On November 18, the weather was good.

This is the first day of the release of Chen Qiming's Japanese album "Chen Qiming".

At a time when the album was being sold in major video stores across Japan, Chen Qiming held a book signing at Tokyo Plaza.

The main purpose of this book signing is to increase the sales of the record in the early stage of the record's release, so as to achieve the purpose of the album song hitting the public trust chart.

Of course, there is another reason why Chen Qiming is under a lot of pressure.

In terms of popularity, he is definitely not bad in Japan now.

But his opponents who released records at the same time were not weak at all.

In November, a large number of singers in Japan released albums.

Among them, there are no less than five or six people who are considered by Warner Records to be his biggest rivals.

The first is Miyuki Nakajima, who has a good influence in the Hong Kong music scene and is even nicknamed the mother of the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

She released the album "Time" at the beginning of the month.

As soon as this album was released, it made a strong appearance on the public trust list, and it directly broke into the top ten with great momentum.

Then, the second opponent is ZARD, which is currently on fire in Japan and is known as the band Ghost by Japanese fans.

The band's lead singer, Izumi Sakai, almost never appears, and many fans still don't know her true face.

Mystery is the most fascinating.

In addition, the songs of this band are very good, so this band has been very popular in Japan in recent years.

Earlier this month, the band released the EP "Never Forget".

As soon as this EP was released, word-of-mouth sales exploded, and it has only been released for more than ten days, and the sales volume has reached more than 300,000 copies.

And then the third opponent.

This opponent is also a band, and it was Asuka and Chuck who won the Artist of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, and Single of the Year in a sweep at this year's Japan Record Awards.

Asuka and Chuck are probably the most popular bands in Japan at the moment.

From '91 to this year, four consecutive albums have sold more than two million copies.

The band's songs have also been adapted by the Hong Kong music scene.

"Flower Heart" in the album that Zhou Huajian sold 5 million sales this year is adapted from the band's song "Male and Female".

In addition, many of his albums in recent years have been adapted, and Qi Qin's "The Original Me" is also adapted from them.

Also at the beginning of this month, they released the EP "You Are Free".

In addition to the above, there are two strong opponents.

One is Tokunaga Hideaki, who became popular in Japan in the late 80s and won the most popular overseas artist in Hong Kong and Taiwan for many years.

The other is the most popular Japanese solo singer in Japan, Keiyuki Shinhara, who also brought his new album "ズル み" this month.

A wave of Japanese first-line singers have gathered to release records during this time, and Chen Qiming and Warner Records are naturally under great pressure.

Therefore, on the first day of the record's release, Warner prepared this signing party for Chen Qiming.

Although the holding of this signing meeting was not as large as the large number of thousands of people when Chen Qiming was on the treasure island.

But overall it was very successful.

In total, there were nearly 1,000 fans at the scene.

The vast majority are young female students, but there are also some middle-aged women.

Well, most of these middle-aged women came with their daughters.

At first, Chen Qiming was very puzzled, and the Japanese were dragging their families after chasing stars?

But when I think about it, I think it's normal.

Japan is a standard country where men are responsible for making money, and women are responsible for being beautiful at home.

Especially after the Japanese economic bubble in previous years.

Affected by the economic crisis, a large number of Japanese women have been laid off and have to stay at home.

Staying at home every day naturally makes you bored.

What do you do when you're bored? Naturally, I watched TV and listened to songs.

Then, slowly, some of the more crazy women will naturally become a member of the star-chasing group.

Why are there so many men's groups in Japan, and even some men's groups have uncles who are dozens of years old?

The reason for this is because their audience is actually these housewives.

Compared with young girls, these women are rich and chase stars, but they are not weak at all.

Let's just say that Chen Qiming will be the women who will appear in this signing.

When you buy a record, you buy five or six directly, and the money is not ambiguous at all.

In this regard, Chen Qiming was naturally happy, and took two photos with them at their request.

Because today is the first day of the record's release, most of the fans who can come to the book signing at this time are die-hard fans.

Therefore, Chen Qiming and Warner Records generously prepared a lot of gifts for the fans who came today.

Some exclusive posters about Chen Qiming, as well as some autographs.

Although the things are not too valuable, the fans who got the gifts are very excited and have expressed their support for Chen Qiming forever.

ended the signing session of the day, it was still early, Chen Qiming did not stay idle, but went to participate in a TV variety show again.

His appeal in Japan is no greater than that of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In Hong Kong and Taiwan, as long as fans hear the news of his songs, they don't need Chen Qiming's large-scale publicity, they will spontaneously buy records.

In Japan, on the other hand, all sales need to be actively promoted little by little.

In fact, if you talk about fame, Chen Qiming at this time definitely has a strong reputation in Japan.

