Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 53 Could it be? Are there any experts?
  Kondo Masahiko has released the album "Yuyaki no Uta", which has the ambition to top the Oricon chart for a week and dominate the charts for 12 weeks.

Just as Takakura Bunta was puzzled.

After the front page of Shukan Bunshun devoted a large amount of space to the report, other media outlets, like sharks smelling blood, began to carry out related reports one after another.

In a short period of time, Masahiko Kondo's new album has indeed become very popular.

However, it is far from enough to rely on this popularity for the "Yuyaki no Song" album to win the weekly chart.

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Compared with the three consecutive weeks of "Kill That Tokyo Man" on the Oricon song rankings, the sales of single albums exceeded 80.

In terms of album ranking on the Oricon Chart, the world is currently divided into three parts, and the fight is particularly fierce.

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Matsuda Seiko's album "Missing You/明日へと駆け出してゆこう" (I want to see you ~ Missing You ~ / Run towards tomorrow!).

After the single of the same name won the number one single for seven weeks, the album was immediately released, with sales exceeding 100 million copies that month.

Matsuda Seiko is an idol star of the same generation as Nakamori Akina and Kondo Masahiko.

The songs on the album "あなたに会いたくてMissing You/明日へと駆け出してゆこう" are the most advanced and atmospheric style typical of junior high school in the 90s.

If it were other contemporary singers, it would be a thankless task to sing songs of this style, and there would inevitably be flaws such as dragging sounds and unstable breaths.

However, Matsuda Seiko's singing ability is amazing. Her voice is well protected, her voice is flawless, relaxed and smooth, and she sings effortlessly without any drag.

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Matsuda Seiko has the top ability of "one of the three great singers of the Showa era", and the other two competitors for the Oricon album ranking are not ordinary people either.

Although Namie Amuro's single "Try Me" was on the Oricon weekly chart and stayed there for a week before being pushed down, her album is of extremely high quality.

This new album is directed by Tetsuya Komuro, the man known as the "godfather of RB music".

In the original plane, Tetsuya Komuro is the ace producer of RB music, and it was he who single-handedly made RB’s pop music queen Namie Amuro famous.

Takeshi Kobayashi, the RB pop music producer who personally discovered the famous RB band Mr.Children, once said:

"More than half of the RB music scene in the 90s was dominated by Komuro. I just found a small corner in the remaining part."

Tetsuya Komuro is a singer, producer, lyricist, composer, arranger, and musician.

The "Tetsuya Komuro modulation method" he invented is one of the three major modulation methods of modern J-POP (RB pop music). He led the trend of modern RB pop music.

The entire album is Namie Amuro's declaration to join the "Komuro Family".

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The last contender on the album chart is the original 1996 Oricon annual album sales champion, Mr. Children (Mr. Children) rock band.

This rock band's album "シーソーゲーム～Brave Love Song～", their music combines rock, pop, folk and other elements, and the lyrics are full of thoughts and insights about life.

Mr. Children's songs not only make people feel the passion and power of rock and roll, but also bring a warm and emotional touch.

In his previous life, his cumulative album and single sales exceeded 100 million copies, and he has a large number of die-hard rock fans.

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These three major albums compete with each other to top the Oricon Album Weekly Chart.

The most powerful Matsuda Seiko's album "Missing You/Tomorrow's Tomorrow" only won the championship for three consecutive weeks.

Then, the albums of Mr. Children and Namie Amuro took turns to replace them, but they were still unable to establish a dominant position...

In addition, Miyuki Nakajima and Bunta Takakura, who have won the weekly number one song on the Oricon Chart, have not yet released an album.

Under this situation, Kondo Masahiko's heroic words in "Weekly Bunshun" are simply crazy words.

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The singles determine the intensity of the album.

The main purpose of a single is not only to keep the singer exposed, but also to predict the market sales of subsequent albums.

Kondo Masahiko's single "Yuyaki no Uta" has fallen out of the top ten of the Oricon charts.

Now, if an album of the same name relies on "Yuyaki no Song" as the title song, it has to dominate the album chart for 12 weeks, which is obviously not strong enough.

Unless there’s also a title song.    Is it possible? Are there any experts?
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In the second week, Kondo Masahiko's new album "Yuyaki no Song" was officially released.

At the invitation of director Hideki Kojitani, Bunta Takakura served as the action director for the new film "The Couple in the End of the House, Escape from Osaka's Apartment in Osaka" (The Couple in the End of the House, Escape from the Apartment in Osaka City).

On the way to the set of Poseidon Pictures, Keiko Kanda bought an album "Yiyaki no Song" at a street video store.

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In the Tokyo metropolitan area, on the street at the intersection of the video store in Chiyoda District, a 1994 Lincoln Continental sedan.

"The first song on this record is "Song of Night Fire", and the second song is..."

Kanda Keiko looked at the album playlist name and was stunned for a moment.

"what happened?"

""Until the end of the world" (Until the end of the world)?"

Bunta Takakura took the album and was a little confused for a moment. He looked at the album cover again and saw that it was Kondo Masahiko's "Song of Night Fire", not an album by the WANDS rock band.

Kanda Keiko turned on the radio and tuned to NHK-FM. The radio's music program was announcing a major news.

"Latest news, listeners."

"The famous rock band WANDS was summoned by the Nerima District Police Station for copyright infringement..."

"Genesis' legal representative announced that one of the three principles of dark copyright in the Universal Convention for the Protection of Copyright will be activated, with unlimited retroactive rights."

"Legal tracing for WANDS rock band's infringement."

Kanda Keiko, Takakura Bunta: "..."

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Recently, under the supervision of Kanda Keiko, Takakura Bunta stopped studying the collector's edition of the "ViVi" photo magazine.

Turn to study the "Universal Convention for the Protection of Copyright".

The "Universal Convention for the Protection of Copyright" jointly signed by 233 countries and regions is the cornerstone of the unprecedented prosperity of the cultural industry in this dark world.

The so-called "three principles of dark copyright" - complete stripping, unlimited traceability, and absolute judgment.

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Copyright includes fifty-two rights including personal rights, publication rights, signature rights, modification rights, property rights, rental rights, exhibition rights, performance rights, and screening rights.

Among them, personal rights, publication rights, signature rights, modification rights, and rights to protect the integrity of works.

In previous lives, these five rights were "non-alienable rights."

That is to say, even if you buy out your work, it still cannot infringe on your rights, ensuring that you are the original author no matter what.

However, the "Three Principles of Dark Copyright" of the "Universal Convention for the Protection of Copyright" in the dark world are "completely stripped away".

All fifty-two copyrights can be packaged and traded, including five "non-transferable" rights.

"Complete stripping" will result in original author changes.

The new copyright owner can obtain the "original author" signature rights, personal rights and other rights.

Previous film and television works, albums, and commercials must be removed from the shelves within the specified time, or new authorization must be obtained and the name changed.

The other two rights are unlimited retrospection and absolute judgment.

"Unlimited traceability rights" means that from the date of obtaining copyright, you can trace back the rights regardless of time, location, and national boundaries.

"Absolute judicial authority" means that in countries and regions that are signatories to the "Universal Convention for the Protection of Copyright," copyright owners can initiate trial suggestions and determine the degree of punishment for the ruling.

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Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for any musician to sign a "complete divestiture agreement", which is tantamount to selling one's soul.

Kanda Keiko made a phone call and quickly learned the outline of the matter through Sony Records' news channel.

(End of this chapter)