Chapter 523: Take Off, AKB
Qin Zuo Kazuko's debut, Zhou Xiao also talked a lot with the two of 99 before the show started, to say that AKB has been the only variety show artist launched in recent years, that is, Mai Oshima alone, and Mai Oshima's activity area itself is not 99.
"This girl is very optimistic to me, otherwise I wouldn't recommend it to you, her character and roles are relatively rare in the entertainment industry." Zhou Xiao said.
"Don't worry, it's no problem, we also specially looked for some of this child's variety show videos, and we will definitely be able to bring out her interesting points when we officially shoot them." Takashi Okamura is essentially a very hot-blooded person, and in the past ten years, since Zhou Xiao's debut, Zhou Xiao has been of great help to 99 and the show "Mechaike".
Not only do many projects have Zhou Xiao's ideas, but Zhou Xiao will try his best to be there when he needs to save the scene or make a special appearance, you know, since he won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in a play and earned 200 million US dollars at the box office, it stands to reason that he no longer needs to be on TV often, especially an artist who appears on other people's programs.
And over the years, Okamura and others and the 99 program have hardly helped Zhou Xiao do anything, although Zhou Xiao's announcement fee for every appearance is given out exactly a penny, but Zhou Xiao's announcement fee is not high, his normal announcement fee for a variety show, even now is only between 30 and 500,000, these money are just higher than ordinary artists, and the difference between his actual value is far, far away, basically as long as he uses this announcement fee to star in a variety show, the program team is equivalent to owing Zhou Xiao a favor.
Therefore, Okamura and the others are very eager to "repay" Zhou Xiao, and this time Zhou Xiao proposed to let a member participate in their show, if someone else brought it up. 99 The two of them may be very disgusted, this kind of behavior that they can bully others if they are popular, is something that Okamura and they are very disgusted and hateful.
But if it's Zhou Xiao, this qiē is not a problem.
Most of the exam plans for "Mechaike" are special extended versions, and this time it was no different, from the time the members appeared to the end of the answers, more than 45 minutes of the entire show had passed, and even if the ads were removed, the broadcast time was at least 30 minutes or more.
In these 30 minutes, Qin Zuo Kazuko's table is quite good. At the beginning, it was fun to be nervous like a little animal, and then there was a small interview before the exam began, and the girl also showed her own characteristics very well, from a shy little girl to a crazy role with a low voice, which looked very interesting, and the show worked quite well.
After the first half of the 30 minutes ended, when the camera approached the studio again, it was already the second time of recording, and Qin Zuo Kazuko at this time. It was Qin Zuo and Zi, who had already prepared the script with Zhou Xiao, and at this time, she would be more comfortable with it.
One of the biggest reasons why she is so good is that Zhou Xiao's brother's script is completely based on her personality.
This is actually quite normal. Because Zhou Xiao was originally designed according to what he had in mind, Qin Zuo and Zi's original table, and according to these things, some things designed by Zhou Xiao were added. is what Zhou Xiao hopes for this time, the girl's performance on the variety show.
And in the end, the girl's table xiàn can't be said to be too good or bad. The things that Zhou Xiao designed for her, the girl was about sixty percent out of the table, and some of the jokes were not used, but the most important ones, such as the ones that were obviously very good but said "Please cut out this paragraph" because they didn't think it was funny.
In addition, in addition to the script designed by Zhou Xiao, the girl still has some tables that have not been designed, outside the script, these tables make Zhou Xiao very happy, because only a table like this proves that the girl really has the potential to become a good artist, without these, it can be said that the ten wonderful performances in the script are not as good as a wonderful performance without a script.
Time flies quickly.,This time the "mechaike" final exam special project is coming to an end again.,When the results were finally announced,Qin Zuo Kazuko surpassed Mitsuura Yasuko by a narrow margin of two points.,Got the first place in this final exam plan.,This result is actually very powerful.,Mitsuura Yasuko is an absolute boss-level figure in the final exam planning of "Mechaike", and has won the championship position many times in a row, and she is a graduate of a prestigious university. It's surprising to lose to so many girls who are younger than themselves in this kind of project.
But Zhou Xiao himself doesn't particularly care about how many places the girl has achieved, although the first place is also very good, but the girl's real conference is the happiest in addition to her own ability.
And what she cares about the most is some of the girl's expressions on the Internet.
