AKB48 22nd Single 'フライングゲット' (Flying Get) First Week Sales

Reported on Oricon News, AKB48 created yet another mark on the Oricon chart with their 22nd Single 'フライングゲット' (Flying Get) selling more than 1.354millions copies in the first week. This made the single the best first-week-sales in the history of Oricon! The second placing now is AKB48's 21st Single 'Everyday、カチューシャ' (Everyday, Kachuusha), which sold about 1.334million copies in the first week.

AKB48 started to top the Oricon weekly-sales chart since their 14th Single 'RIVER' in 2009, which makes them on tie with the legendary idol duo Pink Lady, who released “Chameleon Army” nearly thirty-three years ago, on having nine chart-topping singles consecutively and also the status of a female group with the highest number of million-seller singles in a row.

That's totally awesome! Way to go AKB48! Congratulations!! ^o^

My recent post on the AKB48's 22nd Single first day sales here.

(Source: tokyohive|Oricon)

UPDATE (19th September):

The sales of the AKB48 22nd single reached 1.5 million, 4 weeks after it was released, with it's latest weekly sales at 23,000 copies. This makes it the 2nd consecutive single to reach 1.5 million sales, where 'Everyday Kachuusha' sold 1,573,000 copies in total.

The record of selling 1.5 million copies for 2 consecutive singles has been accomplished by B’z in 1993, Mr.Children in 1994, and in 1996, KinKi Kids in 1998, and Utada Hikaru in 2000. AKB48 is thus the first female group in history to achieve this.
(adapted from tokyohive)

AKB48 Singapore Theatre 'LIVE' Vol.6 - AKB48 4th Stage

Didn't intend to go for the concert today initially, mainly due to lack of spare cash =[ Went down to *Scape with just intending to get a concert flyer and go back home. However, thanks to a very kind person I got to enter the 2pm concert!! ^o^ (eh wait.. I thought I should be studying for my Power System Analysis examinations already?? o_o)

Anyways, before the concert I got news from the friend which I ordered Rena photo sets through that one more of the sets arrived. Costed me SGD21 =X Well, Matsui Rena is my SKE48 oshi (favourite). =p
Here it is,

 As for the SDN48's 3rd Single 'Min.Min.Min.' ^

I preordered through a friend in the forum, Girls of 48, and got it from her after the concert. Thanks! ^^

(Received the Kohara + Serina photo from the single)

This concert can be considered one of the best I gone so far, not because of the member list (don't have any of my favourites this time in the performing member list), but because of the experience I had while at the most back row. There was so much space at the back that me and my friends went very high during the concert, jumping more than usual, along with all the wotagei actions and shoutings - which are usually rather toned down while we were around the middle rows, due to space constraint and having people behind us. There was so much 'exercise' for my hands and legs that I was totally exhausted at the end and so much shouting that my throat went very sore, considering I just fell slightly sick this morning. XD
The handshake that followed the concert was rather okay. More of like touch and go for most of the AKB48 girls. =[ I still missed the SKE48 and SDN48 handshake sessions as they so much more friendly, holding on to my hand (or rather all the people's hands) with some even as if not willing to let go. =X

Walking around outside the warehouse and the AKB48 Official Shop for awhile after the concert and saw a Japanese guy with a ton of the AKB48's 22nd Single 'Flying Get' Theater version photos. Spotted 4 Akicha (Takajo Aki) and a friend of mine took 2 of them while I took one.

Had a real hard time closing the deal. =X The Japanese guy wanted to traded it for only full set Singapore Theater photos so I offered both my Haachan (Haruka Katayama) and Nakayan (Sayaka Nakaya) full Singapore Theater June sets for just the single Akicha 'Flying Get' Theater photo but he also don't want and said he looking for Team 4 full sets, which I don't have. =[
I tried to offer SGD15 but he also gave me the 'No no'. He asked if can trade with my the two 'Marutto AKB48 Special 2' Team 4 photos, which are the Maria and the Paruru+Miyumiyu+Ranran. This time was a 'No no' from me. Totally not worth. Those photos are Singapore exclusives for the magazine and is in very limited amount, and the Akicha photos can be found very easily on auction sites while those Singapore exclusive magazine photos are not.

Had no choice but to offer a higher cash price and I got it at SGD20

 Looks a bit too China-like =X but well.. I'm still okay with it.
She's my kamioshi (Most favourite) XD

More information on the concert in my previous post here.

Astonishing sales by AKB48 again!

Oricon released the Daily Singles sales for 23rd August and topping the the chart is AKB48's 22nd Single, 'フライングゲット' (Flying Get), at a shocking 1,025,952 copies for it's first day sales!

it was followed by 'Ｓｅｘｙ．Ｈｏｎｅｙ．Ｂｕｎｎｙ！／タカラノイシ' by V6 (28,943 copies), and 'ＶｉＶｉ夏' by ぱすぽ☆ (14,412 copies).

The previous single 'Everyday. Kachuusha' sold a total of 942,475 copies for the first day, which is really amazing already but understandable as many fans bought multiple copies just for the voting tickets for the 22nd Single Senbatsu Elections (some even in thousands. No kidding!). A voting ticket was included in each of the first press editions of AKB48's 21st single and each person is able to vote more than once. Thus the more voting tickets one have, the more votes he/she can cast.

