Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 219 The era of the Beast Legion has arrived
On May 1998, 5, the band finally achieved the feat of sweeping the top ten pop music charts in 1 countries (regions) in Asia.

Akina Nakamori announced her retirement during an interview with NHK reporters.

Then the fans and the media went crazy.

This incident caused a global sensation. The news of Akina Nakamori's retirement was also announced in a 1 minute and 22 second interview on the Red Earth Continent's first morning news program "Oriental Horizon".

Fans did their best and played the songs crazily just to keep the songs on the charts, and reporters also reported on it extensively.

The band Beasts held a book signing event in Shibuya, Tokyo, and the 5000-seat venue was suddenly flooded with tens of thousands of crazy fans and screaming fans.

Keiko Kanda of One Piece Entertainment arranged a fully armed medical team, four ambulances, and 200 volunteers to maintain order at the scene.

Sure enough, six fans who were too excited and had heart problems were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment by the medical team.

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It’s not easy to get a spot in the top ten of the list.

Morning Musume's "Face Time" (first time) on Japan's Oricon chart, and the first generation Korean boy band HOT "Resurrection" on South Korea's Melon music chart.

There are also "Good Mood" by Li Wen, "Sad Pacific" by Richie Jen, "Conquer" by Nayoung, "Stupid Kid" by Andy Lau, and "Red Bean" by Wang Wen, which were all performed during the golden age of Chinese music.

The top groups, kings and queens from various regions cannot just sit there and watch Bunta Takakura show off his power.

Their fans started to quietly make trouble...

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The Asian entertainment industry is so small, and if Takakura Bunta comes to power, someone has to step down.

Maybe the singers don’t care, but the fans still don’t want anyone to replace or surpass their idols…

Therefore, although there is official support and a large number of enthusiastic people helping out, there are also many people who are dragging their feet.

The battle to top the charts seemed stable, with the ten songs of "Ainu" dominating the charts for a whole day.

Songs such as "Face Time" (First Time), "Resurrection", "Sad Pacific", "Red Beans", and "Conquer" have not moved from the eleventh and twelfth positions.

But in fact, the fighting behind the scenes was extremely fierce, and even later on, the fan club and support group of One Piece Entertainment Company added a large amount of funds again.

On Telegram, the presidents of fan clubs and support groups in various countries are online 24 hours a day, communicating thousands of messages and coordinating between the two.

We must safeguard this historical achievement.

Fortunately, although the process was difficult, on May 998, 5, the ten songs of the Beast Band remained in the top ten in 1 countries in Asia.

Although there have been changes in the internal rankings, no other songs have ever surpassed it.

This record even lasted until the early morning of May 5th, and it topped the charts in various Asian countries for more than three days and three nights, a total of 4 hours.

Finally, it was Wang Wen's "Red Bean" that hit the TOP10 on the Chinese music charts in mainland China and broke through.

Many fans consider May 1998, 5 to be the day when the Beasts band became famous.

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In this battle for the title of "Ainu", the resources of One Piece Entertainment were brought to the extreme under the leadership of Kanda Keiko and Liu Xiaoli. Sony, Kadokawa Bookstore, Hunan TV, and other strategic allies in the media industry were also very powerful...

Japanese domestic media publicized the event extensively, and various Asian media also reprinted this grand event, and even Europe and the United States reported on it.

After all, it is really hard to imagine that a singer can achieve such dominance on the pop charts of dozens of countries across continents.

Anyone who can do this in any industry is a world-class superstar and a country's "national treasure".

For example, Michael Jackson, Jordan, Madonna, Bob Dylan in the United States, The Beatles and Queen in the United Kingdom, Maradona in Argentina, Jackie Chan in Hong Kong, Schumacher in Germany, Bolt in Jamaica...

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Many people have a misunderstanding that Jet Li and Jackie Chan are of the same level.

In fact, the two are not on the same level at all.

Many people know the gap between actors and authors.

Jet Li is a top "actor" in the field of action films, while Jackie Chan is an "author" with his own style system in the field of action films.

One is the top master of the sect, and the other is the grand master who founded the sect.

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The Beasts may not be able to be ranked alongside these legends for now, but they are barely qualified to compete.

Nowadays, the Beasts has broken away from the concept of a new generation band and started to rank among top bands such as SMAP, Queen, Guns N' Roses and the Beatles.

