Single [SINGLE] Nogizaka46 4th [Seifuku no Mannequin] '12/12/19

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btw, that good they can crack the chart hahahahha [party] [party]

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^Thanks for the info kanjo!
Graph for organization's sake:

　カーテン　ｼｬﾝﾌﾟｰ 　Bicycle　マネキン　
　　12/2/22　12/5/2　12/8/22 12/12/19　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　
火　*84,905　111,222　150,056　190,108　
水　*13,782　*21,552　*13,285　*17,335　
木　**9,254　**8,238　**5,923　**7,425　
金　**7,373　**5,092　**5,944　**6,063　
土　*10,901　**4,123　***,4位　**5,699　
日　**7,524　**2,993　***,5位　***,***　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
計　133,739　153,220　175,208　226,630　
週　136,309　155,677　186,613　***,***　
累　210,513　221,193　240,973　***,***

Comparisons:
SKE48: Banzai Venus: 206,608 - Passed
NMB48: Zetsumetsu: 218,441 - Passed
NMB48: Oh My God: 265,435

 

Nogizaka46 - 6th day: 3512 (1st place) (Total: 230,242)

　　カーテン　ｼｬﾝﾌﾟｰ 　Bicycle　マネキン　
　　12/2/22　12/5/2　12/8/22 12/12/19　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　
火　*84,905　111,222　150,056　190,108　
水　*13,782　*21,552　*13,285　*17,335　
木　**9,254　**8,238　**5,923　**7,425　
金　**7,373　**5,092　**5,944　**6,063　
土　*10,901　**4,123　***,4位　**5,699　
日　**7,524　**2,993　***,5位　**3,512　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
計　133,739　153,220　175,208　230,142　
週　136,309　155,677　186,613　***,***　
累　210,513　221,193　240,973　***,***

Comparisons:
SKE48: Banzai Venus: 206,608 - Passed
NMB48: Zetsumetsu: 218,441 - Passed
NMB48: Oh My God: 265,435

 

233,000 in the first week! Not bad. I really think people are recognizing the quality of this group's releases, and it shows. By next year, nogizaka46 might be going head to head with the sister groups....

 

Awesome sauce.

What makes these numbers most impressive is that this is a December release, a time where record sales are normally lower and other than the anime tie-in and standard photo+event ticket, it didn't have any funky extras to help boost it. This shows a lot of promise for their future releases. If they make a habit of outselling previous singles in 1st week, they may hit SKE territory sooner than I imagined.

 

Soundscan number are out!

Seifkuku no Mannequin
サウンドスキャン(2012年12月17日～2012年12月23日調査分)

　　　今週/累計
*2　21,321/21,430　制服のマネキン【CD＋DVD TYPE A】
*3　16,896/16,977　制服のマネキン【CD＋DVD TYPE C】
*4　16,720/16,809　制服のマネキン【CD＋DVD TYPE B】
13　*5,420/*5,447　制服のマネキン【アニメ盤】
**　60,357/60,663

Previous singles for comparison:
Guruguru Curtain:
サウンドスキャン(2012年2月20日～2012年2月26日調査分)

　　　今週/累計
*4　30,154/30,279　ぐるぐるカーテン【CD＋DVD TYPE B】
*6　28,091/28,248　ぐるぐるカーテン【CD＋DVD TYPE A】
*7　21,555/21,648　ぐるぐるカーテン【CD＋DVD TYPE C】
**　79,800/80,175

Oide Shampoo:
サウンドスキャン(2012年4月30日～2012年5月6日調査分)

　　　今週/累計
*4　28,121/28,288　おいでシャンプー【CD＋DVD TYPE A】
*5　22,213/22,340　おいでシャンプー【CD＋DVD TYPE B】
*7　19,927/20,037　おいでシャンプー【CD＋DVD TYPE C】
**　70,261/70,665

Hashire! Bicycle
サウンドスキャン(2012年8月20日～2012年8月26日調査分)

　　　今週/累計
*5　21,768/21,888　走れ！Bicycle【CD＋DVD TYPE A】
*7　18,492/18,589　走れ！Bicycle【CD＋DVD TYPE B】
*8　18,003/18,085　走れ！Bicycle【CD＋DVD TYPE C】
**　58,263/58,562


So the established pattern is that Nogizaka is selling more & more regular edition, & inversely less & less (relatively) DVD editions. Is this a good thing, as it means there are more casual fans? I know for AKB, a bulk of their sale are theatre editions (which is required for handshake), & higher proportion of theatre sale compare to regular edition sales are viewed negatively. Since there is no theatre edition for Nogizaka, does the regular CD edition functions similarly?

