Beginner

Promotional Picture
Picture: Senbatsu Members

CD+DVD Type-A (Limited Edition)
Cover: Oshima Yuko· Maeda Atsuko · Takahashi Minami · Itano Tomomi

CD+DVD Type-A (Regular Edition)
Cover: Itano Tomomi · Maeda Atsuko · Maeda Atsuko · Oshima Yuko

CD+DVD Type-B (Limited Edition)
Cover: Kashiwagi Yuki · Watanabe Mayu · Shinoda Mariko · Kojima Haruna

CD+DVD Type-B (Regular Edition)
Cover: Watanabe Mayu· Kojima Haruna · Shinoda Mariko · Kashiwagi Yuki

CD (Theater Edition)
Cover: Senbatsu Members

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 also features the song from the winning unit of the AmebaPigg Unit Battle; Kimi ni Tsuite by MINT. The single also includes a new song by the Undergirls and another track by a new vocal-unit named "DIVA".

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 Theater Edition) / ￥1,000

Regular Edition Details

CD

1. Beginner / Senbatsu
2. Boku Dake no value (僕だけのvalue) / Undergirls (アンダーガルズ)
3. • (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
4. Beginner (off-vocal)
5. Boku Dake no value (off-vocal)
6. • (Type-A Exclusive track) Kimi ni Tsuite (off-vocal)
   • (Type-B Exclusive track) Nakeru Basho (off-vocal)

DVD

1. Beginner Music Clip
2. Boku Dake no value Music Clip
3. • (Type-A Exclusive track) Kimi ni Tsuite Music Clip
   • (Type-B Exclusive track) Nakeru Basho Music Clip
4. • (Type-A Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Oshima Yuko Center ver.)
   • (Type-B Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Maeda Atsuko Center ver.)
5. • (Type-A Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Shinoda Mariko Center ver.)
   • (Type-B Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Itano Tomomi Center ver.)
6. • (Type-A Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Watanabe Mayu · Matsui Jurina Center ver.)
   • (Type-B Exclusive track) Beginner Formation Video (Takahashi Minami Center ver.)

Theater Edition Details

CD

1. Beginner / AKB48
2. Boku Dake no value / Undergirls
3. Kimi ni Tsuite / MINT
4. Nakeru Basho / DIVA

Included Members

Beginner

★ Senbatsu (16 Members, Members bolded are part of the Front Girls of this single, Maeda Atsuko Center)
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

Artist: 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

Artist: MINT (5 Members)
Team A: Katayama Haruka, Maeda Atsuko
Team K: Nito Moeno, Matsui Sakiko
Team B: Kasai Tomomi

Nakeru Basho

Artist: 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

Oricon Chart Positions

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(Chance no Junban Release)
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	10	*7	*7	*6	*4	*4	**6	**7,444
11.01.17	*4	21	17	15	16	*9	*7	*12	**5,935
11.01.24	*7	31	31	22	21	15	13	*21	**5,323
11.01.31	12	27	23	23	20	15	14	*20	**3,925
11.02.07	14	44	47	40	34	25	28	*39	**3,000
11.02.14	18	33	35	34	29	27	24	*29	**2,961(Sakura no Ki ni Narou Release)
11.02.21	21	**	**	**	**	39	37	*51	**2,152
11.02.28	30	**	**	**	**	44	36	*60	**1,618
11.03.07	42	**	**	**	**	35	44	*56	**1,155
11.03.14	40	**	**	**	49	43	49	*58	***,863
11.03.21	39	48	40	36	43	39	38	*42	**1,226
11.03.28	34	42	49	39	36	37	32	*40	**1,241

Total Reported Sales: 1,039,352*
Total Sales in 2010: 954,283
Total Sales in 2011: 83,516
Total of weeks charting inside Top 200: 23

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

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One of the Censored Scenes of the PV
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 the Stone Recordes, Stone stabs Maeda's hand against a wall, making it impossible for her to move. Oshima fired at the arm thats holding Maeda. Oshima smiled for just 2 seconds and was killed from the Stone Recordes.

In that situation Maeda is in, 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.

When she cuts her whole arm off, she changed her arm to a sword and stabs the Stone Recordes. At the end, Matsui Jurina appeared to help Maeda

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 an AKB48 music clip was censored. Akimoto Yasushi commented that "I thought we made an splendid creation" and later explained that it was 100% a KING RECORDS decision to Censor 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 Senbatsu of this single was nearly identical to the Senbatsu chosen during the 2nd Senbatsu Election except for the exclusion of Akimoto Sayaka (17#) for Sashihara Rino (19#).
• This is the first AKB48 single to sell 1,000,000 copies.
  • First million-selling single since Akikawa Masafumi's "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" in August 2007 (released May 2006)
  • First million-selling single by a female artist since Nakajima Miyuki's "Chijou no Hoshi / Headlight Taillight" in March 2003 (released July 2000)
  • First million-selling single by a female group since Morning Musume's "Koi no Dance Site" in February 2000 (released January 2000)
• Japan's 243rd million-selling single ever.
• Beginner's first day sales was the highest first day sales since Oricon started to report daily sales. It was the best selling single in 2010 in Japan.