If AKB's previous single results were just surprising industry insiders and idols, the sales of "Ponytail and Hair Ring" have really shocked the world.

The predecessor of "Ponytail and Hair Ring", "Sakura Bookmark", which was released in February, has now achieved sales of 540,000, which is already a high number, and the final sales of this work in the previous life are just over 400,000.

The reason why AKB is selling well now is that all versions are selling high, the theater is selling high, the sales of ordinary dishes are higher, and the proportion of ordinary sales in the total sales is also much larger.

In fact, at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, AKB had a good chance to become popular, at that time, AKB's sales had just risen to 100,000, and the aftermath of the song "Loud Diamond" was still there, plus Zhou Xiao's help, if you seize the opportunity, it is likely to soar.

But Zhou Xiao gave up this opportunity and started to run the core meal instead, using activities such as summer festivals to tie the pace of contact rice while continuing to vigorously invest in the personal ability of the portfolio, and even more with the cooperation with the family class that lasted more than two years, for other people besides AKB rice, but who paid attention to Zhou Xiao and AZX, Zhou Xiao's decision was quite unwise.

Opportunities or something, but you can't get it anytime and anywhere, many artists have never been able to get a good enough opportunity in their lives, or they have tried hard to seize this opportunity but ultimately failed, these are extremely regrettable, but in the history of the entertainment industry, no one has ever deliberately given up the opportunity, if someone other than Zhou Xiao does this, he will definitely be reprimanded by his predecessors, but Zhou Xiao has always promoted this qiē with his influence in AZX, if 2005 is the year when the seeds were planted, 2009 should be the time to continue to cultivate crops after germination, remove pests and diseases, apply fertilizer, weed, water and expose to sunlight.

Then in mid-2010. This flower called AKB48, watered with sweat and tears, as well as Zhou Xiao's constant support and money for several years, finally bloomed in a bigger and more gorgeous way than he had ever seen.

"Ponytail and Hair Ring", first-day sales, 630,000!

Continue the rhythm of accumulating seconds on the first day, and it is the rhythm of continuing to lead the previous order to 100,000 sales on the first day!

The most important thing is that the sales of more than 600,000 yuan can almost win the annual championship in this year's market. Even Arashi, who is as popular as AKB now, and has quite a lot of depth, this year's single sales are basically at this level, and the second place is something that took a year of hard work to do, and now AKB can do it in one day, this explosive power is simply fantastic!

The AKB fans rushed to tell each other excitedly, the people in the entertainment industry couldn't close their mouths in surprise, and the staff of AZX Company worshiped Zhou Xiao to a higher level!

Except for Zhou Xiao, no one else knew about AKB's instinctive success. Coupled with Zhou Xiao's practice last year, many people feel that it is precisely because of the hibernation of that year that the rapid trend of AKB will be created today.

This statement...... In fact, it is not completely wrong, the sales of "Ponytail and Hair Ring" in the first week of the previous life were barely more than 500,000. Now the sales volume of 630,000 on the first day is enough to represent what Zhou Xiao has done for AKB, and the traverser is not omnipotent, and it is unrealistic to expect AKB to be one million on the first day at this time.

As for the happiest people. Of course, it's the AKB girls, who have been feeling the growth of the group step by step since last year. From the initial 100,000 or so to 200,000, 300,000, and finally to the first day to get 600,000 sales, thinking back to a year ago, even if the sales have a certain growth, they definitely dare not think about today's number, 600,000 or something, in this era is already a number that can go down in history, today's girls are really creating history, understand this, how can they not be happy, how can they not feel magical.

In the days following the release of the new single, the entire AKB theater was filled with a New Year-like atmosphere, and everyone was overjoyed, and if it weren't for the upcoming general election, the flash report would have brought quite a lot of anxiety to everyone, and the girls would probably have to celebrate.

Now that the general election is approaching, the girls have to think about the general election first.

Compared to the 2009 general election, the AKB in the 2010 general election has made great progress, in fact, the 2010 AKB general election has not yet reached the super strong Cheng dù, which can be seen from the venue, the 2009 general election was held in Akasaka Blitz, and the 2010 general election this year was held in JCBHALL, which was later TDCHALL, but when the general election in 2011 next year, it will be held in Budokan, 11 years, 12 years of Budokan, to 13, 14 years is a step up to the Nissan Stadium and Ajinomoto Stadium, these two venues are very large and magnificent, the outdoor stadium can hold such an event is absolutely prosperous, but the general election in the past two years has also made the members miserable, several floors high, the girls sit there with bare legs for several hours, it is definitely a very painful experience.

Therefore, in 2015, the operation began to look for a large indoor stadium.

