Sakura no Ki ni Narou

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Promotional Image
CD+DVD Type-A (Limited Edition)
CD+DVD Type-A (Regular Edition)
CD+DVD Type-B (Limited Edition)
CD+DVD Type-B (Regular Edition)
CD Only (Theater Edition)

CD Information

Artist
AKB48
Single
Sakura no Ki ni Narou (桜の木になろう)
Release Date
2011.02.16
Label/Catalog Number/Price
Label: You, Be Cool!/KING RECORDS
KIZM-90081~82 (Limited Edition Type-A, CD+DVD) / ¥1,524
KIZM-81~82 (Regular Edition Type-A, CD+DVD) / ¥1,524
KIZM-90083~84 (Limited Edition Type-B, CD+DVD) / ¥1,524
KIZM-83~84 (Regular Edition Type-B, CD+DVD) / ¥1,524
NMAX-1104 (Theater Edition, CD Only) / ¥1,000

Regular Edition Details

CD
  1. Sakura no Ki ni Narou (桜の木になろう) / Senbatsu
  2. Guuzen no Juujiro (偶然の十字路) / Undergirls
  3. Sakura no Ki ni Narou (off-vocal)
  4. Guuzen no Juujiro (off-vocal)
    • (Type-A) Kiss made no 100 Mile (off-vocal)
    • (Type-K) Area K (off-vocal)
DVD
  1. Sakura no Ki ni Narou Music Video
  2. Guuzen no Juujiro Music Video
    • (Type-A) Bonus Movie: Serious Private-Clothes Fashion Check (Type-A)
    • (Type-B) Bonus Movie: Serious Private-Clothes Fashion Check (Type-B)

Theater Edition Details

CD
  1. Sakura no Ki ni Narou
  2. Guuzen no Juujiro
  3. Ougon Center (黄金センター) / Kenkyuusei
  4. Sakura no Ki ni Narou (off-vocal)
  5. Guuzen no Juujiro (off-vocal)
  6. Ougon Center (off-vocal)

Included Members

"Sakura no Ki ni Narou"

Senbatsu (16 Members) (Maeda Atsuko Center (in italic), Front Members in bold)

"Guuzen no Juujiro"

Undergirls (アンダーガールズ) (18 Members) (Kimoto Kanon & Yokoyama Yui Centers)

"Kiss Made 100 Mile"

MINT (5 Members) (Maeda Atsuko Center)

"Area K"

DIVA (18 Members) (Akimoto Sayaka Center)

"Ougon Center"

Kenkyuusei (研究生) (24 Members) (Takeuchi Miyu Center)

General Information

Sakura no Ki ni Narou is the 20th single released by AKB48 (22th Overall).

The first single of 2011 will be yet another sakura-themed song (桜ソング), with it's main topic being about graduation (卒業ソング). The new graduation-themed song is said to have a completely different feel to the other graduation sakura songs (10nen Zakura, Sakura no Hanabiratachi (+ 2008) and Sakura no Shiori).

Oricon Chart Positions

Date Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Week Sales Releases
11.02.14 -- *1
655,344
*1
101,304
*1
51,196
*1
53,206
*1
30,801
*1
27,180
**1 942,479
11.02.21 *1
11,449
*3
10,743
*3
7,187
*3
4,743
*3
5,156
*3
7,625
*2
7,438
**3 *55,484
11.02.28 *2
4,089
*8 *6 *6 *6 *4 *5 **6 *24,519
11.03.07 *4 14 11 10 *8 *3
1,435
*3
1,694
**8 *11,105
11.03.14 *3
808
*9 11 10 10 *7 *6 **9 **5,973
11.03.21 *4 10 10 *4 *4 *4 *3
1,344
**4 **6,753
11.03.28 *3
992
*5 *5 *5 *5 *6 *3
1,049
**5 **5,987
11.04.04 *5 24 22 19 17 11 *9 *17 **4,794
11.04.11 *7 15 13 11 *9 *7 *8 *11 **7,382
11.04.18 *9 30 25 10 *8 14 13 *14 **3,880
11.04.25 16 ** ** ** 44 45 27 *45 **1,931
11.05.02 34 34 35 27 35 32 31 *34 **2,105
11.05.09 32 ** ** 46 40 39 44 *46 **1,460
11.05.16 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *81 ***,712
11.05.23 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *90 ***,965 Everyday, Katyusha single
11.05.30 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 109 ***,693
11.06.06 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *99 ***,694 Koko ni Ita koto album
11.06.13 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 127 ***,455
11.06.20 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 155 ***,410
11.06.27 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 164 ***,336
11.07.04 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 186 ***,260
OUT 13 weeks Flying Get single
11.10.10 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 196 ***,234
OUT 1 week
11.10.24 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 101 ***,533 Kaze wa Fuiteiru single
11.10.31 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 160 ***,316
OUT 6 weeks Ue Kara Mariko single
11.12.19 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 176 ***,362
11.12.26 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 184 ***,267
12.01.02 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 140 ***,422
12.01.09 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 151 ***,342
12.01.16 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 159 ***,297
12.01.23 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 187 ***,286
12.01.30 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 178 ***,250

Total Reported Sales: 1,081,686*
Total Sales in 2011: 1,079,460
Total Sales in 2012: 2,226
Total of weeks charting inside Top 200: 31

Trivia

  • After Chance no Junban, this single comes back with the same release pattern Beginner introduced of 2 Limited Editions and 2 Regular Editions, with the National Handshaking Events being part of the Limited Editions only.
  • Single was released exactly 1 year after Sakura no Shiori.
  • Following Chance no Junban, the theater edition included once again a new song. brining the total of new songs included in this single to five. This new song was once again a Kenkyuusei original Song.
  • Once again, recognized artists were in charge of the artwork for the single, the covers of the single were designed by the recognized design artist Morimoto Chie (森本千絵) while the PV was directed by the famous director Koreda Hirokazu (是枝裕和).
  • Single was originally planned to have a 21-nin Senbatsu, but was changed later on to the same 16-nin Senbatsu used for Beginner.
  • First time in AKB48 to include the exact same Members as Senbatsu for 2 singles consecutive
  • Second AKB48 Single to ship 1,000,000 copies
  • Outsold Beginner's first week
  • Sold 655,344 copies on its first day of release, which is the most that any artist has sold in a single day until Everyday, Katyusha since Oricon started reporting daily sales in March 2009.
  • Oku Manami's last single.
  • The second AKB48 single to sell 1,000,000 copies, the first being Beginner.
  • "Sakura no Ki ni Narou" was N-TV Drama "Sakura Kara no Tegami ~AKB48 sorezore no Sotsugyou Monogatari~" Theme Song


AKB48 Singles Chronology
Chance no Junban
((2010))
Sakura no Ki ni Narou
(2011)
Everyday, Katyusha
(2011)