– also commonly abridged/known as or – is the 34th

single Single may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Single (music), a song release Songs * "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004 * "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008 * "Single" (William Wei song), 2016 * "Single", by ...

by the

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girl group A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with it ...

. It was released in Japan on December 11, 2013. The single placed fourth on the Japanese

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...

year-end chart for 2014, with 1,086,491 copies sold in Japan as of December 20, 2014.

Title

The Japanese title of the single is 76 characters long. Due to the length of the title, its name was orally shortened to at the group's performance at the

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, aired on their weekly show on

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and in other instances to .

Composition and recording

The track was composed by

Tetsurō Oda is a Japanese composer, record producer, and singer-songwriter. Oda gained prominence as a songwriter in Japan during the late 1980s. He composed over 50 top-ten hit singles on the Japanese Oricon chart during the 1990s, including 12 that have ...

. The 16 members to participate in the recording of the title track were selected in a

rock–paper–scissors Rock paper scissors (also known by other orderings of the three items, with "rock" sometimes being called "stone," or as Rochambeau, roshambo, or ro-sham-bo) is a hand game originating in China, usually played between two people, in which each p ...

tournament, held among the members of AKB48 and its sister groups on September 18, 2013, at

Nippon Budokan The , often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics. While its primary purpose is to host martial arts con ...

Release and reception

The song was premiered live at the Best Hit Song Festival 2013 on November 21, 2013. The single was released on 11 December 2013 in five versions: Type A, Type S, Type N, Type H, and a "theater edition". According to

, in the first week of release the single sold 1,033,336 copies in Japan, which placed it first on the Oricon Weekly CD Singles chart. The single placed fourth on the

year-end chart for 2014, with 1,086,491 copies sold in the country as of December 20. In 2015, the song placed 1st at the Request Hour Setlist 1035, a series of concerts held in

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between January 21 and 25 of that year.

Track listings

The CD tracks 1–2, 4–5 and the DVD tracks 1–3 are the same for all editions. The Theater Edition does not include a DVD.

Type A

Type S

Type N

Type H

Theater Edition

Personnel

Suzukake no Ki no Michi de ... Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono

The members who are participated in the recording were determined by the 2013 AKB48 Rock-paper-scissors Tournament. Each participant is listed with her placement result. Center:

Jurina Matsui is a Japanese Television personalities in Japan, TV personality, singer, actress, and YouTuber. She is a former member of Japanese idol girl group SKE48 and former concurrent member of AKB48 (in 2012–2015). She is recognized as SKE48's absolut ...

* Team A: Ayaka Kikuchi (8), Yukari Sasaki (14), Yūka Tano (7) * Team K:

Maria Abe AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with i ...

(5),

Rie Kitahara is a Japanese singer and actress formerly associated with the Japanese idol girl group NGT48 and former member of AKB48 and SKE48. She debuted in 2008 in Team A and was later co-captain of Team K (2014). In March 2015, it was announced Kitahara wo ...

(10), Rina Hirata (3) * Team B:

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(9), Wakana Natori (6),

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(11) * Kenkyūsei: Mizuki Tsuchiyasu (13), Ami Yumoto (16) * Team B / SKE48 Team KII:

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(4) *

SKE48 SKE48 (S.K.E. Forty-eight) is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. SKE48 is named after the Sakae district in Nagoya of Aichi Prefecture, where the group is based. The group performs at SKE48 Theater on 2F of Sunshine Sakae, a s ...

Team S / AKB48 Team K:

(1) * SKE48 Team E / AKB48 Team K:

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(15) * NMB48 Team BII: Emika Kamieda (2) *

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Kenkyūsei: Mizuki Uno (12)

Mosh & Dive

Source: King Records * Team A:

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Minami Takahashi is a Japanese idol, singer, tarento and a former member of the Japanese girl idol group AKB48. She is in Team A of AKB48. She became the first of AKB48 and its sister groups. In an interview with Nippon Television in June 2010, AKB48 produce ...

