It’s been revealed that AKB48’s sister group HKT48 will be making their major debut under Universal Music next year. This was announced by the members on November 8th after their performance at HKT48 Theater in Hakata, Fukuoka.http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/11/hkt48-to-make-their-major-debut-next-year/ (http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/11/hkt48-to-make-their-major-debut-next-year/)
HKT48 made their theater debut on November 26th of last year, and will soon be celebrating their 1 year anniversary. They are the youngest among the AKB48-related groups with an average age of 14.7. While being active in Fukuoka, the girls recently started a regular program in the Kanto region called ‘HaKaTa Hyakkaten‘.
Following SKE48 and NMB48, HKT48 will become AKB48’s 3rd sister group to make their CD debut. The title, release date, and other details will be revealed later.
[Article] Member comments from the Natalie article
[Omitted the beginning. It just says that the b-side has a tie-up, there will types A, B and C, first press comes with hand shake tickets etc.]
Kodama Haruka (Team H)’s comment
I’m very happy that the song “Onegai Valentine”, featured on our debut single, will be the CM song for Lotte Ghana Milk Chocolate! The repetition of the hook is very catchy, it’s a cute song. I want people who wish to convey their feelings on Valentine, and many more to hear this song!
Tashima Meru (2nd Generation Research Student)’s comment
I am thrilled that our longed-for CD debut has been decided! I want a lot of people to learn about HKT, and with our youth and freshness I want us to show a different colour from the other 48 groups. Please support HKT48!
Sashihara Rino (Team H)’s comment
Finally, the day has been decided! I think everyone all over the country will definitely get to know HKT48’s charm! We’ll do our best, so please cheer us on!
TBA TYPEA | TBA TYPEB | TBA TYPEC |
CD | CD | CD |
1. TBA 2. Onegai Valentine 3. TBA ~ Type-A song 4. TBA (Inst.) 5. Onegai Valentine (Inst.) 6. TBA ~ Type-A song (Inst.) | 1. TBA 2. Onegai Valentine 3. TBA ~ Type-B song 4. TBA (Inst.) 5. Onegai Valentine (Inst.) 6. TBA ~ Type-B song (Inst.) | 1. TBA 2. Onegai Valentine 3. TBA ~ Type-C song 4. TBA (Inst.) 5. Onegai Valentine (Inst.) 6. TBA ~ Type-C song (Inst.) |
DVD | DVD | DVD |
7. TBA (MV) 8. Onegai Valentine (MV) 9. TBA ~ Type-A song (MV) 10. Bonus | 7. TBA (MV) 8. Onegai Valentine (MV) 9. TBA ~ Type-B song (MV) 10. Bonus | 7. TBA (MV) 8. Onegai Valentine (MV) 9. TBA ~ Type-C song (MV) 10. Bonus |
HKT48 announced today that they will release their major debut single on March 20, 2013. The single, currently untitled, will include the song “Onegai Valentine” which will be used in a CM for Lotte’s Ghana Milk Chocolate.
The only other information available from HKT48 right now is that the single will be available in 3 varieties, A, B and C, all of which will contain a DVD and a ticket to a national handshaking event. If the trend from the many past releases from the AKB family hold true, there will also likely be a version without a DVD.
The announcement was made by Team H members Sashihara Rino and Kodama Haruka alongside Kenkyuusei Tashima Meru.
Regarding the announcement, Sashihara Rino enthusiastically said: “The date has finally been announced! I want everyone in Japan to come to know the charms of HKT48! We’ll do our best!”
Kodama Haruka talked about the CM Song: “We’re currently recording the CM song for Lotte Ghana Milk Chocolate, ‘Onegai Valentine’. I’m happy that it’s going to be on our debut single! It’s a very cute and catchy song and is great for people who hope to convey their feelings this Valentine’s day!”
Kenkyuusei Tashima Meru quipped: “The CD debut we’ve all been dreaming of has been decided. I’m so excited! I want lots of people to discover the youth and freshness of HKT48 and see that we’re different from the other 48 groups.”
