Record sales are very important data for Japanese singers and idols. This data determines whether you will be a central guest on a prime-time variety show on a national TV network, or be a human background on a late-night variety show on a local TV station.

If the record sells well, then you can consider touring the Five Domes (actually the Six Domes); but if the record does not sell well, then you have to consider whether any bar is willing to hire you as a resident singer.

.Since the Japanese entertainment industry is being eliminated very quickly, singers and idols are forced to take record sales seriously.

After entering the new century, basically if an idol can sell 100,000 records, he or she will be considered a celebrity in the company. But if it had been ten years earlier and the sales of records had been less than 500,000, then you would have immediately become a company slave.

As for the data certification of record sales, the authoritative data recognized in Japan is the Oricon Chart and the Recording Industry Association of Japan. Of course, after the American "Billboard" magazine enters Japan in a few years, the data of the Billboard Japan Chart will also be important.

Reference value.

However, the most authoritative Oricon Charts and the Recording Industry Association of Japan currently have different sources of statistical data, so the actual results announced by the two companies are very different. Oricon Charts is a sales terminal that has joined its own sales statistics alliance through statistics.

The "estimated sales volume" obtained by weighting sales data based on past experience is used as the source of statistical data; while the Japan Recording Association uses the "shipping volume" obtained by record distribution companies from record processing plants as the source of statistical data.

In fact, these two data have their own drawbacks. For example, the Oricon Chart does not count the data of non-franchisees and the data of records ranked outside the 200th place. This leads to the fact that the overseas sales data of some record stores with overseas sales capabilities are not included in the statistics.

, and also excludes the sales of old records with earlier release years.

For example, Yuki Koyanagi's "My All..." album sold over one million copies the week it was released, but since Oricon only counts data from sales stores, their figures are only over 300,000; the same goes for Nirvana and ABBA.

Records by old artists are often ignored by the Oricon charts because their annual sales are not high. As a result, they realize that they have not counted them after their sales have accumulated.

But the Recording Industry Association of Japan also has a big problem, that is, it does not count the sales of independent records. Because MONGOL800's second album "MESSAGE" was an underground record, even though it sold two million copies, it became a miracle in the development history of Japanese independent music.

, the sales of this album are still not recognized by the Japan Record Association. In addition, the first version of the popular single "Spineless" was also released through an independent record company, although this album won the annual championship in terms of downloads in Japan

However, the Recording Industry Association of Japan still refused to acknowledge the sales. In the end, it was not until Jinbao re-released the single through a major record company that the Recording Industry Association of Japan began to calculate the data.

AKB48 can be said to be the biggest victim of this sales statistics war. According to previous data, in the 2010s, AKB48 received a total of 38 singles certified by the Japan Record Association with sales of one million, including 7 singles with 2 million sales.

Singles with certified sales and 1 single with certified sales of 3 million; but on the Oricon chart, AKB48 only has 18 million singles, and there are no 2 million singles and 3 million singles. So the sales of AKB48 have been

There is a saying of being "watered".

"We have announcements for two programs "Musi" and "Utaban" this week?" When all AKB48 were informed by their manager, everyone was surprised.

Don't look at Johnny's idols who ruined the two programs "Musi" and "Utaban", but these two programs are iconic programs for other musicians. After all, the management companies of other recording artists can cooperate with "Musi"

》The program team is caring and there are senior artists who are the hosts of "Utaban". Therefore, to be on this kind of national prime-time program, you basically have to have strong capabilities or a strong background. And AKB48 can be on this time, naturally

It's a strong background.

Junsu Lin and Yasushi Akimoto have good relationships with TV Asahi and TBS. In addition, they also have good relationships with the show's hosts Tamori, Takaaki Ishibashi and Masahiro Nakai, so they finally got the opportunity to perform.

Although today's music programs are not as powerful as they were in the 1970s and 1980s, as the only remaining music programs in the Japanese television industry, "Musi" and "Utaban" still have very good ratings. At the same time, the most important thing is that these two programs

The program is extremely helpful in increasing record sales, which undoubtedly provides an important guarantee for AKB48’s debut single.

"Everyone also knows how rare resources "Musi" and "Utaban" are, so during this period, please work hard to practice your dance steps and don't embarrass yourself and the company on the show." The manager announced. "New beats.

The costumes and styling will be confirmed with everyone today, and if there are no problems, we will take new official promotional photos tomorrow."

"This time I will go to "Musi" and you will go to "Utaban"?" Yasushi Akimoto confirmed with Lin Junxiu while watching the performance on the stage in the theater through the monitor. As AKB48, he will be on a national prime time program.

Of course, some of them were not qualified, so Akimoto Yasushi and Lin Junxiu matched themselves up, which satisfied the other's TV station and program team.

"If the two of us go together, the focus of the promotion will be blurred. In order to obtain the resources of "Utaban", I promised Miji-san Iijima to appear on "SMAP×SMAP" hosted by SMAP." Lin Junxiu said.

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Due to the senior relationship within Johnny's Agency, "SMAP×SMAP" was once a program that was banned from active Johnny's artists. After all, the only artist who is still active in Johnny's Agency and is more senior than SMAP is Kondo Masahiko.

and the youth team, and they rarely appear on TV shows.

