At about the same time that AX was held, AKB's new single was also released.

The new single "Romance Doesn't Need" was released when AX was in progress, and its blessing effect was somewhat but not particularly obvious, and what really determined the sales of the single was still popularity.

The other thing is...... In the face of Mita Yurika's departure, what kind of liver is going to explode in the face of Mita Yurika in the case that she has graduated and the rest of the AKB-related work is only a handshake meeting.

In the evening, the oricon charts came out, and AKB48's new single reached the second place on the charts with 57,000 copies.

In fact, for the Oricon list, it doesn't matter what position you get on the list.

Zhou Xiao has seen some situations in his previous life, and some domestic rice clubs are very proud of what their idols have won on the Oricon list, such as a certain group getting the first place on the O list, etc., it sounds quite awesome, but in fact, for people who know a little bit about the Japanese entertainment industry, what is this bull......

For example, in his previous life, he saw a male star's meal on Weibo saying that his idol got the tenth place on the O list, Zhou Xiao went to the daily list of the day to take a look, the star did get the tenth on the daily list, and the weekly list should be about the same position, but in 2014, it was nothing to get the top ten on the weekly list, Zhou Xiao estimated that the artist's final weekly sales were about 10,000 sales, and only 10,000 sales in the first week of release, as a Chinese artist, it is impossible to have a lot of publicity in Japan, Zhou Xiao estimated, The final sales of this male artist are less than 20,000.

If you calculate the total sales of this sales, it will be about 20 million yen, and if the singer can get a share, he will end up with a share of 200,000 or 300,000 yen, and the single will be released in Japan, and the singer will eventually earn ...... Two thousand to three thousand dollars? This value is almost catching up with the average salary of white-collar workers in big cities in China.

Of course, that singer's income is not only these, but he is also a person in the Chinese music scene. In saying this, it is just to describe the average sales of its singles in Japan.

This Chinese singer is actually already good, Zhou Xiao even saw a Korean group on the last day of the weekly sales calculation on the O list, relying on the sales of more than 500 pieces to win a daily list champion, this Korean group's Chinese rice has a big word on the Internet and posted it everywhere on the Internet......

For AKB, what is really worth analyzing is what is behind the 57,000 sales.

The 57,000 copies were quite good on the first day, but among them, the sales of theatrical plates reached as many as 43,000 copies, and the usual initial sales of ordinary fans who would buy them were only about 14,000 copies. This is still without counting the fact that many meals will be purchased in the theater version and the usual plate.

Overall, the number of AKB's single on the first day has increased by about 10,000 compared to the previous one, although most of the increase comes from the theater part, but usually the number of plates has also increased to a certain extent, which means that AKB's floating rice has indeed increased a little.

In addition to sales, there is also the number of applications for the handshake party that was taken out at the same time.

Zhou Xiao saw that the main difference between the handshake count of this single and the previous single was between the three people, one of whom was naturally Mita Yurika who was about to graduate, and her handshake this time could even be compared with Maeda Oshima. And the other two people who got the leap at the handshake party are Mayou and Airi.,The handshake meeting of the last single used a chorus to conquer the two girls who conquered the rice at the handshake meeting.,This time, the handshake will have a significant increase.,Although it can't catch up with the high-popularity members of the upper position.,But it's also the sales of the first group in the team.。

The handshake will increase sales. Zhou Xiao sued the two little girls after the results came out, of course Mayou and Airi are very happy, they are still quite happy since they have been idols for a year, and they can sing and dance as they like. And the most important thing is that he can still sing Zhou Xiao's brother's works, which is simply a dream job, and the only thing that is a little disappointing is that he and AKB are not so popular.

But now. Whether it is the results of their handshake meeting or the results of AKB's singles, as long as they can continue to improve like this, the two still have a lot of expectations for the future.

Because there is a lot of time now, the handshake for AKB's new single will start soon after the CD is released, because it's not the first time, and he is in the middle of a close TV series shooting, so Zhou Xiao didn't come back to participate in AKB's handshake party, after a complete handshake meeting, the second time should be more accustomed to the members and the operation. Then, at the end of this handshake meeting, because Zhou Xiao was not there, Uncle Inoue announced the news that AKB was about to recruit six students at the handshake meeting on his behalf.

In Zhou Xiao's previous life, there were very few students in the sixth phase of AKB, and there were many qualified people, but only four people finally announced that they had officially become graduate students, and these six students also constituted a sad legend that the members of the so-called even number of AKB were relatively sad.

Judging from the situation in the previous periods, Zhou Xiao estimates that there will not be much change in the members of the six-term students participating in the selection this time, and there will be no change in the members who finally become graduate students.

