Seeing Nobuo Tomioka so respectful, Cao Zhiqiang, who had been coding words for a day, didn't think much about it, just nodded lightly.

"Ah, Section Chief Tomioka is here, is there something wrong?"

"Hey, that's a bit of a problem." Nobuo Tomioka smiled, "Well, do you have time now?" It's something about songs. ”

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "That's it, you wait, I'll go to the toilet and come back to talk to you." ”

"Yes, please." Nobuo Tomioka bowed slightly.

Cao Zhiqiang didn't say anything, he could only nod his head, and then went to the toilet.

It's good to come to Japan for anything, but this nodding and bowing etiquette is too much, which makes him a little uncomfortable.

He doesn't care about himself, but if someone else takes the initiative to bow to him, he always nods in response, otherwise he will feel uncomfortable.

It's still good in China, how can there be so many bowing ceremonies, you have to nod and bow even to buy vegetables, are you tired.

No wonder it is said that the Japanese have the spirit of bowing, and they do like to bow.

Bowing may seem respectful, but if you bow too much, it's just a formality, and no one will pay attention to it anymore.

After going to the bathroom and washing his hands, Cao Zhiqiang came to the dining table and sat down.

Before he could speak, Akina Nakamori first meekly came over and asked, "Zhiqiang-san, what to drink?" Coffee? Or black tea? ”

"Black tea." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Add some lemon slices." ”

"Okay." Akina Nakamori smiled and nodded, "You please wait." ”

Cao Zhiqiang nodded, and then stopped paying attention to Akina Nakamori.

On the contrary, it was Nobuo Tomioka, who smiled kindly and quipped: "Oh, Cao San, I really admire you!" Mingcai Sang is a flower of our Warner, many people like her, many rich sons and brothers are chasing her, but she can't look down on any of them, I didn't expect to be caught by you, it's really amazing! ”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled faintly: "Well, the emotional thing, the main thing is that two people look at each other, if they don't look at each other, it's useless to chase each other." ”

Nobuo Tomioka was stunned for a moment, then touched his head and smiled: "Hahaha, that's what I said." But it has to be Cao Sang, you are good enough, Ming Caisan's vision is very high. ”

Cao Zhiqiang nodded, and then went straight to the point: "Section Chief Tomioka, let's get down to business first, you came to me on purpose, didn't you come to investigate my private relationship with Ming Cai, right?" ”

"Ah, yes, it's a serious matter." Nobuo Tomioka nodded.

Immediately afterwards, Nobuo Tomioka became serious and said to Cao Zhiqiang: "Cao Sang, have you heard the radio music broadcast yesterday afternoon?" ”

"Yesterday?" Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "I'm sorry, I've been busy writing yesterday and don't have time to listen to the radio." ”

"Write?" Nobuo Tomioka was slightly stunned, and then he didn't pay attention to this, but continued, "It's a shame that you haven't heard of it. ”

After a pause, Nobuo Tomioka smiled and said, "That's right, what about yesterday's music radio program, your song "Jun がいるだけで" (as long as you are there) was broadcast as promised, and the effect achieved was very good."

Let's put it this way, as soon as this song was played, there were many hotlines asking the radio station to broadcast it again.

Then after the host played it again, before the second time was finished, many hotlines came, all asking for it to be broadcast again.

In this way, it has been played five times, and there is still a steady stream of hotlines, either asking for a replay, or wanting to know the details of the singer named 'Morinaka Aoizumi'.

It's a pity that it is impossible for the radio station to play a song all the time, so it is stopped after five broadcasts.

However, although the song is off the air, the hotline still keeps calling, asking for the name of the song and the singer.

At the beginning, you said that you wanted to keep it secretive, so we just asked the host to report your stage name, height and age, and didn't say anything else.

Not to mention, this is a good way of keeping you secret, the less information about you, the more curious they are about you.

In addition to many people asking about your specific situation, there are also many people who call the radio station and ask when you will officially debut and when the record will be released, and they all said that they will buy it as soon as possible. ”

Speaking of this, Nobuo Tomioka shook his head with a smile, and then said: "Cao San, in my experience, the radio effect is so good, and most of them are young people, this record release, the results should not be bad." ”

Cao Zhiqiang nodded calmly, his expression was not particularly happy, just a natural look.

Just kidding.,This is "Jun がいるだけで" that was only released by Mimi CLUB in 1992!

In Cao Zhiqiang's previous life, this song was quite powerful, with an initial sales of 925,000 copies, which was unprecedented, and it was not until 1995 that it was surpassed by B'z's "LOVE PHANTOM".

The so-called initial sales refer to the weekly sales one week after the launch.

