The first part will be a live concert which all AKB48 groups appear (will begin at 3:00 pm), and the second part will be the event for the results of the vote count (will begin at 5:30 pm). On January 26, it has been announced that AKB48 groups will reshuffle for the third time since in 2012. On February 24, AKB48 group's big team shuffle "On May 25, 2014, during a handshake event held at the Iwate Industry Culture & Convention Center in Takizawa City, members On June 2, the AKB48 theater resumed operation. The third team of AKB48, On November 3rd and 4th, 2006, AKB48 performed their first concert In December 2006, the first change was made to the three teams. When asked about it by CNN's Anna Coren, AKB48 founder Yasushi Akimoto, who also writes all of AKB48's song lyrics, said that his works were a way of "depicting reality" and were meant to provoke in listeners thought about difficult issues. The team shuffle was announced during the encore at the 4th day of the "AKB48 Request Hour Set List Best 200 2014" held at the Tokyo Dome City Hall on January 26. The two groups are as follows (☆ denotes a girl who has graduated, and ☆☆ changed teams, since the announcement was made): AKB48 had their United States debut concert at Webster Hall in New York on September 27, 2009.
This brought their combined single sales to over 36,158,000 single albums sold, making them the artist with the highest number of single album sales in Japan, surpassing rock group B'z In the second week of January 2013, the group came under fire when an image that showed a boy's hands covering a topless Tomomi Kasai's breasts was intended to be published in In February 2013, member Minami Minegishi appeared in a YouTube video with a shaved head to apologize after it was reported by a tabloid that she had spent a night with a man in violation of her contract. The event was broadcast live from Fukuoka Dome on Fuji TV, which reported an average viewer rating of 18.8% with a peak of 23.4%.
On December 8, 2010, AKB48 celebrated its 5th anniversary in the theater with a special performance by all members, as well as returning graduates. Several of the members were shuffled temporarily to AKB48's overseas sister groups. "Heavy Rotation" music video director Mika Ninagawa explained she wanted to appeal to both men and women by creating a creative and fun video, due to the group's rising popularity among girls.
The On New Year's Day of 2013, AKB48 released the Studio Recordings Collection. AKB48 are a Japanese idol girl group formed in January 8th, 2005. On March 25, 2012, it was announced that On June 14, 2012, On August 24, 2012, AKB48 had another team shuffle since August 2009. Mari Yamaguchi of Associated Press wrote that the "performances can seem orchestrated. This is followed by a 2nd performance also in Singapore at the Singapore Toy Games & Comics Convention.
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These changes are in effect starting November 1st. No more official announcements have been made on this matter since then, and it is widely believed that this idea has been scrapped.