"Love Hot Continent" does not describe in detail what work Zhou Xiao went to talk about, but for the people Zhou Xiao saw, there is an account in "Love Hot Continent", which includes a famous big brother in the Chinese-speaking region, a famous "master" in the comedy industry, and a famous director who directed the Olympic Games.

In fact, Zhou Xiao has seen more people in Hong Kong in the past two or three days, but those people don't know and have no interest in the "Love Hot Continent" program team, so they simply cut it off.

In Hong Kong, Zhou Xiao's main job is to communicate with people from all walks of life in the Chinese-speaking circle, in fact, for the Chinese-speaking circle, although Zhou Xiao is not very mixed in this circle, he still has a lot of communication with people of the same level in this circle, such as the eldest brother and the star master, Zhou Xiao has had a certain amount of cooperation.

After the work in Hong Kong was over, Zhou Xiao returned to Japan with the film crew, got into the company's car as soon as he got off the plane, and went to meet Yasuya Akimoto non-stop, and started a new round of AKB trivial discussions again.

This time I'm discussing,It's AKB's martial arts concert that will start at the time of filming.,Zhou Xiao's previous life This kind of concert Akimoto Yasushi himself is not too involved in the production of zuò,Zhou Xiao has participated a lot in the concert system,It also helped design a lot of links,Zhou Xiao's views are always different from other people in the operation.,The operation side usually feels that his ideas are a little weird.,Sometimes radical and sometimes conservative., That's because Zhou Xiao is used to looking at problems from the perspective of an ordinary meal at this time.

Rice doesn't care about angles and styles, whether a link looks good or not, is the only thing they care about, of course, if you can do things like the concept of style, even ordinary people can see it and like it very much, then you are really good, but now AKB's concert has not yet reached that Cheng dù.

The scale is not that big, and the investment will not be that big.

After the meeting, I went to see the members preparing for the concert, especially when they went into the recording studio, and the members corrected the pronunciation when singing. And the current AKB singing has one more link compared with Zhou Xiao's concert in his previous life, this link is the members' song joint singing link, this link is learned from HKT, whether it is Zhou Xiao's song or other company's songs, this link is not limited to AKB's previous songs, as long as you can win the performance rights or copyright, you can be performed by the members at the concert.

This kind of interpretation is actually difficult to implement, because the most important point is that many companies may not agree to let their company's copyrighted works be included in AKB songs even if you give money, such as Genesys, and Good Morning Girls. The former has always been the strictest in controlling its copyright, and the latter is because of Good Morning's inherently hostile relationship with AKB.

Even if Zhou Xiao's relationship with Jennis, especially the relationship between Iijima Sanzhi, has always been very good, he can only win the songs he wrote and part of the SMAP song copyright.

However, compared to these companies who are unwilling to give copyright, there are more companies that are willing to give copyright, especially those who want to have a good relationship with Zhou Xiao and companies like being who have a good relationship with Zhou Xiao will agree to AZX's request, so for AKB to come to the book, at least there is no problem with the classic songs of the 90s of the being company.

The performances of these girls at the concert will be newly arranged. Zhou Xiaojin entered the recording studio to practice singing for these members and correct their pronunciation and breath.

Among the AKB members, it is known that Mina Oba does not sing well. But in fact, if a girl's singing voice is really sung seriously, it can't be said that it can't be listened to at all, and many of the situations where the singing is broken are because of very complex reasons, such as nervousness. For example, there are reasons such as not practicing enough songs, and the idol status of girls also makes them unable to sing as they want many times.

For example, if many singers decide to sing, they must require quite strict sound equipment and live performers. It is also very important to adjust yourself before singing, with these, many singers will accept live performances, but idols are not qualified for this.

Especially AKB, although the girls sing, but for most of the members who don't have solo, these AKB songs are not their own, and it is already very good to remember the tone and lyrics of these songs and even the dance, and it is unrealistic to let them remember where to exert force, where to express feelings, where to breathe steadily, where to turn the tone clean, and so on.

Zhou Xiao's busyness, as well as his various ideas, especially his various views on AKB, are all shown and expressed in this issue of "Love Continent", which is also one of Zhou Xiao's requirements, "Love Continent" is of course a description of Zhou Xiao's works, but Zhou Xiao's agreement to participate in the filming of this show is not in vain, only when his purpose is met, the production of this show can be agreed, after all, Zhou Xiao is no longer the kind of artist who needs to ensure his publicity and exposure.

The results of this episode are very good.

