Quote:
Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242
Wait. The third girl would be forced to graduate if she didn't sell 10,000 copies of her debut single? Damn.
|
Basically she was the oldest in the group back then, so she was about to graduate but she never had the chance to become "popular" because of the other girls being more in the spotlight than her. So she always danced in the backline and had almost no fans. Akimoto who is the devil in earth thought that a good way
to milk fans and make easy money to make her a bit more popular before she graduated was to make her debut solo, but she had to sell at least 10,000 copies or she would graduate. NOW, because you got to follow the entire thing by AKBINGO, akb's program which airs on tv, with the documentary being there for one month, it's obvious that this is purely a publicity stunt. It was like "fans, buy the goddamn cd to not make her graduate", featuring shots of her crying and trying hard basically to move the audience lol.
At the end she did sell the copies.
with more popular takamina, acchan and others coming to the last event to make her sell them before the deadline otherwise she wasn't even near lol
In fact she released only this single in her entire solo career. She then graduated and byes.