Beginner
Cover: Kashiwagi Yuki · Watanabe Mayu · Shinoda Mariko · Kojima Haruna
Cover: Watanabe Mayu· Kojima Haruna · Shinoda Mariko · Kashiwagi Yuki
Contents
CD Information
- Artist
- AKB48
- Single
- Beginner
- Release Date
- 2010.10.27
- Label/Catalog Number/Price
- Label: You，Be Cool!/KING RECORDS
- KIZM-63/4 (CD+DVD Type-A) / ￥1,600
- KIZM-65/6 (CD+DVD Type-B) / ￥1,600
- KIZM-90063/4 (CD+DVD Limited Type-A) / ￥1,600
- KIZM-90065/6 (CD+DVD Limited Type-B) / ￥1,600
- NMAX-1098 (CD Theatre Edition) / ￥1,000
- Motto
「今回のAKBは、かなり、ヤバイ！」 ("Konkai no AKB wa, Kanari, YABAI!")
Translation: "AKB this time is, considerably, amazing!"
Regular Edition Details
- CD
- Beginner / AKB48
- Boku dake no value (僕だけのvalue) / Undergirls (アンダーガルズ)
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- (Type-A Exclusive track) Kimi ni Tsuite (君について) / MINT
- (Type-B Exclusive track) Nakeru Basho (泣ける場所) / DIVA
- Beginner (off-vocal)
- Boku dake no value (off-vocal)
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- (Type-A Exclusive track) Kimi ni Tsuite (off-vocal)
- (Type-B Exclusive track) Nakeru Basho (off-vocal)
- DVD
- Beginner Music Clip
- Boku dake no value Music Clip
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- (Type-A Exclusive track) Kimi ni Tsuite Music Clip
- (Type-B Exclusive track) Nakeru Basho Music Clip
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- (Type-A Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Oshima Yuko Center ver.)
- (Type-B Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Maeda Atsuko Center ver.)
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- (Type-A Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Shinoda Mariko Center ver.)
- (Type-B Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Itano Tomomi Center ver.)
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- (Type-A Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Watanabe Mayu · Matsui Jurina Center ver.)
- (Type-B Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Takahashi Minami Center ver.)
Limited Edition Bonus:
-National Handshaking Event ticket (1)
First Pressing Bonus: (all editions)
-Request Hour Setlist Best 100 2011 Serial Number Voting Ticket (1)
-Bonus Store-Exclusive Picture (1) (external bonus)
Theatre Edition Details
- CD
- Beginner / AKB48
- Boku dake no value / Undergirls
- Kimi ni Tsuite / MINT
- Nakeru Basho / DIVA
- First Pressing Bonus
-Commemorative Sale Handshaking Event ticket (1) (chara-ani preoder only)
- Member Picture (1) (Random selection)
Included Members
Beginner
★ Senbatsu (16 Members, Members bolded are part of the Front Girls of this single)
Team A: Kojima Haruna · Sashihara Rino · Shinoda Mariko· Takajo Aki · Takahashi Minami · Maeda Atsuko
Team K: Itano Tomomi · Oshima Yuko · Minegishi Minami · Miyazawa Sae
Team B: Kasai Tomomi · Kashiwagi Yuki · Kitahara Rie · Watanabe Mayu
SKE48, Team S: Matsui Jurina · Matsui Rena
Boku dake no value (Undergirls) (22 Members)
Team A: Iwasa Misaki · Oota Aika · Katayama Haruka · Nakagawa Haruka · Maeda Ami
Team K: Kikuchi Ayaka · Nakatsuka Tomomi · Nito Moeno · Fujie Reina · Matsui Sakiko · Yonezawa Rumi
Team B: Ishida Haruka · Oku Manami · Komori Mika · Sato Sumire · Hirajima Natsumi · Miyazaki Miho
SKE48, Team S: Kizaki Yuria · Yagami Kumi
SKE48, Team KII: Ishida Anna · Takayanagi Akane · Mukaida Manatsu
Kimi ni Tsuite (MINT) (5 Members)
Team A: Katayama Haruka · Maeda Atsuko
Team K: Nito Moeno · Matsui Sakiko
Team B: Kasai Tomomi
Nakeru Basho (DIVA) (17 Members)
Team A: Oya Shizuka · Kuramochi Asuka · Nakata Chisato · Nakaya Sayaka · Matsubara Natsumi
Team K: Akimoto Sayaka · Uchida Mayumi · Umeda Ayaka · Tanabe Miku · Nonaka Misato
Team B: Kobayashi Kana · Sato Amina · Sato Natsuki · Suzuki Mariya · Chikano Rina · Masuda Yuka
SKE48, Team S: Oya Masana
General Information
Beginner is AKB48's 18th Single, 20 Overall and 9th Single their change to KING RECORDS.
this single was announced at the Surprise wa Arimasen live during the encore section of 2nd concert, and the Type-A Edition features as c/w the song from the winning unit of the AmebaPigg Unit Battle; Kimi ni Tsuite by MINT. as well a new song by a new generation of Undergirls and another track by a new vocal-unit named "DIVA".
