Get out of Shin Yokohama Station and a five-minute walk to Yokohama arena.

The venue was put into use in the early years of Heisei and can accommodate up to 17,000 spectators. It is a good place to hold concerts in terms of the venue's own facilities and performance effects, as well as convenient transportation.

The art world starts preparing various special events at the end of the year a few months in advance every year. For singers, on the last day of the year, in addition to being invited to participate in the Red and White Song Festival or to attend the New Year's Eve at other TV stations, they gather enough fans to hold New Year's Eve concerts at their base camps, and count down the New Year's Eve with the audience. This lively way is also a good choice.

There are many singers who have this idea, and there are some famous venues, and the final quota reservation at the end of the year is also quite intense.

The most glorious ones, such as x-japan, who held a New Year's Eve concert at the Tokyo Dome for several consecutive years, although this year's x-japan, which had announced its disbandment at the end of 1997, also became the last disbanded performance at the Tokyo Dome.

Of course, even singers who are not very popular can choose a cute little venue with two or three thousand people and have some close contact with fans.

In October, when it was time to decide to play the singer of the Hongbai Song Club, nhk still sent the invitation to Ye Zhao's office. He had previously played in the Hongbai Song Club for two consecutive years, and his popularity this year is still at its peak. Of course, it is still on the list that the Hongbai Song Club production team is trying hard to invite.

However, this time, Ye Zhao refused Hongbai's invitation to perform.

"There are other arrangements here on the 31st. Please forgive me for not being able to participate in this year's Red and White Song Festival." The firm rejected the production team of nhk Red and White for such reasons.

Of course, this was not just a casual statement, but he had already contacted the venue for the end of the year concert, which was in this Yokohama arena.

Ayumi Hamasaki, who held New Year's Eve concerts at the Yoyogi No. 1 Stadium every year, was able to go back to have a New Year's Eve party with her fans after the show was because the Yoyogi No. 1 Stadium and the Hongbai Song Festival venue were only 700 meters away.

Even if x-japan has his own New Year's Eve performance, he can still attend the Red and White Song Festival after the end, because the distance between the two locations allows them to move like this.

But even so, every time they go to the venue, they always go on a rushing posture.

The Yokohama arena set by Ye Zhao obviously did not allow him to do such a thing as rushing.

Of course, the most important reason is that he did not plan to participate in Hongbai at all.

What I wanted in the past was to appear on the stage and expand my popularity. As for the future goal, I was to be invited by Hongbai every year, and decide whether to participate or do something else every year.

People always have to pursue something.

The rental of concert venues is not counted from going in to rehearsal, but from the arrangement of the venue. Therefore, a concert is held, and the rental cost is just a considerable amount.

Ye Zhao rented Yokohama Arena for a total of 29, 30, and 31 days. The day of the 29th, including the morning of the 30th, was used to decorate the venue, and then the 30th and 31st, they started singing in Yokohama Arena.

However, one thing is special is that on the night of the 30th, he held not a personal concert, but also invited singers who had served as producers, intending to use this venue to hold a New Year-to-year party.

This idea originally originated from the joke that the staff joked when preparing for the performance of the Wudang Hall in advance that he could hold a self-cover concert in the future.

When he successfully settled the venue of Yokohama Arena and entered the planning stage, he planned to realize the self-cover joke.

Not only that, since I want to play, I have a happier time, so in addition to covering the songs I have provided, I also invited singers who have worked together to cover his songs.

On the night of the 31st, it will be his personal New Year's Eve performance. He will count down the New Year's Eve with the audience on this night to welcome the new year together.

It can be regarded as a new path for him and a good start full of momentum.

Moreover, since I was holding a concert in my own home, there was no need to go to the show after the event. I just went back to my hometown in Yokohama to celebrate the New Year from here.

Since I didn’t have time to attend the Red and White Song Festival that night on the 31st, I naturally couldn’t attend the Record Awards that were also held that night.

However, this is already planned.

In the music scene this year, two singles with two million levels were born, one was Namie Amuro’s “Canyoucelebrate?” and the other was Kinki’s “Boy of Glass”.

Interestingly, on the 1997 singles annual chart, Namie Amuro won the annual chart, but so far, the cumulative sales of the two singles have been Kinki Kid's 15,000 wins.

This result occurs because the annual settlement date of oricon usually starts to calculate the new year at the end of November or early December.

Ye Zhao's new single, which was released until the end of the year, successfully broke through the 1.8 million mark after a month of hot sales. However, because of this settlement method, the sales volume in 1997 was actually counted, which was only 1.36 million in the first week.

Similarly, Komuro Tetsuya's globe is the same.

It is obviously not feasible to compete for a single with a single of more than one million in the annual championship, and Johnniez announced many years ago that his idol would not participate in similar awards.

In this way, Namie Amuro became the most powerful and the only candidate.

Not only that, Namie Amuro, who announced her marriage this year and temporarily suspended activities and returned home to have children, can be said to have dropped a big bomb in the art world.

With her current popularity and the national fanaticism she has sparked, no traffic in later generations can be compared.

Her wedding song can be said that no matter whether it is the topic, sales, or the power behind it, it has taken all the right time, place, and people.

In this case, instead of going to run around, it is better to do something more practical and spend a happy New Year with your fans.

As for the awards shortlisted outside the grand prize, you can just ask Toshi Takeda to be the representative to receive them.

Speaking of which, in order to avoid his edge, Komuro Tetsuya simply did not attend the grand prize. The person who did not plan to show up this year was replaced by Ye Zhao.

From this point of view, the pace between the two of them is quite consistent.
Chapter completed!