Chapter 37 The Millions Club
After the singers finished their appearance, Tamorli began his usual greetings. He said it was a greeting, but it was really just a greeting. Back and forth, it was a brief "Hello, XX" or "Welcome, XX", which was also his unchanging hosting style for many years. However, when greeting SMAP, Tamorli said an extra sentence: "Today's clothes are so exaggerated. Are you going to perform a circus?"
Zhongju Zhengguang answered the jokes very quickly, "Yes, so there will be lions and elephants to help you when the performance is coming..."
The audience also made a very accompaniment of surprises, "Oh~".
"Don't run around the trains in the live broadcast, you boy!" Tamorie smiled and scolded, bringing back the topic, "Then let's start today's show."
Izushima HIROSHI is dedicated to the public: "Today's first group of singers is DEEN, and they will bring you their popular single "Please Don't Look Away" to everyone, please enjoy it."
The staff outside the venue prepared the instruments used for DEEN performances as quickly as possible. Taking advantage of this time, the people in the middle of the stage moved to the stands behind, leaving only the DEEN to perform next.
MS's program mode is interspersed with interviews and performances. During the hour of the program broadcast, everyone must sit in the stands honestly, waiting for Tamorli to be interviewed. People who watch the program may not feel it, but in fact, the process of sitting on it and waiting is very boring. People who come into groups like SMAP and DEEN are fine and can chat with each other. As a SOLO singer, Ye Zhao, unless there is an acquaintance next to her...
Unfortunately, Ye Zhao's position was on the far right side of the stand, and next to him was Koizumi Hitomi.
Come on, I can only wander.
As the program went down, when it reached two-thirds of the place, Ye Zhao's seat moved from the second row to Tamori.
"The next one is Ye Zhao."
"Please give me some advice." Ye Zhao owed slightly.
"First of all, I would like to congratulate you, the new single won the first place on the ORICON weekly chart."
"Thanks."
"I was an underground singer before, right? That song "Summer Color" caused a lot of sensation. It's so strange. There is no record company to sign a contract with you with such excellent music?"
"That's right," Ye Zhao smiled, "I originally wanted to make a mainstream debut, and I sent a DEMO to the record company, but I lost the election. Later, when I was singing on the street, I met a staff member of an underground record company. The other party said that I could help me release the record, and then I had "Summer Color".
"Hey~ I rejected your record company, but now I regret it, right?" Tamorie smiled. As an old fry, he naturally would not ask for a bluntly "Which record company rejected you?", and Ye Zhao, as a newcomer, would not be so stupid that he would say the name of the record company in a live show and offend Sony, the industry leader.
"You look so young, how old are you this year?"
"A little over 19 years old."
"It's so good," Tamorli said with some envy. "When I was 19 years old, I was still a rural working man who knew nothing. Then again, how did I feel when I first went on TV?"
"It's quite nervous. When I walked down the steps just now, I was worried that I would fall down by stepping on the air." Ye Zhao said half-jokingly.
Izushima hiROSHI quipped: "It's normal for the first time to appear. I've really fallen off the steps before, and there are people who were so nervous that they almost couldn't make a sound before the official performance... How about it, can you sing it? Now it's your turn."
The audience burst into laughter with kindness because of this conversation.
Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Stop looking forward to it." After saying that, he stood up from his seat and walked to the performance stage. There, the band was ready. Ye Zhao carried the acoustic guitar placed beside him, and raised the position of the microphone stand a little. After adjusting, Ye Zhao swept the strings and sent a signal of readying.
The performance officially begins!
As a big-name music program, at this moment, tens of millions of people are sitting in front of the TV to watch Ye Zhao's performance. Among these tens of millions, there are people who have bought Ye Zhao's records, but more people who know nothing about Ye Zhao or have just heard of this name.
Before Ye Zhao's public appearance, there were all kinds of speculations about Ye Zhao, and there were many malicious speculations such as being an ugly monster or having a problem with his personality. This became more and more popular after he signed with BEING. After all, BEING's singer is famous for not showing up. Before the public performance, Dark Moji was even questioned that the person on the cover of the record and the person who sang were two different people.
