Chapter 591: Irrefutable Evidence

As soon as AZX made a move, the original chaotic doubts from all walks of life in Japan disappeared in an instant, because AZX threw out a too powerful piece of undoubted evidence.

Originally, before AZX's move, the voices of doubts from all walks of life in Japan have gradually become louder, because AZX has not had a convincing statement, especially Zhou Xiao, who almost never responded positively in the face of this matter, which made the voice of doubt louder and louder.

Even on the AZX side, there are quite a lot of doubts internally, these people are either questioning Zhou Xiao's thoughts, or questioning Zhou Xiao's choice to let Akimoto Yasushi intervene in this matter.

This qiē disappeared after AZX finally came up with evidence.

Here is a video that was uploaded to azxniconico's video website.

The video was obviously shot with a relatively simple camera, and if you are a professional photographer, it is easy to see that the person who shot the video is relatively short and the camera lens position is relatively low.

The filming point of the video should be in a recording studio, because the first picture that appears in the video is the shot of a person standing there singing, and the melody of this song is obviously "The Definition of Idol"!

As AKB48's single CW song "The Definition of Idol", from the arrangement to the melody is a complete idol style, but this song is not ≧ in the video, the sound in the studio interprets the song, with a rock-like tune style, when the song is sung, it brings a faint sense of dissonance.

Then, the singing stopped, and the singer came out of it.

It's Zhou Xiao!

"How?" Zhou Xiao, who came out of the recording studio, first walked to the camera and patted the head of the person who was shooting the video, and then looked up and asked.

With Zhou Xiao's words, the camera also turned around and began to focus on the other people in the room.

The man sitting in the recording studio was skinny. Even indoors with a hat still on.

"Tetsuro Oda!" Someone recognized the man's identity.

The camera continues to move to the seat on the side.

A fat man with his arms and black-rimmed glasses appears in the shot.

"Yasu Akimoto!"

Then, there is a beautiful woman in a jeans white shirt and a ponytail.

"Sakai spring water!"

Again, the third person is still a woman, this woman who is chatting with Sakai Izumi very easily, and speaks softly...... It's Shizuka Kudo, the wife of Kimura Okami!

Soon people found out, including Zhou Xiao, the appearance of these people seemed to be relatively young! Not only their appearance, but their clothes also look very old. It looks like this video was recorded at least five years ago!

"So, AZX means that at least four or five years ago, Zhou Xiao created this song? But...... The few people who appear in this video temporarily don't seem to be very sufficient proof of this......"

In the eyes of ordinary people, these people, if they use some special makeup, they can be disguised as they were a few years ago, after all, people are adults, especially celebrities, and it is usually difficult to leave too much urgency on them in four or five years. For example, Zhou Xiao, how he looks now, if he deliberately paints some younger makeup, even if he plays a high school student in a TV series, there is no problem.

in the video. Zhou Xiao spoke: "How about this song?" ”

"Well...... The melody is good, did you deliberately write it in a retro style to pay tribute to the idol of the 80s? Shizuka Kudo asked.

"That's right, it was a time that haunted me." Zhou Xiaodao.

"Several of the rhythms of this piece are brand new. It sounds very innovative and groundbreaking, but the arrangement is deliberately made into a retro style, just like a fashion designer choosing a few popular elements from the past. It's as distinctive as it blends into the new season's fashion! Tetsuro Oda also said.

"But...... The tune and style of this song may not be too popular when it is released now, and people may not be able to accept such a style. Sakai Izumi also said.

Too maverick advanced style may not be able to get benefits, this is like Fan Xiaoxuan's transformation album "I Want Us to Be Together" in China, after the album came out, the sales were extremely poor, Fan Xiaoxuan, who was used to listening to children's songs, couldn't understand the music of this album's large number of pop jazz genres, even Zhou Xiao, who was still young at the time, but in the industry, the evaluation of this album was very high, and when Zhou Xiao was about 20 years old, after he could understand this album, I also found out that this album is a masterpiece that can be called a masterpiece.

Zhou Xiaodao: "This song is not prepared for now, I plan to wait a few years before I take it out and sing it for future idol groups." ”

"That's why you asked them to try?" Sakai Izumi asked, pointing to the camera.

"That's right, their vocal lines and timbre are the most suitable for this song." Zhou Xiao nodded.

After saying this, the studio door opened, and another small figure walked in the camera.

"This man is!" Many people, especially those who like Zhou Xiao very much, or who especially like AKB, whispered out!

