China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 273 Cao Tianwang, are you number one in Japan?Just today!

The signing session was a complete success. Apart from the previous performance session, almost every fan at the scene held an album to express their support for the subsequent signing session.

Some people bought several copies, and the most one person directly packed 100 copies.

According to statistics afterwards, just for this signing event alone, nearly 2 copies of "Four" were sold, and several thousand copies of "Chinese Style" were also sold.

However, this is just a small head. In addition to signing sales, holding a signing event is also a promotional nature, especially this kind of semi-fan club with many performances, which is largely for publicity.

Prior to this, Kazuki Oda had contacted Japan's Fuji TV (one of the six major TV stations in Japan) to broadcast and promote Cao Xuan's signing.

Of course, the condition is that the variety shows and news related to Cao Xuan's visit to Japan this time will be based on Fuji TV.

In order to seize the hot spots of "Cao Xuan Comes to Japan", Fuji TV specially set aside half an hour for Cao Xuan's autograph signing in prime time.

Including the two songs with the most amazing effects, which are also the solos of "Your Answer" and "Sea of ​​Stars" strongly promoted by Cao Xuan and Warner, as well as news reports on the chorus interaction with fans and the signing session later.

Even Fuji TV interviewed four lucky fans who came on stage, including Yui Aragaki and Masami Nagasawa.

Yui Aragaki, who has begun to have the charm of the future otaku goddess, shared the experience and mood of singing with idols shyly and happily in front of the camera.

"Onisan is really gentle. Some of the lyrics and melodies I am not familiar with, he will immediately remind me or cover it up for me, very considerate."

"At the end of the signing session, he even took a group photo with us and gave us gifts and a souvenir book."

"I want to be an artist, and he still supports and encourages me."

"This is the bracelet and autographed album that Onisan gave me, and I will treasure it carefully."

"..."

In fact, the other two male fans also received a lot of inquiries, but when it was broadcast, they were basically cut to the same extent, and almost all the interviews of Aragaki Yui and Nagasawa Masami were preserved.

The leader of the interview column is very aware of what is the key to ratings.

Sure enough, the two lolis with sweet looks and cute personalities were loved by some viewers, and some people called to inquire.

If they can seize the opportunity, the two may enter the entertainment circle earlier than the original time and space.

However, Cao Xuan didn't have time to take care of these two loli fans at all. After the signing, he immediately threw himself into high-intensity promotional activities.

After all, it was an away game, and facing Japan's popular queen, Cao Xuan had to devote [-]% of his efforts and energy to succeed in the counterattack.

Even up to now, Cao Xuan has still not disclosed his goal of impacting the public trust list.

They have discussed this point internally, although the public goal can more mobilize the enthusiasm of Cao Xuan fans, and even lead to the support of Ayumi Hamasaki's hostile fans.

But at the same time, it will also arouse the vigilance of Ayumi Hamasaki and the targeting of his fans.

There is still a gap between Cao Xuan's popularity in Japan and Ayumi Hamasaki's. There is still hope for a sneak attack, but if Ayumi Hamasaki prepares for the battle with all his strength, Cao Xuan has a great chance of losing.

Another very important point is that Cao Xuan is not a local Japanese artist after all, so rashly shouting out for the charts can easily arouse the siege of Japanese fans.

For example, a Japanese singer came to China and said that he would step on Jay Chou to top the Chinese music charts. You can see who Chinese fans support.

Therefore, if you rush to disclose your goals, you may be self-defeating, or even fail to complete your goals, and you will become the object of ridicule.

So Cao Xuan's strategy is to make a fortune silently.

Don't shoot guns into the village quietly, do your best to promote it within this week, and then wait for the public trust list to be announced next Tuesday.

It's done, let's show off!
There is no shame in losing.

However, Cao Xuan still has some regrets. According to his thinking, he definitely hopes to be able to face the opposition and siege of countless people, win the championship of the public trust list, and make his pretense more perfect.

But we still have to follow the logic of reality. Maybe in the future, Cao Xuan will become famous in Europe and the United States, and he will be able to achieve this achievement with the trend of Asian world superstars.

.........

During this week in Japan, Cao Xuan attended almost four signing sessions, each lasting half a day or one day, and the rest of the time had various business activities and could participate in variety shows.

