Hiramatsu Kazuhiro's words aroused the boy's interest. He stretched out his hand towards Hiramatsu Kazuhiro, "Hello, my name is Watanabe Cheng."
"I am Hiramatsu Kazuhiro."
"Excuse me, where can I buy Zhou Yan's album?" asked Watanabe Cheng.
Hearing this question, Watanabe Cheng laughed, "This bookstore sells it, and the bookstore sometimes plays Zhou Yan's songs."
"Then maybe I should Go buy one and listen.”
"No need." Hiramatsu and Hiroshi smiled and took out the CD player and headphones from their backpacks. "I have brought two of his albums with me. I can give you a listen first."
"As expected, you I like Zhou Yan very much." Watanabe Cheng smiled and took the earphones, "I'm not welcome."
"You're welcome."
Hirasatsu Kazuhiro said while operating the CD player. Watanabe Cheng introduced, "The album inside is Zhou Yan's second album "Mysterious Country". You should be able to guess the style of this album from the name. The songs in "Mysterious Country" are all of Eastern tradition. Element, the global sales of this album seem to have exceeded 3 million.”
“I don’t know much about music albums. Is this sales huge?”
Hiramatsu and Hiroshi nodded heavily, "Of course it's great, it should be the best-selling music album in the past two years."
"I've never heard of such a best-selling album..."
Hiramatatsu Kazuhiro scratched his head, "It's normal, just like I haven't heard of Oe Kenzaburo."
At this time, Hiramatsu Kazuhiro had pressed the play button, and a loud sound came from Watanabe Shigeru's headphones. The bell rang and the music started, so he didn't speak and listened to the music seriously.
After listening to it for a few seconds, Watanabe felt that the song sounded familiar.
As Hiramatsu Kazuhiro said, this piece of music has a very oriental connotation. In just a few seconds, the image of the ancient palace appeared in Watanabe's mind. He always felt like he had heard it somewhere.
Watanabe Cheng listened for a while, and he was sure that he must have heard this piece of music, but he couldn’t remember where he heard it. It might have been on a certain TV show, or it might have been on a certain TV show. A street shop.
When the second song played, he felt more familiar, and this time he also remembered where he had heard it.
At the beginning of the year, he went to Sensoji Temple and heard this piece of music. The first piece of music was also heard at that time. At that time, he was thinking that these two pieces of music would go well with Sensoji Temple.
However, at the time he thought it was music exclusively for temples, and did not expect that it was actually composed by a modern composer.
Watanabe Cheng also understood why Zhou Yan's album was a best-seller. This type of music was indeed very attractive to Neon's audience. Even he, a person who usually didn't pay much attention to music, fell in love with it all of a sudden.
While Watanabe was listening to the music, Hiramatsu and Hiro had been observing his expression.
When Hiramatsu Kazuhiro saw the surprised expression on Watanabe Cheng's face, he also laughed. He knew that Zhou Yan's music would definitely conquer Watanabe Cheng.
Hiramatsu Kazuhiro often recommends others to listen to Zhou Yan's music. So far, almost no one has met someone who doesn't like it. There is always one of Zhou Yan's songs that can impress them.
Maybe the other party doesn’t like this kind of music with oriental elements, then he can also take out the album "Piano Boy".
If a sad song like "Kite" can't impress the other party, there's also a playful and light song like "Wind", or if that doesn't work, there's an exciting song like "Awakening".
Take a step back and say, if the other person doesn’t like to listen to pure music, that’s okay. Aren’t there also popular songs like “If Love Is Divine Will” and “Stand With Me”?
No matter what, there is always one that suits each other.
Of course, in most cases, most of Zhou Yan's songs can be liked by the other party, and they are very surprised that Zhou Yan can control so many styles.
Hiramatsu Kazuhiro enjoys people's surprised expressions. This feeling of being recognized by people for his favorite musicians is the fun of chasing stars.
Watanabe Cheng has been listening, while Hiramatsu and Hirono have been waiting quietly.
