Due to the excellent quality of the song itself, Warner Japan spent a lot of money on publicity for a week before the official launch of the song "Tsunami", advertising on TV, advertising on the radio, and even on billboards above the subway and bus, which can be said to be a real bloody investment.

In addition, the craze for the song "Jun がいるだけで" has not subsided, even if it has been two weeks, it is still the first place on the weekly list of the public trust list, and the sales are still gratifying.

All kinds of reasons combined led to the fact that before the song "Tsunami" was officially released, many fans, quasi-fans and a large number of passers-by already knew about the existence of this song and had certain expectations for this song.

In particular, the occasional flashes of sensational MTV clips on TV have aroused the public's appetite.

As a result, when the audio and video of "Tsunami" were released on cassette, CD, vinyl, videotape, and LD discs, it quickly caused a sales frenzy.

It's just that on the first day of the listing, the major sales points have been sold out, and many people haven't grabbed them at all, and there are long queues everywhere to rush to buy "Tsunami"-related products, even if they are not fans, they are also affected by this trend, and they also join the rush to buy.

Because I didn't expect it to be so popular at the beginning, the stock of many sales outlets was seriously insufficient, even if it had been stored a lot more in advance, it still couldn't withstand the public's rush to buy.

Consumer goods are the most afraid of panic buying, and once a rush to buy is formed, human beings can easily lose their minds.

Although records and videotapes are cultural products, they can still form a rush to buy, and once this trend is formed, the situation will soon become uncontrollable.

As a result, on the day of the official launch of "Tsunami", 500,000 stocks were sold out, which was the amount of a week that was originally imagined.

Of course, these 500,000 are not only records, but also video media such as videotapes and LD.

Seeing that the sales were so good, Warner Pioneer was not ambiguous, and on the afternoon of the day of sales, it urgently notified the major factories and began to work overtime urgently to accelerate the production of products related to "Tsunami".

The people are also very shrewd and know that this thing is a hot item, so most of them queue up all night at major sales outlets, waiting for the goods to arrive and grab them quickly.

For this reason, many people also see business opportunities and buy a lot of goods at one time, ready to become second-hand dealers.

You must know that at this time, even if Japan was already very developed, it was not the same as the Internet era in later generations, so Warner Pioneer's sales points were basically concentrated in several big cities, that is, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and other big cities were sold at the same time.

But in fact, a large number of small and medium-sized cities in Japan have no sales points at all, and they all need second-tier dealers to make a transfer.

Therefore, in the Japanese music scene at this time, new records are often available in large cities as soon as possible, and small and medium-sized cities often have to wait until three days or even a week later to obtain related records and videotapes.

No way, this is the lag of logistics.

Japan is already a very advanced country in logistics at this time, after all, the transportation system is very developed, far from being comparable to China now.

However, even so, it is impossible for Japan to launch new products in all parts of the country at the same time.

In fact, it wasn't until the launch of "Tsunami" that Cao Zhiqiang's first debut Japanese song "Jun がいるだけで" had just become popular in the sinking market, that is, in Japan's large, medium and small cities, and aroused the crazy pursuit of young people in small towns all over Japan.

Now "Tsunami" is also coming, and it is still so popular, many people have volunteered to join the army of second-class dealers and become scalpers, so that the sinking speed of "Tsunami" is amazing, and many cities that are a little farther away, such as Sapporo in Hokkaido, "Jun がいるだけで" and "Tsunami" These two songs related products have been listed locally less than three days apart.

The next day, the sales boom of "Tsunami" continued, and since MTV had also released the whole picture, Fuji TV also began to broadcast the song on MTV, and it was rebroadcast eight times in one day!

You know, MTV is now broadcast on TV stations, and it is charged by the number of times, and the more times, the more fees will be charged.

Originally, the contract negotiated between Warner and Fuji TV was that it could be broadcast three times a day, but now the hot sales of "Tsunami" are so hot that the TV station quickly increased the number of rebroadcasts.

Of course, because the number of rebroadcasts exceeded the original contract, the other five after the three times had to be added to the money.

The popularity of MTV has in turn promoted the sales of videotapes and LD.

You must know that at this time, whether it is Japanese movies or television, most of them are relatively long, and there has never been such a short video mode that reaches the climax in an instant.

