Chance no Junban

"Chance no Junban"

Type A cover, featuring Sumire Sato, Haruka Nakagawa, Haruka Ishida, Mayumi Uchida, Haruna Kojima, and Ami Maeda.
Single by AKB48
from the album Koko ni Ita Koto
B-side "Yoyaku shita Christmas"
"Kurumi to Dialogue"
"Alive"
"Love Jump"
"Fruit Snow"
Released December 8, 2010 (2010-12-08)
Format CD Single, digital download
Recorded 2010
Genre J-pop
Length 04:19
Label King Records/You! Be Cool
Writer(s) Yasushi Akimoto
Producer Yasushi Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
"Beginner"
(2010)		 "Chance no Junban"
(2010)		 "Sakura no Ki ni Narō"
(2011)
Music video
"Chance no Junban" on YouTube

"Chance no Junban" (チャンスの順番 "The Order of Chance"?) is Japanese idol girl group AKB48's 19th single, released on December 8, 2010.

Contents

Release Information

At the end of the last day of AKB48's July concerts held in Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, it was announced that the senbatsu line-up for the 19th single will be decided in a bracketed, single knockout tournament of Rock-Paper-Scissors/janken between all members of AKB48 and four representatives of research students also decided by janken. The top 16 in that tournament will become the new senbatsu for the 19th single, with top 12 becoming media senbatsu members and the overall winner will also be awarded with center position. Due to a last minute graduation of Team K member Erena Ono, the field ultimately consisted of 51 members. The actual tournament was later held in Nippon Budokan on September 21, and was won by Team K's Mayumi Uchida, thus becoming the new center for Chance no Junban.

Chance no Junban was released in four different versions and cover variations, with the theater version being exclusively sold in the AKB48 theater in Akihabara, Tokyo. Versions A, K, and B contained a different third track aside from the title track and "Yoyaku shita Christmas", which was performed by one of the respective teams of AKB48. The theater version included a third track that was performed by Team Research Students. In addition to including their respective music videos, versions A, K, and B also included footages of the janken tournament that took place in Budokan in September. All first press releases was enclosed with a handshaking event ticket, to be redeemed later in national handshaking tours held across Japan in promotion of the single release.

Chance no Junban was able to sell 471,242 copies in its first day on the top of the Oricon daily charts[1], and went on to sell 54,780 more on the second day This makes Chance no Junban the 6th consecutive number one daily single for AKB48 on the Oricon. The single has been certified triple platinum by the RIAJ for physical sales.[2]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto. 

Type A
No. Title Music Length
1. "Chance no Junban" (チャンスの順番 "The Order of Chance") Yuko Konishi 4:19
2. "Yoyaku shita Christmas" (予約したクリスマス "Promised Christmas") Tsukasa Nakagawa 4:13
3. "Kurumi to Dialogue" (胡桃とダイアローグ "Walnut and Dialogue", performed by Team A) PJ 3:20
4. "Chance no Junban" (Off Vocal Ver.) Y. Konishi 4:19
5. "Yoyaku shita Christmas" (Off Vocal Ver.) T. Nakagawa 4:13
6. "Kurumi to Dialogue" (Off Vocal Ver.) PJ 3:20

Contributing members

Chance no Junban

(Bold indicates front members who appears on the cover of theater version of the single, number in brackets denotes final placements in the Janken Tournament)

Only 4 senbatsu members who appear in this single have appeared in the senbatsu lineup for the last single, Beginner (Haruna Kojima, Takajo, Atsuko Maeda, Kasai). Nakagawa made her return to senbatsu since last making it in Heavy Rotation. Kuramochi has not appeared in senbatsu since Iiwake Maybe, the 13th single. Kana Kobayashi and Natsuki Sato both reappeared in senbatsu after an absence of 3 years and 8 months (since the 3rd single, Keibetsu Shiteita Aijō). Finally, other members such as Uchida, Ami Maeda, Tanabe, Nakatsuka, Sakiko Matsui, Ishida, Sumire Sato, and Chikano are making their first senbatsu appearance in an AKB48 single.

Yoyaku shita Christmas

Kurumi to Dialogue

Performed by Team A

(Bold indicates center member)

Alive

Performed by Team K

(Bold indicates center members)

Love Jump

Performed by Team B

(Bold indicates center members)

Fruit Snow

Performed by Team Research Students

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Oricon Daily singles[1] 1
Oricon weekly singles[3] 1
Oricon monthly singles[4] 3
Oricon yearly singles[5] 8

Chart precession and succession

Preceded by
"Family (Hitotsu ni Naru Koto)" by KinKi Kids		 Oricon weekly number-one single
December 20, 2010		 Succeeded by
"Arigatō (Sekai no Doko ni Ite mo)" by Hey! Say! JUMP
Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one single
December 20, 2010

References

  1. ^ a b "AKB48、じゃんけん選抜シングルが初日首位" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2010-12-09. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/82863/. Retrieved 2010-12-10. 
  2. ^ "ゴールド等認定作品一覧　2010年12月 [Works Receiving Certifications List (Gold, etc) (December 2010)]" (in Japanese). RIAJ. January 14, 2011. http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201012.html. Retrieved January 14, 2011. 
  3. ^ "AKB48、ピンク・レディー以来32年ぶりシングル年間5作首位" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2010-12-14. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/82953/full/. Retrieved 2010-12-14. 
  4. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named monthly_single; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  5. ^ "2010年オリコン年間ランキング　シングル" (in Japanese). Oricon. http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/2010/musicrank1220/index02.html. Retrieved 2010-12-20. 
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