Bingo! (AKB48 song) explained

Bingo!
Cover:AKB48Bingo.jpg
Type:single
Artist:AKB48
B-Side:Only Today
Genre:Pop
Length:4:09
Label:Defstar
Producer:Yasushi Akimoto
Prev Title:Keibetsu Shiteita Aijō
Prev Year:2007
Next Title:Boku no Taiyō
Next Year:2007

Bingo! (stylised as BINGO!) is Japanese idol group AKB48's sixth single, and the fourth major single released through DefSTAR Records, on July 18, 2007.[1]

Promotion

The music video was filmed by the same director filmed "Seifuku ga Jama o Suru", although the theme is totally different. All 46 members of AKB48 participated in the video clip, filmed in Onjuku, Chiba and Makuhari Messe.

Each CD also includes 2 DVDs, one is video clip and the other is "Making of "Bingo!".[2]

Sony Music offered high resolution closeup portraits of the 18 Senbatsu members as wallpaper downloads on their website for the limited duration of 36 hours after the song's release.

Reception

The single charted 5 weeks in the top 200 with the highest rank at #6, then-highest ever record for AKB48.[3] "Bingo!" sold 25,611 copies.

Charts

Reported sales

Personnel

Center: Minami Takahashi, Atsuko Maeda

The title track was sung by 18 members, including 3 members chosen from Team B. It was also the debut for then-youngest member Manami Oku.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AKB48公式サイト|ディスコグラフィー . AKS . Japanese . 2011-04-25 . 2011-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110422015724/http://akb48.co.jp/disc/ . dead .
  2. Web site: AKB48 Bingo! 【初回生産限定盤】. Japanese. Sony Music Japan. 2011-04-26.
  3. Web site: アーティスト&楽曲検索 Bingo!. Oricon . Japanese. 2011-04-26.
  4. Web site: Bingo! AKB48's impressive show of numbers. supermerlion. 2011-04-26. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110830064659/http://supermerlion.com/bingo%21/. 2011-08-30.