Akasaka BLITZ can accommodate 1300 people, JCBHALL can accommodate 3100 people, although the difference between the two is three times, but on the whole, the two venues are still the same level, the place is small, and the attention is small, and now in this state, in fact, the attention of the Japanese entertainment industry has been quite good, it can be said that the essential help of AKB in this year's general election is the step rather than the stage, relying on this step, AKB has really become a de facto national group from the so-called Japanese national groupIt was also in this general election, after that, that AKB really became a social phenomenon, the reversal of Yuko Oshima, the MV of the general election and the conspicuous and bright colors, karaoke for more than 50 consecutive weeks, and a huge degree of topic and attention, which made almost everyone know the results of the AKB general election.

As a general election that allowed the members to climb the ladder, but it could not be called a high-profile election, it can be said that all the attention of this election was put on one thing, and that was the ascension of Yuko Oshima.

The AKB general election may be very important to outsiders, but for most AKB meals, the importance of who the champion is is actually not so ...... At least not as big as outsiders pay attention to, because most of the time. In fact, there are only two or three candidates for the championship in the general election.

And even if the contenders for the two championships are popular, they will account for the most votes in the general election, and the millions of votes in the world will only account for 250,000 votes for the champion and runner-up.

However, in the 2010 general election, the competition for the champion and runner-up was the most critical and famous of all previous general elections. Its importance even goes beyond what later referred to as Rina's miraculous ascent to the top.

In fact, from this aspect, Shihara and Oshima are somewhat similar, looking back at the entire AKB general election, Maeda and Watanabe's ascent to the top is actually a normal result, these two are strictly speaking to make AKB's signboards, and the ascent of Shihara and Oshima Yuko is the real historical significance, and it is a thing that is of the same significance as Oshima, Maeda and Mayu's ascension. For the two, it is a great cause that has finally been achieved, but for Shihara Oshima, it is a success that they could not have imagined before the election, and it is a miracle that they have really created. Dreams come true.

This kind of success for Mayu Maeda was nothing more than a success for them, and their victory was like the Brazilian football team winning the world championship, and the second was a failure for them.

But for the original Oshima. This success will give them an unrivalled level of self-confidence, and it is only after winning the championship that they will do a lot of things that make it right. For example, Oshima, if there is no championship this time, AKB's ACE position will always be only Maeda, no one in the entertainment industry will put Oshima on the same level as Maeda, Oshima may encounter a lot of problems in future dramas and even starring in dramas, and it is the same with Zhiyuan, if he does not win the championship, he may attract a lot of criticism when he refers to many AKB programs in the future, and everyone may not recognize that a non-champion girl leads AKB and has resources that are difficult for anyone to match.

It's like the majority of AKB core rice, in fact, for Zhou Xiao, he really doesn't care much about who can win the championship in the past, in the 2010 general election, Zhou Xiao voted for Oshima, the 11 general election is Ami Sato, the 12 general election is Qin Zuo Kazuko, the 13 general election refers to Hara Rina, and the 14 general election is Matsui Jurina, compared to who can win the championship, Zhou Xiao pays more attention to those who want it to go further, and in his opinion, if there is a good number of votes, Someone who will bring greater confidence or help to the girl herself or the whole group, but then again, with Zhou Xiao's consistent attitude towards the general election, the vote he casts in each general election is nothing more than a very, very small force among tens of thousands of votes......

But only in the 2010 general election this year, Zhou Xiao sincerely hopes that Yuko Oshima can win the championship, looking from the back to the front, Yuko Oshima's victory is undoubtedly the best result, Maeda If he defends the title this year, Yuko's heart is likely to be discharged, so this is likely to be Oshima's only chance to prove himself, and defending the title or something, for ordinary audiences, there is also a lack of certain surprises, only when a character overturns another person, it will cause the greatest drama.

Zhou Xiao is actually very nervous about whether Yuko Oshima can win the championship, a year ago in the general election, he appeared before the final announcement of the championship and shouted "Maeda" to say something like that, this remark is also quite popular in the past year, not only did it not be deleted when the final general election DVD was released, and there was a lot of discussion on the Internet about this passage, and after a year of digestion, it can now be regarded as the most recognized comment or attitude of everyone on the difference between the supporters of the rice.

Although most of the time the rice people don't really have a tense attitude, but Zhou Xiao's approach not only makes the relationship between Maeda Oshima and other girls a lot better, but also does make the relationship between the rice players a lot better, I have to say that Zhou Xiao's speech is very influential, and most of the rice feel that since Zhou Xiao said so, everyone is still a little more harmonious.

