Queuing for JKT48 River Single
Today I tried what I call a new experience for me. Before, I was just passing any special event for JKT48 in the theater. The queue are just…urgh. It was less benefits for me.
But today I decided to joining in with the other fans queuing for JKT48 River Single for the handshake ticket that they promised will be held in the first of June.
Today event was way too crowded. And those who queued bought more than a copy, 16 copies and more even.
The JKT48 management and HITS Record as their label perhaps doesn’t even think that it was going to be this crowded. The selling was first scheduled to be started at 11 AM but it was delayed for more than an hour. The queue even went as far as the elevator and more. I believed that the stores owner on f(X) 4th floor are going to file a complaint due to this.
The fans were queuing nicely. It was unfortunate that there are some missing separator in around the merchandise booth and ticketing booth that results to fans jostling each others. The securities then decided to separate women and children from men to avoid any unwanted stampede incident and forming a new special queue just for women and children.
I reached the ticketing booth at around 2:30 PM. That means I’ve queued for around 3.5 hours.
Every fans were given a special form to wrote which member we would like to do handshake with. They even provided us with ballpoint and backing board to fill in the form. Really helpful.
The queue wasn’t stopped there, even after we enter the theater, there were still much more queue to do. Fortunately, they played various JKT48 videos on the stage screen. Including those that is not yet available to public viewing.
What I was not expected was the Full River PV. All of us were like stopped for a moment there and looked at the screen with full concentration.
There were 5 tables with two members in each table. From left to right : Ghaida and Gaby, Sonia and Ayana, Rena and Kinal, Beby and Shania, Frieska and Sonya. I came to Sonia and Ayana’s table to buy the CD. I’m all done and when I checked the time after I left the theater, it was 3:40 PM. Which means I spent more that 4.5 Hours queuing for the CD. Baffling indeed.
WARNING: SPOILER AHEAD!!
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The PV began with Team J getting prepared for an audition with judges that looked at them cynically. And then we could hear Kinal yelling “JE KE TI..” and we enter the dance session like the teaser showed us (Only better). The editing was nice albeit a little bit too bright. The PV also have the snippets of the members training for the audition and some individual shots with white background. The video ended with the judges all smiled.
The front cover and the inside is very well designed. But unfortunately the back cover isn’t with misprint tracks that even required them to insert a special note about the misprint and a very badly chosen pattern for the back cover.
A summary from a very detailed post by Pitra. You could check his full post (in Bahasa) in his blog here.
today… ain’t fun at all, it’s better the first days sale system for hebirote album…. 5hr queue ain’t fun at all… and it’s not because the crowd is too much, but because of the quota system of next HS. the selling should be faster if they not give the HS ticket on the spot … i hope they learn something for this.. man i’m too tired today ….
everybody had a mixed feeling for today’s event.
The good things the cd is good…. the bad things, the selling system, the quota system, this is just make the sell slow, didn’t the management think that the crowd for first day sell is big ???? if continue like this, maybe all tenant at 4th floor fx will angry to jkt48, and soon the media will give a bad news for this … first day sale should fast, as fast as they can, because the crowd will be big. so they can manage the queue not became too long
Damn! Look at that! And you said queuing for BLT, Solar or Sembako is excruciating? Man, those JOT’s gentlemen…….they never learnt. I wish I were Twiboy instead.
well the good things is …. the cd content is good ^^ i love it
but if i need to do like that again to get my cd? i’ll think twice, maybe i just borrow from a friend that buy more than 1 and rip it, next day i just buy the cd 
it took longer to get a CD than a flight to thailand
there is always 2 side on JOT actions
well, at least he gave a positive review about the new music vid, which make the effort of Q-ing a bit worthed..
me personally better wait till disctarra sell it.. (or maybe they have??)
The general music store will only sell the Regular edition.
is it true the record label company sales target is 500k copy?
well i don’t know that information true or not . we even don’t know how many heavy rotation copy been sold. indonesia is still new to idol group concept and many piracy too. i hope JKT48 can get platinum (for selling 75k copy). platinum category in indonesia is low because there is many music piracy. PETERPAN now change into NOAH (indonesian group band) hold the record for selling 2.700.000 copy only in indonesia. (not include copy that are sold in foreign countries). maybe the record label company decide 500k copy as sales target for JKT48 not only in indonesia but including foreign countries.
Yes according to the media that attended the press conference they targetet 500k copies sold for this single
about the CD queueing yes it was a mess especially form the line outside the teather (merchandise booth) to inside the teather (the ally to the security check) there’s no fix line like when you queuing up to exchange the tickets so people has to make their own way by ransacking to the front, i queue up for 4 hours to get the CD and it’s worthed because i ended in my Oshi (Rica) and sendy booth and get a chance to talk with them (and a got teased by rica that i should buy more ticket for her,hehehe)
Well, if that information is true, then I believe their confidence in setting that sales target came from Heavy Rotation sales number.
Man, 4.5 hours of queuing, I hope no one passed out yesterday
the life of an idol fan is a lot of waiting and queuing.
#truestory
sorry for being OOT or maybe spoiler, but did anyone see nabilah in full MV? for anyone who already see the MV. thx.
I did see the MV in Akicha’s stream yesterday. Nabilah wasn’t there. She had chickenpox back then soo yeah. She’s not there.
BUT
Nadatop said that there are some content change in the CD/DVD, perhaps some last minute change to the PV to include Nabilah? I dunno.