Romantic comedy with all members, why am I single?

Chapter 275 Calculation
Iura Hide originally just wanted to give a simple explanation, but Hoshino Ai, Sugaya Noha and Ijichi Kouka added fuel to the fire.

Kitagawa Umi still knew everything that happened in the recording studio, including that Tsukimi Eiko hugged and embraced Iura Hide and forcefully kissed him.

But I don't know if it's because of the last 'Inui Sasaki and Suzuha forced kiss incident' that she has become accustomed to this kind of thing.

Although she frowned in dissatisfaction, she was not angry with Jingura Hide.

At this time, Noha Sugaya had also taken out her headphones and wanted to give them to her and Ozora.

However, because there were Mashiro and Hoshino Ai in between, she could only hand the headphones to Iura Hide, who then gave them to her and Oosora.

Just by looking at each other, Jingpu Xiu knew what she was thinking.

Looking at Osora who seemed to be indifferent but actually envious, Iura Hide hesitated for at least a moment, but finally helped Kitagawa Umi put on the headphones, and after suppressing the accelerated heartbeat caused by nervousness, he said, "This song is not suitable for boys to sing, so it may sound a little strange."

At the same time, he helped Dakong put on headphones.

At this moment, although she was listening to the song, Inuisa Suzuha, whose eyes were always on Iura Hide, could not help but be dumbfounded.

It's OK for Kitagawa Umi, but why is Oosora treated differently from her?! ?

Inui Sasuke looked at Ozora, then at Kitagawa Umi and Sugaya Noha. The smart girl immediately realized the crux of the problem, so she couldn't help but look at Inui Shinshou who was listening to the song attentively, and then she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

Qian Xinshou is already over fourteen years old and will be fifteen soon, so she doesn't mind Qian Xinshou finding a boyfriend.

In addition, the relationship between the two sisters is very good, and Qian Xinshou's introverted and self-abased sexiness makes it difficult to feel at ease without her care.

Therefore, if Qian Xinshou could become Jingpu Xiu's girlfriend together with her, she would not be angry or mind, but would think it was a good thing.

However, even though she is such a "super beautiful and cute girl", she has not yet overcome the many obstacles of Kitagawa Umi and become Iura Hide's girlfriend.

In her opinion, Qian Xinshou was even worse because he was so introverted and self-deprecating.

"With Shinju-chan's personality, I can't cooperate with her even if I want to. I can't just strip Shinju and throw her on Xiu's bed, and then pretend to find out accidentally? This idea seems good!"

Qian Sha Shouye was suddenly stunned, and even threw aside the devilish brainwashing melody in his ears, and began to think quickly in his head.

At the same time, in the headquarters of Key Time, a large artist agency located in Shibuya, in an office dominated by black and decorated in a stylish and luxurious style, Toshihiko Karasawa, the director of the artist department and ace producer, is also secretly plotting against Iura Hide.

"What!? You want me to go on stage and forcefully kiss Iura-san after his performance, like the girl in the video did?"

In front of the large solid wooden desk, the second female lead Nanami Kuon in "Party Tramp" who has dark purple waist-length hair, a tall figure, and a look that is no less than that of Eiko Tsukimi, leaned forward and slammed the table with both hands in anger.

However, Tang Ze Shouyan, who was behind the table, still sat in the chair with an expressionless face, looking down at her with a condescending look, and asked indifferently: "You don't want to? Don't you like every one of his songs?"

"Yes, I really like Jingpu-san's songs, but——"

Before she could finish, Toshihiko Tangze took out a statistical report from the side, threw it in front of her, and said, "Do you know how popular Jingpu Xiu is now?"

"We have only released four songs so far, but both the number of Spotify followers and single sales have exceeded one million. I don't need to say more about this."

"Even the number of followers on YouTube, with the help of the performance video recorded during last week's performance, has increased to 77 in just one week!"

"You have to know that this is real data without any false information or promotion by any big company!"

"In the Japanese entertainment industry, apart from those top idols, usually only top-tier singers, bands and actors can have more than one million fans on YouTube!"