Until the entire album was played, Watanabe let out a long sigh of relief and returned the headphones to Hiramatsu and Hiroshi.
"Thank you, Pingsong, for letting me know such a talented musician. No, Zhou Yan is not only a talented musician, he is also a very good writer."
"No need. Thanks, even if it wasn't me, you would have discovered him yourself in the future." Ping Song and Guang scratched their heads.
Watanabe Cheng put the book into his school bag, "I should often read in this bookstore recently. Do you usually come here often?"
"Well, my friends and I come here often. I also have three friends, they are all from Kakegawa High School, but today..."
Hiramatsu and Hiro suddenly remembered that Tanakama Er and the three of them Today, I haven't even come yet.
He looked at the time. It had been more than an hour since he came to the bookstore. Logically speaking, Tanaka Maji and the others should have arrived long ago.
Seeing him in a daze, Watanabe Cheng smiled, "I have something to do today, so I have to leave first. Remember to introduce your friends to me when you have the chance."
"You want to Are you leaving? How about I give this album to you? By the way, Zhou Yan also has "Piano Boy" which you haven't listened to yet."
"It doesn't matter, aren't they sold in bookstores?"
After saying that, Watanabe left.
Watanabe Cheng did not leave directly, but went to the record area to buy two albums before leaving.
Hiramatsu and Hiro watched Watanabe Cheng leave the bookstore, and then sighed in boredom.
I don’t know what Hiramatsu and Guang are doing, they haven’t come yet.
Another half hour passed before Hiramatsu, Hiro and Ibuki Suzune arrived belatedly.
As soon as the three of them arrived, Hiramatsu and Hiro asked them angrily, "Why didn't you arrive until now..."
Halfway through the conversation, Hiramatsu and Hiro suddenly noticed that the three of them "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng" in his hand.
“You have already bought the book?”
“Yes, I bought it at the nearby Nanling Bookstore.”
"We didn't make an appointment here, why are you going to Nanling Bookstore?"
Nanling Bookstore is the largest bookstore nearby, but they rarely go there. Although it is very big, it is full of commercial atmosphere. A bookstore like this gives people a very warm feeling.
Furthermore, Nanling Bookstore often holds events and there are always many customers, and sometimes there is no seat at all.
Ibuki Suzune smiled and said, "Hiramatsu-kun, don't blame us, it's because a very lively thing happened at Nanling Bookstore today."
"A lively thing?"
"When we passed by Nanling Bookstore, we found that the place was crowded with people. Rina said we wanted to go in and have a look, so we went."
Hiramatsu and Hiramatsu rolled their eyes at Sato Rina, "I knew it was You."
Sato Rina shrugged, "Fortunately, we went in and found out that Kudo Shizuka was at Nanling Bookstore."
"Is she holding a book signing there?"< br>
Ibuki Suzune shook her head and said, "No, she just went to buy "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng"."
"She went to buy - oh, she has covered Zhou Yan's songs, so there must be cooperation. Maybe this is a marketing activity?"
"I don't know, anyway, she went to buy a book, and then she was discovered by a customer. She was very friendly and even sang a song "If Love Is Provident" live. "
Originally, Hiramatsu and Hiro didn't feel much when they heard that Kudo Shizuka appeared at Nanling Bookstore. Kudo Shizuka sang "If Love Is God's Will" live acapella, then scratched her head with a look of regret on her face.
"Shizuka also said a very important news." Sato Rina said with a smile.
“What news?”
"She collaborated with Zhou Yan on two new songs."
"New songs?" Hiramatsu Kazuhiro's eyes widened, "Really?"
"Of course, she said it herself. ”
“When will the new song be released?”
“That’s not said”
Hiramatsu Kazuhiro said with emotion, "Shizuka Kudo is so amazing, she actually asked Zhou Yan to write two new songs for her. Is this the first time Zhou Yan has written songs for a neon singer?"
"It seems so, Zhou Yan has never written a few songs, and "Stay with Me" and "If Love Has God's Will" are both from pure music."
