Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 209 The only Asian singer (group) to have a special issue in Rolling Stone magazine

On April 4, the new album "Ainu" by the Beasts band was finally released.

The five songs released in the early stage have occupied three of the top five places, and "Ten Years" is firmly in first place, while "Blue Bird", "Girl A", "Unbreakable Ship" and "DESIRE -Passion-" are also gaining momentum.

Wait until the sixth song "Ainu" is released to hit the charts.

This song is essentially an "old song". During the NHK Red and White Songs Festival on New Year's Eve, it once stayed in the top three of the song request charts of major radio stations for nearly a month at its peak.

Moreover, the lyrics of this song are extremely controversial.

It once caused a huge public opinion war among second-rate newspapers and magazines such as the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Sankei Shimbun, and One Piece Entertainment's Tokyo Shimbun, Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, Kyushu Shimbun, Nippon Kogyo Shimbun, and Tokyo Sports Metropolis.

Now that it has reappeared on the stage, it is already popular in its own right, and combined with the popularity of the other five songs, it has easily made it into the top ten, even surpassing the hit song "Resurrection" by the first generation Korean boy band HOT.

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By April 4, the eve of the release of the new album of the Beasts, four new songs ranked in the top five of the Oricon chart;
There are also many songs from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that are at the top of the charts, and the mainland's "Ten Years" and "Ainu" are taking turns to be the top.
Songs such as "Blue Bird", "Girl A", "Unbreakable Ship", and "DESIRE -Passion-" also ranked in the top ten of the Korean Melon music chart;
In various music charts in Southeast Asia, these six songs of the band "Beasts" swept all charts and were invincible;
CCTV Channel 15's "Music Life" program also arranged a production team to come to Hokkaido to produce a special program under the guidance of Chief Shi, and visited the Spring and Autumn Tripods and Qin Dynasty Bamboo Slips in the Hokkaido Jomon Site Group...

The Hunan Provincial TV station's "Daily Learning" also produced a special program to provide public opinion endorsement for the "History Book of the Years" produced by the Takakura Foundation in Hokkaido.

This kind of grand event was the first of its kind in the Asian music scene in the 20s.

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The music magazine "Rolling Stone" even published an extra issue for this purpose, with the aim of analyzing and predicting the impact of the new album by the Beasts band on the music scene.

In the Dark Star dimension, the Rolling Stones are the bible of the music industry.

The cover character of the first issue of Rolling Stone music magazine was Elvis Presley, which established the magazine's voice in the world music scene.

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On July 1954, 7, the Memphis, Tennessee recording studio looked much the same as before, but it was here that rock and roll was born.

Rolling Stone magazine announced the exact date of the birth of rock and roll with this sentence in its special issue "50 Moments That Changed Rock and Roll".

That night was seen as an accident: Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Mississippi, finally got the chance to enter a Memphis recording studio. He was a little nervous and sang a few mediocre country ballads.

The 19-year-old himself was a little depressed.

Then the prelude to a song called "That's all right, Mama" sounded, and Presley began to sing again.

The editor of Rolling Stone magazine immediately approached the young truck driver for an interview, and the two had a very pleasant conversation.

The rock era begins...

And 23 years later, Elvis Presley, who had become the "King of Elvis", said these words on his deathbed.

"Wealth, fame, power, everything in this world, if you want it, I will give it to you, then go sign a dark gambling agreement!!!"

It marked the beginning of a dark era in the global entertainment industry.

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This time, Rolling Stone magazine published a special issue for the Beasts, largely because of Cyril's recommendation.

Bill Gordon won the presidential election, and Hillary Clinton became the first first lady in American history to hold a doctorate degree and the most educated first lady in American history.

She is also the first first lady to have an office in the West Wing of the White House, in addition to the usual office in the East Wing.

In January of this year, Gordon appointed First Lady Hillary Clinton as the head of the "National Health Care Reform Task Force", hoping to replicate her success in leading Arkansas education reform.

After nearly a year of hard work, the group led by Hillary came up with a health care reform bill called Clinton Care.

Challenges from insurance companies and other vested interest groups blocked the path to health care reform. Republican opponents quickly derided the plan as "Hillary care," and it even faced opposition from some Democrats in Congress.

