In fact, for AKB, since the establishment of the regular handshake meeting system, they have not paid much attention to the so-called backlog and waste of handshake tickets, which is also very normal, the handshake tickets themselves have no value according to common sense, people should buy CDs first, as for the opportunity to shake hands with people, do you need a handshake ticket to shake hands with an ordinary person? It was because of the AKB fire and the members became stars that the value of the handshake ticket would surge and override the CD, resulting in a lot of waste of CD.

In Zhou Xiao's opinion, since things have come to this point, why not maximize the ability to grasp the hand ticket, with this idea, and then linked to some activities of AKB in 2014, Zhou Xiao has a very bold idea, AKB may do it in the future, or it may not be able to do it all the time.

"Mr. Akimoto, how much do you know about the Internet?" Zhou Xiao asked Qiu Yuanyasu.

"The Internet? At my age, I use computers and mobile phones at most. Yasudo Akimoto.

"Nowadays, most games or products on the Internet have their own token system, and you can exchange real money for a certain token of a company on the Internet, and then use this token to buy products on the Internet. And users can also earn this token in some way on the Internet. Zhou Xiao explained.

"Got it, so you mean ......"

"Hehe, I just want to turn the handshake coupon in the CD into a token, not just a handshake ticket." Zhou Xiao said.

"Not just a handshake ticket? What else can you do besides as a handshake ticket? Yasu Akimoto asked.

"Participating in various AKB events, of course! At the beginning of each year, after paying a certain number of handshake tickets, you can participate in the coming-of-age ceremony with the 20-year-old members of AKB, and in the middle of each year, at AKB's CON, handshake tickets can be purchased at the booth outside and only handshake tickets can be exchanged for huàn. The whole summer festival lasts for two to three days, and in addition to the mini concerts of the top members, there will be many traditional summer festival activities such as air guns, such as marshmallows and goldfish, and even some of the characteristics of the members, which we can also use to make a fuss, such as Maeda, who seems to be able to fold very small paper cranes, we will ask her to fold a hundred on the stage and give them to the rice present.

In addition to these activities, the handshake that each single will have is a regular consumption of the handshake ring! Zhou Xiao said with a very interested smile.

This...... If these are down, the investment will not be small! Akimoto said.

That's not it, in the previous life, AKB actually made very little money from CD. Because each single must be accompanied by a large-scale national handshake party, the higher the CD sales of the single, the larger the handshake party, and many handshakes in later generations were even held in stadiums such as Seibu Dome, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Of course, the investment in holding a handshake party at the Dome is not higher than holding a concert, but it is not a lot at all, and the more expensive thing is the salary of the staff, Japan is a developed country, and the most significant feature of such a country is that the labor price is ridiculously high compared to that of developing countries, and such a large event. There are a lot of people who need to be recruited, and in the most exaggerated cases, even the work of helping the members insert straws into their respective bottles must be taken care of.

In addition, the national handshake meeting is often not limited to Tokyo but runs all over the country, so it is such a huge investment. The reception dinner is completely free of charge and the members shake hands, and the huge cost makes it difficult to make money on CD sales.

And Zhou Xiao's current thoughts are even more exaggerated, what coming-of-age ceremony, what summer sacrifice. Each of these things requires a big investment, and you may not even be able to make money back from the release of CDs.

"It's hard to earn it back, right?" Yasu Akimoto asked.

"Of course, the main force to make money is not on this, but mainly on various peripherals and endorsement advertising. Therefore, if you want to support such a huge empire, in the final analysis, it is still the same, that is, you have to be popular......" Zhou Xiao sighed.

"So you're going to start this project on that song? "Sunset"? Or "Romance, Not Needed"? Yasu Akimoto asked.

"It started in Sunset!" Zhou Xiaodao.

"Sunset" is "Are You Watching the Sunset?" ("夕陽を見ているか?").

"If it had started in 'Sunset,' there wouldn't have been much time." Yasu Akimoto said that it is now October, and the release time of this single is October 31, so it may be difficult to do it with only one month to promote it.

"Try your best, I've arranged the handshake coupon and related Internet things, and I'm going to make a schedule tomorrow, and at the same time announce the time sooner rather than later, and the members should also do a good job, the handshake will be a very close contact with the meal after all, and there will be all kinds of problems if you do more."

"I'll do it for the members." Akimoto said.

"It's okay, I'll do it no problem." Zhou Xiao said.

"You can't do everything, and you're going to spend a lot of time on the movie side, so wait until you win the Oscar next year." Akimoto said.

"That's hard work for you, Mr. Akimoto." Zhou Xiao said.

"It's hard work or not, it's my job. But I also want to thank you, the single "Sunset" is a good song, and it would be a shame if the sales were low......" Akimoto said.