In Korea, I can still have fun with Li Fuzhen. In Japan, Cao Xuan is sometimes busy working until the early morning.

In the signing alone, his right hand has written no less than tens of thousands of names in the past few days, and he still trembles slightly when he sleeps at night.

Cao Xuan, who has become a big name in China, is also the boss who takes into account absolute autonomy. In terms of publicity, he has not experienced such a high-intensity continuous work for a long time, except for traveling around.

This trip to Asia allowed him to vaguely regain some of the fighting spirit he had when he first became popular in 97-98.

In addition to running publicity during this period, Cao Xuan also saw the high degree of entertainment and commercialization in Japan at this stage.

Needless to say, the mainland's entertainment industry has just started. In the past, he thought South Korea and even Taiwan, which were more developed, were far behind Japan.

This is a product left over from the rapid economic development of Japan in the last century.

Movies, TV, animation, music, variety shows, sports, comics, games, action movies and other industries all maintain leading advantages in Asia and even the world, and a series of peripheral developments are supported.

Even a cursory observation gave Cao Xuan an irresistible urge to poach someone.

Regardless of other things, Cao Xuan didn't have much contact with them, but the variety shows he participated in were also the key areas of Fanxing's next development, which benefited him a lot.

Lots of ideas, big scale, interesting planning!

Compared with variety shows in South Korea, Taiwan, and Mainland China that are still focusing on indoor games at this stage, Japan has launched a large number of outdoor variety shows, and some variety shows even have the feeling of reality shows.

Many links, even Cao Xuan, who has a golden finger, found it novel after watching it.

This also made Cao Xuan realize that he had made a mistake. Because of Golden Finger, he has always regarded Korean film and television and variety shows as key reference objects.

But in fact, in 2002, the Korean wave was only in the initial stage of development, and the popular Korean dramas in the future had just started, and Korean variety shows were far inferior to Japan.

Cao Xuan thinks that if Fanxing wants to vigorously develop variety shows, the best way is to send people to Japan to study, or to poach corners directly to get the rich and advanced experience in variety show production in Japan at this stage, and then "original" future Korean blockbusters Variety show planning.

The combination of Japan and South Korea into a Chinese variety show has been successful, and it may be sold back to Japan and South Korea......

Not only variety shows, Cao Xuan thinks that Japanese animation is also worth learning, so dig and train more animation production talents, and combine Chinese online literature to create domestic animation.

Judging from the trend of the domestic animations in the future, this approach is feasible.

However, Cao Xuan does not have the energy at this stage, and the domestic animation market is not easy to do. Leaving aside the issue of the audience, he might be reported by his parents someday.

It can only be left to be determined, and we can wait until we start writing online articles and accumulate some IPs.

No one thought that Cao Xuan, the king of China, came to Japan to promote, not only did not talk about martial arts, he was going to attack the 24-year-old Ayumi Hamasaki.

I was also thinking about digging walls and plucking wool, and regardless of the pain of signing, I secretly wrote down a small notebook before going to bed at night, and prepared to start when I was going back to China.

But regardless of the little tricks behind the scenes, Cao Xuan has really worked hard in Japan these past few days, and even Fuji TV, which has reached a cooperation, is also emotional.

There are quite a few foreign big names who come to Japan to promote, but few can be so active. Cao Xuan's boss is really lucky to have such hardworking artists.

What?He is the boss himself.

Hey boy, have even the capitalists got involved these days...

High-intensity work means high-intensity exposure, which is extremely helpful to Cao Xuan's publicity.

In a short period of time, the sales data of Cao Xuan's "Four" album has been rising all the way. As of Friday night, the weekly sales volume has exceeded 20.

Such a high sales volume is certainly due to Cao Xuan's hard work in publicity, and Japan's relatively good genuine management is also very important.

The sales of 20+, under normal circumstances, can almost win the weekly championship. Last week, Ayumi Hamasaki's sales were only 26. According to the trend, she should have a certain amount of reduction this week.

In the last two days, Cao Xuan will have a signing event and a variety show, and he has great hopes of hitting 25 yuan.

As long as the sales volume reaches 25, Cao Xuan has a 70% chance of winning the Oricon weekly ranking.

But the premise is that there is no change in Ayumi Hamasaki.

