old events in tokyo

Chapter 274 The end of the year

After 108 strokes of midnight, 93 years officially ended.If you want to make a generalization of the pop music scene in 93, it would probably be the word 'wave'.

Since the beginning of this year, it has officially stepped into the year of Being trend. Half of the annual charts and the top three album charts are all dominated by Being artists.

ZARD, T-BOLAN, WANDS, and Kazuki Akiyama who debuted in the past two years, and DEEN and ZYYG who debuted this year.

They've pretty much turned Oricon's top 50 list into a rodeo.

And with so many rookie singers becoming popular in succession, they have also changed the way everyone trains singers and the operation of the record industry in one fell swoop.

The emergence of Being singers has completely overturned the old order of the record industry. The top few singles and albums in the annual charts are all from the same record company, which was completely unthinkable before.

Especially the appearance of Kazuki Akiyama, the double chart of the single album topped the list, although his situation is complicated and has its own special non-reproducibility.

But it still makes many record companies plan to change the previous slow-warming policy in terms of cultivating newcomers in the future.

According to the traditional management methods of record companies, in the previous era, everyone cultivated singers through slow work, and the production and promotion were all arranged by the record company.

However, the emergence of producers, as well as the self-creation of singers and bands, made record companies no longer adopt the method of slowly cultivating.

Instead, they released records with similar styles through the operation of the producer, causing a group offensive.

This is why the works of Being singers are always criticized as "one flavor".

The advantage of this method is that newcomers can quickly be promoted because of the reputation of this gold medal producer.

The record company's investment in the singer is only to pay the producer, not because of the huge cost of packaging exploration in the selection and finalization.

However, the shortcomings or limitations are quite obvious, and the singer's power of life and death is almost entirely in the hands of the producer.

If the producer makes any troubles, all the singers under his supervision will be fatally hit.

However, there may be many people who can see this clearly, but under the temptation of interests, fast food culture has gradually affected the Japanese music scene.

The idea of ​​one-disc fame has now grown in the recording industry, and Tetsuya Komuro was the first to notice it.

Inspired by Taiko Nagato of Being, coupled with several trials this year, he has fully grasped his own electronic dance music style music production.

Having accumulated strength for a year, he is ready to go all out to implement his ideas in 94.

However, this is all about something later, Kazuki Akiyama, the monster in the music scene who has suddenly emerged and dominated the entire music scene for a year.

If the success of other artists in the Being series is due to the gold medal producer Nagato Taiyuki, then Kazuki Akiyama's success is completely inapplicable.

The lyrics and music of all the songs he released are from his own creation, so the label 'Being' is not suitable for him.

The first place in the double chart of the single album directly eclipsed Chuck Asuka and B, Z, who have been competing for the king since 92.

Some media made a simple statistic. His CD sales this year are well-deserved to be No. [-] in the General Department, and ZARD is No. [-] in the Women's Department.

The combined sales of the two of them directly accounted for 6.2% of the entire recording industry!So scary!
However, Kazuki Akiyama's performance is more like an accident, and there is no similar example in the history of music.

In the end, the media can only give him the title of "super genius" to explain his achievements this year.

As this year's record sales champion, how much he earns has also become a hot topic in the media.

In this era, the personal taxes paid by artists are open and transparent, so the artist's income can be reversed based on the amount of tax paid by the artist.

Kazuki Akiyama's sales of 160 billion yen, according to the share, can get about 6.8 million.

Including various royalties and concert sharing, there are also about 2 million yen.

Another big source of income is the royalties of novels. So far, the sales volume of novels has exceeded 100 million.

According to the original step-by-step agreement, he can get a maximum of 30% of the number of copies printed later.The price of single-volume novels is generally around [-] yen.

A simple calculation shows that the royalties for novels alone are close to 3 million yen.

So writing novels in Japan actually makes a lot of money, even higher than the income of many singers, of course the premise is that they sell well.

Calculated in this way, after the personal tax was removed in 93 alone, Kazuki Akiyama could get close to 7 million yen.

Of course, this is just a calculation of royalties on the surface. As a music creator, there are various hidden incomes.The ones that actually came in handy were much more than this one.

Even such a number can be called terrifying.And such news will soon appear in the newspapers, but Kazuki Akiyama is still unaware of it.

At this moment, he was snorting while driving and talking on the phone.When he came out of the NHK hall, the door would be blocked by reporters, and he didn't dare to stay for a long time after returning to the apartment.

After tidying up in a hurry, I was ready to drive home overnight.

However, for safety reasons, under the strong suggestion of Yoshitaka Watanabe, I still found a private hotel to sleep for one night.

But he didn't sleep much, he got up at four or five o'clock and set off, so as not to have long nights and dreams.

At this time, he was calling Yoshitaka Watanabe, asking him to deal with the affairs of the office that he could not deal with in the future, and to look for an apartment again.

The place where he lives now is likely to be controlled by the paparazzi. Although the love affair has been announced, he is still not used to being chased and photographed every day.

At six or seven o'clock in the morning, the sky was just getting bright, and the surroundings looked dim under the dark blue sky.

Parking the car in the open space next to the grocery store, Kazuki Akiyama opened the door and shivered subconsciously.

January was when the weather in Tokyo was the coldest, he clasped his hands together and rubbed them together, and trotted all the way to the door.

After ringing the doorbell, I stomped my feet and waited for a while before the door opened.

"Kazuki?!" It was his mother Qianxia who opened the door.

"Hay" Kazuki Akiyama breathed out and gave his mother a perfunctory hug, then went straight to his bedroom.

"The salute is in the trunk." Before entering the room, he didn't forget to turn his head and say hello.

"This child..." Qianxia looked at Kazuki Akiyama's exhausted back, and complained a little.

But he didn't bother him to ask him why he came back early, but was going to get up and cook some of his favorite dishes, so that he could have a mouthful of hot food when he woke up.

Kazuki Akiyama entered his room, and was about to lie down on the bed, but found that there was already a figure on the bed.

He walked in and took a look, "This guy..." The person lying there was none other than his younger brother Shinto.

Shaking his head, he left the room and came to the next door.

Seeing Noriko Sakai's poster on the wall, he curled his lips and didn't care about anything else. He fell asleep with his head covered, so tired.

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