is the fifth single by the Japanese girl

idol Idol or Idols may refer to: Religion and philosophy * Cult image, a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents * Murti, a devotional image of a deity or saint used during puja ...

group

HKT48 HKT48 (read "H.K.T. Forty-eight") is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. HKT48 is named after the Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Hakata-ku ward of Fukuoka, where Akimoto originally intended to base the group. The group currently performs at ...

, released in Japan on April 22, 2015. It reached number one on the

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that ...

weekly singles chart. As of June 1, 2015, it had sold 296,698 copies.

Details

The centers in the title song are

Haruka Kodama is a Japanese actress and former member of the idol girl groups HKT48 and AKB48. In HKT48, she was a member of Team H. She has been the lead performer of three HKT48 singles: "Hikaeme I Love You!" (2014), "12 Byō" (2015, with Sakura Miyawaki), ...

and

Sakura Miyawaki Sakura Miyawaki (born March 19, 1998), also known mononymously as Sakura, is a Japanese singer and actress based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Le Sserafim, and a former member of South Korean-Japanese girl group ...

had previously had the center position in a HKT48 single (in the 4th single "

Hikaeme I Love You! , literally "Carefully I Love You!", is the 4th single by Japanese idol girl group HKT48. It was released on September 24, 2014. It debuted in number one on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music indust ...

"), while for

(who had already been a center in

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48 has sold more records than any other female musical act in Japanese history. AK ...

's 38th single "

Kibōteki Refrain is the 38th single by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. The personnel that were chosen to sing in the song was revealed during the group's fifth rock-paper-scissors tournament. The song premiered during All Star Kanshasai 2014 on TV channel TBS ...

", together with

Mayu Watanabe is a Japanese former singer and actress. Watanabe started her career as a member of the 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 membe ...

), it was the first center position in a single by HKT48.

Track listing

Type A

Type B

Type C

Theater Edition

Members

; "Hohoemi Popcorn" Performed by . * Team H:

Miku Tanaka HKT48 (read "H.K.T. Forty-eight") is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. HKT48 is named after the Hakata-ku ward of Fukuoka, where Akimoto originally intended to base the group. The group currently performs at City Bank HKT48 Thea ...

Nako Yabuki is a Japanese actress and former singer. She is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group HKT48 and the South Korean-Japanese girl group Iz*One, having finished sixth in the competition television show ''Produce 48''. As an actress, she i ...

* Team Kenkyūsei: Misaki Aramaki,

Sae Kurihara SAE or Sae may refer to: Science, technology, and medicine : * Selective area epitaxy, local growth of epitaxial layer through a patterned dielectric mask deposited on a semiconductor substrate * Sepsis-associated encephalopathy, neurological co ...

, Erena Sakamoto, Riko Tsutsui, Hazuki Hokazono, Yūna Yamauchi, Emili Yamashita ;"Daite Twintails" Performed by . * Team H :

Yui Kojina Yui may refer to: People *Yui (name), a Japanese name *Yui people or Ibi, a Timucuan-speaking people in what now is Georgia, United States Places *Yui, Shizuoka, a former town located in Shizuoka, Japan *Yui Station, a railway station on the Tōka ...

, Hiroka Komada, Riko Sakaguchi * Team Kenkyūsei : Misaki Aramaki,

Charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

Profile
on the HKT48 official website * Music videos on

YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...

*
"12 Byō" (short version)
*
"12 Byō" (full length version)
*
"Chameleon Joshikōsei" (short version)
*
"Hawaii e Ikō" (short version)
{{DEFAULTSORT:12 Byo 2015 singles Songs in Japanese HKT48 songs Oricon Weekly number-one singles 2015 songs