Single AKB48 46th [High Tension] (16/11/16)

No surprise for Recochoku. It will be shocking if it isn't.

 

If so, then Nogizaka will be screwed if the popular fukujins leave unless they have a capable young member in the group like Super Girls's Yumeri and Runachu. Speaking of Super Girls, they have the potential to become more popular than Nogizaka in the future.

 

It's not rocket science. Nogi will face the same problem as AKB once the 1st gens start mass graduating, especially Nanase, Maiyan, Ikuchan etc. Their image will start changing every so often, and that's when the casual fans start dropping rapidly (much less non-HS CD sales) and harder to gain fans. It's easier to maintain wota as they have another oshi they can find, but for that you need to provide a lot of choices like AKB does, else your HS CDs sales will drop big time as well.

I can never get ppl who compare AKB to Nogi now, when Nogi is still in a phase where they still have a consistent image since most 1st gen are still around. Age of the group doesn't even matter, I don't care if AKB is 100 years old and Nogi is only 20 years old, as long as Nogi enters the same phase of constantly changing image like AKB, then you can compare them. And it won't be long from now.

 

Another 1m! As always excellent news and this single is selling really well for a fall single. AKB is still going strong


About nogi, they are basically where akb was in 2010. Hit songs and their best members are all there. If anyone thinks nogi will easily sell 800k when maiyan, naachan, ikuchan, etc. are gone then they will have a tough reality to face. Oh I think they will break 1 million and keep it there, but that's because by that point you will probably see nogi actually copying akb and bringing in ssk, sister group hs, lots of new members, ...

Either way, I've never cared about how they make the sales so much as they keep them up. And in that aspect, AKB is still going really strong and will for quite a while.

 

2nd day - 21,236
Lowest 2nd day since 2009's Iiwake Maybe. As expected yesterday's less than ideal sales is because of poor non-theater sales.


Edit: Soundscan sales as of today is 1,404,005. Minus yesterday's figure would be 21,607. Very close to Oricon

 

Spoiler: oot

true, but I think sony wouldn't allow them to evolve like AKB. the creation of keyakizaka IMO was a response of aging members in Nogizaka,so eventhough nogizaka will someday irrelevant, keyakizaka are still going strong. But hey, we'll never know what would really happened in the future

This single alongside love trip are the finer single akb released this year, the huge sales number might be because of request hour. But it proven that akb brand is still relevant. I guess AKB irrelevancy would be happening when despite of all the usual gimmicks, they could only sell 200k something. But that would be a long time from now

 

where did you get soundscan number ?

 

Same

 

Just keep track of the news from billboard - http://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/44383/2
I doubt there will be anymore until the end of the week.

 

What is Soudscan?

 

Another ranking like Oricon.
Or more like sales-reporter, the ranking is done by Billboard.

 

With 1.4 million sold on day 1 already, they could sell 1 copy for the rest of the week and we should all still be happy.

 

As long as they can sell 1m on Oricon everyone is happy lol

 

they could literally sell 1,000,001 on the first day and everyone would be happy

 

Well, about knbmb cause usually numbers/position are what people remember.

It won't matter in few years that be my baby initially had less hs days, the hs days were on terrible locations and they had the pic thing issue. And we are talking about the single with the biggest song since koisuru (365)

Anyway, I guess Akb needs the 1M sales thing to make the wotas happy. Maybe also to keep some relevance in the media. But 1M at 2011 was heaps more profitable than now. Heaps less members to have almost the same outcome.

 

Either 365. Or TKMN fans feeling the need to buy one every time they pass by a stall, until she actually graduated.