AKB48 Shows Off Unbelievably Amazing Dance Skills in the Music Video of This Song. The Song is Now Translated to 10 Languages and Has Been Spread Around the World Quickly!

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Mega-idol group AKB48 has finally released their chart topping hit “Ne mo Ha mo Rumor” after one and a half years of silence. They showed off their new performance on a Japanese music TV program prior to the release of the song. People who watched the show were surprised to see their latest performance which is based on “LOCK DANCE” style of choreography. Their dance has so much energy and many people loved it and described it as an “unbelievably amazing dance”. The overall views on the music video and the dance clip on the AKB48 official Youtube is over 7.5 million. This new song was a hot topic inside and outside of Japan and reached groups of people who never knew AKB48 before, meaning that their support rate has moved rapidly up.

When Japanese female idol groups have many members like AKB48, there are always issues when members graduate from the group. AKB48 currently consists of members only from the main AKB48 group for the first time after 10 years and 9 months. This situation where many old members left the group recently changed AKB48 to a young fresh group.

Nana Okada who performs in the center on this new song and Hitomi Honda who has just come back from the girl group IZ*ONE, are the new heroines for the group and they are attracting new fans from the younger generation in Japan and abroad. 

They stopped recruiting the members from sister’s groups and reformed the group to only AKB48 original members. This shift actually made the group more strongly united and they can see the direction for the future more clearly. They rebuilt the new style of AKB48 which is getting out of the category of idol and they are trying to stand out with their great dance skills.

Although AKB48 has been very active in Asia, this latest song “Ne mo Ha mo Rumor”’s music video on YouTube has 10 language subtitles for the first time. The languages are Japanese with Roman alphabet, English, Indonesian, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French.

Viewers can see the spirit of the teenagers' life in the music video and also understand the Japanese lyrics clearly with the translation. It is very interesting to see how people will react to the video worldwide. There is a huge expectation to see how great a reaction might be in the world. This new song is their first new step to be reborn. AKB48 may gain new popularity overseas and it will be a huge progress for their great career. 

Be sure to check out all the styles of “Ne mo Ha mo Rumor” below!

AKB48 to Livestream Their Highly Unique Concert ASIA FESTIVAL 2021 ONLINE!

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Super idol group AKB48 has announced a live broadcast event "Asia Festival 2021 Online", which will present performances from the internationally popular idol group and their sister groups on June 27.

The livestream broadcast event will unite AKB48'S sister groups from across Asia, including JKT48 (Jakarta), BNK48 (Bangkok), MNL48 (Manila), AKB48 Team SH (Shanghai), AKB48 Team TP (Taipei), SGO48 (Ho Chi Minh City), and CGM48 (Chiang Mai).

Tickets are available now on the event's official English information page: https://www.akb48asiafes.com/en/

Livestream packages include archive viewing for up to 14 days after the concert, and a virtual digital ticket for the event.

This festival will implement XR technology, which is unique to online staging. Now the festival can be enjoyed and experienced in many ways, allowing fans from all around the world to interact with the contents.

Pre and post-event features live broadcasts and exciting attractions, with contents that will allow you to enjoy a new experience with members after the main event.

Watch the event trailer on YouTube:

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AKB48 Group Asia Festival was held for the first time in Bangkok back in January 2019. The same year, on August 24th, the second event "AKB48 group Asia festival in Shanghai" was hosted in Shanghai. Both events were accoladed, and welcomed with success, because the sister groups united together for the first time in the history of AKB48 groups.

Since the event in Bangkok, the festival in Shanghai was further upgraded, the staging was focused on showcasing the culture of each group, and the event was well received and appraised by the fans.

For this coming third event on June 27th, 2021 Tokyo is featured as the center of the event and will act as a virtual performing stage, with all sister groups including AKB48 uniting at once to perform from theaters, online, and special venues across Asia.

Be sure to check out more information about the concert below!

