News AKB: 10/01/2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

AKB48's "Beginner" is Currently the #1 Highest Selling Single in Japan of this Year on the Third Day of Its Release

http://stage48.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2582&start=2578

Beginner's total sales after the third day of its release, October 29, 2010, is 742,109 copies, surpassing Arashi's "Troublemaker" released March 3, 2010, which has sold almost 700,000 copies this year. Selling over 700,000 copies only on the third day of its release, fans are hoping for Beginner to hit the 1,000,000 mark before the year ends, or even within the first week of its release. AKB48 still has another single to be released this year, on Dec. 8, 2010, featuring the Senbatsus from the Janken Tournament. If Beginner doesn't hit the one million mark, it's possible that the next one will.

AKB48 is #1! Yeah!!!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Beginner Sells 568,095 Copies on the Day of Its Release, Ranks #1 Again at Oricon Charts

http://stage48.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2582&start=2334

The latest single of AKB does it again! Highest first day sales for an AKB48 single and third consecutive single for AKB to sell over half a million copies during the first week of its release! The previous single's first week sales has already been surpassed by Beginner on its first day! This is their fifth #1 single, not counting subunits' singles Akkanbe Bashi and Kokoro no Hane, and album Kamikyoku Tachi. Congrats AKB48! Good times!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Voting for AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 100 2011 Starts Oct. 26 Until Nov. 30 2010

http://stage48.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2714&start=0

386 songs are eligible this year.

How to vote outside Japan: http://stage48.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2714&start=47

Once you have installed the Firefox plug-in, this is where you vote: http://akb48-request2011.jp

List of eligible songs (in Japanese): http://www.request-hour-2011.jp/

Oricon Predicts AKB48 to be Invited to 61st NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen

http://forum.nihongogo.com/topic/9575-akb48-invited-for-61st-nhk-kouhaku-uta-gassen/page__pid__142406#entry142406

This would make AKB48's third appearance in Kouhaku. The first was three years ago, and the second was last year. Kouhaku is one of the most important annual events in Japanese entertainment where only the top celebrities are invited. Also mentioned in the Japanese article below are AKB subunits No Sleeves and Watarirouka Hashiritai.

http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/2010/kohaku1022/index.html#close2

smart 2010 January issue [Cover] AKB48 (5 Members)

smart Henshubu / AKB48

Release: Nov. 24, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

AKB48 Nemousu TV Season 4 DVD

AKB48 Nemousu TV Season 4

Variety (AKB48)

Release: Dec. 24, 2010

Also available at YesAsia

Monday, October 18, 2010

Q10 DVD Box

Japanese TV Series

Stars Atsuko Maeda.

Release: March 18, 2011

Official Guide Book AKB48 Yakushiji Hono Koen 2010-11 Winter Collection (Tvnavi 2010 November Extra Issue)

AKB48

Release: Oct. 15, 2010

Sayaka Akimoto Resigns as Captain of Team K

http://stage48.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=256&start=1978

She stays in AKB and may be captain again someday, but this is still sad, disturbing news, spurned by the same weekly tabloid that started the Mariko Shinoda rumor which AKS sued them for. Team K's captain position is vacant for now.