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On the first Wednesday of February, Kazuki Akiyama's second album "Cherry" officially debuted.The title song has the same name as the album, and it is still a pop rock song.

And this album also includes several singles released before, from "If you praise the sunny day, please wait for the evening" to "cherry", the style is light rock pop rock, and several J-POP.

Looking at the singles included in this album from a macro perspective, they are basically in these styles.

This also makes this album relatively unified in style and more mature than the first album.

Music critic Nobuaki Koguru commented in "What's IN UP" magazine, "Compared to the first album, Kazuki Akiyama seems to have found his own musical style route.

The second album has matured a lot both in terms of song selection and singing. When I auditioned, I listened smoothly from the first song to the last one in one breath, without any uncomfortable pause in the middle.

I have to say that this is a qualified and mature album, and it is also an album that is enjoyable to listen to.

Kazuki Akiyama's voice coupled with his outstanding musical talent is definitely a blessing to the Japanese music scene and to the audience. "

To be honest, What's IN UP magazine praised it so hard that Kazuki Akiyama blushed a little.How much public relations fee did Taiko Nagato pay to make them work so hard.

However, the fact is that Taiko Nagato was quite surprised when he read the article here, because although he gave the carriage fee, it was just a routine, and there was no additional retouching fee.

The reason why this album was well received by music critics is indeed because compared with the first album, this album has a much higher listening experience.

The release of the album also received enthusiastic support from the fans, and the response was very good.Frankly speaking, it is Kazuki Akiyama's most collectible album at present.

Another thing that everyone is discussing is the cover of the album. This time, Kazuki Akiyama himself is going abroad again.

The shooting angle is the moment when someone is catching a certain figure behind him in the corridor. He is wearing a dark coat and is turning his head to look to the right.

From the smile on the side face, it can be seen that it is a joy from the heart, with a little pampering and gentleness.

What caught everyone's attention the most was that his right hand held a white and slender palm, which stopped abruptly with only a section of sleeve above the wrist exposed.

This is the first time Kazuki Akiyama has such an intimate action with a woman on the cover of a CD.

Such an abnormal cover photo also made everyone guess who this woman is, a model?Or that Miss Sakai who doesn't go abroad often?
In short, fans of this album have waited for more than a year before it came late, and the production is more mature, as well as the excellent quality as always.

As soon as it was released, it caused a buying boom. The initial sales volume in the first week was close to 80, and it won No.1 on the album chart in one fell swoop.

The sales volume of 80 is quite exaggerated for a single, let alone an album with a higher unit price.

The reason why Kazuki Akiyama's second album has achieved such a high sales volume is that apart from holding it in for too long and becoming more mature, there is also a small factor that also has a certain bonus to the sales volume of the album.

Then this album was pressed on a 12cm CD, which is still a very rare operation in today's era.

The reason for using 12cm CDs is that 8cm CDs can no longer fit, and yes, an 8cm CD can no longer hold an album of more than a dozen songs.

It's not that the capacity of songs has increased, but that the content of CD compression has increased.

In addition to more than a dozen singles, Kazuki Akiyama also stuffed the accompaniment sound source into the CD.

The accompaniment sound source is a pure melody version without singing. The main purpose of this is to facilitate those listeners who don't like to go to karaoke but like to sing at home.

Television sets and audio-visual equipment have entered almost every household in Japan. It is also the most common entertainment activity to sing a few songs you like with a microphone with your family in your spare time.

In addition to more than a dozen songs, Kazuki Akiyama's album CD also comes with their accompaniment sound sources on the other side.

And the price is still about [-] yen, which feels like a big deal for many people, which is too cost-effective.

It was such a simple and small measure that allowed this album to win the Zhou crown with super high initial sales.

And it has won the weekly album chart for four consecutive weeks, with sales exceeding 200 million and going straight to 300 million.

With such terrifying power, the media inside and outside the industry shouted that it was an extremely correct decision to avoid Kazuki Akiyama and make a song.

However, is he the only one in the Japanese music scene? Obviously not.

The Xiaoshi family, which had already shown its glory last year, became even more out of control at the beginning of this year.

trf, already well-known in electronic dance music, took the lead on January 1st with the single "CRAZY GONNACRAZY", which was paired with Fuji TV's Yuejiu drama and the theme song of Kansai TV's "Ghost and Horse Couple".

They won the weekly championship for two consecutive weeks, and ranked first in the monthly chart in January 95. Currently, their sales have exceeded one million. This is their third consecutive million-dollar single.

And only one month later, the second single "masquerade" of this year was released on February 2st, and it still won the weekly crown.

Looking at the current trend, it seems that it is not difficult to sell millions of songs. In such a short period of time, the intensive release of songs continues to explode, and even the general public knows that another trend in the music world has hit. Komuro announced the official arrival of his era with unparalleled results.

In addition to Xiaoshi, the band Mr. Kid, which performed strongly last year, is even better this year. "Tomorrow never knows", a single released at the end of last year, has exceeded 200 million sales.

Another song "Everybody Goes~" also reached a million achievements, and the theme song "Miracle Earth", which he cooperated with Yoshisuke Kuwata on the charity event against AIDS at the end of January, also won the weekly championship again, and performed well.

The remaining B'z, DTC, Chuck and Asuka, these old bands are still popular with the public.

If 94 was the brightest year in the Japanese music scene among the critics, then 95 was the true golden age of the Japanese music scene.

In just two months of the first year, millions of singles have been born, which has never been such a grand occasion in previous years.

As a singer of the Being series, Izumi Sakai also released his first single "Just believe in love" in the beginning of the year.

TIE-UP is the theme song of the TV series "Swinging Miss" on TBS TV. It has the same name as her previous classic single, which is also very interesting.

But what is more interesting is her sixth album "Forever you", which was released in March, and it is the cover of this album to be precise.

The cover photo is still her personal portrait, but it is a little different from the previous single portrait.

In this photo, Izumi Sakai is wearing a beige sweater with loose hair, tilting his head slightly and looking to the left.

The smile on her face was serene and serene, and the most striking thing was that her left hand was held by a man.

And the background of the cover is a back view captured in a corridor, is it familiar?

Attentive fans put her album and Kazuki Akiyama's album together, put the two CD cases together, and a complete photo was presented in front of them.

The two held hands and looked at each other and smiled. The sunlight hit the corridor, coating each other with a golden layer.The natural expression makes people feel calm unconsciously.

Good guy, can you still send sugar like this?The fans who found this easter egg were in a sour and sweet mood, and they couldn't tell whether it was jealousy or envy.

However, those with obsessive-compulsive disorder, looking at the lonely CD at hand, couldn't help but buy another one, and put together a completed picture scroll to summon the dragon... Bah, continue to pick lemons.

This photo is the scene where the two of them were caught by Kenichi Suzuki in the corridor of the recording studio. Kazuki Akiyama, who was discovered by accident, strongly recommends choosing it as the album cover photo of the two of them.

In terms of whole work, Akiyama Kazuki is not inferior to Nagato's luck in his crooked brain.