Chapter 425 Parade

Chapter 425 Parade

Chapter 425 Parade

Wu Mu's album sales began to skyrocket after he posted the tweet.

The price increased by 180,000 on the first day, but everyone felt that it had almost reached its peak.

Atsuta Atsushi and Hase Kousuke speculated that the purchasing power of Wu Mu fans was only tapped on the first day.

After that, the fans’ purchasing power is gone, and the Oricon chart cannot stay on the chart for long due to its low coefficient. Relying solely on online word-of-mouth popularity and offline audition popularity, it will face the problem of insufficient exposure again.

“The sales should start to stagnate after reaching 300,000.”

Atsuta Atsushi thought so in his heart.

then
The next day, sales reached 190,000.

Atsuta Atsushi counted in a daze, and after confirming that it was 190,000, he hesitated, "I didn't expect his fans to be so persistent and haven't dropped yet. But after today, he should have been almost completely dug out."

On the third day, sales reached 230,000.

Atsuta Atsushi was silent for a while, then nodded, "It seems his fans love him a little bit, so they can buy and promote him like this, but it's almost the limit."

On the fourth day, sales reached 270,000.

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"This is impossible!"

Atsuta Atsushi lost his voice.

No, no, is this reasonable?
How come it keeps rising?!

A Chinese star with absolutely no publicity and no fame sold nearly 900,000 copies in four days, and directly squeezed into the top 100 of their all-time album sales chart! ?
Is this wrong?
Atsuta Atsushi was stunned. Even if he had fans paying for his products, even if he had fans promoting his products, it was impossible to have such an outrageous sales conversion rate!

Japan's entertainment industry was completely blown up.

If we talk about the first and second days, apart from those singers in the circle who were keeping an eye on the Oricon charts, not many people noticed Wu Mu.

But by the third or fourth day, it was hard not to notice it.

"Who is this Goki? Why haven't I heard of this name before?"

"I haven't seen any promotion for his album. Where did this come from?"

"Nine hundred thousand in five days! We're about to make our first million?"

Everyone in the circle was asking about Wu Mu's name.

Initial sales, that is, sales of one million in the first week, are often achieved by top-tier singers in the circle, and are a number that can only be achieved with full marketing activities.

They must know about that kind of high-intensity publicity, but they had never heard of this singer or this album before?
This is too weird.

Not only people in the circle, but also various music critics, music magazines and newspapers, and even serious news newspapers, all turned their eyes to Wu Mu.

For example, Japan's Mainichi Shimbun newspaper is very influential and has a long history.

Intern reporter Fujii Mika was already very efficient in showing a written report to her senior. "Senior Nishiyama, this is a cultural observation article I wrote these days. I think it will definitely cause a response if it can be published!"

Her senior took her manuscript and looked at it, and when he saw the title, he was stunned.

"The cultural craze caused by the new album of Chinese idol star Wu Mu, the rebellion of losers"

What the hell?

Chinese idol stars? And the cultural craze they sparked?
How come she had never heard of it?
The senior stared at her with suspicion. Did you take the money?
This title really made her feel like a marketing article no matter how she looked at it.

Intern reporter Fujii Mika felt wronged. "Senior, this really caused a cultural craze. I have been following this matter these days. This matter has a great offline impact, and it may get bigger and bigger in the future!"

Seeing that the senior still didn't believe it, she simply gave an example, "This Chinese idol's new album has sold 900,000 copies in five days. Senior, you can check the latest Oricon charts and you will know."

The senior was stunned. Nine hundred thousand copies were sold in five days. That was indeed a bit too much.

More importantly, like those people in the circle, the point is that she had never heard of this name and had no idea about it at all.

As a journalist, she knows that such things that are apparently unheard of but have a large audience are often more worthy of attention because they usually represent some neglected groups and things.

The senior temporarily put aside his doubts and began to read the manuscript.

Fujii Mika became aware of Wu Mu through the music reviews of Asano Daishi a long time ago.

She watched the whole thing unfold.

From the initial poor album sales to the rescue operation launched by Twitter's Idea King.

At first, she didn't actually take this so-called rescue operation seriously. After all, the popularity on the Internet is just popularity, but it is hard to say how many people will actually take action in reality.

But unexpectedly, on her way to work the next day, she actually met several people who were doing offline promotions on the road.

But at this moment, she just paid attention to it and didn't take it too seriously.

