Ohhh my bloody God... Woooowww... That was epic hahhahaha Well, I didn't see any failure to be honest. The performance was really rushed to started, the mc was still announcing. Actually I think they were bloody amazing professional... Amazing idols... And what is Aachan.. Seriously, it's undeniable she has something... Some kind of crazy charisma that just deals you in... What a amazing senbatsu (not saying that nowadays one is not great)
@wlerin I agree, I'd love to see Yuiri in senbatsu. But, there's no sign they're pushing her outside of theater, so I'm not hopeful. I think she'd be good.
apparently AKB is the best artist of 2016 according to Billboard Japan http://akb48taimuzu.livedoor.biz/archives/50487324.html since people don't get it, here is an explanation
I wonder what measure they used for that ranking. Nogi at 10th and Keyaki not even there? Uhm... But good for them! As for the center/senbatsu talk, I still think we're gonna see the Thumbnail cover members and that would be about it. Kojiharu will have her center, the single will be released on the same day as her graduation (Feb 22) and blablabla it all ties together nicely. I just hope we get something risky and grand for the 48th single with a front row of new girls. Renacchi, Naachan, Kojimako, Juri, Annin... they could kill it like the next girl.
Well guessing by the image in the article, it's the sales ranking. With all those million-sellers not surprising tho
Story at Billboard http://www.billboard-japan.com/sp/d_news/detail/46531/2 Other billboard story about #1 single with comments by members: http://www.billboard-japan.com/special/detail/1782
Maybe they are not taking sales only in account. We won't know until they show the other rankings with the social media(?) category on the bottom.
Here's the full breakdown http://www.billboard-japan.com/special/detail/1812 There's a lot of combined scores, so some stats don't have their own column but are rather featured across three. Like they're going out of their way to be confusing.
There's one in the spoiler in this post on the AKBINGO thread: http://www.stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/akbingo-08-10-01.1198/page-456#post-1272092
don't people see the picture that I've posted? I thought it was self-explanatory. Billboard ranking is not about the CD/HS sales only, it's a combined ranking, where they count the number of sold CDs (singles and albums) as well as number of digital sales, number of looked up CDs, number radio and Youtube playbacks, number of tweets... you can see their ranking in each category on that picture. so they are first not only because they are first in the sales ranking, but because they placed relatively high in other categories as well.
Umm , can someone explain the AKB48 new mobile app - AiKaBu for me? I don't understand what its function ... Pardon me if i post in a wrong thread
Since they didn't announce anything about the new single at RH, I guess the announcement will be on the next HS event which is on February 4th.
