KTV originated in Japan. Kara means emptiness in Japanese, and OK means a cappella band. The original form of karaoke is only the accompaniment band used by professional musicians in the tour without an accompaniment band. Karaoke rose in the late 1960s. Jing Daole Inoue, who works as an accompaniment in Kobe Bar, realized this when he was making accompaniment music for a friend's tape recorder. At that time, Japan was in hippie style under the influence of the west, and young people were almost crazy about music. The rapid development of capitalism makes the reserved Japanese feel the pressure and boredom of life strongly. Listening to singers in bars and other places has become my main pastime in my spare time. It seems that only when you are drunk can you shout out uncontrollably.

Because karaoke makes ordinary people addicted to singers, whether it's the nightingale's voice or the throat of a drake, the hidden temperament is inadvertently revealed in the microphone. Without the pressure of professional performance, listeners and singers realize the fun of self-selection and joint participation in communication. Some businessmen saw that karaoke would bring business opportunities to the market, so they established karaoke empire with audio equipment. According to the statistics of Japan Karaoke Association, when Karaoke was at its most brilliant, among the 1 100 million Japanese citizens, the number of consumers of Karaoke reached more than 60 million, making it an entertainment industry with annual sales of 654.38+06 billion US dollars.

Karaoke was the most popular time in 1990s, but it also experienced a series of evolution. In the early days, I remember seeing someone pushing a karaoke machine to do mobile business when I was a child. It has two microphones and a cash box. If you don't put money in, the machine won't play accompaniment music and the microphone won't work. This is very similar to the situation when karaoke was first introduced to Japan. Later, when the venue design imitated Japan's change from an open style to a box style, because of its high price and appreciation, except for business meetings and negotiations, most people chose to buy a karaoke when economic conditions allowed. But in recent years, family karaoke machines have been shelved, and karaoke halls in cities have been sold to the public.

Now there is no large KTV with high price, and it is replaced by KTV with chain or popular signs like cashier and Haoledi. Good audio equipment, one-stop beer and skittles. Different consumption patterns lead to different services. White-collar workers may go to the till more, Hollywood is cheaper and students go more.

With the prevalence of pro-Japanese style at that time, this OK style was blown into Taiwan Province Province in the late 1970s, and it was officially translated into karaoke. Hong Kong, Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia basically inherited the style of Taiwan Province Province, mainly in the form of KTV. At first, Taiwan Province province completely imitated the Japanese open space design, but the effect was not good. Taiwanese businessmen combined the original box-type small audio-visual center with it, and after improvement, KTV with box as the main body appeared. That is, you can enjoy the picture and sing loudly; Do not interfere with each other, dance, dance, and perform. After decades of development, karaoke is not only a place to sing, but also seems to be a derogatory term. After 1996, with the intervention of bars, D halls and other richer forms of entertainment, karaoke lost its original dominant position, and these four words are rare on the doorplates of entertainment places. However, karaoke is not willing to quit the historical stage. It is constantly changing its business model, with the emergence of KTV, clubs, hotel rooms and discount KTV. In the past, many dragon services, such as catering, entertainment, business communication and so on, were derived from simple singing places.