 

Nogizaka's regular editions don't come with event tickets or even photos so I wouldnt compare them to AKB' s theater editions. The fact they're selling more than the editions that DO come with those extras indicates to me that there is a steadily growing causal audience who tend to care about the music above all else. It's a good sign. Even if they start outselling the other types by a margin that causes mgmt to deem them unnecessary, they'd just downgrade by a version or two and up the contents on each to keep the wota happy. I do wonder what is up with the DVD sales though since their HS event rounds are stronger I'd assume those versions would be higher. type a's usually sell the most so no surprise there, interesting Manatsu's version outsold the version with one of the centers and arguably the most popular girl in the group it'll be a ride to see how far she goes in popularity.

 

There are theater editions since Guruguru Curtain! Those numbers you post about handshake sales are from them

Spoiler

They are the same as the regular (CD Only) editions but with an individual handshake event ticket, as you can only purchase those via Chara-ani's site, exactly the same way as the AKB ones. You need to choose the girl you want to handshake with and the slot beforehand. Many rounds of sales are done to sell them, Hashire Bicycle's got up to the 11th round for example. Mannequin's 7th round will start tomorrow 3PM JST.
The NMB's Kitaken's 1st place on the 21st was because of the shipping of theater editions on that day.

Kobetsu (individual) hs tickets:

Those events only includes individual handshake sessions with the girls according to the assigned slots. You can talk about 10 seconds with them using one of those tickets.

Zenkoku (national) hs ticket (that comes with types A~C and Anime):

Those includes a mini-live in the beginning of the event, and a quick handshake through a 2~3 girls' line using one of those tickets. It's at those where they do some announcements/new song performance too.

Since Hashibai they've been doing a trade offer with the national hs tickets, as you can trade them for lotteries of some limited special prizes (kind of a meaningless sale strategy tho).

So yes, there are 6 types for Seifuku no Mannequin if you count the theater edition (that works exactly like the AKB ones), and 5 for the others singles. The theater ed. content is the same as the regular edition though, but with an individual handshake event ticket.
Maybe I should write that from now on. (_ _)

The Soundscan numbers have been dropping since the first single, which is not exactly good..


@kanjo: I don't know how many shops that report only weekly to Oricon there are, but they probably didn't sell that many copies from those.

I'm glad they crossed the 200k mark already though ^^

 

MAKING of Seifuku no Mannequin PV.

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^ Thank you
This single is one of the best singles in 2012 that comes from the 48/46 groups,
I enjoy every song from this release, I can easily give every song a 5/5 score [nod]

 

^It pretty much IS the best from Akimoto's projects this year. I will stick with my theory that they are relegating the crappy songs (Gingham Check) to AKB48 and giving Nogizaka46 all the totally bomb singles to artificially speed up this "rivalry." If it keeps up, I can imagine that Nogizaka will reach AKB48 level sales and become an actual rival to AKB pretty soon.

 

Latest handshake result!

Spoiler

Sixth round ending, click to enlarge:


For comparison's sake, sixth round ending of Hashire! Bicycle:


Note:
- Sayurin & Maiyan Sold Out! Nanamin with one block left!
- Total block sold out for 4th single is now at 111 blocks, in comparison to 3rd single's 87 blocks!
- Booking for the Nagoya (Dec 23rd) & Tokyo (Jan 6th) event will no longer be open, so the results for these dates are set in stone now.
- All in all, members that have blocks sold out are, in the order of most sold out to least: Sayurin, Maiyan, Nanamin, Naachan, Ikuchan, Kazumin, Maimai, Misamisa, Manatsu, Kanarin, Sakurai, Myuumyuu, Ikoma, Inoue, & Nagashima Seira.

 

Ah, mystery solved! So it looks like wota are just going more for the theater editions with every single and less for the CD/DVD. The cheaper price tag is clearly at work but I personally, would much rather get the buttloads of content w/ my event tickets and THEN buy the theater editions but priorities and all... *shrugs*

Isn't it a bit cruel though that we can still get theater editions with this group but not an actual theater (which is arguably the thing many have wanted)?

 

As I was updating the first post of the girl thread, I just notice that Iwase Yumiko is missing in the list of participants in this single. What happen?

I haven't really been able to follow her so I'm witless of her situation.

 

^She graduated, i think it's been a month now since it happened they even did a tribute episode for her on Doko when graduating.

EDIT: Yes, first graduate and she left the title of oldest member now to Mai (Fukugawa).

 

Oh, then that means she's the first to graduate from the group? [think]

Nogizaka46 will now have a representative at the Graduated Girls Thread.

 

lol I hadn't realized Yuminee wasn't moved to the Graduated Girls forum. Wishful thinking?

Hopefully, she'll be the only one there for a nice long while.