He was right, Are You Watching the Sunset? This song is the best of all AKB singles in terms of quality, as a rare slow song among AKB singles, this song is excellent in terms of melody and lyrics, plus a beautiful meaning, especially when AKB is performing an outdoor concert, with the scenery of the sunset in the distance, the girls are singing warm songs, which can be described as very beautiful.

This song is also a favorite song among the AKB members, and if there is a song election within the AKB members, this song may be the top spot many times in a row.

But this song is also a bit embarrassing, because the sales of this song are the worst of all singles.

After its release in 2007, the total sales of this song in three weeks on the charts were only more than 18,000, which is too low, even the last two songs that accompanied AKB into the trough had sales in the early 20,000s, but this song was the only single in AKB that sold less than 20,000.

The sales of this single may be low. This kind of thing can be expected many times before the release, but now the situation is different, with Zhou Xiao's handshake coupon, this kind of thing is very useful, Akimoto Yasushi predicts that this single can increase sales by at least 10,000 or more with the help of additional handshake coupons.

This meeting with Qiu Yuankang gave birth to a lot of work in the future, although Qiu Yuankang said that he would let Zhou Xiao be busy with the movie and he would help with AKB's affairs, but some things still had to be done by Zhou Xiao himself, such as a week after meeting with Qiu Yuankang. Zhou Xiao arrived at the AKB Theater and took the stage to announce a few things.

What did Zhou Xiao announce? First of all, it was about the handshake party, and the normalized handshake party changed AKB, but now no one can see this, so the incident that Zhou Xiao first announced on stage just made the audience cheer very ordinarily.

What really made the rice guests very happy was the next announcement.

"In January of next year, AKB will hold a concert of AKB songs setlist100 chosen by the fans, and this concert will last for four days with a total of 25 songs each. The ranking of all songs will be chosen by the rice guys themselves! ”

"Oh!" Zhou Xiao's news made the members and audiences on and off the stage excited, the members were excited that they had a new concert, and the fans were excited that they could hear the songs they wanted to hear.

Moreover, this so-called setlist100 concert is a completely new thing. New gadgets are always tempting, and it makes sense that the rice will be excited.

This setlist, the difference from the previous life is that the list of songs has changed a little, why is this happening? This is because there are some differences between the AKB performance and the previous life.

This time in a past life. AKB's A and K teams are performing two performances of the Sunflower and Lily groups, but they are not performed together but sequentially. In other words, the so-called lily group is actually just a substitute for the sunflower group.

But this is not the case with today's performances, today's performance sunflower group represents the main force of Group A, including the other two groups of girls, and the Lily group represents Group K, not only that, but there is also one more Dandelion Group B performance, three original performances launched at the same time, which was not in the previous life, and what is more powerful is the performance composed of the main members of Group B, this group of performances is brand new, not any performance that AKB has ever appeared in the future.

There are a total of 12 songs in this performance, which is called "Flower Seed", six of which are works that have been released on various occasions in the future, but these six songs are not any songs by the 48 groups in the future, but songs that would have been released elsewhere in the future, such as H! P's songs, or other companies' idol groups, or even singers' songs.

The other six songs performed used Zhou Xiaozhen's own creations.

Zhou Xiao, who already has musical literacy, has been accumulating various songs since he never gave up on establishing AKB after several years of polishing, from 2000 to the present, such songs have accumulated a total of about fifty or so, these songs may not be as good as those masterpieces, but there is no problem as an idol song, plus Zhou Xiao now has nearly ten years of Japanese music experience more than the Japanese entertainment industry, and the songs created are still very good, At least after Yasu Akimoto got the song, it was no different from the other six songs.

This kind of performance is naturally what Zhou Xiao cares about the most when it is staged, because there is Zhou Xiao's real originality in it, just like Zhou Xiao's two original works have been added to the A1 performance.

Zhou Xiao has been struggling with another thing recently.

Not many people know about this matter in the operation of AZX and AKB, that is, Zhou Xiao, Yasu Akimoto, Uncle Inoue and other limited four or five people, among these four or five people, everyone has a positive attitude towards this matter, only Zhou Xiao disagrees.

This was NHK's invitation to AKB to participate in the Red and White Song Party.

Last year, Zhou Xiao hosted the Red and White Song Party, which is a very worthy honor even for Zhou Xiao, and taking this opportunity, Zhou Xiao's relationship with NHK has also improved a lot.

This is not the first time he has cooperated with NHK, when he traveled to China with Yasusu Akimoto, after he came back, he contacted NHK and Tomohiro Sekiguchi, and got Tomohiro Sekiguchi's Japanese Railway Daiki Line out. After the Japanese version of the railway, the Chinese version has also started to be broadcast this year, and now in October, half of the second half of the railway has been broadcast.

