RIVER

Promotional Image

CD+DVD (Regular Edition)

CD Only (Theater Edition)

General Information

RIVER is AKB48's 14th Major Single, 16th Overall. Promoted as an "AKB never seen before", RIVER is an Ouen Song (応援ソング, support song) - a song about never giving up on your dreams and never look back.

CD Information

Artist

AKB48

Single

RIVER

Release Date

2009.10.21

Label/Catalog Number/Price

Label: You，Be Cool!/KING RECORDS

KIZM43～44 (Regular Edition, CD+DVD) / ￥1,676

NMAX-1087 (Theater Edition, CD only) / ￥1,676

Regular Edition Details

CD

1. RIVER / Senbatsu
2. Kimi no Koto ga Suki dakara (君のことが好きだから)　/ Undergirls
3. Hikoukigumo (Theater Girls ver.) (ひこうき雲（シアターガールズ ver.)) / Theater Girls　
4. RIVER (off-vocal)
5. Kimi no koto ga suki dakara (off-vocal)

DVD

1. RIVER Music Video
2. Kimi no Koto ga Suki dakara Music Video
3. Hikoukigumo (Theater Girls ver.) Music Clip
4. Bonus Video: Something you want to be told during a date

Theater Edition Details

CD

1. RIVER
2. Kimi no Koto ga Suki dakara
3. Hikouki Gumo (Theater Girls ver.)
4. RIVER (off-vocal)
5. Kimi no koto ga suki dakara (off-vocal)

Included Members

RIVER

★ Senbatsu (16 Members, Members bloded are part of the front girls of this single, Maeda Atsuko & Takahashi Minami Centers)

• Team A: Itano Tomomi, Kitahara Rie, Kojima Haruna, Shinoda Mariko, Takahashi Minami, Maeda Atsuko, Minegishi Minami, Miyazaki Miho
• Team K: Akimoto Sayaka, Oshima Yuko, Ono Erena, Kasai Tomomi, Miyazawa Sae
• Team B: Kashiwagi Yuki, Watanabe Mayu
• Team S: Matsui Jurina

Kimi no Koto ga Suki dakara

Undergirls (16 Members)

• Team A: Ota Aika, Katayama Haruka, Kuramochi Asuka, Sashihara Rino, Takajo Aki, Maeda Ami, Nakagawa Haruka
  
• Team K: Kikuchi Ayaka, Fujie Reina, Nito Moeno
  
• Team B: Oku Manami, Ishida Haruka, Sato Amina, Sato Sumire, Komori Mika
  
• Team S: Matsui Rena

Hikoukigumo (Theater Girls ver.)

Theater Girls (18 Members)

• Team A: Iwasa Misaki, Oya Shizuka, Matsubara Natsumi, Nakata Chisato
  
• Team K: Uchida Mayumi, Umeda Ayaka, Tanabe Miku, Matsui Sakiko, Nakatsuka Tomomi, Nakaya Sayaka, Nonaka Misato, Yonezawa Rumi
  
• Team B: Kobayashi Kana, Sato Natsuki, Suzuki Mariya, Chikano Rina, Hirajima Natsumi, Masuda Yuka