However, what are you afraid of? On Saturday morning, Ayumi Hamasaki officially announced that he will hold a concert tour in Japan in March, and promoted his new album by the way.

The idol held a concert, and Ayumi Hamasaki's fans were very happy, and the sales also showed a small explosion in a stable trend.

According to the statistics of Warner Japan, if Cao Xuan wants to win this week's Oricon Ranking, he must achieve sales of more than 30.

The gap in sales of nearly 5 albums, and the short period of time, can almost declare failure.

As for the next week, it is impossible for Cao Xuan to stay in Japan all the time, not to mention Cao Xuan's schedule.

Even if Cao Xuan postpones the promotion, after all, "Si" is a Chinese album with a limited audience. This week has almost overdrawn a lot of potential, and the possibility of continuing to explode next week will not be too high.

Kazuki Oda was a little discouraged, but Cao Xuan still left a trump card that was useless.

Chinese in Japan!

In the 70s, after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, many Chinese came to Japan to live or study, and then stayed in Japan for a long time.

As of 2002, there were almost 50 Chinese in Japan, almost second only to South Korea/North Korea among foreigners living in Japan.

As a Chinese superstar, Cao Xuan has a high influence among these Chinese people. Even Cao Xuan is promoting in Japan these days, and many Chinese people have come to support him.

It can be said that if Cao Xuan focuses on promoting in the Japanese Chinese circle, he can easily get a lot of sales. Even if many Chinese don't listen to his songs, they will buy albums to support them.

However, Cao Xuan felt that it was unnecessary to do so. After all, normally speaking, his chances of winning were not small, so there was no need to play the so-called Chinese card.

But now, Cao Xuan was really not reconciled to letting Cao Xuan give up on such a final trembling.

Under Cao Xuan's proposal, the focus of album promotion on Saturday and Sunday was shifted to the Chinese area in Japan.

Among the nearly 50 Chinese in Japan, almost one-third are in Tokyo. Ikebukuro, nicknamed China Town, and its surrounding areas are the main gathering areas for Chinese.

Cao Xuan held a signing event near Ikebukuro, and there were a lot of people who responded, almost [-]% of them were Chinese.

At the same time, some Chinese forums and Chinese newspapers on the Japanese Internet also began to publicize that Cao Xuan is very likely to win the weekly Oricon Ranking, and appealed to the Chinese for support.

There are many reasons for Chinese people in Japan to come to Japan, and the stories behind them are also complicated and varied, but except for a few white-eyed wolves, most of them still hold the mentality of Chinese compatriots.

Being in a foreign country is considered an excluded group. In comparison, it is more united internally and is more stubborn about some achievements. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as the confidence to prove itself.

At this stage, China's economy is developing and has not yet reached the status of a great power in later generations. What the Chinese can best face the Japanese is not the motherland, but a few celebrities who have made a name for themselves in the world.

Artists with high influence in Japan such as Cheng Long, Bruce Lee, and Teresa Teng are all proud of the Japanese and Chinese, and Cao Xuan can barely be counted among them.

In fact, this psychology is easy to understand. This is a bit like the Koreans who were weak in the face of China, so they repeatedly cited the more developed football and entertainment industries.

When China's relative national power is relatively weak, it also likes to use these international celebrities to boost its momentum.

But when the country is prosperous and strong, it is itself a big country recognized by everyone, and celebrities will still add luster to the country, but it is no longer just a pride and appearance that can be sold.

Twenty years ago, a country was judged by its people.

20 years later, the country treats people.

Let's go back to the current stage. Although Japan has fallen into an economic downturn due to the bursting of the housing price bubble, it is still undoubtedly the number one economy in Asia and the second largest economy in the world. China is slightly inferior in many aspects.

The Chinese in Japan always have a little confidence in the face of the Japanese, and they also hope that China can have more achievements that can be made.

Cao Xuan won the Japanese Oricon Ranking, which is obviously one of them.

In the Japanese music scene for so many years, apart from the early Taiwanese Japanese singers, only Teresa Teng has won the Oricon Chart, and her albums are mainly in Japanese.

After Teresa Teng, Wang Fei, Zhang Guorong, and the Four Heavenly Kings are considered to be rare singers who have achieved good results in Japan, but they are still far from the top of the Oricon Chart.

