Namida Surprise!
Contents
CD Information
- Artist
- AKB48
- Single
- Namida Surprise! (涙サプライズ!)
- Release Date
- 2009.06.24
- Label/Catalog Number/Price
- Label: You,Be Cool!/KING RECORDS
- KIZM-33~34 (Regular Edition, CD+DVD) / ¥1,600
- NMAX-1081 (Theatre Edition, CD Only) / ¥1,600
- Tie-up
- Namida Surprise!: Yomiuri Shimbun x AKB48 Supportive and CM Song
- FIRST LOVE: Anime SUPERFLAT FIRST LOVE Image Song
「お誕生日に歌いたい歌がある」 ("OTanjoubi ni Utaitai Uta ga aru")
Translation: "i have a song i want to sing for my birthday"
Regular Edition Details
- CD
- Namida Surprise! (大声ダイヤモンド) / AKB48
- Shonichi (初日) / Team B (チームB)
- FIRST LOVE / Ono Erena (小野恵令奈)
- Namida Surprise! (off-vocal ver.)
- DVD
- Namida Surprise!
- Making of
- Bonus Video: "Happy Birthday"
- First Pressing Bonus
-National Handshaking Event ticket (1)
-AKB48 13th Single General Senbatsu Election serial number card voting ticket (1)
-Bonus Store-Exclusive Picture (1)* *external bonus
Theatre Edition Details
- CD
- Namida Surprise! / AKB48
- Shonichi / Team B
- FIRST LOVE / Ono Erena
- Namida Surprise! (off-vocal ver.)
- First Pressing Bonus
-Theater Handshaking Event ticket (1) (chara-ani preoder only)
-Member Picture (1) *Random selection (1 out of 90 types: Team A/K/B/Kenkyusei and SKE48)
Included Members
★ Senbatsu (20 Members, member bloded are the front girls of this single)
Team A: Itano Tomomi · Kitahara Rie · Kojima Haruna · Shinoda Mariko · Fujie Reina · Takahashi Minami · Maeda Atsuko · Minegishi Minami · Miyazaki Miho
Team K: Oshima Yuko · Ono Erena · Kasai Tomomi · Miyazawa Sae
Team B: Kashiwagi Yuki · Sashihara Rino · Nito Moeno · Watanabe Mayu
SKE48, Team S: Matsui Jurina · Matsui Rena
Kenkyuusei: Komori Mika
- Namida Surprise!
- Shonichi
- FIRST LOVE
General Information
Namida Surprise! is AKB48's 12th Major Single, 14th Overall and the 3rd released under KING RECORDS. Namida Surprise! is a birthday-themed single, and it was the first single ever to include an Kenkyusei Member as Senbatsu of a single. This single's c/w song, Shonichi was the 1# song of the Request Hour Setlist best 100 of 2009.
Sales Information
- Oricon Chart-Run
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Week | Sales |
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x | x | x | x | x | x | x | *** | ***,*** |
x | x | x | x | x | x | x | *** | ***,*** |
x | x | x | x | x | x | x | *** | ***,*** |
x | x | x | x | x | x | x | *** | ***,*** |
x | x | x | x | x | x | x | *** | ***,*** |
Total Reported Sales: ***,***
Total of weeks charting inside Top 200: **
- Chart Records (Oricon)
- 5th best-selling single of July 2009.
- 39th best-selling single of 2009.
- first AKB48 single to rank 2# in both Weekly and Daily Categories of the Oricon Charts.
- first AKB48 Single to sell over 100,000 in its first week.
- following the trend, this single outsold all the previous AKB48 singles only in its first week.
Trivia
- first and only time a solo song was included in an AKB48 Single.
- first and only single to have an illustrated cd cover.
- following Oogoe Diamond and 10nen Zakura, this was the third single in a row to be composed by Inoue Yoshimura.
- the release day of this single happened to be Kitahara Rie's 18th Birthday.
- famous ikemen actor Ito Hideaki appears in the Music Clip.
- this is actually AKB's 2nd birthday-themed song. the first one being A3's Tanjoubi no Yoru.