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Mayu Watanabe is a Japanese former idol, singer, actress, and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48 under Team B. In the annual AKB48 General Elections event, she had consistently been voted by fans to rank among the group's top members. She has ...

* Team K:

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Asuka Kuramochi is a singer, actress, and a former member of the idol group AKB48 under Team K. Career 2007 * On May 27, she passed AKB48 first trainee audition (AKB48 第一回研究生（4期生）オーディション). 2008 * On March 4, it was a ...

Mariya Nagao is a Japanese television personality and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. Nagao is represented by Irving. Career Mariya Nagao joined AKB48 as a 9th generation trainee in late 2009. On December 8, 2010, together with Mina ...

Tomu Mutō is a Japanese idol and singer, and a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is a member of AKB48's Team K. She is an alumna of Seijo University, where she studied economics and also earned her postgraduate degree, as well as a certi ...

* Team B:

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Yuki Kashiwagi is a Japanese idol and singer. She is a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48 and a former member of NMB48 and NGT48. She auditioned for AKB48 on December 3, 2006, and is now a member of AKB48's Team B. She was previously the captain of T ...

Rena Katō is a Japanese tarento, model, and actress. She is a former member of the Japanese female idol group AKB48, and was in Team A. She was also a member, along with her good friends Anna Iriyama and Rina Kawaei, of a one-shot AKB48 subunit named AnRi ...

Haruna Kojima is a Japanese actress, model, and former singer. From 2005 to 2017, she was a member of idol group AKB48 under Team A. Career Kojima was born in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, and started her career as a member of Angel Eyes, an ido ...

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* Team 4: Saho Iwatate,

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, Yuiri Murayama * Team B / NMB48 Team N:

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Miyuki Watanabe is a former member of multiple Japanese idol girl groups. She is a former member of NMB48's Team BII, and a former member of SKE48's Team S. She was also on AKB48 Team B. Career Watanabe passed NMB48's first-generation auditions on 20 Septem ...

Team KII:

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* SKE48 Team E:

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Team N:

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Team H / AKB48 Team A:

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* HKT48 Team H:

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Team J / AKB48 Team B:

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Party is over

Sung by AKB48. Center: Nana Owada * Team A:

* Team K:

* Team B:

* Team 4:

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* AKB48 Kenkyūsei:

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Escape

Sung by SKE48. Center: Mizuho Yamada * SKE48 Team S: Anna Ishida, Masana Ōya,

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, Yūka Nakanishi, Manatsu Mukaida * SKE48 Team S / AKB48 Team K:

* SKE48 Team KII:

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, Airi Furukawa, Mizuho Yamada * SKE48 Team KII / AKB48 Team B:

* SKE48 Team E:

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, Nanako Suga,

* SKE48 Team E / AKB48 Team K:

* SKE48 Kenkyūsei: Ryōha Kitagawa

Kimi to Deatte Boku wa Kawatta

Sung by NMB48. The center for this song was Nagisa Shibuya. * Team B / NMB48 Team N:

* NMB48 Team N: Mayu Ogasawara, Riho Kotani, Kei Jonishi,

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* NMB48 Team M: Yui Takano,

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* NMB48 Team M / AKB48 Team A: Fūko Yagura * NMB48 Team BII: Yūka Kato, Emika Kamieda,

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* NMB48 Kenkyūsei:

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Wink wa Sankai

Sung by HKT48 Center: Nako Yabuki * Team A / HKT48 Team H:

* HKT48 Team H:

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, Serina Kumazawa,

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, Natsumi Matsuoka,

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, Aoi Motomura, Madoka Moriyasu * HKT48 Kenkyūsei: Kanna Okada,

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, Mai Fuchigami,

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Title

Composition and recording

Release and reception

Track listings

Type A

Type S

Type N

Type H

Theater Edition

Personnel

Suzukake no Ki no Michi de ... Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono

Mosh & Dive

Party is over

Escape

Kimi to Deatte Boku wa Kawatta

Wink wa Sankai

Charts

Billboard charts

Oricon charts

Release history

References

Release information

Other references

External links