In 1992, it was not the golden age of the Japanese music industry, but at most it was at the forefront of the golden period, and it was definitely not ordinary to achieve 925,000 copies a week during this period.

In addition, in 1992, this song achieved a total of 2.762 million copies of the annual sales record, won the highest score in a single week in the public trust rankings, and also won the first prize of the Golden Disc Award and the Japan Record Award.

And the Mimi CLUB of that year, before the release of this song, was just a very well-known band, and the results were tepid, and the only single that broke one million before was still an advertising song "Romantic Flight", but that achievement was very watery, and it was largely related to the vigorous promotion of Japan Airlines.

On the contrary, it was the later song "Jun がいるだけで", although it was the theme song of a popular TV series, but it didn't have much money to promote before, and it was a natural fire.

Although this song also had the addition of the TV series "Su 顔のままで" back then, all in all, the song itself is of excellent quality and belongs to mutual achievements.

In this time and space, although Cao Zhiqiang launched this single as his debut song, there is no addition to the TV series "Su 顔のままで", but don't forget, this is not 1992, but 1983.

The Japanese music scene in 1983 is fundamentally incomparable to the blooming period of 1992.

It can be said that the Japanese music scene in the early 80s cannot be said to be tepid, but it was also limited, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a dark age for the Japanese music scene.

At this point, just look at the past singles sales charts of the public trust chart.

Among the top 50 singles selling songs in the history of the chart, they are basically songs from the 90s and early 2000s, and before that, songs from the 60s and 70s.

The songs of the 80s, which can be on the top 50 singles, are only one of Yamashitoro's "クリスマスイブ" on the list, and it seems to be a song from 1983, but it was only in December.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the 80s of the Japanese music scene were called the Dark Ages, and it is true.

Otherwise, with the strength of Akina Nakamori, she would not have begun to dominate the entire Japanese music scene in the 80s after 1985.

But it's strange to say that the Japanese music scene began in the 80s, especially in the mid-to-late 80s, which is a fact, but Japan's economy is precisely the hottest in the 80s, especially in the mid-to-late 80s.

On the contrary, it was the 90s when the Japanese music scene was full of flowers, and it was all after the bubble burst.

It seems that the entertainment industry, especially the music industry, is indeed the opposite of the economy.

The better the economy, the worse the entertainment industry, and the worse the economy, the better the entertainment industry.

If you think about China carefully, in the 80s and 90s, when China's economy was poor, there were actually a lot of good songs and movies.

On the contrary, two thousand years later, when China's economy began to develop rapidly, there were fewer good songs and movies.

Not to mention Hong Kong movies.

It seems that the more in the early stage of the economic downturn, the crazier the entertainment industry, especially the music industry.

On the contrary, when the economy took off, the entertainment industry was not very prosperous.

And the United States, the United States in the eighties, such as the current Reagan period, is actually not good, the whole economy presents a period of great stagflation, not much better than the Soviet Union in the same period.

But it was during this period that there was a singer in the United States, Michael Jackson!

In the earlier era of Elvis Presley, that is, in the 70s when he was active, the U.S. economy was actually not very good, and it was also in a period of stagflation, but the U.S. economy at that time was in the early stage of the great stagflation, which was not serious.

Perhaps because of this, Elvis Presley's achievements are far from being comparable to Michael Jackson.

After all, the eighties, when Michael Jackson was active, were a time when the American economic crisis was even more severe.

Of course, this is not absolute, and it is not always the case, but it seems to be the case for the most part.

That is, the more prosperous a country's economy is, the worse the entertainment industry is, and vice versa, the entertainment industry is quite developed.

The same is true for the South Korean economy.

In fact, the period of South Korea's economic take-off was from the 70s to the 90s, and the so-called Han River miracle was basically this period.

But during this period, the Korean entertainment industry can't be said to be bad at all, and it basically has no sense of existence, local movies are basically dominated by Hollywood movies and Hong Kong movies, and music is the same, brainwashed by American music and Hong Kong music.

On the contrary, two thousand years later, South Korea began to revitalize the entertainment industry, and the entertainment industry began to flourish, but it was precisely during this period that South Korea's economy was actually declining, but there was the inertia of the Han River miracle before, and the economic decline was not obvious.

has been declining until 2023, and South Korea's economy will be completely lost, but its entertainment industry has gone abroad and completely hung up the Korean wave.

It can be seen that the economy and entertainment may really be the opposite.

Anyway, it's not said that the quality of "Jun がいるだけで" was released, and it was released in 1983, and it was a bit too much to say that it was a bully, but it was right to say that it was a dimensionality reduction attack.