Zhou Xiao actually cares about this, in the 2010 general election, for Yuko Oshima's victory, there is a saying that many people will vote for Oshima because they hate Maeda, no one knows whether this statement is true or false, but Zhou Xiao doesn't dare to take risks. He is worried that if this statement is true, then Oshima's road to winning the championship this time may be more difficult, you must know that the final champion and runner-up votes in this general election are not worse than 1,000 votes, for the gap of 10,000 or even close to 20,000 votes in the subsequent general election, the gap in this general election should be the least, and if you are not careful, Oshima may lose to Maeda.

As for Zhou Xiao paying for a few thousand votes to Oshima? He hadn't even thought about it.

That's right, whether Yuko Oshima can win the championship is really important, not only for the girls themselves, but also for the momentum and attention of the entire group. But no matter how important Zhou Xiao is, he doesn't have the idea of cheating, because in his opinion, it is completely unnecessary, not to mention the question of whether Oshima can win the championship, what if Zhou Xiao is awesome Oshima votes for thousands of votes, and Maeda suddenly finds out that Oshima is so much more powerful than himself and then loses his will to fight?

Although it is Oshima who pushes, although he now has an ambiguous relationship with Yuko Oshima, no matter how many reasons there are, in Zhou Xiao's opinion, it cannot be a reason for him to cheat, and AKB's affairs are still left to AKB to solve. What he can do is support them behind them instead of influencing the outcome himself.

Although he won't do anything, Zhou Xiao's relationship with Yuko Oshima is not comparable to his relationship with Maeda after all, which makes Zhou Xiao very struggling. He found that his mentality had changed now, and he used to care not so much about the general election as about the tragicomedy process of the general election, which felt like someone who liked to watch the game and didn't care about the outcome. The crowd will be happy with the excitement of the game, but they will not care about the outcome.

But now he feels like Yuko Oshima, but Zhou Xiao seems to have a home team. In fact, he still doesn't care much about the results of others such as Mariko Shinoda, only Oshima, only this general election, which he really cares about, because whether or not he can win the championship is too important for Oshima and AKB itself.

On the night after the release of the single "Ponytail and Hair Ring", the initial votes for the AKB's second general election also came out.

Today's general election is actually very different from Zhou Xiao's previous life, the biggest spoiler in the entire election is two people, one is Mai Oshima and the other is Airi Suzuki, the former and Shinoda still have a cruel battle around the third place, and the love and killing between the latter and Mayu is also very interesting, and this general election is not only them, the person who has achieved the best results this time should be Itano Tomomi, the top appearance in the AKB department brought her the biggest advantage when the team first became popular, Quite a few people became interested in AKB because they liked her looks.

In the history of Zhou Xiao, Itano Yumi won the fourth place in this general election with a slight advantage of more than 400 votes, and now she is in the fifth place in Zhou Xiao's estimation.

Among the top ten picks in the general election, Amina Sato should not be able to squeeze in this time, even if this year's results of Kashiwagi and Zhiyuan may still be Cheng Dù in the dozens, but the momentum of Miyazawa Sae and Matsui Jurina Reina is not comparable to her, although the girl got a good position in the first general election, Zhou Xiao did not treat her badly, but after all, the real strength is there, Zhou Xiao estimates that even if she does not fall to the 18th place in the end, she will not be much higher than Zhiyuan Kashiwagi.

In the end, in the results of the quick report, the form of the selection group was obviously divided into several gears, Maeda first Yuko second, the number of votes of the two has a huge gap of nearly half with the back, three, four five was divided by Itano Shinoda Oshima Mai, behind the two Takahashi Kojima Matomo Airi four people battle is inseparable, and then the tenth place in the competition, Miyazawa Sae, Jurina and Reina, and this year's also improved Ono Reina by a very slight advantage ahead of the following Kawasai Tomomi Takashiro Aki and Kitahara Riei, After that, it refers to the original Kashiwagi and Akimoto Caijia, Li Chunfeng, Annan and others.

Today's general election, in fact, is not very technical, and the rice honestly buys CDs, canvass for votes, and votes, and there is no strategy. Unlike a few years later, some people rush to report and some people have a secret account, which will bring great self-confidence to the successful girl, and will also bring voting motivation to some floating rice who originally liked the girl, but at the same time had doubts about whether the girl could enter the final ranking, and the dark account will make the most obvious opponents of the members relax and invest less money, all kinds of scheming are taken out here, and it has become an annual big drama for AKB members and meals.

Two weeks is not long or short, but June is coming soon, and this term has changed the members and affected the general election of many people's lives...... Coming soon.

Zhou Xiao, who is completely unclear about the outcome like the audience, is about to usher in the most important battle since his crossing. (To be continued......)