Sales Information
- Oricon Chart-Run
| Date | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Week | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.10.25 | -- | *1 | *1 | *1 | *1 | *1 | *1 | **1 | 826,989 |
| 10.11.01 | *1 | *3 | *3 | *2 | *2 | *1 | *1 | **2 | *63,504 |
| 10.11.08 | *1 | 14 | *9 | *6 | *6 | *6 | *3 | **6 | *25,452 |
| 10.11.15 | *3 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 11 | *8 | *16 | *14,308 |
| 10.11.22 | 15 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 17 | *8 | 10 | *15 | **9,861 |
| 10.11.29 | 13 | 26 | 24 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 11 | *17 | **7,065 |
| 10.12.06 | *9 | 25 | 19 | 14 | 11 | *9 | 12 | *15 | **7,104 |
| 10.12.13 | *7 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 10 | *9 | *5 | *13 | **7,001 |
| 10.12.20 | *9 | 14 | 14 | *7 | *7 | *6 | *6 | *11 | **7,501 |
| 10.12.27 | *8 | *7 | *5 | *6 | *6 | *3 | *4 | **5 | **8,505 |
| 11.01.03 | *4 | *4 | *4 | *3 | *4 | *4 | *4 | **4 | *10,502 |
| 11.01.10 | *4 | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | *** | ***,*** |
Total Reported Sales: 987,792 (still charting)
Total of weeks charting inside Top 200: 11 (still charting)
- Beginner shipped a total of 1,030,000 copies of its first press edition. highest number for AKB48 so far
- Beginner's first day sales was the highest first day sales ever since Oricon started to report daily sales.
- Highest first week sales for AKB48, as well as highest first week sales ever for a Female idol group single. (previous single with this record was SPEED's "ALL MY TRUE LOVE" released almost 12 years ago.)
- In the female artist category, it places as the 3rd best first-week seller single, behind Namie Amuro's "CAN YOU CELEBRATE?" (828k) (with only a 2,000 copies difference) and Utada Hikaru's "Addicted To You" with over 1 million sales.
- Beginner was the best selling single in 2010 in Japan, with over 950,000 copies sold.
Recochoku Chart-Run
| Category | Weekly Peaks |
| Chaku-Uta (tune) | **3 - *12 - *13 - **5 - **8 - *13 - *26 - *28 - *34 |
| Chaku-Uta (full) | *** - **1 - **2 - **2 - **3 - *17 - *22 - *15 |
Beginner Music Clip Censoring Controversy
In Image: Maeda Atsuko
Beginner's Music Clip was premiered during the Janken Senbatsu Tournament and as described by fans who attended the event, the pv featured a survive video game plot, where all the girls were connected to a virtual reality where they fought against each other killing themselves with different irealist weapons such as gigant Chupa Chup.
close to the end of the PV, only Maeda Atsuko and Oshima Yuko are left. while fighting against each other, Oshima stabs Maeda's hand against a wall, making it impossible for her to move.
in that situation, she decides to cut her whole arm to keep fighting and for some unexplained reason, her real self is disconnected from the virtual reality game while still playing (meaning she was still alive in the game) and when she get conscious again, her hand starts to hurt and blood comes out of it while she screams in pain for at least 20 seconds.
this PV was aired again in the Tokyo Aki Matsuri, where a KING RECORDS Representative said that "maybe this will be the last time we'll show the pv to an open public". claiming that the pv is "too strong visually" and that Dance Shot and Making off Footage was going to be used to make a new version to use on TV and to include in the DVD of the Single.
this created a lot of fuss in the AKB48 fandom, complaining that they wanted to see the real pv. and some days later, AKB's KING RECORDS official website updated with a notice that the original pv was going to be released only through Recochuku, and officially confirming that the version included in the DVD of the Single was going to be the Censored clip.
this was the first time a an AKB48 music clip was censored. and Akimoto Yasushi commented that "I thought we made an splendid creation" and later explained that it was 100% a KING RECORDS decision to Censure the PV.
Trivia
- first KING RECORDS single to have Limited Editions. the National Handshaking Events tickets are now included in these editions.
- this is also the first AKB48 single to have 5 editions.
- the front girls of this single and overall senbatsu was greatly influenced from the result of the 2nd Senbatsu Election. with all the Front Girls being the same as the top 8 of that year and the rest of Senbatsu Members being basically the same, with the exclusion of Akimoto Sayaka (17#) for Sashihara Rino (19#).
