old events in tokyo

Chapter 52 The RB music scene in 1992
In 1992, the wave of RB pop music bands and the rock wave entered its heyday, while the fiery idol wave in the 70s and 80s entered an ice age.

Only a very small number of idol singers in the 80s were able to transform and maintain high popularity, such as Shizuka Kudo of the Born Kitten Club.

She released a total of three singles this year. Although the rankings are not high on the list, the three capitals can enter the list is a proof of high popularity, but most of the former idols are either silent or still struggling in the entertainment industry , and some even quit the circle and marry directly.

Also starting from this year, TIE-UP's influence has reached a huge level. The theme songs of popular TV dramas have become super popular, CD sales have exploded, and the number of singles has reached one million and 200 million.

Take this year's Mimi CLUB's "With You" as an example, which is the theme song of Fuji TV's September [-] drama "A Rare Friend".

Starring Nakamori Mingnai, with the popularity of the TV series, the sales of this single have already exceeded 200 million copies. Looking back at 200 million copies, there are very few singers who can achieve this achievement in the RB music scene.

Also this year, Shogo Hamada's single "Sorrow Like Snow" was used as the theme song of Fuji TV's "In the Name of Love".

This TV series starring Honami Suzuki has seen its ratings rise all the way since it aired. As a TIE-UP bundled song, the single sales of "Sorrowful Like Snow" has reached nearly 150 million copies.

These are typical single sales explosions caused by the success of TIE-UP, which shows how much TIE-UP can add to a single in the current era.

The style change of pop songs is dominated by rock style, the most representative of which is the Being singer.

Being's artist bands became popular one after another, especially at the end of 92, the music world was about to usher in a "Being storm".

From the first half of 92, artists under Being have begun to appear frequently in the Oricon list.

The single "Unchanging Love" released by Tetsuro Oda in March is his best-selling single and greatest masterpiece as a singer.

Kazuki Akiyama was surprised when he first learned that Tetsuro Oda was also a singer. He did not expect Tetsuro Oda, who is well-known as a composer, to be a debut singer.

It can only be said that his musical talent is not only reflected in lyrics and music, but can also shine in the field of singing.

And the single TIE-UP that Nagato Taiko pulled for him is also the commercial song of the Pocari Sweat series.

The Pocari Sweat series of advertisements can be called a super-large TIE-UP, and the single is also famous because of this advertisement. At this time, the sales volume has reached nearly 90 copies.

TUBE released two summer-themed singles "It's Summer" in May and July respectively, and "Memory of Glass" ranked in the top five of the weekly charts.

They are also the earliest active band of Being, and the sales of their works are also rising steadily with the current CD sales.

Speaking of the TUBE band, people may involuntarily think of summer, because looking at all the singles they released in the 90s, the time is mostly concentrated from April to August.

The theme of the song is also mostly related to summer, so people will associate them with "summer".

There are also singles "BLOWIN'" and "ZERO" released by the B'z band this year. The former has sold 140 million copies, and this number will be refreshed by the end of the year. It is only a matter of time before the latter continues to surpass one million copies.

In addition, WANDS band, T-BOLAN band, ZARD band, Daikoku Moji and other band singers began to exert their strength one after another.

Making Being's name appear on the list one after another, it's no wonder that it will attract the coveted eyes of behemoths like Burning.

In addition, Kazuki Akiyama joined in the second half of this year, and his debut single entered the top ten of the weekly chart for three consecutive weeks.

These are all proclaiming to the outside world that Being not only has long-established band songs that can sell well, but also has the ability to discover newcomers and achieve good results.

These are all manifestations of a company's heritage. For those who are concerned about music, Being can be regarded as a leader in the direction of the music industry, which virtually increases its status and voice in the industry.

For those rookies who have not yet shown themselves, Being will also be the first consideration for signing in the future.These are the soft power and intangible assets of a company.

At the beginning of November, there were basically no other singers in Being released singles or albums, only the song "Nobody in the World Loves You More Than I Love You" by WANDS and Miho Nakayama at the end of October.

Composed by Tetsuro Oda, it is the theme song of Fuji TV's "I Love Papa's Lover".

With the addition of idols and TV dramas, it airborne to the top of the O chart in the first week, and the hit singles can't escape.

Seeing the performance of Being company this year, Kazuki Akiyama couldn't help but sigh. At the end of 92, the "Being storm" had completely begun to sweep the music scene.

At this time, the production of his single has also come to an end, and the master tape has been sent to the audio-visual company to suppress the first batch of CDs. This time, Taiko Nagato directly set the first batch of shipments at 8 copies.

Compared with the first batch of 2 copies of Kazuki Akiyama's first single, the first batch of shipments has doubled several times. There are several reasons.

First of all, the sales performance of his first single was quite good. After two months, he had sold close to 50 copies.

This also gave Nagato Taiko the confidence to increase shipments, and the outside world is also full of curiosity about Kazuki Akiyama's next single performance.

Whether it can continue the limelight from last time, or just another first-time house singer, these are all attracting people's attention.

With these topics, at least the performance in the first few weeks will not be bad, and the quality of this single is also not bad, and the simultaneous promotion of TIE-UP, he is quite confident that the performance of this single will not be worse than The last one was bad.

This year's Being's performance also made Nagato very satisfied, so he prepared a PV promotion for Kazuki Akiyama's latest single with a lot of money, and brought in the popular TIE-UP bundled promotion.

The previously filmed PV is currently being edited, and Shunji Iwai brought the filmed material back to Fuji TV's editing room for editing.

At this time, the cooperation between Being Company and Fuji TV was quite deep, and the relationship was also in the honeymoon period.Borrowing an editing room is a no-brainer.

In addition, Shunji Iwai himself was also filming a TV series for Fuji TV as a director at this time.

In the editing room, Shunji Iwai is watching the edited PV, checking for any flaws, so that he can correct it in time.

Seeing Kazuki Akiyama and Nanako Matsushima strolling along the railway tracks one after the other in the picture, and meeting each other on the street in the afternoon, they nodded with satisfaction.
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