Not only are the ratings very high, and there is a lot of discussion after the broadcast of the show, especially Zhou Xiao's life is even more attention-grabbing, he did not deliberately show how rich he is, but not to mention anything else, just the private jet is already enviable, in the broadcast of the film, the interior of the private jet is also open to the TV audience for the first time, to say that luxury is indeed very luxurious, but it is not the kind of luxury that people with dazzling gold can't do but quite stylish luxury, These things are eye-opening for the audience.

The audience's attention to AKB has increased again, and AKB members are also on a large number of variety shows at this time, and AKB's popularity has become popular when all the media have begun to pay attention.

In particular, the release of the new song has made the girls officially the most talked about group in Japan.

In fact, AKB's new song has a certain link description in Zhou Xiao's "Love Continent", when Zhou Xiao was helping the members arrange the concert in the recording studio, a staff member walked in and said: "Mr. Zhou Xiao, the lyrics of the new single are out." ”

"Oh!? Show it to me! Zhou Xiao is very much looking forward to it, he actually knew the lyrics of this song for a long time, but before the creation of this song, Zhou Xiao actually told Qiu Yuankang some ideas about what he wanted this song to achieve, so Qiu Yuankang must have some modifications. What's more, in front of the camera, Zhou Xiao actually has some acting components.

Because the promotion of this song focuses on Yasu Akimoto, because this song is called "RIVER".

Zhou Xiao on "Love Hot Continent", after reading the lyrics of the song, was naturally full of praise, he said: "Mr. Qiuyuan's lyrics have been very good in recent years, but the lyrics of this song are my favorite, and the members should also like it, it will be a famous song!" ”

AKB's last single "Maybe It's an Excuse" has sold more than 200,000 people, and the first sales in a week have reached more than 180,000. This number may not be able to challenge super artists this year, but it is already considered the top artist, and everyone in the industry knows that AKB's limits are far more than that.

The release of RIVER proves this.

If you want to talk about the most important songs for AKB, the song "RIVER" may not be as good as the two AKB48 representative songs by Yuko Oshima and Rino Tsuhara, and it is not as good as the resurrection song "Loud Diamond", but it is no problem to rank in the top five AKB songs.

If you want to say that the melody is beautiful, this song is not as good as other excellent works, and the only thing that says this song is that it is in the lyrics.

The release of this song from the previous life coincided with a year after AKB's release of "Loud Diamonds". In the past year, AKB has made great progress, and its sales have been increasing, but it is different from the current AKB under Zhou Xiao. At that time, the growth of AKB's sales in one year was not particularly amazing, from 96,000 for loud diamonds to 150,000 for perhaps an excuse, and AKB's sales growth during this period was about 50,000.

Although quite a result has been achieved. But it took a whole year to increase by 50,000, and by this time, everyone began to be a little dissatisfied with the slow growth of sales.

So Yasu Akimoto wrote the song "RIVER".

To say that Yasushi Akimoto is a masterpiece of his career as a lyricist. Of course, it's the song "The River Keeps Flowing" written for Misora Skylark, and of course he has written many other excellent pop songs, but this song is different from other songs, it is different from the grade, this song is a song that can enter the textbook, and it can be passed down to the world.

The song "RIVER", especially for AKB itself, has the same value as "The River".

Lyrics such as crossing the river, moving forward, not being afraid, and chasing dreams can be said to have completely shattered the confusion of AKB members, and made the AKB girls who had just experienced the formation of a cabinet no longer hesitate, and truly became Japan's top artists psychologically.

Such an important song is even more powerful now when AKB's sales are much higher than in previous lives.

However, in terms of lyrics, there are still some differences between this song and "RIVER" in the previous life.

This song in the previous life paid more attention to making the members no longer confused and crossing "that river", but in this life, this song allows the members to learn to flow like a river, and even destroy the momentum of a qiē.

The effect is quite good.

Yasu Akimoto is very good at writing lyrics, and the most powerful thing is that he can grasp the psychology of singers and write what they think, if it is ordinary, there is no confusion and hesitation, when listening to the song "RIVER", you may just think it is very good, but if someone like AKB is a little hesitant about his future path, or someone else will definitely feel quite emotional when they hear such a song.

Emotions can easily be turned into motivation to move forward.

And with the disclosure of this song and Zhou Xiao's praise of the lyrics, at the invitation of Zhou Xiao, Yasu Akimoto also dispatched.

On variety shows, interviews, and radio programs, at the end of 2009, AKB's two major producers and AKB itself began to promote AKB.

On October 21, 2009, "RIVER" was released.

218,000 copies sold on the first day!

Exploded!

Not only did the first move of the previous work explode on the first day as before, but this time, "RIVER" exploded the cumulative sales of the previous work on the first day!