Today's Japan,The Internet has been quite developed,A lot of things on TV will be reflected on the Internet as soon as they are broadcast,Like Qin Zuo and Zi's table xiàn,The program is not over yet,On the indicators of Yahoo search in Japan,The number of searches for girls jù began to soar,When the show comes to an end, look at the number of Yahoo searches,Qin Zuo and Zi's name has been in the first position in Yahoo's search volume at this time,And it is absolute,Dozens of times ahead of the second place, It was as if viewers all over Japan who watched the show were searching for her name.
This is the power of TV, prime-time TV shows can often cause a big and amazing topic, so that people can become stars in an instant, but correspondingly, in the life of an artist, there are not many opportunities to achieve good results in prime time, many people may only have one or two chances in their lives, if you succeed, you can at least become popular for a while, even if you are a "one-hair house" artist, it is actually quite good, you know, you can be called an artist of one-hair house, In the time of his first hair house, he can earn at least tens of millions or even thirty or forty million yen, and when the artist is not popular, even if he doesn't do anything, he can live a good life for ten years, if he uses these tens of millions to invest in some businesses, maybe he can make money with money, it can be said that when an artist is not popular, he is not qualified to look down on a hair house.
Will Kazuko Qin Zuo become a house? Zhou Xiao doesn't care about this, what he can do for Qin Zuo and Zi has already been done, and then it depends on her own performance, Qin Zuo and Zi in her previous life are not unseen on variety shows. Especially the girls like Tamura Jun and Kobayashi Kendo's NHK live variety shows have been on many times, but in her previous life, she did not give full play to her role advantages, at most she could barely complete her own script, and it was difficult to even receive the artist's stalks.
The road has been paved, and the fame has also been played out for her, and now Qin Zuo and Zi have obtained an opportunity that is almost equivalent to the opportunity obtained by Shimazaki Kawa Rong in Zhou Xiao's previous life, so she, plus AKB is on the way to rise, so the time and place are favorable. If she couldn't catch it, Zhou Xiao wouldn't do anything more.
AKB is really starting to become popular, and after the general election and summer festival, there are more and more opportunities for members to appear on variety shows, and the level of announcements such as music programs is getting higher and higher, although the members of AKB are not yet recognized, but there is not a lot of attention at all as a whole.
Zhou Xiao estimates that the first round of variety shows of AKB's own group may be coming, in about half a year. AKB can watch a huge part of the ordinary variety shows of Japan's five major TV stations, and it may not be all but three or four people who write the show, but this is enough to bring the members far more exposure than in previous years.
AKB now. It's actually not very suitable for the members to appear in variety shows alone, because most people's minds have the impression of AKB of 48 people rather than the specific image of one or two people, so to speak, during this time. Any person who appears in a red plaid skirt may be considered AKB.
AKB's popularity is also reflected in the sales of various products.
Needless to say, there is a rush to sell tickets for the Budokan concert that will be held soon, and even the sales of AKB's new single are very gratifying. The number of theatrical reservations for this single to be released at the end of August has reached an astonishing 140,000! What does this mean? Now there is still a period of time before the release of the single, and the scheduled time for the theatrical disc is far from the end, which means that the sales of AKB's single have already lost the sales of the previous single in a week!
AZX predicts that the sales of this single AKB on the first day may even hit 200,000!
"According to this posture, if AKB becomes more popular, it may be able to sell 500,000 600,000 by next year!" There is such excitement throughout the AZX company.
Hearing this kind of whispering in private, Zhou Xiao wanted to laugh, these people wouldn't know that AKB's last single from his previous life to 2010 had already hit one million, and the total list in a few years would even have the momentum of hitting two million!
AKB is popular, and even many people in the industry have realized that AKB will be popular for a long time, such as Junjun said on the 2011 Good Morning Live that "the next five years will be AKB" in the world, and being evaluated by an opponent shows that AKB's momentum has been achieved, and no one can hinder the development of the group.
However, although it is red, no one can guess in what way and how popular AKB can be.
In this era, the sales of music CDs in Japan have fallen to the bottom, and in terms of single CD sales, only Arashi alone in Japan can exceed 500,000, so it can be said that people have gradually entered the stage where they no longer need to buy CDs to listen to songs.
In this state, even if AKB repeatedly staged a good show of "the first day of the second move", there is still no one who thinks that AKB can create a legend such as a dozen consecutive singles with a million at the beginning of the first move, AKB's popularity, most people will also compare it with the experience of Good Morning Niang, when the road of Good Morning Niang, the seventh single sold 240,000 in the first week, with a total sales of 1.64 million, the eighth single sold 600,000 in the first week, with a total sales of 1.22 million, and the ninth single sold 470,000 in the first week, with a total sales of 990,000.