AKB48 GROUP ASIA FESTIVAL 2021 ONLINE

Official website: https://www.akb48asiafes.com/en/

Date: June 27, 2021

Start time: 15:30 (Doors) / 16:30 (Start) (JST)

Lineup: AKB48 / JKT48 / BNK48 / MNL48 / AKB48 TeamSH / SGO48 / AKB48 TeamTP / CGM48

Streaming platform and ticket sales:

Zaiko: https://zaiko.io/event/338037

Ticket types:

-Online live streaming ticket

-Ticket with archive viewing for 7days

-Ticket with archive viewing for 14days

-Ticket with digital designed ticket

AKB48 Shows That "Even When Apart, We'll Get Through This Together" With Latest Music Video!

One scene from “Hanaratte Ittemo”

One scene from “Hanaratte Ittemo”

Super idol group AKB48 released the music video for their track “離れていても” (“Hanarete Itemo”) on their YouTube channel. This is the latest track by the group since “失恋、ありがとう” (“Shitsuren, Arigatou”) back in March and was an all hands on deck affair as 105 AKB48 members and one SKE48 member participated in the song. Written by Yasushi Akimoto and composed by Jun Aiba, the song brings out the best in the girls in an awe-aspiring composition which moves fans to tears.

There was a surprise inclusion of the track’s eight former members; Maeda Atsuko, Yuko Oshima, Tomomi Itano, Mariko Shinoda, Haruna Kojima, Minami Takahashi, Sashihara Rino, and Sayaka Yamamoto also participated, taking center stage during the chorus. The track will be made available across all digital music streaming platforms for a limited time starting July 1 to the end of the year to lift spirits of those affected by the ongoing pandemic.

Be sure to check out the sensational music video below!

Tuneback Tuesday for the First Week of March

Let’s turn back the hands of time as we look back at the songs that made the Japanese music industry what it was on the Oricon Weekly Chart. This week we look back at the second week of February for both 2010 and 2015, where the mega-popular girl group AKB48 and Japanese boy group SMAP reigned supreme with “Sakura no Shiori” and “Karei Naru Gyakushu / Humor Shichau yo” respectively. But just what exactly made these songs so great?


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AKB48 [桜の栞]

By 2010, AKB48 had been around for a while but this was the year where AKB48 really took off and started a reign that they maintain to this day. “Sakura no Shiori” is the second song the group ever had chart at number one. Their previous release, “River” was the first song that hit number one and every song released since has claimed that #1 spot. “Sakura no Shiori” is the fifteenth single released by AKB48, composed by Hiroshi Uesugi, and written by Yasushi Akimoto. “Sakura no Shiori” is a slowing number with the band coming together to sound like a choir rather than an idol group. The track has excellent harmonization and uses vocal talent to help push the melody straight to the front. It managed to rack up 318,000 sales for its first week making it take the number one spot.


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SMAP [華麗なる逆襲/ユーモアしちゃうよ]

By this time in 2015, SMAP had been in the industry since 1991 and was wrapping an amazing career. SMAP is a five-member boy band that debuted in 1991 and disbanded in 2016. “Karei Naru Gyakushu / Humor Shichau yo” is the second to last single the group ever released. “Karei Naru Gyakushu” was composed by Shina Ringo and arranged by Youichi Murata while “Humor Shicahu yo” was written by Gonpachi Hiroshi, and composed by both Yoshiyasu Ichikawa and Machiko Tatsuro. SMAP shows years of fine-tuning and honing their craft for both tracks which are fun upbeat numbers that are expertly sung with excellent harmonization. “Karei Naru Gyakushu / Humor Shichau yo” managed to pull in 184,000 on this week of March 2015 securing it the number one spot.

AKB48's Moeka Yahagi announces graduation

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In a shocking move, Moeka Yahagi announced she will be graduating from AKB48 after only being with the group for a year and a half. Moeka was recently the center of the group’s most recent song “Sustainable”. The news came via an announcement made on the Fuji TV series Mirai Monster broadcast October 27. On AKB48’s official blog Moeka thanked the fans who have watched and supported her over the last year and a half. She will officially graduate February 1, 2020. We wish the best in her future endeavors.