Oricon Chart Positions

Date	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Week	Sales	Releases
09.10.19	--	*1	*1	*1	*1	*1	*5	*1	178,579
09.10.26	*5	13	*4	11	*9	*9	*8	*5	*16,943
09.11.02	19	*5	27	23	18	22	19	12	**9,483
09.11.09	19	48	**	**	**	**	**	41	**2,556
09.11.16	**	**	**	**	**	**	44	59	**1,895
09.11.23	26	**	**	41	39	33	36	41	**2,363
09.11.30	22	**	**	**	36	33	18	37	**2,630
09.12.07	46	48	47	38	43	43	19	36	**2,078
09.12.14	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	90	***,787
09.12.21	**	**	**	**	**	**	29	61	**1,091
09.12.28	38	32	35	31	17	12	12	*21	**5,503
10.01.04	15	17	18	12	19	11	11
10.01.11	11	35	36	33	27	28	25	30	**1,991
10.01.18	27	**	**	47	**	40	31	53	**1,544
10.01.25	28	**	**	**	**	**	**	72	**1,415
10.02.01	49	**	**	**	**	**	44	79	***,953
10.02.08	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	95	***,857
10.02.15	**	**	**	**	50	50	46	62	**1,169	Sakura no Shiori single
10.02.22	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	91	***,914
10.03.01	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	116	***,659
10.03.08	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	105	***,592
10.03.15	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	117	***,443
10.03.22	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	116	***,488
10.03.29	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	95	***,559
10.04.05	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	75	***,710	Kamikyokutachi album
10.04.12	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	90	***,529
10.04.19	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	144	***,418
10.04.26	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	128	***,508
10.05.03	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	122	***,508
10.05.10	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	143	***,416
10.05.17	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	172	***,312
10.05.24	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	133	***,569	Ponytail to Shushu single
10.05.31	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	133	***,504
10.06.07	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	143	***,415
10.06.14	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	141	***,443
OUT	1 week
10.06.28	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	179	***,303
10.07.05	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	180	***,308
10.07.12	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	138	***,369	SET LIST ~Greatest Songs~ Kanzen ban album
10.07.19	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	152	***,418
10.07.26	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	167	***,340
10.08.02	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	193	***,302
10.08.09	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	175	***,386
10.08.16	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	131	***,466	Heavy Rotation single
10.08.23	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	145	***,544
10.08.30	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	128	***,457
10.09.06	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	120	***,482
10.09.13	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	128	***,417
10.09.20	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	142	***,442
10.09.27	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	133	***,413
10.10.04	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	150	***,365
10.10.11	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	117	***,448
10.10.18	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	151	***,328
10.10.25	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	164	***,434	Beginner single
10.11.01	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	150	***,423
10.11.08	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	161	***,394
10.11.15	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	165	***,381
OUT	2 weeks
10.12.06	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	157	***,412	Chance no Junban single
10.12.13	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	158	***,409
10.12.20	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	126	***,527
10.12.27	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	*86	***,649
11.01.03	**	**	**	33	41	46	**	*53	**1,167
11.01.10	38	**	**	**	**	**	45	*59	***,929
11.01.17	36	**	**	**	**	**	**	*74	***,875
11.01.24	45	**	**	**	**	**	**	*96	***,800
11.01.31	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	117	***,615
11.02.07	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	118	***,567
11.02.14	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	118	***,553	Sakura no Ki ni Narou single
11.02.21	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	169	***,416
11.02.28	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	186	***,322
11.03.07	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	181	***,247
11.03.14	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	161	***,263
11.03.21	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	136	***,353
11.03.28	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	116	***,400
11.04.04	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	129	***,395
11.04.11	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	146	***,319
11.04.18	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	182	***,260
11.04.25	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	186	***,310
11.05.02	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	175	***,318
OUT	1 week
11.05.16	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	199	***,203

Total Reported Sales: 260,553*
Total Sales in 2009: 216,527
Total Sales in 2010: 33,129
Total of weeks charting inside Top 200: 79

• Certificated Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ)
• Certificated Gold in the Chaku-uta full category.

Chart Records (Oricon)

• 2nd best-selling single of October 2009.
• 22nd best-selling single of 2010.
• This single outsold all the singles released before it in its first week.
• This was the first AKB48 Single to hit 1# in the Oricon Weekly Charts.
• Surpassing solo singer-songwriter YUI's single "again", this single was the best selling female single of 2009.

Trivia

• This is the second AKB48 single with an English name. The first one being BINGO!
• This single was later covered and released by JKT48 as RIVER
• Motto: 「向う岸には夢がある。」 ("Mukou Kishi ni wa Yume ga aru." / "In the other side of the coast there is a dream")
• This single featured all active AKB48 Members appearing one track of the single. Undergirls appeared again after their appearance in Iiwake Maybe with a new lineup, and a new unit, Theater Girls was created.
• The rabbit on the Theater Edition cover was drawn by Maeda Atsuko.
• According to AKB48 staff member Yuasa Junji, the original version of the song featured extra chants throughout such as “You can do it!”
• The music video was filmed at Iruma Air Bass military base. Filming went until the middle of the night.

AKB48 Singles Chronology
Iiwake Maybe (2009)	RIVER (2009)	Sakura no Shiori (2010)