"It seems that Shizuka Kudo has been expressing her appreciation in front of the media before. Zhou Yan, this trick still works. ""Well, it does work."
"It's a pity that I didn't go there today."
...
The fact that Kudo Shizuka went to Nanling Bookstore to buy books caused quite a stir. Before she left the bookstore, reporters had already rushed to the scene and took pictures of the scene.
Actually, Shizuka Kudo had no intention of showing up. She really just wanted to buy a few copies of "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng" by herself. Unexpectedly, she was discovered.
Now that she was discovered, she did not hide it, but openly communicated with readers in the bookstore, and helped promote the book, which led to the Nanling Bookstore's "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua" that day. , Shi Tiesheng" are all sold out.
In fact, Nanling Bookstore has purchased a total of fifty copies of "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng" this time. This is not a small number, and it should be able to sell for a long time. After all, this kind of purely literary books are inherently Not that easy to sell.
If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Yan was among the authors, Nanling Bookstore would probably only have five or ten copies of this kind of book.
They never expected that Shizuka Kudo would come to their bookstore to buy books.
Some people suspect that this is a marketing campaign, but Nanling Bookstore is confused. Even if this is a marketing campaign, then this marketing has nothing to do with their bookstore, otherwise they would not be able to enter only fifty This is a new book, but it should be 500 copies.
Shueisha was also very confused because they did not contact Shizuka Kudo to cooperate with them in marketing activities.
They do have the heart, but they don’t have the money.
To be honest, how much money can this set of books make in total? What kind of celebrity is Kudo Shizuka now? How much does it cost to hire Shizuka Kudo? How many copies do they have to sell to make back the money?
If you want to say that it is a well-known comic published by them, and there is hope that it has even been made into an animation, it is still possible to find some celebrities to help promote it. Only fools would like this kind of purely literary book. Will spend money to find big stars for marketing.
Even Ogi Productions was a little confused, because they didn’t even know about Kudo Shizuka in advance.
But Ogi Production has gotten used to it. Kudo Shizuka has always been very rebellious. Last time the company didn't let her go to Zhou Yan's concert, didn't she go secretly in the end?
And after the news came out, the feedback from all aspects was actually positive.
Before, Ogi Productions had been planning how to publish the song written by Zhou Yan for Kudo Shizuka. Now, it’s okay. Kudo Shizuka did it directly without them having to do anything, and the effect was surprisingly good.
Now everyone is not only interested in Zhou Yan’s new book, but also in Kudo Shizuka’s new song.
On that day, Ogi Production received many calls, asking about the status of the new song written by Zhou Yan for Kudo Shizuka.
The callers came from all sides, including record companies that I had worked with before, asking if the new song had been decided and who to collaborate with, and colleagues asking how much it would cost to invite Zhou Yan to sing a song.
Some people even asked if they could help with matchmaking. They also wanted to ask Zhou Yan to help write songs.
There are many people asking Zhou Yan to write songs, especially after Kudo Shizuka sang "If Love Is God's Will" and "Stand With Me", more and more people from Neon approached Zhou Yan to invite him to sing.
But so far, only Shizuka Kudo has been successfully invited. The others have all been rejected, and they can’t even negotiate the price. Zhou Yan’s attitude is very clear, that is No need to talk.
Ogi Production is also very lucky. If Shizuka Kudo hadn’t released a Chinese album, I’m afraid Zhou Yan wouldn’t have agreed to help write songs.
Anyway, Kudo Shizuka’s rebellious behavior made all parties happy.
Shueisha received a free promotion opportunity, Nanling Bookstore's sales increased sharply, and Ogi Productions was able to promote the new album in Neon.
The happiest people are actually the media and newspapers, because they have news to write about again.
There have always been rumors about the scandal between Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka, and now the heat has been raised again. Among the ten news reports this time, nine of them mentioned the scandal between Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka.
Although the focus of the news is on the scandal between Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka, the popularity of the novel collection has also really increased.