Now, Ye Zhao is standing in the middle of the stage, wearing a clean white shirt and singing. This image has a great impact on the audience. People who had never known Ye Zhao before, when they saw such a refreshing boy, first of all, had a high score. Even the people who had bought a single, after seeing Ye Zhao himself, their favorability for him soared a lot. If they had just liked his songs before, they would like to like him now.
I have to say that being good-looking can really make a profit.
At this time, the vocal classes that Ye Zhao had taken at BEING also played his role. If a singer is only at the level of a car accident scene, no matter how good the song is, no matter how handsome or beautiful the person is, the "unprofessional sense" will make the picky audience unwilling to buy it. After all, it is still an era where people are everywhere, and selling songs is better than selling people.
Although his singing skills are not as amazing as they are now, at least they will not be much worse than those on the CD, and they will not let out a disappointed sigh after listening to his scene.
A successful performance was completed in a program that tens of millions of people watched at the same time. The promotional effect was self-evident. Just that night, after the show was broadcast, the telephone hotline of the MS program team of Asahi TV was almost blown up by audiences from all over the country. In addition to various inquiries about Ye Zhao’s personal information, all the callers were concerned about one question: When will this singer named Ye Zhao appear on MS again?
If the hotline to the MS program team is just the audience's curiosity about this mysterious singer, then what the subsequent ORICON rankings show is the real follow-up effect.
When it appeared on MS, the sales of "Rainbow" had reached 750,000 pieces. Whether it was Nagato Daiyu or Ye Zhao himself, they were quite satisfied with this number. After all, "Rainbow" has only been on sale for less than three weeks, and it is not a problem to achieve a million yuan based on subsequent sales. You should know that the sales of "Summer Color" has just passed the 700,000 level, and with the arrival of autumn, this single that belongs to summer has gradually dropped to the end of the rankings and will soon be released.
The ORICON list counts sales of the previous day. In other words, if you want to see the real program effect of MS broadcast on Friday, you have to wait until the weekend list comes out.
"Rainbow" sold more than 47,000 pieces on Friday. Compared to the second week's success, it is obvious that the decline has been seen. If there is no accident, the momentum will become weaker and weaker. As the new single is released next week, it will be squeezed out of the top few in the rankings. At this time, starring in MS is undoubtedly an infusion of a booster to record sales.
On the weekend night, a fax from ORICON was sent to Nagato Daiyuki's desk. On the long list, "Rainbow", which had already retreated to second place yesterday, ranked first with 207,000 copies today, leaving more than 100,000 copies out of second place! With the support of these 207,000 copies, "Rainbow" officially exceeded one million in the third week after its release!
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At 8 o'clock in the evening, a taxi was parked near the high-end barbecue restaurant in Roppongi.
The man sitting in the back row handed over a banknote worth 10,000 yuan. While waiting for the money to be found, the taxi driver in the driver's seat stared at the rearview mirror in the car for a while, and asked with a little hesitation: "May I ask... are you Mr. Ye Zhao?"
The man smiled, "Do I look very similar to him? Others have told me that too."
"Is that right..." The driver nodded with regret and handed over the money and the bill, "This is the money to find you."
After getting off the car, I walked into the barbecue restaurant. The well-trained waitress came forward with a decent smile on her face: "Welcome, is it alone or is there an appointment?"
"My friend and I made an appointment with the private room in Qishuiting."
"Please follow me." The waitress turned her palm upward and made a "please" posture.
The Qishui Pavilion box is a typical Japanese style decoration. The moment I opened the paper sliding door, Masao Akishi, who was sitting on the long and low table, was filling his beer with his mouth and complained: "It's so late for you."
"Sorry, I'm sorry, I've been delayed for a little time on the road." Ye Zhao smiled, sat down on the entrance door, and took off his shoes. With his back facing the box, he did not notice that two people tiptoed behind him.
Accompanied by "bang!" "bang!" Two muffled sounds, Ye Zhao, who was defenseless, turned around suddenly, and Daikuo Moji and Kawashima Mika, who were holding colored paper fireworks bullets, stood there with a prank-like smile on their faces.
"Ye Jun, congratulations on your promotion to the million-dollar single singer!"
As soon as Dahei Moji finished speaking, everyone in the private room applauded: "Congratulations!"
"Thank you everyone!" Ye Zhao bowed.
Chapter completed!