In fact, in terms of music performance and sales alone, the Beasts band is not inferior at all.

The only thing that is worse than them is that they became famous too quickly, resulting in a lack of foundation, and their qualifications, influence and national popularity are much inferior.

But there is also an advantage to this, that is, those few have basically reached or are close to the ceiling, while Takakura Bunta is still in the rising stage and has a lot of potential to be tapped. And there is also the matter of Akina Nakamori's retirement...

This is the most troublesome weakness of the Beast Band right now.

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Influence and national popularity are easy to deal with. We can use One Piece Entertainment to strengthen our public opinion offensive and expand our influence.

However, the issue of personnel succession is a major event concerning life and death. If we are not careful, the Beast Band will become a flash in the pan.

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In the second month, the total cumulative sales in Asia had exceeded 1 million albums.

It broke the record for the fastest album to reach diamond status in Asia.

The sales of the other two albums, "Kill, Miracle, Heart" and "PLANET", are also guaranteed. It is only a matter of time before they enter the billion-level album club.

The number of Asian singers whose albums have sold billions of diamond albums can be counted on one hand.

It can be said that no matter what the future holds, when talking about the Asian music scene, Takakura Bunta, Tony Futari, and Nakamori Akina are names that cannot be avoided.

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Within a month, Rolling Stone published a special issue about the band Beasts for the second time.

The company's large investment is mainly to match the rice washing efficiency of Metaverse Co., Ltd., 100 billion yen.

The cover of this special issue of Rolling Stone is the cover of Bunta Takakura's "Ainu People".

Bunta Takakura, Toni Futari, and Akina Nakamori all turned their backs to the camera, facing the vast snow-capped mountains of Hokkaido and the towering Mt. Hakodate fortress.

The title of this special issue also fits the cover:

"The era of the Beast Army has arrived in the Asian music scene!!!"

This special issue was immediately sold out by the fans and support groups of the band Baishou...

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While the Asian media were frantically praising the Beasts, One Piece Entertainment was also frantically washing its hands of the media through this propaganda campaign...

In this wave of national carnival, without the public opinion support of Sankei Shimbun, the Financial Services Agency and the National Tax Agency did not dare to act rashly and arouse public anger.

The Sankei Shimbun's column articles before Masataro Ishihara's resignation are now being dug up and read.

The fan club, support group, and fan club of the Beast Band, as well as the legal department of One Piece Entertainment and the Shakushain Foundation have all filed lawsuits against the Sankei Shimbun and launched legal prosecution.

The Sankei Shimbun is facing more than 37 cases and a series of huge fines, as well as the most serious punishment of closing the newspaper.

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One piece entertainment company took advantage of this gap to carry out unprecedented rice washing.

The sound of a cannon is worth a ton of gold. A war of public opinion is also a war, and if you want to fight a war, you have to spend money.

The album "Ainu" cost 100 billion yen to promote, and the legal pursuit of "Sankei Shimbun" cost another 3 million yen. In addition, the fan support clubs and support group funding groups in various countries have invested a total of 40 billion yen...

Of course, compared with the profits of Metaverse Co., Ltd.'s "New Fruit Economy", it is just a drop in the bucket.

The 45-nanometer "Fairy Magic Toad Singing" chip is very popular in the dark world and has accelerated the replacement speed of the traditional fruit market.

In the past, Afghanistan exported 90% of the world's goods by cultivating mulberries among the entire population.

This country of 3800 million people has managed to raise its per capita income from less than $100 to $380, more than tripling, despite the exploitation of tribal chiefs, local warlords, government bureaucrats, the U.S. military, and international traffickers.

Moreover, mulberries are the primary products with the lowest technical content and the most primitive among fruits, accounting for only 18% of the global fruit market share.

The profits during this period can be imagined...

The rapid development of the new fruit economy has brought Metaverse Planning Co., Ltd.'s profit to US$57 billion, which is equivalent to more than 7000 billion yen based on the exchange rate.

It has exceeded the net profit of Sony, Panasonic, and Kyocera Corporation in 1998...

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The development of the Beasts band in the music industry has reached a ceiling that requires time to accumulate and settle.

Next, lead singer Bunta Takakura and guitarist and lead singer Tony Fumu need to continue to make breakthroughs in the film and television industry and consolidate their status.

There is also Akina Nakamori's successor.

This is an existential and urgent event.

(End of this chapter)