Kimi wa Melody


"Kimi wa Melody" is the 43rd single by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It marks the 10th annual anniversary of the group, and was released in Japan on March 9, 2016. It sold 1,133,179 copies on release day, topping the weekly sales of the previous single. This makes it the 30th single to reach 1st place in the Oricon Single Charts, and the 24th single to sell over a million copies in a week.
The main song from this single, Kimi wa Melody has been redone in Filipino by JKT48 and in Thai by BNK48 in 2018, and in Bahasa Indonesia by MNL48 in 2019.

Background

The music video of the title song is directed by Mika Ninagawa, who worked previously on "Heavy Rotation", "Sayonara Crawl" and "Sugar Rush". It was first performed live on January 24, on the last day of AKB48 Group Request Hour 2016, and its first TV performance was broadcast on February 22, on NHK's Music Japan.
The title track is performed by a group of 21 active members and centered by Sakura Miyawaki.
This single also marked the final appearance of two founding members, Minami Takahashi and Sae Miyazawa. Both of them left the AKB48 Group shortly after this release, after having appeared in the promoting line up of 41 and 33 AKB48 singles, respectively, as well as Karen Iwata.
On, Brazilian channel PlayTV aired the music video from "Kimi wa Melody" on a J-Pop segmented music video program Interferência Ichiban.

Artwork

Kimi wa Melody was released in five different issues in which each issues have two different artwork for Regular edition and Limited edition. Only Theater version would issued only in one artwork, in total Kimi wa Melody released 11 different artworks. Type-A, Type-B, and Type-E limited version featured all 21 participating members, while Theater version featured all 16 participating members without the graduates. Type-C limited version is Sakura Miyawaki first ever solo cover.

Personnel

"Kimi wa Melody"

The lineup for the A-side single performed by senbatsu of 21 members including 4 graduates, the first time since "Flying Get" back in 2011. The center for this song is Sakura Miyawaki.

"LALALA Message"

Performed by selection "Next Generation Senbatsu", consisting of:

"Gonna Jump"

Performed by selection senbatsu members of SKE48, consisting of:

"Shigamitsuita Seishun"

Performed by selection senbatsu members of NMB48, consisting of:

"Make Noise"

Performed by selection senbatsu members of HKT48, consisting of:

"Max Toki 315go"

Performed by NGT48, consisting of:

"Mazariau Mono"

Performed by selection members of AKB48 and Nogizaka46, consisting of:

"M.T. ni Sasagu"

AKB Team A's song. Yui Yokoyama serve as center for this song. It is also a name from current stage from Team A.

Ikaw ang Melody (JKT48 Ver.)

Ikaw ang Melody is the 18th single from the idol group JKT48 which was released in Indonesia on December 16, 2017 and January 12, 2018 by Hits Records and JKT48 Project, also distributed by Universal Music Indonesia and Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia. Previously, this single was released on CD and DVD planned for December 23, 2017, but was canceled due to technical problems. This single was recycled from the 43rd single from AKB48.
This single is a keepsake single as a sign of farewell to Melody who will be declared graduated from JKT48 on March 31, 2018, and also occupies the center position. for the last.

Tracklisting

Bold indicates centers.

Kimi wa Melody - เธอคือ...เมโลดี้ (BNK48 version)

The Thai idol group BNK48, a sister group of AKB48, covered the song with the same title. It is their Fourth single released on September 28, 2018, and the first single to feature 21 senbatsu members.

Tracklisting

Bold indicates centers.

Dirimu Melody (MNL48 Ver.)

Dirimu Melody is the fourth single of the all-girl Filipino idol group, MNL48. It is a cover of AKB48's "Kimi wa Melody". The single was released on July 26, 2019, and the single released for the group's 4th single Election.

Tracklisting

Bold indicates centers.