The reason is simple, that is, the so-called dark period of Japanese music in the 80s was not because the audience's aesthetics deteriorated, but because the creativity of the artists failed.

Music is art, it is a kind of creativity, and only by writing good songs and then good words can it become a masterpiece.

As long as there are good songs and good lyrics, even if the singer's level is almost low, he can still take off on the spot.

Just like the famous poems of the Tang Dynasty, as long as the quality of the poems themselves is good, whether the old man comes to chant or the cute girl to chant, it will not be too bad, this is the power of poetry itself.

Songs and poems are all in common, even if they are pop songs, they are actually similar.

In short, Cao Zhiqiang used this famous song as his debut single, and he felt that there was no need for publicity at all, but as long as the Japanese still had some basic aesthetics, they could hear that this song was good.

Even if this is the 80s, and there is no TV series bonus, the results may not be as good as when the song appeared in the previous life, but the initial move, or the first week of sales of 100,000 copies, is more than enough.

In the 80s, the record results of the Japanese music scene, with 100,000 copies at the beginning, could properly rank in the top five on the weekly list of the public credit list, and the first place is very likely.

If there can be an initial sales of 200,000, then there is no need to ask, at least in this period, it can definitely rank first on the weekly list of the public trust list.

With this kind of achievement, it is enough, there is no need to be demanding.

"Cao Sang, you don't seem surprised to hear this news." Nobuo Tomioka smiled.

Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "No, it's just that I'm new to the city and don't know your situation here, so it's not good to evaluate." ”

"I see." Nobuo Tomioka nodded, "That's right, what about our side, if there can be more than three replays during the test before the release, that is, during the radio test period, you can basically conclude that this song is a big hit, and your song has been replayed five times, which belongs to the cap replay number of radio stations, so it's no problem to be a hit." ”

After a short pause, Nobuo Tomioka said, "Because this test of the waters is good, we decided to increase the promotion before the official release.

For this reason, I went to the president, and the president agreed to increase the promotion fee to 80 million yen.

You know, this cost is very high, Ming Cai-san is so popular now, and her record promotion expenses are not so high.

Therefore, we would like to ask you to go to the company to take some photos, and when the time comes, we will make your photos into posters, wall calendars, as well as street sign advertisements, subway advertisements and so on.

When the time comes, it will be promoted for three days, and when it is officially released, it will be launched as an advertisement on TV MTV, and I believe that the sales will be good.

What do you think? ”

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "Take a photo, when?" ”

"It's best to go tonight." Nobuo Tomioka said, "Of course, if it's not convenient for you, you can do it early tomorrow morning." But it's better to be quick, not more than tomorrow, after all, today is Sunday, tomorrow is Monday, and we're going to go on sale on Wednesday, so there aren't many days left. ”

Cao Zhiqiang thought about it and nodded: "Yes, I can go with you now, but I have one condition." ”

"On what terms?" Nobuo Tomioka asked.

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "When taking a photo, I don't want to show my face, I want to wear a mask on my face."

Considering that I might have to do some singing gestures to pose for a shot, the mask could be like Zorro's mask, covering only the upper half of the face and exposing the mouth,"

"With a mask? Don't show your face? Nobuo Tomioka was stunned, "This, this is not appropriate, right?" ”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head: "No, no, no, Section Chief Tomioka, the pattern must be opened, and don't be bound by traditional thinking."

You think, since I walked the mysterious wind from the beginning, it is better to carry out the mystery to the end.

Since the radio only introduced my stage name, age and height, wouldn't it be more mysterious and curious to take photos of me wearing a mask when taking photos? ”

"That's what I said, but I haven't done it before." Nobuo Tomioka frowned.

"Just because no one has done it before doesn't mean we can't do it." Cao Zhiqiang smiled.

"Tomioka-san, you also said that the radio test performance of my song was good, and everyone liked this song very much.

Since the radio listeners can't see anyone but hear my singing, we simply use my voice as a selling point.

For example, you can say a slogan, but for the sake of songs, you can know people by hearing them.

Or, don't care about my looks, I'm just a singer.

In this way, is it immediately taller?

In addition, my voice is indeed very recognizable, and I have never heard any of you have a singer with a voice similar to mine anyway, so just listening to my singing voice will not recognize the wrong person.

In this way, this is all a gimmick, and it will definitely make people curious.

Humans are curious animals.

Once human beings are curious, they have to find out whether they like it or not.

In this case, will the sales still be worse? ”

Nobuo Tomioka frowned at first, and then suddenly slapped his thigh in surprise: "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, really wonderful!" That's a great idea, I think that's it! ”

(End of chapter)