Good luck to HKT48 and congratulations to the girls for their major debut
It announced at the today stage:
First single title: 「Suki Suki Skip」 - 「好き好きスキップ」
http://ameblo.jp/hkt48/entry-11469899816.html (http://ameblo.jp/hkt48/entry-11469899816.html)
http://universal-music.co.jp/hkt48 (http://universal-music.co.jp/hkt48)
HKT48 Suki Suki Skip HS (after 4 rounds)
01. Sashihara 17/17 (sold out after 2 rounds)
02. Miyawaki 17/17 (solds out after 3 rounds)
03. Tomonaga 15/17
04. Kodama 10/17 (1)
05. Motomura 7/17 (1)
06. Moriyasu 6/17 (2)
07. Tashima 6/17
08. Matsuoka 0/17 (4)
09. Murashige 0/17 (2)
10. Ota 0/17
11. Anai 6/13 (1)
12. Nakanishi 1/13
and the rest is pretty depressing
(http://i.imgur.com/eeB3lA2.png)
thanks to pigscanfly/yvon(yvonyvon) for finding this and translating the names.
New commercial, & a new tie-in song "Tansu no Gen"!
Suki! Suki! Skip! TYPEA | Suki! Suki! Skip! TYPEB | Suki! Suki! Skip! TYPEC |
CD | CD | CD |
1.Suki! Suki! Skip! 2.Onegai Valentine 3.Kataomoi no Karaage (Amakuchi-hime) 4.Suki! Suki! Skip! Instrumental 5.Onegai Valentine Instrumental 6.Kataomoi no Karaage Instrumental | 1.Suki! Suki! Skip! 2.Onegai Valentine 3.Ima ga Ichiban (Umakuchi-hime) 4.Suki! Suki! Skip! Instrumental 5.Onegai Valentine Instrumental 6.Ima ga Ichiban Instrumental | 1.Suki! Suki! Skip! 2.Onegai Valentine 3.Seifuku no bambi 4.Suki! Suki! Skip! Instrumental 5.Onegai Valentine Instrumental 6.Seifuku no bambi Instrumental |
DVD | DVD | DVD |
1.Suki! Suki! Skip! MV 2.Kataomoi no Karaage MV 3.Tokyo Field Trip ~Bonus~ | 1.Suki! Suki! Skip!MV 2.Ima ga Ichiban MV 3Hakata tourist information ~Bonus~ | Suki! Suki! Skip! MV 2.Ippatsu gag collection (all members) |
Suki! Suki! Skip! Theatre |
CD |
1.Suki! Suki! Skip! 2.Onegai Valentine 3.Kireigoto demo Iijanaika ? 4.Suki! Suki! Skip! Instrumental 5.Onegai Valentine Instrumental 6.Kireigoto demo Iijanaika ?Instrumental |
New commercial, & a new tie-in song "Tansu no Gen"!
NINKI ratings for the week of 18/3~24/3/2013
Singles:
01 130.90 HKT48 - Suki! Suki! Skip!
02 70.60 T-ARA - Banisuta!