The little girl who came in from outside was very polite after she came in, first bowed and said hello to a few people present, and then ran to the other girl who recorded the video, who now seems to be obviously a child, and beside them, Zhou Xiao also spoke: "The new arrangement, I'll take them in to try it out?" ”

"Let's go inside." Several teachers with great attainments in music nodded.

Zhou Xiao walked into the recording room with two people, took the camera from the person holding the camera, moved two stools and placed them in front of the microphone, and then pointed the camera at the two girls who obviously wanted to participate in the recording.

And most of the audience also recognized these two girls.

"Mayu Watanabe! Airi Suzuki! ”

The two little girls who look obviously only ** years old are very different from the current Tingting girls, unless they go up to duang stunts, no makeup technology can draw them alive how old they are!

Even if it's a stunt, it's impossible to be flawless, and if you really look for a professional, you can easily tell it.

So, it's almost impossible for this video to be fake!

Everyone shut up, Xiao Mayou and Xiao Airi were not unknown before the establishment of AKB. In Zhou Xiao's variety show, these two girls have appeared a lot of times!

And after this video came out, those who haven't spoken out in the past few days, including Yasu Akimoto, two girls of Matomo Airi and even Tetsuro Oda have spoken out and admitted that the person in the video is himself, in this case, many people finally understand, AZX didn't say anything a few days ago, it's not that they can't find evidence, but Yasuya Akimoto, a professional media person, is a genius who hypes and creates topics deliberately. He turned a public relations crisis into a propaganda for Zhou Xiao, for AZX, for "LegalHigh", and even for Airi Suzuki and Mayu Watanabe!

In this matter, in fact, Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuankang have not talked about even a word, and the tacit understanding for many years has made the two familiar with each other, as long as Zhou Xiao hands over this matter to Qiu Yuankang, the other party will immediately understand what Zhou Xiao means. Even, in order to better rely on this sudden publicity, Mayu Airi is in the squad buono! The new singles were also specially promoted and released a month in advance.

The timing of this is too delicate. Originally, Zhou Xiao's new "LegalHigh", because of the overall decline in Japanese ratings, whether the average ratings can be maintained above 20% this time is a problem, but it is a copyright issue. In addition, Zhou Xiao's cameo in the TV series, especially in the second episode with the lowest ratings in the whole drama, made this drama magically rise against the trend in the second episode. And it also magically maintained a considerable rating, although the average rating fell below 30%, judging from the four or five episodes that have been broadcast, it seems that there is no problem in winning the ratings champion of this season and continuing to maintain the myth of Zhou Xiao.

Also because of the clever timing, people have to suspect that this matter is a hype on the part of AZX, even if there seems to be nothing wrong with the whole thing, the plaintiff does not seem to have anything to do with AZX, and there are still quite a few people who will be so suspicious.

For this kind of suspicion, Zhou Xiao and AZX have nothing to do, but they don't care about this suspicion, the benefits have been obtained, and the thing is really not done by them, if someone comes to reason with them, they will definitely not lose.

As for the reports of the tabloid gossip media, it already doesn't matter.

After the concert on July 11th, Zhou Xiao went to Osaka for more than a week, during which he met with Yoshimoto Kogyo and other upper echelons of Yoshimoto Kogyo to discuss business, as for the saury teacher who introduced him to meet with Osaki, he had already returned to Tokyo by Shinkansen the day after Zhou Xiao met with Osaki, he is not Zhou Xiao who has relatively little work on TV, and more company controllers who have to do behind-the-scenes work, and for saury, funny artists and MC are his lifelong hobbies in addition to work, It's perfectly fine to let him not rest for a few days, eat delicious food and not play, but let him not work for a few days, he will find it difficult to accept......

After nearly two weeks passed, Zhou Xiao finally returned to Tokyo, at this time the broadcast of the series has reached the third episode, and the entire lawsuit handled by Yasusu Akimoto has lost suspense because of the undoubted evidence, and the time has begun to enter August, and the AKB work in August, in addition to the national tour to be carried out until mid-August, the members have to go all out in the second half of the month to release the new single and the summer festival work.

In the past, AKB's new single was released, and the members would meet in various variety shows, big and small, and now AKB has released a new single, which is such an important single, and the girls are on more variety shows, and a large number of members who were not qualified to appear in variety shows before have also been dispatched, although they can't be on MS and other super good variety shows, but there is no problem with variety shows such as late-night files.

In particular, two weeks before the start of the summer festival, many aspects of the operation of the summer festival were also made public.