And that's not all! Zhou Xiao and Yasusu Akimoto played an excellent role in the promotion of the single before its release, and the next day, the sales of "RIVER" were more than 30,000 copies! The super sales of 250,000 copies in two days made everyone crazy!

That's 250,000 copies! Among AZX's internal counts, about 170,000 of the 250,000 tickets were sold. The other 80,000 are ordinary plates, which means that AKB now has about 80,000 floating rice and about 60,000 core rice! This contrast...... It's crazy!

What's even crazier is AKB's current popularity, the image of the song "Maybe It's an Excuse", and the loud shout of "AKB" at the beginning of the song "RIVER" by Minami Takahashi swept the whole of Japan in a short period of time! For a while, it was better to say that the most popular music in the CD store was the rhythmic music of "RIVER", and the TV began to be full of girls, and the most powerful was AKB's base camp Akihabara, and the red plaid skirt began to become a variety of maid shops. It was standard of the cosplay shop.

However, Zhou Xiao knows very well that this is nothing, AKB is far from being really crazy, and the current AKB is nothing more than spreading the situation, the momentum of the forward rush has just begun, and next, there must be more news to add another fire to AKB's momentum.

The fire was not long in coming.

Entering November, it is because I want to promote the relationship of "RIVER". The members of the AKB selection team were called to NHKHALL.

In addition to a theater that can accommodate about 4,000 people and holds red and white songs every year, NHKHALL also has several studios in the annex building, where some of NHK's music programs such as "MUSICJAPAN" are held.

Recording of music programs like this. The girls at AKB are also quite accustomed to it, and they come to the backstage lounge with ease, and the only thing the girls feel a little surprised about along the way is that this episode of "MJ" is going to be filmed...... It seems that there are a lot of celebrities. Don't...... Is it a special?

Until they walked into their lounge, the girls saw several familiar names such as Nana Mizuki, such as FUNKYMONKEYBABYS.

Curious though. The girls didn't ask, because the atmosphere in NHKHALL was quite oppressive today, and the staff were running around about their own business, with very little voice and no one paying attention to them.

After silently entering their lounge and waiting nervously for more than ten minutes, the staff finally called out the AKB members and led them to the studio.

On the way to the studio, Yuko Oshima suddenly said, "Strange ......"

"What's wrong, Yuko?" Mai Oshima asked on the side, this girl is about to move to Group K, coupled with Yuko Oshima's special sense of existence in the team, so that Mai Oshima has been working hard to repair the relationship between the two because of the competition for the same surname in recent times.

"Like...... I didn't see the rest room of perfume-san. Yuko Oshima said.

Perfume is the host of MJ, and it stands to reason that there is no room for them.

"Really? I guess it's somewhere else. Mai Oshima said casually.

As soon as the two chatted here, the studio that was not far away arrived, and a group of girls rushed in and entered it.

"Huh!?" As soon as they entered the studio, many girls shouted in surprise, because they didn't see the studio set of MJ's show, and what caught their eyes was just an ordinary, even a somewhat messy studio.

Half of this studio is blocked, and in the other half of the studio where the girls are, there are other artists such as Nana Mizuki, who I have seen before.

"What's wrong, what's wrong!?" The girls asked repeatedly.

"AKB-san, please come here, please wait a minute, the artists behind you will be arriving soon." The staff greeted the members.

More than a dozen girls stood in their positions as requested, and everyone looked around in surprise and asked.

After waiting for a few more minutes, when the last group of artists arrived, a staff member stood in front of everyone and said, "Excuse me, we will ask someone to announce what we want to do here." ”

After he said this, he moved out of the way, and not far behind him, a man walked up.

"Eh, eh, eh, !???" Not only AKB, but other artists were also scared, because Zhou Xiao, who was holding the microphone, was walking towards them!

There was no one present who didn't know Zhou Xiao, especially Nana Mizuki and others, they were not as blessed as AKB, and they could see Zhou Xiao's advantages almost every day, so everyone was very excited.

Zhou Xiao, who walked in front of everyone, greeted everyone with a smile, and said directly without nonsense: "I came here this time, there is a job to arrange for you, there is no recording of MJ today, everyone is going to participate today...... Press conference for the 60th Red and White Song Festival in 2009, because you were selected as the first performers of this year's Red and White Song Festival! ”

"Eh???"

"Wow!!!" Everyone was startled at first, but soon they jumped excitedly! The Red and White Song Party, the dream of all artists! Which artist present didn't work hard for many years to get this opportunity, and the dream has finally come true! (To be continued......)