Some protesters against the plan became violent, and during one bus tour she even had to wear a bulletproof vest to rally support for the plan.

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Although Takakura Bunta knew that he should follow the historical line of the original plane.

In September this year, Hillier's proposal failed to gain enough votes in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and was abandoned. This setback caused Hillier's public support in the United States to drop rapidly, from 9% to 61% in September.

However, the Takakura Group still donated $3000 million to Hillier's "National Health Care Reform Task Force" to raise reform lobbying funds through the PAC (Political Action Committee) under Totland Capital.

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In order to repay her students, Cyril used her high-level connections in Washington to arrange this special interview for her Ainu lover in the Rolling Stone issue.

Endorsed by Rolling Stone magazine, One Piece Entertainment's own media outlets such as Tokyo Shimbun, Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, Kyushu Shimbun, and Showa 40 Years Men reprinted the story.

One piece Entertainment also frantically placed song promotion advertisements on Tokyo TV, Fuji TV, TV Asahi, and TBS TV.

This made the Beasts band dominate the screen.

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It is worth mentioning that Beasts is currently the only Asian singer (group) to have a special issue in Rolling Stone magazine.

Neither the old-school Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong and SWAP, nor the new generation’s rising stars Arashi and Namie Amuro, have received this treatment.

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The mainstay of One Piece Entertainment has the momentum to break out of Asia and enter the world music scene.

With such a golden signboard.

One piece Entertainment's contract expansion in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan has begun to accelerate...

In Hong Kong, Lin Zhiling, former senior executive of One Piece Entertainment and personal assistant of Bunta Takakura, once represented the Takakura Group in negotiations with local giants such as Hong Kong's Zhengdong Records, EMI Records, and Sony Music, but the results were mediocre.

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The Hong Kong music scene in the 1980s and 1990s was an era when superstars emerged in large numbers.

"The Battle between Tan and Zhang", "Three Kings and One Queen", "Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors", "Four Heavenly Kings", "One God, Two Saints, Three Buddhas and Four Heavenly Kings", each combination brings out a series of great names.

For Japanese fans, the most well-known and influential titles produced by Hong Kong’s star-making movement are undoubtedly the “Four Heavenly Kings”.

This also provides a numerical reference for future Asian entertainment industry selections.

In contrast to the "Four Heavenly Kings", there is also a saying in the Hong Kong music scene called "Four Heavenly Queens", but this saying has not been widely recognized.

The singers who were dubbed the "Four Divas" are Anita Mui, Patricia Chan, Sally Yeh, and Elaine Lam.

After Anita Mui and Chen Huixian began to retire, the four great queens of Hong Kong music emerged: Sally Yeh, Elaine Lam, Cheng Hsiu-wen and Wang Wen.

These were originally the signing targets of One Piece Entertainment. Signing them would have a huge influence, with their own markets in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and they could also stand on their own and cooperate with One Piece Entertainment to enter the mainland market.

Unfortunately, all of these have been listed as not for sale by Hong Kong record companies.

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The adoption of the Kyoto Treaty is equivalent to patching the 1981 Universal Copyright Protection Convention through the WTO mechanism in the context of globalization.

In addition to stipulating that artists (groups) can only use T0-level resources once a year worldwide, there are also special clauses to eliminate cultural industry barriers in various countries.

The spring breeze of reform in the Red Earth Continent has become a historical trend. Against this background, negotiations on joining the WTO are also advancing. Then, in accordance with the United Nations Convention for the Protection of International Copyrights and the Kyoto Treaty, Asia's largest music market will inevitably be fully open.

In this regard, Hong Kong artists have a unique home advantage.

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In this context, these four divas, the little divas, and the new divas are all swans laying golden eggs. Only a fool would sell them to One Piece Entertainment's Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan branch.

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After failing to directly take advantage of the situation, Lin Zhiling, who was in charge of the negotiations in Hong Kong, returned empty-handed and continued to serve as Takakura Bunta's personal assistant.

One piece Entertainment Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Branch could only plan ahead and lay the seeds under the leadership of Liu Xiaoli and with the foresight of Gao Cang Wentai...

(End of this chapter)