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Chapter 658 AKB Exploding in Popularity
"You said, when will we debut?!"

"You ask me, how do I know?"

This kind of dialogue has become one of the daily routines of Mai Shiraishi, Nanami Hashimoto, and Nanase Nishino.

Especially watching AKB gradually becoming popular, and the three of them aiming to become top idols, they feel that their efforts seem to be meaningless. . .

In more than a year of all-round training, the background songs used by the three to practice dancing are often singles from AKB.

"Loud Diamond", "RIVER", "Ponytail and Hair Circle". . .

After the release of "Heavy Rotation" last month, it was soon added to the luxury package of "Baiqiao Qiqi Dance Practice Background Song".

The more amazing the results of "Heavy Rotation", the more depressing it was for the three who hadn't debuted yet.

Obviously their dancing and singing skills are not much worse than those of Atsuko Maeda, Yuko Oshima and others on stage. . .

Then why, they can freely sway their youth on the glamorous stage, but they are practicing hard day after day in the practice room? !
They also want to stand on the stage, dance and sing!
In fact, they also thought about it, if Kiyoshi Sakamoto wanted them to become top idols, would he arrange for them to join the currently explosively popular AKB as X-term students?
Arranging a few people to join AKB is a trivial matter for Sakamoto Kiyoshi, who was once AKB's music producer and has a very good relationship with Akimoto Yasushi.

However, judging from Sakamoto Kiyoshi's answer, this is just a wrong guess. . .

Under Xiaoqiao's repeated inquiries, Sakamoto Kiyoshi finally revealed a few words about "Nogizaka 46".

"You will not join AKB, you will be the core members of a new idol group!"

New idol group? !
Core member? !
Such an answer somewhat reduced the doubts and uneasiness in the hearts of the three of them.

However, in this answer, there is still no debut date that they are most concerned about.

However, this can't stop the three of them from chatting about that "new combination" during their break

"What do you think our combination will be like?" Leaning on Hashimoto Nanami and embracing Nishino Nanase, the "winner in life" Mai Shiraishi, with a little confusion about the future in his tone, "Is it a group with only a few members like Momoiro Clover, or a large group like Morning Musume and AKB..."

After gently pushing Mai Shiraishi, Nanami Hashimoto gave up when she found it couldn't be pushed, and replied in a flat tone, "Maybe only Oni-chan knows about this..."

Nishino Nanase on the side listened to the conversation between the two sisters without saying a word, feeling thoughtful.

. . .

Among the music newcomers who debuted in 2010, there is such an idol girl group that has attracted much attention.

That is, Momoiro Clover Z, an idol girl group affiliated to Stardust Promotion Entertainment Division 3, a famous agency!

Momoiro Clover Z takes Japanese style as the theme and "Weekend Girl" as the promotional slogan. On May 2010, 5, through Universal Music, they released their first regular single "Let's Go!""Phantom Thief Girl", making her mainstream debut!
On the first day of release, it won the first place in the Oricon public trust list!
The menacing Momoko showed a different idol style from AKB when he debuted for the first time.

Not only Momoiro Clover Z, who is regarded as AKB48's biggest rival, debuted this year, even Amuse's "growth-limited group" Sakura Academy was officially formed this year!
And seeing these girls who are younger than myself make their debut one after another, not to mention Mai Shiraishi, who is already 18 years old, and Nishino Nanase, who was born in 1994, also felt the idea of ​​​​"debuting". Deep urgency!
In fact, since AKB48 came back to life with the song "Loud Diamond", the gold-absorbing ability of idol girl groups seems to have once again attracted the attention of major agencies.

The last group that made them so excited was Morning Musume in 1997!
As a result, it seems that the major firms have discussed together and launched their own idol girl groups one after another, kicking off the prelude to the idol warring states. . .

All kinds of idol girl groups emerge in endlessly.

Of course, AKB48 has gradually become the leader of these idol girl groups under the strategizing of Yasushi Akimoto.

2010 can be said to be the year when AKB48's popularity exploded.

As of September, AKB released three singles in 9, "桜の栞", "ポニーテールとシュシュ" and "Heavy Rotation".

The initial sales of "Sakura no Shiori" broke the record of 30 sales held by Morning Musume, and the final sales exceeded 40!
"ポニーテールとシュシュ" broke through 50 copies at the beginning, and the cumulative sales reached 74!
If you want to talk about the impact on AKB, you still have to count "Heavy Rotation".

The cumulative sales volume of 88 is just a small push to push AKB to become a national idol. The place where "Heavy Rotation" exerts its full energy is one of the places that Japanese people like very much, karaoke!

Maybe only Kiyoshi Sakamoto knows that since the song "Heavy Rotation" topped the Oricon Oricon Weekly Karaoke Chart on November 11st, this song has not left the top spot for the next 1 consecutive weeks !

Until June 2012, 6, this song broke the record held by GReeeeN's "キセキ" with a proud record of 6 weeks, and became the song with the most weekly crowns on the Oricon Oricon Karaoke Weekly Chart!

It is worthy of the name of "Demon Single"!
The popularity of karaoke is just a footnote of AKB48 slowly becoming a national idol.

Of course, those are later stories.

But, at least now, everyone in the entertainment industry knows that the man (fat man) who founded the "Kitten Club" back then has returned with a new generation of "Kitten Club"!
This time, it was not so easy to deal with. . .

"correct!"

Suddenly, while chatting, seemed to think of something, Shiraishi Mai suddenly jumped up from the ground, and said excitedly: "Sakamoto-kun seems to be in the company today!"

"How about we go ask him together?"

As for the question, of course it is that, the question that has been asked countless times: When will we debut?
Nanami Hashimoto, who was stimulated by Momoiro Clover, Sakura Gakuin, and AKB, also thought for a few seconds, then nodded and said, "Well, let's go together!"

As for Nishino Nanase, she also stood up from the floor and expressed her thoughts with actions.

The three girls, who were eagerly looking for answers, changed into a set of clean clothes and walked towards the elevator together.

The destination is the office of the Director of Operations!
(End of this chapter)