The reason for such a "ban" is mainly because in the "Bistro SMAP" segment of "SMAP×SMAP", SMAP needs to transform into a waiter and chef to serve guests. In the corporate culture of Johnny & Associates, seniors cannot serve juniors.

, so in the end everyone simply stopped going to this show. In the original time and space, it was KinKi Kids who broke this rule. After all, these two are the younger brothers who grew up with SMAP, so they are an exception. However, after the exception was made, others also followed.

Younger artists came to the show one after another, and even Johnny Junior, who had not debuted before, came on the show.

In this time and space, it is Lin Junxiu who breaks this rule. On the one hand, Lin Junxiu has announced that he will not renew his contract with the agency, so he can barely be regarded as a junior artist in the same company; on the other hand, Lin Junxiu invited by "SMAP×SMAP"

It is Lin Junxiu who is the "film supervisor". In the Japanese entertainment industry, film supervisors are already at the top of the pyramid, so there will be no "lower than superior" perception when facing SMAP.

"You don't have to worry about TV Asahi. I already recorded an interview for their "Report Station" before going to Nantes. It's a balance."

After returning from Nantes this time, Lin Junxiu has already recorded programs for Fuji TV, leaving only TBS TV and Nippon TV. Of course, TBS TV will use this "Utaban" to balance it, while Nippon TV may go to

A program that is not broadcast nationally. Since news programs are basically suppressed by NHK, major TV stations usually only have their flagship news in the evening broadcast nationally, and news programs in other time periods are broadcast by each affiliated network station.

This time, Nippon TV invited Lin Junxiu to their midday news program "News Expert". This program is a news program broadcast jointly by Nippon TV in Tokyo and Yomiuri TV in Osaka. To go to this program

In addition to balancing the five major commercial channels, the purpose is to help Sister Ryoko Yonekura stand up.

After being polished by the "Evil Girl Trilogy", Yonekura Ryoko has established her unique heroine image in Japan. Because of this, Lin Junxiu naturally wants to turn Yonekura Ryoko's most classic "Doctor

"It was filmed. Compared with the plan of "Doctor

Japanese TV stations have a tradition of broadcasting long-lived dramas. In addition to "Doctor

Photograph it.

In addition, Lin Junxiu also wonders if he can follow the example of American TV dramas and connect a legal drama and a crime drama. After all, isn’t Amami Yuki’s sister good? It would also be possible to bring Amami Yuki’s “Emergency Call Room” into this TV series universe.

Very good! In addition, there are also female-themed legal dramas such as "Seven Female Lawyers", "Freshman in the Court", and "Women Are Not Allowed". Lin Junxiu feels that he can build a "big female protagonist TV series"

universe”.

March is the graduation season for Japanese middle schools, and AKB48’s debut single just fits this atmosphere, so it was officially released in March. In the week of release, Yasushi Akimoto and Junxiu Lin took them to "Musi" and "Utaban" respectively.

.In addition, as the last part of the "Bad Girls Trilogy", "Bad Guys" has been a hit since its launch, and March happened to be the finale of this spring Japanese drama, so the ratings directly jumped to 30%

Nearby. At this moment, Lin Junxiu actually inserted this AKB48 song into "Bad Guys". Although it only lasted for 10 seconds, it was still caught by the attentive audience and became a craze on the Internet.

"If sales are still not guaranteed, I really have no choice." Lin Junxiu watched the quarrel between the online media and the print media, and complained to Akimoto Yasushi with some helplessness.

In order to implant AKB48 in "Bad Guys", Lin Junsu not only used favors to get the leading actors to come back to reshoot scenes, but also signed a contract with Nippon Television to ensure that the revised version could be broadcast smoothly.

"Now, except for not bundling ads, we have done all the other marketing methods we can. In terms of the resources of a debut group, AKB48 is already the top. If we still can't support it, then it can only be said that in this era

There is no room for girl groups anymore." Yasushi Akimoto also said somewhat pessimistically.

As an evergreen member of the Japanese idol girl group, Morning Musume is also in very bad shape, so Akimoto Yasushi also has some doubts about whether his AKB48 can survive.

"But Mr. Lin, things have reached this point, and it is no longer possible for us to stop. On the one hand, we have to prepare for their second order, which is the summer vacation order; on the other hand, we also have to select the second batch of students.

.If this group of children cannot do it, at least we have another group of children who can take over."

Yasushi Akimoto knows that idol girl groups are sometimes a process of constant trial and error. Maybe in one episode a girl will hit the hearts of Japanese boys, and then the whole AKB48 may start from there. It’s just that no one knows when this girl will appear.

Pu'er.

"Is the theme of the second order summer vacation? Doesn't it mean swimsuit or beach?" Lin Junxiu frowned.

In order to find the accurate positioning of AKB48, AKB48 also released photos of people in the water, and also released some singles with provocative lyrics. These later became the black spots of AKB48. After all, fans still hope that their idols should be pure and cute. Dress cooler.

It's okay, but it's a bit too much to just take a photo of an actress with her face wet and writing.

"Akimoto-san, do we need to properly control the scale?"
Chapter completed!