The time of MTV is very short, with the beginning and end of the film, and it adds up to more than six minutes, which is also the time to make a bowl of instant noodles.

In other words, Cao Zhiqiang's MTV, in fact, is essentially the later instant noodles, but it is not an animation, nor a micro-movie, but a short video.

This mode is very suitable for people with a fast pace of life, and it will soon be finished, and it will soon reach its emotional peak, and it will basically not feel like a waste of time.

And what about the three versions of MTV that Cao Zhiqiang let people make, not to mention the solo version, simply saying that the official version or the male version of MTV and the female version of MTV, which is equivalent to eating two fish and two fish, which seems to be flattering, but it is very reversed, and it catches all the male and female groups.

It doesn't matter if you're a machismo or a feminist, there's always something to poke at your tears in both versions of MTV for men and women.

In addition, perhaps because the sales of the product "Tsunami" are too hot, it has broken the circle, not only in the music scene, but even formed a social phenomenon.

Many experts and scholars, whether they have received money or simply taken advantage of the popularity, have begun to either do interviews on TV or write articles in newspapers, and they all use the MTV of the song "Tsunami" as an example to explain some of the current social phenomena in Japan.

For example, Japan's current fertility rate is insufficient, the declining birthrate, the hollowing out of small cities, how hard Japanese female office workers are, how helpless male office workers are, and how much social pressure there is.

That is to say, it was originally just a song and a few MTVs, but it broke the circle because of the rapid explosion, and then let a group of so-called experts and politicians jump up and down, using this explosive work as an excuse to express various opinions and appeals, which was stunned from a simple entertainment product to the phenomenon of Japan's declining birthrate.

Also, in 1983, Japan's fertility rate was already very low, falling to 1.2, entering a vortex of negative population growth with ultra-low fertility.

At the same time, Japan's aging population is beginning to emerge and is unlikely to be reversed.

In fact, many experts and scholars can see these problems, but Japan's economy is still on the rise at this time, so ordinary people don't care about them.

But because of the popularity of the song "Tsunami", some experts began to come out to rub the heat and speak out about the fertility problem.

Of course, this is only one of the extensions, and what is more extended, or more resonant with the public, is actually the crazy overtime behavior, and the more and more involuted work status quo.

In this society where overtime has become a daily routine and no overtime is an outlier, too many people have become work machines, even if they make more and more money, but people generally feel more and more unhappy.

And the song "Tsunami", on the surface, is about crush and love, but in fact, it is also secretly attacking the problem of overtime and involution.

Because many people will think that if it weren't for the heavy academic pressure and work pressure, maybe the hero and heroine would have plucked up the courage to confess their love to each other earlier, instead of having to wait for so many years until an encounter to turn around.

If it weren't for that encounter, many people might have missed the love of their lives.

In any case, the interpretation of all levels of society has further boosted the popularity of the song "Tsunami", causing many people who didn't pay much attention to pop music to follow suit and try to buy a cassette to listen to it.

In this way, when the cycle is full, the relevant departments will immediately blossom as soon as they calculate the sales.

Because they found that only in the first week of sales, all the products of the song "Tsunami", including records and videotapes, sold an astonishing 1,303,500 copies!

This is the first week of sales, not a month, not a year!

Many singers' singles couldn't sell so much in two or three years.

It can be said that Cao Zhiqiang himself refreshed his first-week sales results and refreshed history again.

By the way, the song "Tsunami" rushed to the first place on the weekly list of the public trust list in one fell swoop, and the second song on the weekly list is also Cao Zhiqiang's song, which is still very popular, and with the explosion of "Tsunami", "Jun がいるだけで"!

Of course, some experts also commented that the explosion of "Tsunami" is an abnormal phenomenon, not simply because of the song itself or MTV itself, but also because of some coincidental factors and social phenomena.

Otherwise, in 1983, you wouldn't have been able to sell more than a million songs in the first week.

Michael Jackson's 1982 album "Thriller" also topped sales in the first week when it went on sale in Japan, but it didn't exceed 300,000 copies, but it sold more than 625,000 copies in 1982.

Of course, don't look at the 625,000 tickets that did not break the million, but this result is still very demonic.

Because when Michael Jackson released the album "Thriller", it was November 30, 1982.

That is, it was already the end of the year when the album was released, and the following year was only a month away.

