SNH48

SNH48
A concert poster for SNH48 in 2015
Background information
Origin	Shanghai, China
Genres	Pop
Years active	2012 (2012)–present
Labels	Ninestyle Model Agency Ocean Butterflies Music
Associated acts	AKB48 SKE48 SDN48 NMB48 HKT48 NGT48 JKT48 TFR48 FKS48 OSB48 Seine River Stlye-7
Website	www.snh48.com
Members	SNH48 Members

SNH48 (S.N.H. Forty-eight) is a Chinese idol girl group based in Shanghai, China.^[1] It is AKB48’s second sister group outside Japan. Following AKB48's creator Yasushi Akimoto's concept of "idols you can meet", the group features dozens of female members around the age of 20, who perform regularly in the group's own theater and interact with fans predominantly via handshake events.^[2] The first generation of members was announced on October 15, 2012^[2] and included 26 native members and AKB48's Sae Miyazawa and Mariya Suzuki as temporary Japanese members. The group is owned by Chinese companies NineStyle and Star48.^[3]

History

On April 21, 2012, AKS Co., Ltd. and Chinese company Ninestyle jointly announced the establishment of SNH48. A theater is built in Shanghai beginning in October.

Debut

In January 2013 SNH48 debuted in the show "Give Me Power!", with 16 selected members on stage performing the Chinese version of "Heavy Rotation", "River" and "Ponytail to Shushu".^[4] In April MV "River" was released and the group participated in the "2013 Shanghai Strawberry Music Festival".^[5] In June the video for "Let's Become Cherry Blossom Trees" is released,^[6][7] as well as their first EP, "Heavy Rotation" (Traditional Chinese: 無盡旋轉, Simple Chinese: 无尽旋转, Pinyin: Wújìn Xuánzhuǎn).^[8] That same month the group performs overseas for the first time, at the Singapore "Asia Style Collection" Show with AKB48.^[9][10] In July the video for "Ponytail and Scrunchie" was released,^[11] and a month later their second EP, "Flying Get" (Traditional Chinese: 飛翔入手, Simple Chinese: 飞翔入手, Pinyin: Fēixiáng rùshǒu) and SNH48's theater, the Star Dream theater, was opened. In September SNH48 announced the result of their second audition, and 31 new members were added into the group. Mariya Suzuki and Sae Miyazawa made their theater debut in October, after receiving working visa from the Chinese government. In November the group held a concert in Guangzhou with 10,000 audience, and released the third EP, "Fortune Cookie of Love". In December SNH48 signed up for China's Got Talent (5th season).

2014

• Jan 18, held their first "Hongbai Gehui" (known as "Kouhaku Utagassen" in AKB48) in Shanghai^[12] and began their third generation member audition.^[13]
• March 12, released 4th EP "Heart Electric" (Chinese: 心电感应(心電感應), Pinyin: Xīndiàn gǎnyìng).^[14]
• Apr 1, announced that a "general election" will be held in May, which will decide the lineup of the group's next CD release through votes from fans.^[15]
• May 10, the first ever annual "General Election" of the group started, running for 76 days as total. On the same day, the first album called "一心向前" released, sold online for voting only. The general album released one week later.
• July 26, the winner of the "General Election" announced - Wu Zhehan; the lineup of the group's 5th single determined.
• August 8, the fourth audition kicked off. The next set of members will enter the group next year.
• August 21, it was announced that the theater will be shortly closed for upgrading reasons. The theater was to be reopened on September 5, 2014, with the Top 16 of the annual election's brand-new show.
• September 5, it was announced by A Ji, the presenter of SNHello, that the third generation (except for one) was split into three teams - Team SII, Team NII, and brand-new Team HII. The split result was determined and announced right after the special stage show featuring the 2014 General Election's top 16.
• October 12, released the fifth single "UZA". The "Request Time" live concert will be held on January 31, 2015 in Shanghai Indoor Stadium. All the song appeared on that live concert are determined by televoting.
• December 18–28, Team SII and Team NII took a national tour, including five major Chinese cities - Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