This is already the most glorious period of Good Morning Niang, even if it is the 11th single, relying on Goto Maki, the legend of the Good Morning Niang era, to become popular all over Japan, it only got 510,000 in the first week, with a total sales of 980,000.
The reason why a combination is popular, now that we don't look at sales in this era, what is the most direct effect of being like Good Morning Niang's red? It's Good Morning Niang's live until 2008, 09 years have been quite attractive, as for 2010 onwards, the sales growth of the entire idol circle with AKB's popularity guide zhì is not in the scope of consideration.
Another example is the red and white song club that best reflects the status of an artist, and the popularity of Good Morning Niang has made them and Good Morning Niang's derivative teams or members appear red and white for many years. Even in 2007, Good Morning Niang and the two affiliated groups below her, B Gong and the Cute Group, can still appear in red and white. Historically, it was also this year that AKB performed for more than a minute as part of Akihabara culture, which is a kind of inheritance of idol groups at the Red and White Song Party.
Popularity is contagious, and Zhou Xiao knows very well that during the period when AKB just became popular, the new rice that came out of the combination was more of a core meal than a floating meal, an early core meal. Most of them used to be the rice of an idol group or the two-dimensional house of Akihabara, and most of these core meals now are the types that were not idol rice or didn't care about idols at all, but used the Internet more and received information relatively quickly, so they received the charm of AKB before the ordinary audience on TV, and compared to the fluctuation of TV, these people are obviously more likely to become core rice, and contribute their own strength and money to the operation.
This is also the reason why AKB's sales have skyrocketed from the end of '09 to 2010, and most of the increase has been in theatrical sales.
The topmost core rice. Medium rice, floating rice, it is the first two that have skyrocketed during this time.
AKB's former top-level core meal is now on the verge of leaving, although Zhou Xiao's summer festival has retained many of them. But there are still some people who have left AKB to pursue other idols, but compared to the stalwart group of the team, the departure of this small number of top core meals is not a special event.
This period is also a very important period for AKB, and what can AKB achieve from now on? The main thing to look at is the table xiàn of this period.
Taking sales as an example, AKB's regular singles other than the master list have the highest sales in 2011's master list "Fly to Start". In fact, the quality of this single is not particularly good, especially compared with her previous general menu "heavyrotation" and later Zhihara's "Love Lucky Cookies", this single is far from AKB's two really hit singles in terms of flow dù, but it turns out that how much sales an artist can sell is always based on whether the artist is popular rather than how good the artist's songs are.
Since then, in fact, AKB's popularity has been gradually declining, and the sales of AKB's singles have been declining, of course, this can't be counted in the general menu, which is an annual in-depth excavation of AKB's sales, and this sales volume does not represent the overall number of AKB's rice group.
The single "Flying Start", not counting the sales of the theater plate, is about 780,000, that is to say, the sales of the theater plate is about 800,000, this number is divided by 3, it can be calculated that AKB's diehards at this time are about 270,000, 270,000 diehards plus 800,000 will buy CDs floating, this number should be the number of AKB at its peak, based on this number, what Zhou Xiao wants is for the top sales of AKB's regular singles to hit the 2 million mark, Then it takes at least 300,000 diehards plus 1 million floats to be about the same, this number looks similar to the previous 270,000, but in fact, the difficulty can be imagined, Arashi is the closest group to AKB after 2010, even if it is popular all over Japan, men, women and children, the sales of their regular singles are only about five or six hundred thousand, which is already their limit, and AKB at the most popular time, even if it is a CD per person, it can be sold for about 1.07 million, The explosive power of this popularity is beyond the reach of Arashi, there are only so many people in Japan, one million floating plus 300,000 diehards, what does 1.3 million people represent?
That's 1 percent of Japan's population!
Moreover, among the 1% of the population, it is remarkable that so many people can buy CDs in CD stores by removing children aged 50 or even under 10 years old, and removing the elderly people aged 60 or even 50 years old, leaving only people between the ages of 11 and 49!
This is Zhou Xiao's goal, with the experience of his previous life, plus there is Qiu Yuanyasu by his side, who almost got 2 million in the voting list in his previous life, Zhou Xiao doesn't believe that he can't rush to the node of two million.
On AKB's 2 million journey, the Budokan concert will be a milestone in front of him, and after stepping onto the stage that Japanese artists dream of, AKB's momentum of take-off will be unstoppable!
Let the brilliance of the Budokan concert become the best proof that the next single "Maybe It's an Excuse" will hit sales! (To be continued......)