Single AKB48 30th [So long!] 13/02/20

Love their new costume. Finally, one that suits well with the sakura theme.

So long! with GM5. Watch before it's gone. Whoops, didn't see YKT already posted it

 

thank you ! it does help me

 

it's a relief to see Sae back with senbatsu, even if it's only for 2 songs

 

Aki-p should consider wmidget centers for some single
GM5 was amazing [clap]

 

Yay for Sae-chan

Looks good. Everyone was enjoying their thing while dancing to GM5.

 

what songs that sae joined? [shock]

 

So was I but I did it anyway, and then I was surprised when it was over cause it really didn't feel like an hour. I was moderately impressed - I definitely wasn't expecting to even like it, let alone have time fly by. Then again, I did understand what was going on at any given time and I'm sure that was largely why I was able to like it so much.

Which is why I wanna know if there's subs >_> but so far no dice. I wish I could do it myself but I don't know the first thing about subbing...

 

Yayy, agree! [rock]
They give up the backpack coz of give me 5, it would not be suitable at all if they dance give me 5 with the backpack

 

Bought types k and b of the Taiwanese version yesterday and finally watched the Chinese-subbed 60 minute pv ...

I had really expected to like it but was sadly disappointed. I wonder what put me off it more, was it
- the choppy editing?
- the excessive monologues that made the whole thing seem like a badly written play for experimental theatre?
- the ridiculous dialogue?
(Jurina: the tsunami made me afraid to eat fish.
Mayuyu: Let's eat dango then.)
- the old guy (he's not the director btw, just a surreal character played by some actor)
- the male teacher that was in the hot spring with the girls and then in their bedroom afterwards (wish it had been me instead )

I wonder what the general reaction to the pv is like in Japan?

 

I cant watch it yet because of the subs
The editing is bad i think, the green screen is clearly visible

 

Maybe in the story from the PV Jurina afraid the fish is already contaminated with radioactive from Fukushima Electric Nuclear Reactor [think]..
You know the effect from tsunami in fukushima the nuclear reactor is broken.

 

Oricon Weekly Charts for 2/18 ~ 2/24
Below are the results of Oricon weekly charts for February 18th to the 24th.
<Single Weekly Ranking>

1. “So long!” - AKB48 : 2/20 (1,035,986)

2. “THE NEVER ENDING STORY” – E-girls : 2/20 (40,055)

3. “Emotions” – MAN WITH A MISSION : 2/20 (30,392)

4. “My Resistance -Tashikana Mono-/Unmei Girl” – Kis-My-Ft2 : 2/13 (27,063)

5. “Final Wars!/Mou Ichido Koko kara Hajimeyou” – THE ALFEE : 2/20 (26,365)

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2013-03-04/

 

Was ranked third place on February 28th and March 1st on Oricon (5733 copies sold 3/1). Maybe it will squeak out a third place spot for the week if it holds for the next two days.

 

lol Final Wars! - the theme song for the new Tsuburaya production [rock] [rock] Glad to see that it got a good spot on Oricon

That aside, congratulations to AKB for another 1m week sales [clap]

 

actually, now was ranked second place with 5.734 copies sold, under Ｍｉｓｔａｋｅ！／Ｂａｔｔｅｒｙ- ＳＭＡＰ8.178 copies sold.

then untill now on, total sales : 1.035.986 copies sold [rock] [rock] [rock]

 

Nice! Moved up another slot on day 6 of the week. So far this week, the album has in been, in order, 1st, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd. One more day of the week left. Might be getting close to 1.1 million by the end of week 2.

 

2nd week only sold 50,403 copies, a little better than UZA.


For reference, SKE48's Choco no Dorei sold 46,892 copies on 2nd week Its 3rd & 4th week sold better than UZA too.

 

^ You seem to have a problem with UZA.

 

Makes you wonder how AKB would do without sister group support [hi]

Well at least a better second week than UZA, that's something positive.

 

^You know, I still hear some people whine about them being in AKB, for the past 5 years. [sealed]

Just heard AKB past 20mil sales overall? [party]

I recalled UZA sold 1.2 mil something first week, 90k> [So Long] which probably explains So long higher 2nd week if you were to believe that AKB sales now stabilize above 1mil.
(Higher 1st week -> lower 2nd week, vice versa.)