In fact, in September, before receiving the red and white invitation, Zhou Xiao had already received an invitation from HNK about this work, and the content was that the last episode of the Chinese Railway Chronicle of Sekiguchi Zhihong would be broadcast live in Xinjiang, and NHK hoped that Zhou Xiao would attend the live broadcast, because he was the proposer of this plan, and as a Chinese. Coupled with such a great favorability, if you can invite him, it will definitely be a very huge guarantee for the ratings of the entire show.

For NHK's invitation, Zhou Xiao agreed without hesitation after determining that the time was no problem, working in Japan is his focus Yes, China's popularity and attention should also be brushed up if possible, although this show will not be broadcast anywhere in China now, but Zhou Xiao is very clear about the influence of this show on the Chinese domestic network in the future, and he appeared in the last episode of this show. It is still of great help to the spread of this show in China and his personal popularity in the eyes of Chinese, especially Chinese netizens.

NHK didn't have any worries about inviting AKB, but in NHK's opinion, if it was a big star like Zhou Xiao. It's understandable to reject NHK, but if it's a group like AKB, even if Zhou Xiao is a maker, there should be absolutely no reason to refuse.

For idols. Going to the Red and White Song Festival is almost one of the absolute ultimate dreams.

But this time, Zhou Xiao refused.

Before refusing NHK, Zhou Xiao first explained it to everyone in the company who knew about it.

Yasu Akimoto follows Inoue. and Togazaki and others, who have now joined AKB's operation, can't understand Zhou Xiao's idea of refusing the invitation of the Red and White Song Club.

"AKB's current popularity hasn't reached that level.,The sales and influence of each single are very insufficient.,Such AKB,Even if it's on the Red and White Song Club, there are only two possibilities.,One is to use my fame and influence.,The other is because of a project in the red and white.,If it's the former.,AKB will encounter a lot of criticism.,And I don't like AKB to be present for this reason.,If it's the latter.,AKB will inevitably only take up a small amount of playing time.,One and a half minutes, It's possible to play less than a minute, and I think this kind of appearance is almost a black history for AKB, and it's not necessary to accept it, but if you accept it this year and can't play next year, it will definitely be very huge in the AKB team. ”

"In that case, this year's appearance can be the motivation for the members to work hard next year." Akimoto said.

"Yes, because AKB's popularity is a bit lacking right now, it's also an aspect of promoting popularity." Uncle Inoue also said.

"It's not popularity but recognition that gets red and white on AKB, but the absolute recognition of AKB is actually not low, if you go to the street and investigate, you will find that many people know about AKB as a group, whether it's because of me or because of something else.

Therefore, what AKB needs most now is popularity and attention, not general recognition. Zhou Xiao said.

In the end, a few people other than Zhou Xiao still accepted his statement, as for whether these people sincerely accepted it or felt that Zhou Xiao was the absolute controller, and these people were forced to agree because they couldn't stop it.

needs an explanation, in addition to Zhou Xiao's side, there is also NHK's side. Based on the relationship between NHK and Zhou Xiao, the other party immediately sent a question after getting the rejection news, asking why Zhou Xiao refused this invitation, the NHK staff member who was responsible for contacting Zhou Xiao was a little girl who seemed to have just joined the company, this little girl sounded like she was about to cry when she called, she thought it was her own relationship, and she refused to act if Zhou Xiao was angry if she didn't do a good job in a certain link, she was a small staff member of NHK, if she made Zhou Xiao angry, then don't think about doing it in the cultural world in the future.

There was no way, Zhou Xiao had to go to NHK for a special time and explain to the more high-level part of NHK, who was in charge of red and white work.

He even specifically mentioned a person to the other party after asking about the plan that the red and white NHK originally wanted to make zuò this year, and this person was of course Yuko Ogura that he had planned for a long time.

Yuko Ogura's popularity has basically reached the last period of popularity this year, and after this year, her popularity will slowly begin to decline, and if she can last become popular, it should be a great continuation and help for the girl's career.

NHK also attaches great importance to Zhou Xiao's recommendation, of course, in addition to the attention, the review of Yuko Ogura's qualifications is also very important, and in the end, the TV station still agreed to Zhou Xiao's recommendation. Not only this recommendation, but even the recommendation about Arashi serving as the secretary of the White Group of the Red and White Song Society this year.

Of course, most of Arashi's recommendation is just a Genesys effort. (To be continued......)

PS: PS, recommend two self-proclaimed "Are you watching the sunset?" live.

The first one was the sunset during the 12-year-old TeamK Okinawa performance.,Live held outdoors by the sea.,The weather in Okinawa that day was so good that it exploded.,Huya,Mi-chan,Big and handsome,Yuko,Little Pig and others were all there.,The sunset that day and that day's TeamK was the best K-group performance I've ever seen.。

The second is naturally the 2009 AKB Summer Festival held in Fuji-Q Park, which is also a charming sunset accompanied by the Divine Comedy, and this version brings together the golden members of AKB, and if the previous one is the best performance of Team K, this version should be considered the best sunset version of AKB ever.