And Cao Xuan has a great hope of winning the first prize, and he still wins the first prize with a Chinese singer + Chinese album. This temptation is extremely tempting for Chinese in Japan.

If it is successful, it can be used to brag for several years, especially when facing those Korean sticks, it can make them jump wildly...

Based on this alone, many Chinese in Japan are willing to spend some money to buy an album to support Cao Xuan.

With the enthusiastic support of the Chinese community, the sales of Cao Xuan rose rapidly, approaching 30 in a short period of time.

.........

On Sunday, a related public trust ranking forecasting agency roughly calculated the ranking of this week's public trust list based on the data of various parties, and was surprised to find out.

If there is no change in this ranking, then Cao Xuan is likely to win this week's Oricon Ranking.

Soon some media made the news public, which shocked most of the Japanese music scene.

Japan has a huge advantage in Asia. It is not that there are no foreign singers who have won the Japanese Oricon Chart before, but basically they are European and American singers, more precisely, the United States.

And the few non-European singers are almost all foreign singers who have been in the Japanese music scene for a long time.

Non-European and American singers like Cao Xuan have released non-Japanese albums, and they have a chance to win the championship in away games. It cannot be said that there are no such singers, but there are only one or two in the past few decades.

Many people were stunned, and when they realized it, their first reaction was to stop, saying that the championship cannot be won by the Chinese.

But there is too little time left for them, and there is no organization, and the personnel are scattered.

If everyone supports Ayumi Hamasaki together, there is still a chance of a comeback, but they fight on their own, not only did not provide too much help, but to a certain extent, it hindered them.

As for Cao Xuan, he had already prepared for it before, and accurately launched publicity for fan clubs and Chinese groups.

With the strong support of fans and Chinese compatriots, not only did they not catch up, but they also opened up some distance.

Under the premise of having an absolute advantage, Cao Xuan fans and Chinese groups are more motivated and strive to win the championship in one fell swoop.

Cao Xuan is very fortunate that Japan's Oricon only counts sales, regardless of the opponent, as long as his own sales are high enough.

If it is based on the radio demand rate like the Chinese rankings, even if it is a separate battle, it is difficult for him to win under the disadvantage of the personnel base.

They have been making noise all day long, and at midnight on Monday, the sales statistics are closed.

Cao Xuan, who had been busy for a week, took time to go to a hot spring to relax, and Oda Kazuki burst in with a file in surprise.

"Cao Sang, the data came out at 37.4. There is great hope, great hope."

Cao Xuan was wearing a bath towel, not afraid of being taken advantage of, but asked curiously, "Do you know the sales volume of Ayumi Hamasaki?"

"I don't know, but according to our estimates and several other forecasting agencies, it should be between 32 and 34."

Kazuki Oda was very excited, selling more than 30 in a single week, which is very impressive even in the Japanese music scene.

As for the millions of copies in a single month announced by the outside world, [-]% of them are shipments, not actual sales.

However, this achievement of Ayumi Hamasaki still did not suppress Cao Xuan, and Kazuki Oda once regretted that Cao Xuan was not a Japanese.

He believes that with Cao Xuan's musical talent and the Japanese music market environment, his achievements will be even more astonishing than now.

It is even more regrettable for Kazuki Oda that "四" is only a Chinese album, and its potential is exhausted. It is good that it will be exposed on the Oricon Chart next week, and it will probably be beaten back to its original form the next week.

But even so, the sales volume of this album has steadily exceeded 50, and it is even expected to hit 80. As a non-Japanese album, it can be called a phenomenon.

Cao Xuan's influence and commercial value in the Asian region have once again consolidated and increased, and Warner Japan has also benefited a lot.

At least for Kazuki Oda, he helped the company's top Asian brother achieve a breakthrough in Japan not long after he took office, and Warner Asia's senior management will look at him differently.

Oda Kazuki excitedly went to arrange other matters.

For example, the follow-up of Cao Xuan winning the Oricon Ranking, and the fact that Warner Japan can use this event to expand its influence. This is a rare opportunity, and he must seize it.

After Oda left, Cao Xuan could no longer hold back the joy in his heart, laughed silently, and even recited a classic line in Jinmen dialect.

"Cao Xuan, are you number one in Japan?"

"Just today, just today!"

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