“So it’s no exaggeration to say that as long as Iura Shu can continue to maintain his current level of creation, he can become one of the most popular superstars in the Japanese music scene in less than a year!”

"Why would you be dissatisfied with being able to have a scandal with him?"

"But..." Kuon Nanami opened her mouth, but suddenly she didn't know what to say. In the end, she could only clench her fists and said angrily: "But this is too despicable, right? I already have a girlfriend!"

"So what?" Toshihiko Karasawa asked back disdainfully.

"Do you know how many views and reposts the video of him being forcibly kissed got on YouTube last time?"

"There are 27 videos with over views, and the two videos with the highest definition have over million views!"

"Related searches and discussions also ranked third on this week's hot search list!"

“And this is also without deliberate marketing.”

“If we, Key Time, are responsible for marketing, even taking the top spot on the weekly trending search list will be a piece of cake!”

"So now you know how much traffic and attention you can bring to the three of you if you forcefully kiss him?"

"As for destroying the relationship between him and his girlfriend, if you really feel guilty, then just serve him well, isn't that right?"

"It would be best if we could get him into our firm—"

"You're dreaming!" Kuon Nanami couldn't help but yelled.

However, Karasawa Toshihiko didn't care at all and continued, "Even if you can't get him into the agency, as long as you can become his girlfriend, or even his lover, you will have a constant supply of high-quality new songs to sing."

"Then, post some selfies of you late at night or when you wake up early in the morning, pretending that you accidentally took him in the photo, and you will be able to tie him down firmly."

"I'm not as despicable as you!" Kuon Nanami became more and more angry and wanted to refuse again.

However, another report thrown out by Toshihiko Karasawa at this time directly shattered her determination and forced her to waver.

"This is the analysis report of the various data of the three of you over the past two weeks. Even with the firm's unremitting efforts to promote you, the growth of your popularity has now stagnated."

"Single sales exceeded 4, YouTube followers exceeded 2, and the average video playback volume exceeded ."

“Although it’s a big improvement compared to before, it’s still several times short of the 10 likes per video required to participate in Summer Sonia.”

“It’s even harder to get to the Budokan and the Dome.”

“I am just the artist director and one of the partners of the agency, and I also need to consider the opinions of other partners.”

"If the input and output are not proportional, they will not agree to promote you as vigorously as they did in the past."

"So, you and your two burdensome companions are going to give up your dreams, take your AZALEA band, and go back to the countryside of Hokkaido to grow potatoes?"

"Or should I sacrifice my bottom line a little bit?"

"No, although I am plotting against Jing Pu Xiu, I have to admit that the boy is not only handsome, but also has talent that is rarely seen in ten or twenty years." "A girl like you should feel lucky if you can really climb into his bed~"

Toshihiko Karasawa, who usually has a gloomy face and a slicked-back blond hair, smiled for the first time as he spoke, but this smile was full of amusement and mockery.

Although Kuon Nanami's face turned pale with anger and her nails dug deeply into her palms, her whole body couldn't help but tremble.

But the courage to refuse previously quickly receded like the receding tide.

For many people and many things, once there is the first compromise, there will often be countless compromises afterwards.

Her experience is a bit similar to that of Momoka Kawahara.

Because she loves music and rock, she and her two best friends, Yixia and Shuanglai, formed the band AZALEA when they were in the first year of high school.

Unfortunately, there is no soil for the band to survive in the countryside of Hokkaido.

So without waiting for graduation, they finally couldn't contain their restlessness and made up their minds to drop out of school and come to Tokyo to make a living.

At first, everything in the big city seemed new to them. Even if they could only perform on the streets, their voices became hoarse after a day of performing, and they might not even earn 1000 yen, they were still very happy.

However, people always have to face reality.

In terms of singing skills alone, Nanami Kuon at that time was much better than Tsukimi Eiko is now. Even among the first-line singers, she can be considered as one of the more capable ones.

After a year of polishing and practice, her singing skills have made another breakthrough and reached a top-notch level.

At that time, with the help of Nanami Kuon's superb singing skills, they finally upgraded from a street band to an underground band.