In just one week, "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng" sold more than 50,000 copies.
This result is naturally extremely unspectacular among many best-selling books, but for a collection of pure literary novels by foreign authors, it is already very impressive and far exceeded Shueisha's expectations.
When they originally talked with Zhou Yan, they felt that the first printing of 80,000 copies was a bit too much, and wanted to reduce the first printing quantity to 60,000 copies.
They never imagined that in just one week, 80,000 copies would not be enough. Fortunately, as soon as the news that Kudo Shizuka went to the bookstore to buy books came out on the first day, Shueisha was already busy printing more copies. There will be no shortage of supply.
Seeing that the sales volume of the novel "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng" has soared due to Kudo Shizuka, some publishing houses have inquired with Ogi Productions about how much it would cost to invite Kudo Shizuka to help with a marketing campaign.
But the price offered by Omu Productions was simply not something that those publishing houses could afford, so they had to give up in the end.
Not only Shizuka Kudo received invitations to this kind of event, but also some other celebrities received similar invitations, but basically no publishing house could accept the price they offered.
What these publishing houses can afford to hire are little-known celebrities, and hiring such stars will not increase the sales of books at all. It is completely wasted money.
……
The news of the best-selling book soon spread to China.
The first person to report this news was the Yangtze Evening News. They used a very exaggerated news headline.
【Selling tens of thousands of copies a day, Chinese writers are causing shock in neon! 】
The key is that the title is not wrong at all, because "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng" sold more than 16,000 copies on its peak day in the past week. They did not write "nearly 20,000 copies". Very restrained.
"Yangzi Evening News" was very impressive this time. It took out two tofu-sized pages to report exclusively on this incident.
In the news, it was also mentioned that a well-known neon singer made a special trip to a bookstore to buy novels. By the way, it was also mentioned that Shizuka Kudo's Chinese album will be released soon.
After the Yangtze Evening News fired the first shot, other major media also reported the news.
Regular media are relatively restrained in reporting, while some less formal media just let themselves go.
[Chinese literature conquers neon! 】
[Musicians who don’t want to be writers are not good directors. The Zhou Yan phenomenon continues to ferment in Neon! 】
【The trident of Chinese literary circles, set off! 】
【Chinese movies! Chinese music! Chinese literature! 】
……
On November 21st, Zhou Yan was paying attention to the box office performance of "The Fugitive" when he suddenly received a strange phone call.
"Hello, Comrade Zhou Yan, I am Gao Wei from the Department of Creation and Liaison."
"Department of Creation and Liaison?" Zhou Yan was confused.
The Innovation and Liaison Department is a very common department. Many units will set up this department. This kind of self-introduction itself is a bit strange.
The other party immediately explained, "It is the Creative and Liaison Department of the Chinese Writers Association."
Zhou Yan understood it now, but he was curious why the Writers Association suddenly came to him.
“Minister Gao, what do you want from me?”
“That’s right, I would like to invite you to join the Chinese Writers Association.”
Zhou Yan smiled and said, “I In fact, I am already a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association.”
“It’s still different. If it’s convenient for you, you can take the time to fill out the form.”
Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "How about I go there later? I'm really busy at this time."
Gao Wei said, "If you are busy, we can send someone to take you there." I'll go over to you and won't waste too much of your time."
Zhou Yan pursed his lips. He even wondered if the person from the Innovation and Liaison Department was a liar. Are he in such a hurry?
The Chinese Writers Association has always been aloof. There is no need to worry about an ordinary writer. Zhou Yan was surprised to be able to make a special call.
But now that Gao Wei has said it for this reason, he can't refuse anymore, "Would it be too troublesome for you?"
"No, you are in Yanjing, right? Just give me a time and give me the address."
"Okay, I'll be free the day after tomorrow in the afternoon. The address is..."
"Okay. I made a note of it, and I will send someone there the day after tomorrow. Also, I want to ask you something. Do you have Yu Hua’s contact information? It seems that the contact information he left in "Harvest" is no longer used." (End of this chapter)