It wasn't until the third day when she came to work that she met people wearing white headbands again, and it seemed that there were more of them.

This time it caught her attention, she started to learn more about it, and then she discovered something.
"You said this is about to become a trend among students, and many students are doing this?"

The senior looked up at her in astonishment.

Fujii Mika nodded, "Yes, I have counted it. Take the Kudankita Middle School near our newspaper office as an example. In their most popular classes, nearly one-sixth of the students in a class do this."

Although it is only one-sixth, if it is magnified by the entire student population, it is already a very large number.

"How is this done?" The senior was somewhat incredulous.

How could an unknown Chinese celebrity's action, which seemed like a joke, cause so many people to follow suit?
If it was a middle school student, it would be understandable, after all, this is indeed quite childish. But isn’t Kudankita Middle School a high school? Can high school students be so childish?

Fujii Mika didn't quite understand, and could only guess, "Maybe the Chinese star is in line with the students' preferences, or maybe it's cool to do this. Well, it could also be that they were infected by the spirit of rebellion."

If only one person does this in school, he or she will stand out and be unsociable.

But if many people do this, it will become a group trend.

The seniors should be more serious. If so many people really do this, it would indeed be a cultural phenomenon, worthy of being published.

But unexpectedly, this is not the end yet.

Fujii Mika raised her finger and pointed at the second half of the report, highlighting the key points for her, "Senior, they are planning to hold a big parade tomorrow, Saturday, starting from Hibiya Park and heading towards the Imperial Palace and the National Diet Building."

“Grand parade!?” The senior was shocked and screamed.

No, what do these people want to do!
It would be fine if he just brought a bowl, but he also had to march!
As a serious news newspaper, she knew very well the seriousness of the march.

If the parade proceeds normally, it would not be a big deal. But if it is instigated, or the initiator has ulterior motives and changes the parade route to go directly into the Imperial Palace to report the situation, it will immediately become big news that shocks the world!

Fujii Mika nodded, "There are already more than 10,000 replies on the Twitter topic saying they are participating."

More than 10,000.
What if 10,000 people attacked the Imperial Palace?
The next day, the front-page headlines of major newspapers around the world were definitely about Japan.

The senior stood up uncomfortably, feeling that this matter seemed more serious than he had imagined, but he was also hesitant. "Online replies are online replies, but in reality, there may not be many people who can actually come, right?"

Fujii Mika's expression was subtle. Well, she actually thought so at first.

Wu Mu's album sold 900,000 copies in five days, attracting the attention of people in the circle.

People in the industry are speculating how much this album, which no one has ever heard of before, will sell in the end.

One million and two hundred thousand, one million and a half at most should be the limit.

This is already within the top 50 of their albums in Japan.

It's impossible that Goki, a star who just came to Japan to develop his career, can be among the top 30 or 20, right?

Then, amid this speculation, Saturday arrived, the day for the march agreed upon on Twitter.

Sasaki Anzi was in a good mood and went out carrying a halberd, or a towel.

Her mother, Sasaki Miko, was also there, but she was not wearing a scarf on her head. Sasaki Anko looked at her mother and snorted, "Mom, why are you still worried about this? Wearing this is the latest trend in our school! It's very cool!"

Sasaki Miko looked helpless, "It's still too weird to bring it with us. It feels like everyone around us is looking at us."

Seeing that her daughter was still trying to persuade her, she added, "But I've already brought it with me and put it in my bag. When we get to Hikigaya Park, if there are a lot of people there, I'll take it out and take it with me."

"You are acting like a fence-sitter! You are an unsteady person with unstable thoughts," Sasaki Anko criticized.

"Then I won't go." Sasaki Miko stopped.

"I'm the waverer, I'm the fence-sitter, mom, don't go!"

Miko Sasaki walked forward with her daughter holding her arm.

She was actually curious, "How many people will go later?"

"At least 10,000 people!" Sasaki Kyoko was confident. "There are already more than 16,000 replies on Twitter."

How could there be ten thousand people?

Sasaki Miko shook her head.

Online replies are one thing, but she feels that reaching several thousand people offline is already impressive.

Thinking this in her mind, Miko Sasaki took her daughter onto the bus.

After the bus drove for half an hour, the two arrived near Hibiya Park.

then
The two looked at Hibiya Park in the distance outside the car window and were both stunned.

people.

so many people!
Looking from a high place, there was a sea of ​​white people wearing white turbans!