He is not ready to modify the members of the sixth term, at least not to add more members who may become popular in the future, in his opinion, the number of AKB is enough for the time being, and there will be SKE to join in the middle of the year, and there is no need to rush to expand the members of the family, Zhou Xiao has actually been a little criticized for the huge personnel composition of the 48 series, that's right, to run such a large system, it does take a lot of personnel to make the whole team run normally, but no matter how you look at it, Sometimes there are indeed too many members, and such a large number of people are placed there, which is a very huge investment in the operation at all times, and it is necessary to waste a lot of energy and personnel because of finding work for these people.

Zhou Xiao also knows that the reason why AKB wants to maintain such a huge number of team members, the operation must have their own ideas, if this number is less, maybe the people in the team are exhausted, and there will be a situation where ordinary prestige members can do the work, because of the time relationship, they have to let the selection team do it, which will cause a waste of resources and even lose money, and if there are more personnel, there will be problems such as high maintenance costs, so to speak. The maintenance of personnel numbers has always been a very important knowledge for AKB, and Zhou Xiao estimates that the AKB team in the future will have very professional business employees to judge the question of how many people are most suitable for the current team.

But for Zhou Xiao, what he really criticized was that the entire AKB operation model was too big and he didn't want to break away from the traditional artist operation model. Variety shows and TV series are going to be released, and music has to sell millions...... In short, by 2013, 14 years old, AKB was like a giant tentacle monster that stretched its tentacles to every corner she could touch, although AKB did not invest deeply in every aspect, but still had a huge impact on the entire industry all the time.

A testament to AKB's huge influence was the list at the end of 2014.

Japanese people love surveys and rankings. Especially at the end of each year, the Japanese entertainment industry has a lot of rankings, and AKB and AKB graduates can often occupy a place on this kind of list, such as variety show time. For example, artist income, such as the number of advertising contracts activated, AKB tends to occupy a relatively high position in this kind of leaderboard.

Although AKB has also won the top of the "Artists Who Want to Disappear the Most" charts, this kind of thing is also normal. With the popularity of AKB in the Japanese entertainment industry, it is strange that it is not on this list.

In Zhou Xiao's view, while maintaining such a huge influence, he is unwilling to give up his own theater operation. I want to have an upper-level audience, an audience in front of the TV, and I want to use the love of the dead house, and if it's a group like Janiss, it's good to have the ability to pull out a piece of the world, but if it's AKB, it's actually very difficult to do it when the girls are still so young and not as old as the Janis group.

In the days after AX ended, the single was released, and the handshake began, the Golden Globe Awards, which were plagued by strikes in the United States across the ocean, also announced the final winners of this year's Golden Globe Awards at a press conference.

A few days before the Golden Globe Awards, "The Undertaker" has been nominated for Best Outer Chinese and Best Cinematography and Editing at the Oscar Nomination Announcement, Zhou Xiao knows that to get three nominations, in addition to the film, the efforts of the public opinion media on the Japanese side are also very important, but the Chinese side is not very helpful to this movie, because the entire Chinese-speaking region will obviously pay more attention to the "Lust, Caution" directed by Ang Lee, but unfortunately, although the Golden Globe Awards and this film entered the nomination for Best Foreign Chinese, But at the Oscars, director Ang Lee was not nominated, but only Zhou Xiao's "The Undertaker" entered the final stage.

After all, the Oscars will not be awarded for about a month, and on the side of the Golden Globe Awards, "The Undertaker", which has been nominated for several awards, is what everyone pays the most attention to.

But...... When the final results came out, many people were disappointed.

The news from across the ocean appeared in the newspapers and TV news as quickly as possible, and Zhou Xiao's "The Undertaker" was completely killed at the Golden Globe Awards, and he didn't get anything!

Whether it is the award for Best Foreign Chinese or any other "Undertaker" shortlisted for it, when the press conference is over, people find that the final undertaker did not get anything, which is undoubtedly very disappointing, Japan really needs an Oscar, and in these years, Zhou Xiao is the only hope for the entire Japanese entertainment industry.

That's right, the Golden Globe Awards are indeed not the Oscars, and everyone has no reason to be disappointed, but everyone knows very well that the Golden Globes are not unreasonable to be called the Oscars, the two awards ceremonies are only one month apart, and they are the same country and the same culture, and the Golden Globe Awards are too meaningful for the Oscars.

Almost everyone feels that Zhou Xiao is not going to be able to walk on the road to the Oscars a month later.

Even AZX is the same, after the news that the Golden Globe Award did not get any gains, there is a very tense silence atmosphere throughout AZX, especially when Zhou Xiao is there, this atmosphere is even more embarrassing.

In fact, Zhou Xiao is not worried, the excellence of "The Undertaker" has been proven by his previous life, but he can't tell the people in the company like this, saying that he doesn't care? No, this kind of thing can't be said, the filming of this drama is not only for him but for everyone in the entire company, and he doesn't care a word. It can be said that it is the embodiment of his own self-confidence and will, but it is also easy to cause disappointment among the company's employees, so he can never say such things.