2015

• January 5, established the official mobile app "Pocket 48".
• January 8, according to the official website, Xu Yanyu was expelled from SNH48, her job as Captain was suspended. Xu was the first ever captain to be expelled due to breaking the rules of SNH48 members.
• January 31, held a concert in Shanghai Indoor Stadium entitled "SNH48 Request Time BEST 30".
• February 13, Team NII and Team HII's new captains revealed in the SNH48 Theatre - Feng Xinduo and Wang Lu, with co-captains Huang Tingting and Wu Yanwen in the respective teams. At the same time, 2014 General Election winner, after Team NII's Li Xuan's branch of the rules of SNH48 members, Wu Zhehan (scored out below) was expelled from Team SII, dropped out to 4th Generation members and became the second SNH48 member who had private contact with fans. She is also the first General Election podium place winner ever in 48-group history to be transferred to Kenkyusei. However, according to the official website, she was allowed to return to Team SII on May 7, 2015.
• March 12, it was confirmed that Team HII member Yang Yinyu would "unofficially" graduate from SNH48 on March 15, 2015. Three days later, Yang Yinyu stated that she was graduated, still under confirmation by the officials.
• March 18, the 5th Generation member's audition started; 24 members made their departure to Saipan, United States for filming their latest music video.
• March 28, released the 7th single "After Rain" (Chinese:雨季之后).
• April 24, Team NII started showing their 4th Stage theater performance "Wo de TaiYang" (Boku no Taiyou) which has also been performed by AKB48 Himawari-gumi 1st Stage, Team 4 1st Stage, 6th Generation Research Students 1st Stage, SKE48 Team E 3rd Stage, and JKT48 Team KIII 2nd Stage.
• May 20, the voting time period of the SNH48 Senbatsu "General Election" 2015 started. This year, the results will be counted to the nearest 0.1 votes, as a result of the introduction of voting via the official mobile app.
• June 22, the first edition of documentary for SNH48 showed to the public at the SNH48 theatre.
• July 25, SNH48's second Senbatsu Election's results revealed at Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai, China. Zhao Jiamin won the title for the first time.
• August 25 - Early September, Top 16 of 2015 Senbatsu Election started the filming of their brand-new music video in Paris, France and Prague, Czech Republic.
• October 31, for the very first time, the group presented their first own fashion show - "SNH48年度风尚大赏" at the Redtown in central Shanghai.

Members

Team SII

• Their team color is Blue. They currently have 26 members. Though, 1 has announced graduation.

Team NII

• Their team color is Purple. They currently have 21 members.

Team HII

• Their team color is Orange. They currently have 19 members.

Team X

• Their team color is Light Green. They currently have 17 members.

Team XII

• Their team color is Forest Green. They currently have 35 members. Though, 1 has announced graduation.

Former regular members

Contract students

Contract students were all graduated, but still have their profile on the SNH48 official site. On 13 December 2015,all Contract students's profile deleted, that means all Contract students formal graduated.

Kenkyūsei

General Elections history

2014

Each copy of the album "一心向前" contained vouchers with up to 48 codes that could be used to vote for members online. The Top 16 would be the lineup for the next single "UZA(呜吒)", whose music video would be filmed in Seoul, South Korea later. The winning member would lead the single as "center".

2015 General Election

Before the 2015 edition of SNH48 General Election, the two overseas members of the group, Miyazawa Sae and Mariya Suzuki, withdrew from this election.

On June 24, 2015, Team HII's member Li Qingyang decided that she would leave SNH48 and withdraw from this election, despite having obtained a considerable number of votes. Should Li Qingyang reaches the leaderboard, she will be removed from it, and all the subsequent places (including 33rd place) will move forward into the Top 32. This table shows the leaderboard as it was at 10:00 (UTC+8) on July 1, 2015, and it may be changed before the final results revealed. "N/A" refers to the fact that this member did not be a member of SNH48 in Summer 2014. Voting time period of this edition won't be over until 10:00 (UTC+8) on July 25, 2015; rank left blank refers to the results that this member did not qualify for the official Top 32.

Final Result

The concert of Senbatsu Sousenkyo Final Announcent -SNH48 9th Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo (MengXiang GaoFei)- was held in the Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai on 25 July 2015.

Discography

EPs

• 1st EP: "Heavy Rotation" (Chinese: 无尽旋转, Pinyin: Wújìn Xuánzhuǎn) - Released on June 13, 2013
• 2nd EP: "Flying Get" (Chinese: 飞翔入手, Pinyin: Fēixiáng rùshǒu) - Released on August 2, 2013
• 3rd EP: "Fortune Cookie of Love" (Chinese: 爱的幸运曲奇 , Pinyin: Ài de xìngyùn qū qí) - released on November 25, 2013 (Beijing) and November 29, 2013 (Shanghai)
• 4th EP: "Heart Electric" (Chinese: 心电感应 , Pinyin: Xīndiàn gǎnyìng) - Released on 12 March 2014
• 5th EP: "UZA" (Chinese: 呜吒) - Released on October 12, 2014
• 6th EP: "Give Me Five!"(Chinese: 青春的约定) - Released on January 15, 2015
• 7th EP: "After Rain"(Chinese: 雨季之后) - Released on March 28, 2015
• 8th EP: "Manatsu no Sounds Good!"(Chinese: 盛夏好声音) - Released on May 15, 2015
• 9th EP: "Halloween Night"(Chinese: 万圣节之夜) - Released on October 12, 2015
• 10th EP: "New Year's Bell"(Chinese: 新年的钟声) - Released on December 28, 2015

Albums

• 1st EP: " Mae Shika Mukanee"(Chinese: 一心向前) - Released on May 10, 2014

Concerts

Sub-unit

Seine River

Seine River was formed as a first sub-unit of SNH48. The members of this group are from the top 3 winners from the SNH48 9th Single "Halloween Night". The members are :

• Zhao Jiamin
• Ju Jingyi
• Li Yitong

Their first single "Sweet & Bitter" (苦与甜) was release on 31 October 2015.

Style-7

The members are :

• Xu Jiaqi
• Wang Lu
• Wu ZheHan
• Zeng Yanfen
• Zhang Yuge
• Dai Meng
• Qiu Xinyi

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Official website (Chinese)