Hibiya Park, as a park near the Imperial Palace of Japan, covers a large area. However, looking from a distance, the square at the entrance of Hibiya Park is already crowded with people.

Not only the park, the roads outside the park are also occupied!
Their buses can't even get through!

Let alone thousands of people, I'm afraid even ten or twenty thousand people wouldn't be enough!
The people on the bus were obviously startled. "What's going on? Is there a parade today?"

"Why are there so many people?"

Many people couldn't help but glance at Sasaki and the others when they were talking in low voices, because the headscarf on Sasaki Anzi's head showed that she was obviously in the same group as those people outside.

The bus was forced to stop and open the doors to let the passengers get off.

As soon as the car door opened, the buzz of discussion outside suddenly became louder.

Everywhere there were sounds of low conversations, loud slogans of "loser", and even singing.

And looking at the expressions on many people's faces outside, they seem a bit confused and bewildered.

"Why are there so many people?"

"I don't know. I thought one or two thousand people would be a lot, but I didn't expect there would be so many."

"This is at least 20,000 or 30,000, right? Are you all here because of Goki-san?"

"We are here to accompany my daughter."

"I heard there was a protest march in Hibiya Park today, so I wanted to come and see the excitement."

"I listened to Goki-san's songs and was very inspired by them."

It seems that many people do not come for Wu Mu as a person, but for various reasons.

But no matter what, the many people present at the scene are real.

Many people, including Miko Sasaki, were shocked.

It turns out that Goki-san has such a great influence?
Isn’t he a Chinese star who just performed in Japan?

Her daughter, on the other hand, was very excited. “With so many people here, Mumu-chan’s album will definitely be on the front page of the news tomorrow!!”

Actually, there is no need for tomorrow.

As early as the morning when people just started to gather in Hibiya Park, many TV stations received the information and quickly brought people to the scene to record, and some even started live broadcast directly.

And not only Japanese TV stations, but also some foreign news agencies stationed in Japan have received the information at this time.

For example, China’s CCTV Japan Station in Tokyo, Japan.

The reporters from CCTV Japan Station were originally sorting out manuscripts in the office.

Suddenly, the door to their office was pushed open, and the department director ran in and shouted, "Zhou Ying, there is urgent news, get ready and take people to Hibiya Park!"

Breaking news?
The reporters in the office were all shocked. A female reporter in her twenties stood up and said, "Yes!"

She quickly packed her things, then followed the department director out to find the outbound editing team.

On the way, she did not forget to take the time to ask for details of the upcoming mission so that she could prepare herself mentally. "Director, what is the urgent news?"

"There's a big parade going on in Hibiya Park! A conservative estimate is 30 to 40 thousand people."

A large-scale parade of 30,000 to 40,000 people?

Zhou Ying's face froze. This many people were rare even in Japan where there were often various parades.

She quickly searched the major events that happened in Japan recently. "Director, is this because of the recent killing of local civilians by U.S. soldiers at the Okinawa base without any punishment, and the anti-U.S. military base demonstrations are being held?"

"No."

"Is that an anti-war march against Japan's constitutional amendment to revise the war clauses?"

"No."

This isn’t it either?

Zhou Ying's face straightened as she suddenly realized, "I know, it's an anti-nuclear march against the restart of the nuclear power plant."

"No."

Zhou Ying was surprised and searched in her mind again, "It can't be an LGBT equality parade, right?"

The director in front of her stopped and looked at him with a subtle expression, "It's the parade for the new album of the star Goki."

Oh, it turned out to be a parade for celebrities’ new albums.
It turned out to be a ghost!
Zhou Ying was stunned. What the hell was going on?

The star's new album parade?

Having been doing news reporting in Japan for so long, this was the first time she had come across this.

This is too weird.

However, as a CCTV reporter who has experienced many battles, Zhou Ying quickly accepted it. "Celebrity Goki? How come I have never heard of this name? Is it just his name? What's his last name?"

"Last name: Go."

Last name Go?

How can there be such a strange surname? Translated into Chinese, isn’t it Wu?

Well, ki translates to wood.

Zhou Ying suddenly stopped and was silent for two seconds, "Director, please don't tell me this is the album parade of the star Wu Mu that I was thinking of."

(End of this chapter)