Zhou Xiao, who could feel that he would always bring a lot of embarrassment when he appeared in AZX during this time, had to appear here as little as possible, and instead spent more time on the filming of TV series and the theater AKB.

The girls of AKB also seem to have gotten the news of Zhou Xiao's failure in the Golden Globe Awards, and the girls' reactions to this incident are very different from AZX, and they are already familiar with Zhou Xiao unilaterally feel that Zhou Xiao must be very unhappy, so they try their best to make him happy, and this action ...... Sometimes it's a bit of a no-brainer.

"How can I make Brother Zhou Xiao happy?" When Zhou Xiao was away, someone asked when the girls were on stage preparing for the evening performance.

"Let's make something delicious for Brother Zhou Xiao, shall we?" Nakanishi said. The Chinese and Western cuisine is indeed very good.

"But...... Neither will we......" More girls don't know how to cook at all.

"That'...... How about knitting a scarf for Brother Zhou Xiao? Reina Ono took out something to weave a scarf.

"When we get the scarves or something else, winter may be over." Miyazawa Sae Road.

"Well...... If you want to make Brother Zhou Xiao happy. And it's something we can all do, in fact, there are ......," Yuko Oshima said suddenly.

"What is it?" Everyone looked towards Oshima, and now the main members in the theater are members of Group K, among these people, Yuko Oshima is a well-deserved center, and Oshima has always had a lot of ghost ideas, and everyone is looking forward to her idea.

"We ...... Such...... And then...... ...... like this," Yuko Oshima said.

"Huh......? Can we? Do you want to call someone else? Someone asked after listening to Yuko Oshima's thoughts.

"If we call other groups, we won't be able to get all of our K's people." Yuko Oshima said.

"In that case, then you are all right. Anyway, Brother Zhou Xiao doesn't like our type. Akimoto said to Sae Miyazawa.

"How do you know?"

"Is this still a guess? What type of girlfriend Zhou Xiao's brother is, it's not that we don't know......" Akimoto Caiga said.

Women are the gossip creatures, dozens of women are together, and it is impossible to hide the little thing about Zhou Xiao from their eyes all the time.

Akimoto's words resonated with many people, indeed. Aoi Miyazaki and Yuko Ogura are both the types with small faces, very cute and aura, and among the members of AKB, Yuko Oshima is undoubtedly the closest to this. And she, Akimoto Caiga, Miyazawa Sae and others, has nothing to do with this kind of girl.

"Don't say that......" Yuko Oshima wanted to say something.

"Well...... It's okay, we're not trying to seduce him anyway. Although I also know that it is not the type that Brother Zhou Xiao likes, Brother Zhou Xiao has always treated us well, so we don't care, this time, let us be your backup! Qiu Yuan said with full vitality.

"Is it really okay?"

"Absolutely! Hurry up, call the members of Team A and Team B! Akimoto said.

"That'...... Who is it called? Yuko Oshima asked.

"Ah Sauce and Mariko are definitely going to be called, Brother Zhou Xiao definitely likes them, Ah Sauce is the center, as for Mariko, I have always felt that her process of entering AKB was boring, you may not know, when Mariko entered AKB, it was said that she practiced A1 performance in four days, and we all felt that it was impossible in private! Mariko's familiarity with the performance is definitely not something that can be done in four days! She is likely to be a dark chess piece prepared by Brother Zhou Xiao, so Brother Zhou Xiao must like her! The person who said this was Mawei Nakajima.

"What about Kojima-san? Kojima-san doesn't seem to be the type that Brother Zhou Xiao likes......" Tomomi Kawanishi asked.

"Are you stupid? Will there be a man in Kojima-san who doesn't like it? Don't look at Brother Zhou Xiao's preference for petite aura, but Yonana Kojima is like this...... He absolutely loved it! Yuko Oshima said categorically.

More than a dozen girls discussed the question of which member Zhou Xiao's brother liked like in this way, and the discussion continued until the start of the evening performance, as for the other staff of the theater? In fact, there are not many people backstage at AKB, especially for performances like this that are not particularly important, except for the sound engineer and the theater manager, there are no more than ten people, including the Chino Shinobu sisters who are in charge of the costumes, and it is easy to avoid these ten people to discuss things.

As for the security staff that Zhou Xiao has always paid attention to, they basically won't enter the backstage, where they will see the girls wearing revealing clothes at every turn.

About ten minutes before the theater started, Zhou Xiao, who had just finished filming, came, and he didn't go backstage but went directly to the audience.

During the time of Zhou Xiao's arrival, girls from groups A and B continued to come backstage to the theater and join the members of group K, and as for their plans, they had also secretly notified Shinobu Chino and Uncle Inoue and got permission.

Then, without Zhou Xiao's complete knowledge, the performance began. (To be continued......)