In other words, the album "Thriller" sold 625,000 copies in Japan in one month, which is a proper one.

It's just that this is an American song after all, so it's considered a foreign music list, and it is not included in the list of local Japanese songs.

Otherwise, all the local music in Japan would not be able to beat Michael Jackson's songs.

Although Cao Zhiqiang himself is a foreigner, his songs are Japanese songs, and the distribution company Warner Pioneer is also a local Japanese record company, so of course it is a Japanese song and has to enter the local music charts.

In conclusion, it turned out that the song "Tsunami" was a big hit again, and it was a more successful song than the first debut song, which was simply fame and fortune.

Affected by "Tsunami", the song "君がいるだけで", which has been released for three weeks, although the noun dropped by one place and became the second on the weekly list, the sales suddenly rose sharply, and still broke the sales of 300,000 copies.

In this way, so far, the cumulative sales of the two songs "Tsunami" and "Jun がいるだけで" have reached an astonishing 2.315 million copies!

You know, it's only been four weeks, even if the popularity will get lower and lower in the future, and the sales will decline, but just this kind of achievement is already jaw-dropping, and the money is full.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang has a gambling agreement with Warner Pioneer, so Cao Zhiqiang's actual share is 23%!

Originally, it was 22 percent, but because the results were too good, it was added by one percentage point.

In this way, even if the minimum is calculated according to the minimum of 1,000 yen per ticket, Cao Zhiqiang can personally get at least nearly 500 million pre-tax income.

Actually, of course, there will be more, after all, 1,000 yen is just an ordinary cassette tape, not including a large number of more expensive videotapes, CDs, LDs, vinyl records and other media, and the 2.315 million sales volume only includes all the media, not just the number of cassette tapes.

Of course, because of historical reasons, Cao Zhiqiang's income actually has to take money from two firms.

Among them, "Jun がいるだけで" was signed with the office of Sada Masashi's Sata office, so he had to take money from this office.

And the song "Tsunami" is to take money from the "Aiyin Office", after all, Cao Zhiqiang at this time is already a contracted singer of the Aiyin Office.

Although the final benefit has not yet been calculated, the preliminary assessment is that so far, Cao Zhiqiang can get at least 400 million yen of personal after-tax income even if he excludes taxes!

This ability to absorb gold is simply terrifying, you must know that Cao Zhiqiang has only been four weeks since his debut, that is, a month!

Absorbing 400 million yen of after-tax income in a month, and there will be income in the future, if this spreads, it will definitely make people blush.

Fortunately, the contract signed by Cao Zhiqiang with Sata Office and the contract signed with Aiyin Office are confidential, and the contracts signed with record companies are all firms, so how much money Cao Zhiqiang can actually get is an industry secret, and it is difficult for outsiders to inquire about the details.

Especially the song "Tsunami", because the signed "Aiyin Office" is a husband-and-wife shop jointly opened by Cao Zhiqiang and Akina Nakamori, the content will not be leaked.

In fact, only Cao Zhiqiang and Akina Nakamori know the specific content of the contract signed by Cao Zhiqiang and Akina Nakamori, and even the two assistants recruited by Akina Nakamori do not know the details.

On the contrary, it is the song "Jun がいるだけで", because the contract signed at the beginning was Sata Office, there is a certain risk of leakage, but normally, this possibility is not very likely.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang and Sada Masashi are good friends, and Sada Masashi is not bad, very righteous, and he will not be blushing for money, and it is not good for him to leak it, so it is unlikely that Sada Masashi will leak it.

In short, just a song "Tsunami" made Cao Zhiqiang, no, make the name "Green Spring in the Forest" instantly change from a fire to a super fire.

With Cao Zhiqiang's current popularity in Japan, not to mention that he is a household name in Japan and is well known to passers-by, he is also famous.

Even in Hong Kong and Taiwan, they know the name "Forest Green Spring", and they also know the two songs "Jun がいるだけで" and "Tsunami".

Therefore, purely from the perspective of a singer, Cao Zhiqiang has completely relied on two songs and only took a month to gain a firm foothold in the Japanese music scene.

Although there is still a long way to go to dominate the Japanese music scene, at least for the majority of Japanese, they no longer regard "Morinaka Qingquan" as an outsider.

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