Uhm, what?

The teams suffered from not getting new stages for a long time, but that's what happens when you have 4 groups releasing singles every other month. If AKB was just AKB I'm sure when have A8 by now lol

Anyway, what these teams need is new songs. Stop with the "Waiting Stages" crap already and give them something unique to each of them. Since the Tokyo Dome shuffle the teams have kinda lost their soul and now sound pretty much alike (Team K used to get the fierce songs and now it gets crap), so that needs to be restored.

AKB's senbatsu will probably look the same, but SKE's, NMB's and HKT's are in for a shake-up! lol

Soooooooooo Mae Shika Mukanee's first day sales are 970,413. So by the end of today it will be a million seller. And that's number 17! :D

It's Akimoto's fault because delivering the AKB concept fully is not possible. They release way too many songs I can't keep up with them anymore and they lack of songs for Team stages. But they have like 1000+ other songs. Team stages for me was the most important thing before AKB became famous. It's a pity that they gained sales but lost their original concept.

If ikoma participate in this year Sousenkyo, ngzk fans will most likely power vote for her, they only need to vote for ONE member, just like how Hakata people vote for Sashi(a lot of people in Hakata and HKT fans do respect the fact that Sahsi has help to bring out the characters in HKT48 members, she has grow them well)

NGZK fans has only one member to concentrate on, as some HKT fans has already start finding their HKT oshimen so some votes will go to their oshimen, Sashi will still have growing fans, I think Ikoma will be the biggest threat to Sashi's number 1 throne.

Whoa... Good point there!

Maybe there could be a possibility that Ikoma could actually be the AKB48 general election spoiler! And it's all because of this team reshuffling... Even just one "small" addition could actually turn into one "large" result coming up...

Yeah, that could actually be a concern to some. One girl from just one group forcing fans of that particular group to do that "power vote"... For the rest of the girls, better watch out...

Watch the next single selling 2 million thanks to Nogi-wotas lol

And talking about millions, the 44,403 copies they sold today brought the total to 1,014,816. :D

This single is real crap though. Don't like it all. I had hoped they'd give a better song for yuko's last single, bah

It seems like Akimoto just wanted to see how Ikoma would look like being center with all other popular AKB stars. I just feel it! If I could vote, I'd vote for Ikoma for sure!

but I feel so sad about Mayuyu... people say that the management just threw her away and she's now replaced by Paruru. so sad :( I hope that Mayuyu fans get angry and buy thousands of senbatsu single :laugh

oh Akimoto, why are you so smart?

But Nogizaka46 is their rival, i can't understand this, lol.
At least chage the name to NGK48 or something

^Manager dropped the concept after he saw they were no rival for AKB, their sales were just like NMB, HKT, XYZ, ABC. Anyway they are still being promoted as "AKB rival group", but it's pure nonsense.

They are calling Ikoma Rina & Matsui Rena "the exchange students". Ikoma said she would do her best to learn all the good things AKB has and bring it to Nogizaka.

But Matsui Rena is from SKE48, not AKB48 proper...

well, she's still in AKB senbatsu. It's more about 48 and 46.

I think they gave her a chance to compete with Jurina.

LOL !!
I really want to see the new center :lech

yesterday they aired Nogizaka46 SHOW! instead of AKB48 SHOW! on NHK. how do you guys feel about it?! some fans are angry that the management now just messes them together.

but I personally really loved the show! I wish they had something the same.

And talking about Nogizaka, here's their new PV!
http://vimeo.com/88412785#at=0

Also, preview for SKE's new single, Mirai to wa?
http://youtu.be/6kfZE8ok3PU

And for NMB's
http://youtu.be/QXuY2RgGuCQ

And just for the sake of it, HKT's, cause it comes out next week:
http://youtu.be/jWbjSyhLRv8

March is awesome! :love

Nogizaka's song is the best, the other 3 are OK, i only love SKE48's effects

Indeed. Nogizaka is getting the best songs lately. I suppose they haven't reached the average audience yet, sop they can be as risky as they want with them (much like AKB in their beginning).

Oh, well.
Acchan came in 4th in the weekly charts selling 42k of her last single.
That's 12k more than Ayu. :P

less than 2 weeks till Oshima Yuko graduates :(

I hope Heavy Rotation won't start to sound sad after her graduation :/

I'm impressed Acchan popularity declined so fast (As well as Itano's)

Morning Musume members had much more longevity

Actually their sales are quite okay with you compare against other solo singers, they are around the same sales number or more then Ayu/Kuu/Kana.... So I'm not too worried, Tomochin is doing good on her own and gaining more mainstream fans, she has her gyaru style that girls look up too, while Acchan is more concentrating on her acting career, after Acchan graduation there was a period when she thought she wanna stop singing to fully concentrate on her acting, but she was end up singing for her fans so I'm quite content with it.

I only have worries for Kasai, she has a beautiful and smoothing voice, I always like her singing(i can only spare enough money to buy only one version of each of her single), but she graduate after the show thing, and just before her graduation, there was another scandal, which cause her to lose even more fans and causal people doesn't like her attitude, I don't know how far she can go on her own.

As for takamina, although graduating will do her good to concentrate on her solo, but she has only one single, the casual public doesn't know much about takamina singing ability, most know her as AKB48 general manager, so I think takamina will have to release more music under her own name, while she's still in the AKB umbrella first, maybe another year or 2, but that is saying that AkiP does not hold her and she needs at least another 2 or 3 more singles to stable her own name.
Speaking of takamina, I wonder when is the Smurf song is going to be release on her second single, it's been too long....