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The members who receive the most votes will get to participate in the recording of AKB48's next single, [5] and are heavily promoted. [7] The highest voted member earns the right to be the center performer during the group's live performances. [4] [6] Narumi Kuranoo is the current leader or "general manager" of AKB48 and all of its sister ...
Her photo alone fetched ฿77,000, and the auction gained a total of ฿246,000. [39] She won the 39th place, the highest among BNK48 members, in the 2018 general election of AKB48, an annual polling event to find the 100 most popular 48 Group members to participate in an AKB48 single. [40]
AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-eight) is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (Akiba for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located.The group has expanded since then to include over 130 members as of December 2015, aged from their early teens to their mid-20s.
AKB48 and its sister groups boost their record sales by a variety of marketing strategies. The main track for each single is recorded by a team of "All Stars" (選抜, senbatsu, selection) consisting of popular members from AKB48's teams and, in earlier years, its sister groups, with one of the girls selected as the center performer or Center ...
Okada joined AKB48 in 2012, and since 2016 has been part of the group's main lineup, performing in all the title tracks of their singles, including twice as lead singer. From 2017 to 2022, she was concurrently a member of AKB48's fifth Japan-based sister group STU48, based in Setouchi region, and served as captain since its founding until 2020 ...
Rino Sashihara (指原 莉乃, Sashihara Rino, born November 21, 1992) is a Japanese tarento, singer, producer and actress.She is best known as a former member of idol groups HKT48, AKB48 and STU48, and was the theater manager for HKT48 and STU48.
On July 19, AKB48 released the Staff Version of the music video, which shows 365 members of the AKB48 staff and its sister groups performing some of the dance moves. The video was shot in seven days. [2] [14] The staff video was listed as the most watched YouTube video in Japan for the 2013 year with over 8 million views. [15]
In 2010, she was made a member of three-piece AKB48 sub-group French Kiss. During the AKB48 third general election in 2011, she was ranked third place by popular votes, after Yuko Oshima and Atsuko Maeda. [10] Umeda Ayaka replaced Kashiwagi as the Captain of Team B, during the reformation of teams at the Tokyo Dome Concert held on August 24 ...