Compared with last year's summer festival, this year's summer festival in addition to the performance of the members, but Zhou Xiao's performance link was added, but he said that it was a performance rather than a simple talk show, Zhou Xiao had to talk on the stage for 45 minutes with one mouth, and what he wanted to say had nothing to do with himself, what he mainly talked about was the future of AKB, and he figured out what Guò AKB did.

What's more, this summer festival schedule also announced the exciting news that the idol group E-Girls of Exile, which has a good relationship with AZX, has also joined the list!

That's right, Aya Takamoto and Mawei Nakajima have been working at AKB for several years. But the members who had already emigrated with several members are back with a whole group of e-girls this time! They will also join the AKB Summer Festival.

Compared with E-Girls, an idol group that is not an AZX system at all, like the news that AZX's peach clover is also an idol group has also joined the summer festival, no one pays much attention to it, compared with AKB, which is now fast and crazy, Peach Grass or something, is still a baby-like group, and even E-Girls, these two are still small idols to join AKB's activities, which is definitely a very big opportunity for the members to follow.

A few days after Zhou Xiao returned, the specific cooperation between AZX and Yoshimoto Kogyo was finally signed, except in Osaka. In addition to the establishment and publicity of NMB48 and many other matters, in the next half a year or so, AZX and Yoshimoto Kogyo will initially establish a joint company in the magic capital and recruit and train aspiring showbiz artists, there are no zài funny artists in the traditional Chinese entertainment industry, this work will continue for a long time, and may even last for more than ten years, the funny artists from this company, the purpose is not to occupy the mainland entertainment industry, their goal. It is an effective supplement to become a very good film and television singer who is now developing in China.

It may be difficult for these artists to get too many opportunities in the next few years, and what Zhou Xiao is thinking about is that if SNH48 can be established in the future, these people can grow up with the girls of SNH. Maybe there will be a good effect, and this is also a key reason for him to apply for cooperation with Yoshimoto Xingye.

The upcoming Summer Festival is a big deal for AKB's upcoming 17th single. Or even a crazy promotion.

The last single "Ponytail and Hair Ring" has a total sales of about 730,000 to the present, and the sales of AKB singles are very sustainable. Don't look at the fact that it has been released for a while, but the average weekly sales of "Ponytail and Hair Ring" still haven't fallen out of the top 20 of the week of Oricon, and even on occasional days when the average sales are relatively low, such as weekends, this single can still enter the top 10 or even the top 3!

Although "Ponytail and Hair Ring" is a bestseller, it is far from crazy compared to AKB's upcoming single.

A week before the release of "HR", when Zhou Xiao inquired about the theatrical version of the single, he was surprised to find that the predetermined number of the theatrical version of the single had begun to approach 800,000!

800,000! This predetermined number, which doesn't even need the number of the usual plate, has already killed the overall sales of the last single in seconds! What's even more exciting is that this number is already starting to approach that milestone number!

Zhou Xiao himself was not very happy, because he knew very well that AKB would be able to create that legend sooner or later, but for the rest of the AZX staff, this matter was simply too exciting, and the reservation of 800,000 yuan filled the entire AZX company with the excitement of the New Year!

AZX is not without more than one million singles, when Zhou Xiaogang debuted, the number of singles was at the level of two million, but that era was not the same as now, in this era, if there is no AKB, the single sales are only five or six hundred thousand sales of Lan's singles in a few years, this is already a million sales can be called a monster, and it will not come out once in a year or even a few years, when will the million orders rise? 2006 Kat-Tun's "Realface" and Masashi Akikawa's "A Thousand Winds"!

Since these two singles in 2006, there have been no million singles, and in 2008, some critics even issued a view similar to "2006 is the last glory of the Japanese traditional music industry, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to see million-level singles in the future".

AKB is a spoiler and a pioneer, and in the fourth year after 2006, the group finally got to this point, and they ...... It will create a great era of "there are no millions of orders except me, and all millions of orders are my name"!

Some people may think that the legend of AKB is not important, and AKB is not really powerful, but the cruelty of history is that it usually only leaves cold numbers and the simplest reality, and when people look back ten or twenty years later, they will find that there seems to be only one name in the Japanese music scene in those years, and people will only remember this name!

Under the predetermined figures, the Japanese music association has begun to prepare for AKB's million single certification, which has not been issued for four years, and it is also super good news for the music association to issue this certification again after four years, all of them say that AKB's singles have water, but for the music association, of course, they will also hope for more such singles.

In such a joyful atmosphere, Zhou Xiao and the members of AKB are also in high spirits, and he has done a lot of variety shows with the members before the release of the single! (To be continued......)