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Revision as of 08:00, 29 September 2010

Promotional Picture
Picture: Senbatsu Members


CD+DVD (Regular Edition)
Cover: Front Girls
CD Only (Theatre Edition)
Cover: Front Girls

CD Information

Artist
AKB48
Single
RIVER
Release Date
2009.10.21
Label/Catalog Number/Price
Label: You,Be Cool!/KING RECORDS
KIZM43-44 (Regular Edition, CD+DVD) / ¥1,600
NMAX-1087 (Theatre Edition, CD Only) / ¥1,600
Motto

「向う岸には夢がある。」 ("Mukou Kishi ni wa Yume ga aru.")
Translation: "In the other side of the coast there is a dream."

Regular Edition Details

CD
  1. RIVER / AKB48
  2. Kimi no koto ga suki dakara (君のことが好きだから) / Undergirls (アンダーガールズ)
  3. Hikouki Gumo (Theatre Girls ver.) ひこうき雲(シアターガールズ ver.) / Theater girls (シアターガールズ)
  4. RIVER (off vocal ver.)
  5. Kimi no koto ga suki dakara (off vocal ver.)
DVD
  1. RIVER Music Clip
  2. Kimi no Koto ga Suki dakara Music Clip
  3. Hikouki Gumo (Theater Girls ver.) Music Clip
  4. Bonus Video: Something you want to be told during a date
First Pressing Bonus

-National Handshaking Event ticket (1)
-AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 100 2010 Voting Serial Ticket (1)
-Bonus Store-Exclusive Picture (1)* *external bonus

Theatre Edition Details

CD
  1. RIVER / AKB48
  2. Kimi no Koto ga Suki dakara / Undergirls
  3. Hikouki Gumo (Theatre Girls ver.) / Theater girls 
  4. RIVER (off vocal ver.)
  5. Kimi no koto ga suki dakara (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 (16 Members, Members bloded are part of the front girls of this single)
Team A: Kojima Haruna · Shinoda Mariko · Takahashi Minami · Maeda Atsuko
Team K: Akimoto Sayaka · Itano Tomomi · Oshima Yuko · Ono Erena · Minegishi Minami · Miyazawa Sae
Team B: Kasai Tomomi · Kashiwagi Yuki · Kitahara Rie · Miyazaki Miho· Watanabe Mayu
SKE48, Team S: Matsui Jurina


RIVER
Senbatsu Members

Kimi no Koto ga Suki dakara (Undergirls) (16 Members)
Team A: Oota Aika · Katayama Haruka · Kuramochi Asuka · Sashihara Rino · Takajo Aki · Maeda Ami · Nakagawa Haruka
Team K: Kikuchi Ayaka · Fujie Reina · Nito Moeno
Team B: Oku Manami · Ishida Haruka · Sato Amina · Sato Sumire · Komori Mika
SKE48, Team S: Matsui Rena

Hikouki Gumo (Theatre Girls) (18 Members)
Team A: Iwasa Misaki · Oya Shizuka · Matsubara Natsumi · Nakata Chisato
Team K: Uchida Mayumi · Umeda Ayaka · Tanabe Miku · Matsui Sakiko · Nakatsuka Tomomi · Nakaya Sayaka · Nonaka Misato . Yonezawa Rumi
Team B: Kobayashi Kana · Sato Natsuki · Suzuki Mariya · Chikano Rina · Hirajima Natsumi · Masuda Yuka

General Information

RIVER is AKB48's 14th Major Single, 16th Overall and the 5th released under KING RECORDS. Promoted as an "AKB never seen before", RIVER is an Ouen Song (応援ソング, support song) -a song about never giving up on your dreams and never look back.

This single features all the AKB48 Members speared in all the different tracks of the single. upgrading from Iwake Maybe, this single includes 3 Music Clips -one for each track included. the Undergirls appear again (with a new line-up) and a new unit, Theater Girls was created.

Sales Information

Oricon Chart-Run
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Week Sales
- 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 178,579
5 13 4 11 9 9 8 5 16,943
19 5 27 23 18 22 19 12 9,483
19 48 - - - - - 41 2,556
- - - - - - 44 59 1,895
26 - - 41 39 33 36 41 2,363
22 - - - 36 33 18 37 2,630
46 48 47 38 43 43 19 36 2,078
- - - - - - - 90 787
- - - - - - 29 61 1,091
38 32 35 31 17 12 12 21 5,503
15 17 18 12 19 11 11 *** ***,***
11 35 36 33 27 28 25 30 1,991
27 - - 47 - 40 31 53 1,544
28 - - - - - - 72 1,415
49 - - - - - 44 79 953
- - - - - - - 95 857
- - - - 50 50 46 62 1,169
- - - - - - - 91 914

Total Reported Sales: 232,751
Total of weeks charting inside Top 200: 19


  • Certificated Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ)
  • Certificated Gold in the Chaku-uta full category.


Chart Records (Oricon)
  • 2nd best-selling single of October 2009.
  • 22nd best-selling single of 2010.
  • This single outsold all the singles released before it in its first week.
  • This was the first AKB48 Single to hit 1# in the Oricon Weekly Charts.
  • Surpassing solo singer-songwriter YUI's single "again", this single was the best selling female single of 2009.

Trivia

  • This is the second AKB48 single with an English name. The first one being BINGO!.

Links/Source list