Under the promotion of Genesys and Warner Records, his posters and news were everywhere.

Anyone who follows entertainment news knows his name.

But it's like Michael Jackson is also well-known in China.

In Hong Kong and Taiwan, when it comes to Michael Jackson, most people say they have heard it.

But if you ask him to buy his records, then nine times out of ten, it's impossible.

Fame is indeed wealth, and it is the guarantee of sales.

But the two don't match.

If fame wants to be converted into sales and appeal, it takes a lot of process.

And now, what Chen Qiming has to do is to strive to actively promote himself and convert his fame into appeal and record sales.

……

Osaka.

Ichiro Kaneshiro hung up the phone, feeling very depressed.

He had just received news from Okinawa that one of his hair children had passed away in a traffic accident.

As soon as he recalled the scene of the two of them playing when they were children, his eyes gradually moistened.

He wanted to go back to Fa Xiao's funeral, but the thought of work made him even more depressed.

Along the street, Ichiro Kaneshiro began to walk towards his residence in a trance.

Suddenly, he paused, and his eyes couldn't help but look not far away.

"The Sky of the Island I Was Born Into"

"I get a rough idea"

"How many of them?"

"Whatever the stars are in the sky"

The singing voice fluttered, so that Ichiro Kaneshiro's thoughts couldn't help but go back to his teenage years.

At that time, he and Nagato were best friends, and his favorite thing to do every day was to catch fish in the island's fish pond with a harpoon.

The two often sat in the wilderness and counted the stars, fantasizing about the future to get out of that small island and go to the big city, to see the wider world outside.

It's just that when he grew up, he successfully walked out.

The friend who used to talk about his dreams together didn't, and he still runs the inheritance that his father has passed down from his father on that small island.

Listening to the familiar three-line Ryukyu piano, Ichiro Kaneshiro made up his mind.

He decided to go back and go back to see Fa Xiao for the last time.

Before leaving, he walked to the video store where the singing was heard.

The video store is doing very well, and there are a lot of people in the store who are picking up records.

There were even six or seven female students in short skirts around one of the corners.

Wiping the moisture from the corners of his eyes, Ichiro Kaneshiro walked towards the boss who was smiling and collecting money.

"Boss, what's the name of this song that's playing right now? Is this record still available? He asked.

Hearing this, the boss raised his head and glanced at him, "You mean "Treasures of the Ryukyu People"!" This album is a song by Hong Kong and Taiwan singer Chen Qiming, and the album is called "Chen Qiming".

Now, the little girls over there are all buying this album, so you can go to the shelves over there and pick up the records yourself, and then come and pay for them. ”

"Ryukyuan Treasures ......"

Hearing this name, Ichiro Kaneshiro couldn't help but be stunned.

Before Okinawa was occupied by Japan, it was called Ryukyu.

To this day, the name Okinawa is still not recognized by the Ryukyuan people.

Most of them still call themselves Ryukyuanians.

In addition, every year, a large number of Ryukyuan people call on everyone to stand up and rebel and go independent.

"Thank you!"

Ichiro Kaneshiro thanked him and walked in the direction the boss was pointing.

If when he heard this song just now, he only felt something about this song because of it, then, after hearing the name of this song, his attitude towards this song directly became a good feeling.

He felt that it was simply a song of the Ryukyuan people themselves.

"Oops!! What to do! I love the covers of all three albums, but I can only buy one, what should I do? ”

"I think it's nice and warm on the beach, just like Jiro's brother."

"No, I think the one on the boat is good, you see, Qiming Oni-chan is bare-breasted!"

"I still like this one, don't you find this one the most handsome? Bad, bad, woo...... I loved ......."

In the corner, several girls are arguing about who looks better on the covers of several records.

Because the covers are all good-looking, several people can't pick their favorites for a while.

"Can you please hand me a record? Thank you! ”

was blocked by a few girls, and Ichiro Kaneshiro, who couldn't get the record, spoke.

"Uncle, do you also like Qiming Oni sauce?"

A girl handed Ichiro Kaneshiro a record and couldn't help but ask with wide eyes.

"I don't like him, but his songs are good! It reminds me of my hometown.

My hometown is Okinawa, which used to be called Ryukyu Kingdom.

It's a pity ......"

Ichiro Kaneshiro took the record and glanced at the song arrangement on the back.

At a glance, I saw the words "Treasures of the Ryukyuan People".

"Is that so? Didn't Keimei Oni-chan say that Ryukyu was Chinese? ”

A girl looked suspicious.

"China!" Ichiro Kaneshiro recalled the story told by his grandfather when he was a child, and said wistfully: "Yes, Ryukyu belongs to China, including our Okinawa, which used to be a vassal state of China......

(End of chapter)