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Regular Edition cover |
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| Single by AKB48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Kamikyokutachi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Kimi no Koto ga Suki Dakara" "Hikōkigumo (Theater Girls Ver.)" |
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| Released | October 21, 2009 (Japan) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD Single | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | J-pop | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 21:43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | You! Be Cool/King Records | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Yasushi Akimoto, Yoshimasa Inoue | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Yasushi Akimoto | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Certification | Platinum (RIAJ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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"River" is the 14th major single by the Japanese idol group AKB48, released on October 21, 2009.[1][2][3] It was the first AKB48's single to top the Oricon weekly singles chart,[4][5] having sold 179,000 copies in its first week.[6] Thus it became the group's best selling single, beating "Namida Surprise!", which by then had sold 144,000 copies in 18 weeks.[6]
The music video was filmed at Iruma Air Base.
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The single was released in two versions: Regular Edition (通常盤) (CD+DVD, catalog number KIZM-43/4) and Theater Edition (劇場盤) (CD only, catalog number NMAX-1087).
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Arranger | Length | |||||
| 1. | "River" | Yasushi Akimoto, Yoshimasa Inoue | Yoshimasa Inoue | ||||||
| 2. | "Kimi no Koto ga Suki Dakara ) / Under Girls" (君のことが好きだから / アンダーガールズ "Because I love you") | Yasushi Akimoto, Tetsurō Oda | Yūichi "Masa" Nonaka | ||||||
| 3. | "Hikōkigumo (Theater Girls Ver.) / Theater Girls" (ひこうき雲（シアターガールズver.） / シアターガールズ) | Yasushi Akimoto, Hideki Naruse | Yūichi "Masa" Nonaka | ||||||
| 4. | "River (off vocal ver.)" | Akimoto, Inoue | |||||||
| 5. | "Kimi no Koto ga Suki Dakara (off vocal ver.)" | Akimoto, Oda | |||||||
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Total length:
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21:43 | ||||||||
| DVD | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "River (music video)" | ||||||||
| 2. | "Kimi no Koto ga Suki Dakara (music video)" | ||||||||
| 3. | "Hikōkigumo (Theater Girls ver.) (music video)" | ||||||||
| 4. | "Shifuku no Toki Special ~Date no Toki ni Iwaretai Hitokoto~" (私服のときスペシャル ～デートの時に言われたい一言～ "Informal clothes special ~A word I want to say on a date~") | ||||||||
Bonus (First press limited edition only)
See Regular Edition CD
(Team affiliation at the time of the release.)
Sembatsu members:
(Front members are in bold, Center: Minami Takahashi, Atsuko Maeda)
Under Girls:
(Front members are in bold, Center: Aki Takajō)
Theater Girls:
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
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| Japan (Oricon Weekly Singles Chart) | 1 |
| Japan (Japan Hot 100)[7] | 2 |
| Japan (RIAJ Digital Track Chart) | 17 |
| Preceded by "My Lonely Town" by B'z |
Japanese Oricon Chart number one single November 2, 2009 |
Succeeded by "Swan Song" by KinKi Kids |
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