The AKB48's 22nd single however isn't for Senbatsu elections or anything similar, thus I actually thought that the first day sales would be lower than that of the 21st single. The most probable reason for this amount of sales for just the first day might just be that the amount of fans and people listening to AKB48 have really increased by a lot! Now that's some great news =D

Not only did their 22nd did a really amazing feat, the DVD box set for their midnight drama, マジスカ学園2 (Majisuka Gakuen 2), sold an impressive amount of 10,000 copies in the first week of sales, securing the 2nd position in the Oricon's weekly DVD ranking. The first season, マジスカ学園 (Majisuka Gakuen), sold only 3,000 copies in the first week, ranking at 32nd in overall.

I have watched the first season some time ago and followed the second season while it was airing on TV Tokyo. Found both of the seasons really awesome, not because the cast is AKB48 (along with members from SKE48 and SDN48), but because in general the storyline, action scenes, etc are really good. Wanted to get the 2nd seasons DVD box set but didn't have the money yet >_< It would be costing me near SGD400 with all the shipping and handing included. Would try to get it one day!

Source:
23rd Aug Oricon Daily Singles Sales

Oricon - Majisuka Gakuen 2 sales news

AKB48 22nd Single - 'Flying Get'

Screenshot of AKB48 performance at Ongaku no Hi (16th July)

Announced last night, the title for the AKB48's 22nd single would be 'フライングゲット' ('Flying Get'), which actually is a term that refers to preordering of items likes books, CDs and DVDs. Well the single is up for preorders! Hahax! XD

'Flying Get' would be used as the theme song for the drama, '花ざかりの君たちへ' ('Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'), or 'Hanakimi', which would be starring Maeda Atsuko and Kashiwagi Yuki.

A quick recap on the Senbatsu and Undergirls members,

Senbatsu:
Team A: Maeda Atsuko, Shinoda Mariko, Kojima Haruna, Takahashi Minami, Sashihara Rino,Takajo Aki, Kuramochi Asuka
Team K: Oshima Yuko, Itano Tomomi, Miyazawa Sae, Minegeshi Minami, Akimoto Sayaka, Yokoyama Yui
Team B: Kashiwagi Yuki, Watabane Mayu, Kitahara Rie, Kasai Tomomi, Sato Amina, Masuda Yuka
Team S: Matsui Rena, Matsui Jurina

Undergirls:
Team A: Nakagawa Haruka, Ota Aika, Oya Shizuka, Maeda Ami
Team K: Umeda Ayaka, Nito Moeno, Matsui Sakiko, Fujie Reina
Team B: Hirajima Natsumi, Miyazaki Miho, Komori Mika, Sato Sumire
Team 4: Oba Mina, Ichikawa Miori
Team S: Oya Masana, Suda Akari
Team KII: Takayanagi Akane, Hata Sawako
Team N: Yamamoto Sayaka

More details on the Senbatsu results can be found in my post here.

Album arts and track lists are not available yet. Would update on that once released. The single would be expected to release on the 24th of August.

CDJapan links:
Flying Get [Type A / CD+DVD / Limited Edition]
Flying Get [Type B / CD+DVD / Limited Edition]
Flying Get [Type A / CD+DVD / Regular Edition]
Flying Get [Type B / CD+DVD / Regular Edition]

UPDATE:

Type A (CD+DVD)

1. [CD] フライングゲット (Flying Get)
2. [CD] 抱きしめちゃいけない (Dakishimecha Ikenai)
3. [CD] 青春と気づかないまま (Seishun to Kizukanai Mama)
4. [CD] フライングゲット off vocal ver.
5. [CD] 抱きしめちゃいけない off vocal ver.
6. [CD] 青春と気づかないまま off vocal ver.
7. [DVD] フライングゲット Music Video
8. [DVD] 抱きしめちゃいけない Music Video
9. [DVD] 青春と気づかないまま Music Video
10. [DVD] 武闘映画「紅い八月〜頂上決戦篇」(Akai Hachigatsu ~Choujou Kessen (Drama Ver.))
11. [DVD] 「フライングゲット」ダンシングバージョン

Type B (CD+DVD)

1. [CD] フライングゲット (Flying Get)
2. [CD] 抱きしめちゃいけない (Dakishimecha Ikenai)
3. [CD] アイスのくちづけ (Aisu no Kuchizuke)
4. [CD] フライングゲット off vocal ver.
5. [CD] 抱きしめちゃいけない off vocal ver.
6. [CD] アイスのくちづけ off vocal ver.
7. [DVD] フライングゲット Music Video
8. [DVD] 抱きしめちゃいけない Music Video
9. [DVD] アイスのくちづけ Music Video
10. [DVD] 第3回 AKB48総選挙 ドキュメント映像 (3rd Senbatsu Election Documentary (26min. long))
11. [DVD] 武闘映画「紅い八月〜頂上決戦篇・予告」(Akai Hachigatsu ~Choujou Kessen (Preview))

 Theater Version (CD only)

1. フライングゲット (Flying Get)
2. 抱きしめちゃいけない (Dakishimecha Ikenai)
3. 野菜占い (Yasai Uranai)
4. フライングゲット (Instrumental)
5. 抱きしめちゃいけない (Instrumental)
6. 野菜占い (Instrumental)

Last Updated: 29th July