamasaki, who will also release a single on June 7, has now begun to promote the single, but Zhou Xiao's side, not to mention the publicity before the single goes on sale, even after the single goes on sale, the company has not set any strategy that can be called publicity!

Zhou Xiao is not a big-name singer like ZARD, there are dozens of TV and newspaper media staring at it all day long, once there is any news, they will rush in, and they don't do such a thing as propaganda at all, even if they are singers of being company, they usually only dare to do this after they become famous. Of course, there are people who don't do this, but most of their songs are selected songs for various TV dramas or animations, and they are born with a fixed weekly promotion channel. It can be said that if you change to a different singer, maybe you will already have the idea of resigning at this time.

But Zhou Xiao will not be like this, on the contrary, he is very comfortable with the company's arrangement, and the few books that he wanted to code out at the beginning of the crossing are about to come to an end, not to mention, Zhou Xiao has enough confidence in a small love, even if he doesn't do any publicity, as long as there is a complete distribution of goods, and karaoke also has data, then this song will definitely become popular, not to mention the divine comedy that starts with the C/W song of this song!? It can be said that the careful thinking of Nagato Daiyuki in this regard is just in line with Zhou Xiao's taste.

When the arrangement was finally done, it was time to start recording and shooting the MV.

Because both songs are band songs, Sakai Izumi called her own ZARD band members to help shoot, the composition of ZARD is actually not fixed, Sakai Izumi and most of them are only in partnership, and they are not particularly familiar with each other, but as the only regular member to gather members, how can the members of the band not be present.

Zuihou's recording time lasted for a total of three days, in which the band members spent one day to master the soundtrack, and Zhou Xiao recorded the song for another two days, when the song was completed, Zhou Xiao also breathed a sigh of relief, this is the first single he produced in his past life and present life, for a while, Zhou Xiao was full of emotion.

After the recording, it's the shooting of the MV, originally Zhou Xiao's single was only two songs, and there was no DVD attached to it when it was released, so the MV didn't really need to be filmed, but the company's budget was not much, but the shooting of a simple MV didn't cost much, and the band members were called again, and Zhou Xiaohou found a small stage in the theater.

The small theater was contacted by Uncle Inoue with the help of Uncle Inoue, and it took up 20 minutes after the theater performance, and the audience who had just watched the funny artist's performance in the theater was stopped by the person in charge to help, and then Zhou Xiao took the three band members on the stage.

It's just four cameras, three fixed cameras and a shoulder-mounted wandering camera that's all there is today, as for the split shot? Repeated recordings? Picture addition? It's not good once, none of these things are there, the whole MV is actually just a two-song LIVE between Zhou Xiao and the band!

Cutting corners to the extreme.

But does anyone care about that? No one cares at all, it's just a simple single that has no publicity, and it's already thankful that it can be filmed on the MV, and other things are not needed at all.