Then two years passed, and their fans only increased from 0 to 35.

Plus, not every fan has the time to come and support them at every performance.

Even if they held a special show in a mini exhibition hall that could accommodate 50 people, they couldn't sell even half of the tickets.

After two years, they are still in the lowest-level underground band like Reika Kawahara.

As for the reason, it is naturally because Kuon, Nanami and the other two have no talent in composing or arranging music.

At this time, when enthusiasm fades with time, they have to face reality.

This kind of life of working during the day and practicing and performing at night is really too hard, and I don’t make much money at all.

When their family stopped supporting them financially, they didn't even have enough money to rent a practice room.

Physical hardship, poverty, and mental exhaustion continue to erode them.

The most important thing is that they still see no hope at all.

This made her two companions, Yixia and Shuanglai, unable to help but back off and prepare to give up their unrealistic musical dreams and return to their hometown, just as Karasawa Toshihiko said, to grow potatoes with their parents.

At this time, Toshihiko Karasawa, who had been waiting for a long time, finally took action.

As an ace producer, he wanders around the big and small showrooms and bars throughout Tokyo almost every night, trying to discover new talents.

He has actually been paying attention to Nanami Kuson for a long time, as she has achieved first-class singing skills through her own efforts without any professional training.

And through investigation, he had already figured out the flaws and weaknesses of Kuon Nanami.

So even though he didn't like Yixia and Shuanglai at all, who had no talent other than their decent looks, he still planned to sign all three of them to Key Time as a band.

Although Key Time is one of the most well-known large-scale artist agencies in the industry, its reputation is not very good.

Artists are exploited and marketing is carried out in every possible way. Even when an artist's contract expires and there is no plan to renew it, a big piece of meat will be bitten off again. If the artist does not bleed heavily, he or she will not be able to leave.

In addition, Toshihiko Karasawa was very strong and planned to let them change the style of the band, from the original traditional band to a "girl idol band".

So when Toshihiko Karasawa came to her for the first time, Nanami Kuon refused without hesitation.

But just a few days later, when Yixia and Shuanglai had already started to discuss with her which day would be better to book the train ticket back, she made a choice that was completely different from Kawahara Ki Momoka's.

Momoka Kawaharaki didn't want to transform into a girl idol, so she would rather leave the band and become a street singer again, starting from scratch.

She chose to compromise.

Compared to disbanding the band, parting with best friends, or even completely giving up on the dream of music and returning to hometown in disgrace, just changing the style of the band doesn't seem to be unacceptable, right?

After figuring this out, she had no choice but to take the initiative to find Toshihiko Karasawa, and took her two good friends with her to sign a 'contract of sale' and join the Key Time agency.

Then, at the request of Toshihiko Karasawa, they put on performance clothes that were only a few pieces of fabric longer than a swimsuit, even exposing their lower half, and a very astringent smell. They put on exaggerated clown-like masks and transformed themselves into a 'girl idol band' that was called a band but was actually idols.

Next, it may be because most girl idols go for the sweet and cute style.

It may also be that, with the support of a large artist agency, he can finally afford to buy the live rights to those good songs.

Coupled with the tens of millions of yen in funding and their unremitting promotion and marketing, they did become popular very quickly.

It took only half a year for them to transform from a bottom-tier band with absolutely no popularity and sales of their seven original singles totaling less than 200, to a mainstream popular "band" with single sales exceeding .

Yes, due to population restrictions, in this world of Neon, single sales of over 10,000 are already a level that only top third-rate bands can achieve.

If compared with girl idols, they can be considered a second-rate girl idol group.

However, Toshihiko Karasawa's next target, Summer Sonia, is the largest music festival in Neon with nearly 300,000 participants every year.

If a band wants to perform on the Summer Sonia stage, it needs at least second-tier popularity.

If it is a girl idol group, then their popularity needs to reach the level of "first-class idols".

To measure it with specific numbers, the number of likes on a single YouTube video exceeds 10.

In Japan, with the organizers supervising and no way to cheat, this is not something that can be achieved easily.

(End of this chapter)