From Shin-Yokohama Station, it's a five-minute walk to Yokohama Arena.

Opened in the early years of Heisei and with a maximum capacity of 17,000 spectators, the venue is a great place to hold concerts in terms of its own facilities, performances, and convenient transportation.

The entertainment industry begins to prepare for various special events at the end of the year several months in advance every year, and for singers, on the last day of the year, in addition to being invited to participate in the Red and White Song Party, or to participate in the New Year's Eve of other TV stations, it is also a good choice to gather enough fans to hold a New Year's Eve concert in their own base camp and count down the New Year's Eve with the audience.

There are not a few singers who have such thoughts, and the venue that is a little famous has a very competitive reservation for the final quota at the end of the year.

For example, X-JAPAN, which held a New Year's Eve concert at Tokyo Dome for several years in a row, was the last disbandment performance at the end of 1997 this year, and the New Year's Eve performance at Tokyo Dome became the last disbandment performance.

Of course, even if you are not a popular singer, you can choose a cute small venue with two or three thousand people to get a little close to the fans.

In October, when it was time to decide on the singers of the Red and White Song Club, NHK still sent the invitation to Ye Zhao's office. Previously, he had starred in the Red and White Song Club for two consecutive years, and this year's popularity is still at its peak, and of course he is still on the list of invitations that the production team of the Red and White Song Club desperately wants to invite.

However, this time, Ye Zhao refused the invitation to perform.

"There are other arrangements here on the 31st, so please forgive you for not being able to participate in this year's Red and White Song Festival. "The office, on the other hand, rejected NHK Red and White's production team for such reasons.

Of course, this is not a casual remark, but long before this, he had already contacted the venue for the year-end concert, which was in this Yokohama arena.

The reason why Ayumi Hamasaki, who held New Year's Eve concerts at Yoyogi Daiichi Gymnasium every year, was able to go back to the New Year's Eve party with fans after the opening of the show was because Yoyogi Daiichi Gymnasium and the Red and White Song Club venue were only 700 meters away.

Even if X-Japan has its own New Year's Eve show, they are still able to attend the Red and White Song Party after the end because the distance between the two locations allows them to make such a move.

But even so, every time they rushed to the field, they were all in a galloping posture.

And the Hengbang Arena set by Ye Zhao, the distance in the middle, coupled with the required preparation time, obviously did not allow him to engage in this kind of rush to do things.

Of course, the most important reason is that he didn't plan to participate in Red and White at all.

In the past, I wanted to appear in red and white to expand my popularity, but as for the future goal, I want to be invited by red and white every year, and I can decide whether to participate or do something else every year.

People always have to be a little bit of a pursuit.

The matter of leasing a concert venue is not calculated from the rehearsal, but from the layout of the venue, so if you want to hold a concert, the rental cost alone is a large amount.

Ye Zhao rented Yokohama Arena 29, 30, and 31 for a total of three days, of which the 29th, counting the morning of the 30th, was used to decorate the venue, and then on the 30th and 31st, he sang continuously in Yokohama Arena.

However, there is a special thing that is that on the night of the 30th, he did not hold a solo concert, but also invited singers who had served as producers, and planned to use this venue to hold a year-end party.

The idea originated when the staff joked that he could make jokes about his own cover concert in the future when he was preparing for the Budokan performance.

And when he successfully completed the venue of Yokohama Arena and entered the planning stage, he planned to realize that self-covering joke.

Not only that, but since I want to play, I have more fun, so in addition to covering the songs I have provided, I also simply invited singers who have worked with him to cover his songs.

On the night of the 31st, it was his personal New Year's Eve performance. He will count down to the New Year's Eve with the audience on this night to welcome the new year together.

It can be regarded as a new road for him to embark on, and a good start full of momentum.

Moreover, since the concert is held in my hometown, there is no need to rush to the venue after the end, just go back to Yokohama's hometown from here for the New Year.

Since I didn't have time to participate in the Red and White Song Festival on the night of the 31st, I naturally couldn't attend the record awards, which were also held that night.

However, this is also something that has been planned for a long time.

In this year's music scene, a total of two million-level singles were born, one is "You Celebrate?" by Namie Amuro, and the other is "Glass Boy" by Kid.

Interestingly, in the 1997 singles annual chart, it was Namie Amuro who won the annual chart, but so far, the cumulative sales of the two singles are 15,000 copies of Kid Kokatsu.

This is due to the fact that ORI's annual closing date usually starts at the end of November or the beginning of December to start calculating the new year.

Ye Zhao's new single, which was delayed until the end of the year and was released under the topic of the showdown, successfully broke through the 1.8 million mark after a month of hot sales, but because of this settlement method, in fact, the sales in 1997 were only 1.36 million copies in the first week.

In the same way, Tetsuya Komuro's globe is the same.

It is obviously not feasible for more than one million singles to compete for the award with more than two million annual singles, and Genesys announced many years ago that his idol would not participate in similar awards.

In this way, Namie Amuro became the most powerful and the only candidate.

Not only that, Namie Amuro, who announced her marriage in this year and took a temporary hiatus from her activities to return home to give birth, can be said to have dropped a big bomb in the entertainment industry.

With her current popularity, and the kind of national frenzy she has set off, it cannot be compared with any traffic in later generations.

Such a wedding song, it can be said that whether it is the topic, sales, or the power behind it, all aspects of the right time and place have been occupied.

In this case, instead of running with you in the past, it is better to do something more practical and have a happy New Year's Eve with your fans.

As for the awards that were shortlisted outside the big awards, let Toshi Takeda be the representative to receive them.

Speaking of which, last year's Komuro Tetsuya simply did not attend the award in order to avoid his edge, and the person who did not plan to show up this year was replaced by Ye Zhao.

From this point of view, the two of them are quite on the same page.

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