03 45.70 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Ninjari Ban Ban
04 43.20 TOKIO - Tegami
05 34.20 S/mileage - Tabidachi no Haru ga Kita
06 26.30 Alice Nine - Daybreak
07 20.40 FLOW - HERO ~Kibou no Uta~ / CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
08 19.40 Tsuruno Takeshi - Chuggington SPECIAL Single
09 18.80 SE7EN - Arigatou
10 18.00 Sumire - The Season In The Sun
days | HKT48 | NMB | NMB | NG46 |
-- | Suki! | Zetsu | Kenji | Kimi |
月 | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- |
火 | 205,278 | 131,654 | 259,984 | 204,281 |
水 | ***,*** | *15,719 | *20,056 | **7,129 |
木 | ***,*** | **7,532 | **9,744 | **7,129 |
金 | ***,*** | *50,240 | **6,930 | ***,4位 |
土 | ***,*** | **3,736 | **6,682 | ***,6位 |
日 | ***,*** | **3,751 | **4,852 | ***,5位 |
━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ |
計. | ***,*** | 212,632 | 308,248 | 227,536 |
days | HKT48 | NMB | NMB | NG46 |
-- | Suki! | Zetsu | Kenji | Kimi |
月 | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- |
火 | 205,278 | 131,654 | 259,984 | 204,281 |
水 | *15,874 | *15,719 | *20,056 | *16,126 |
木 | ***,*** | **7,532 | **9,744 | **7,129 |
金 | ***,*** | *50,240 | **6,930 | ***,4位 |
土 | ***,*** | **3,736 | **6,682 | ***,6位 |
日 | ***,*** | **3,751 | **4,852 | ***,5位 |
━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ |
計. | 221,152 | 212,632 | 308,248 | 227,536 |
days | HKT48 | NMB | NMB | NG46 |
-- | Suki! | Zetsu | Kenji | Kimi |
月 | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- |
火 | 205,278 | 131,654 | 259,984 | 204,281 |
水 | *15,874 | *15,719 | *20,056 | *16,126 |
木 | **8,034 | **7,532 | **9,744 | **7,129 |
金 | ***,*** | *50,240 | **6,930 | ***,4位 |
土 | ***,*** | **3,736 | **6,682 | ***,6位 |
日 | ***,*** | **3,751 | **4,852 | ***,5位 |
━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ |
計. | 229,186 | 212,632 | 308,248 | 227,536 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgPVl9xSAm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWrYhdGMTo
days | HKT48 | NMB | NMB | NG46 |
-- | Suki! | Zetsu | Kenji | Kimi |
月 | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- |
火 | 205,278 | 131,654 | 259,984 | 204,281 |
水 | *15,874 | *15,719 | *20,056 | *16,126 |
木 | **8,034 | **7,532 | **9,744 | **7,129 |
金 | **5,977 | *50,240 | **6,930 | ***,4位 |
土 | **5,969 | **3,736 | **6,682 | ***,6位 |
日 | ***,*** | **3,751 | **4,852 | ***,5位 |
━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ |
計. | 241,132 | 212,632 | 308,248 | 227,536 |
HKT48’s debut single “Suki! Suki! Skip!” (released on March 20) sold 250,000 copies during the first week, and topped Oricon weekly single ranking for April 1st.http://www.tokyohive.com/2013/03/hkt48-tops-oricon-weekly-single-ranking-with-their-debut-single/ (http://www.tokyohive.com/2013/03/hkt48-tops-oricon-weekly-single-ranking-with-their-debut-single/)
This is the best first week sales for a female artist’s debut single, and HKT48 has broken the previous record of 218,000 copies which was achieved by NMB48 with their debut single “Zetsumetsu Kurokami Shoujo” (released in July 2011).
They are also the 4th female group to top the chart with the debut song followed by PASSPO☆, T-ARA, and NMB48.
The oldest member of the group, Sashihara Rino commented, “I’m surprised and also very happy. I feel honored that many people listened to our song. Since we just made our debut, and still have a long way to go, we would like to try our best altogether to catch up with our senior groups.”
Tashima Meru who served as the center, also said, “This tells us that many people recognized HKT48, so I am really happy. With all HKT48 members together, we would like to continue doing our best so that even more people would recognize us.”
(http://picroda.jphip.com/akb48/jphip158705.jpg)
Oricon are reporting that this has placed #1 in the weekly chart with over 250k copies sold
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/2022936/full/ (http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/2022936/full/)
days | HKT48 | NMB | NMB | NG46 |
-- | Suki! | Zetsu | Kenji | Kimi |
月 | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- | ---,--- |
火 | 205,278 | 131,654 | 259,984 | 204,281 |
水 | *15,874 | *15,719 | *20,056 | *16,126 |
木 | **8,034 | **7,532 | **9,744 | **7,129 |
金 | **5,977 | *50,240 | **6,930 | ***,4位 |
土 | **5,969 | **3,736 | **6,682 | ***,6位 |
日 | **5,249 | **3,751 | **4,852 | ***,5位 |
━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ | ━━━━━━━━━ |
合. | 246,381 | 212,632 | 308,248 | 227,536 |
週. | 250,147 | ***,*** | 317,051 | 242,053 |