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"Bingo!"
Single by AKB48
from the album Set List: Greatest Songs 2006–2007
B-side"Only Today"
ReleasedJuly 18, 2007 (2007-07-18)
GenrePop
Length4:09
LabelDefstar
Songwriter(s)Yasushi Akimoto, Hideki Naruse, Tetsuya Ouchi
Producer(s)Yasushi Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
"Keibetsu Shiteita Aijō"
(2007)
"Bingo!"
(2007)
"Boku no Taiyō"
(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

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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.[2]

Each "Shokai Genteiban" (初回限定版, The first edition) CD also includes 2 DVDs, one is video clip and the other is "Making of "Bingo!".[3]

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.[2]

Reception

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[2] The single charted 5 weeks in the top 200 with the highest rank at #6, then-highest ever record for AKB48.[4] "Bingo!" sold 25,611 copies.

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)ArrangerLength
1."Bingo!"Yasushi Akimoto, Hideki Naruse,Tetsuya Ouchi4:09
2."Only Today"Akimoto, OuchiOuchi4:17
3."Bingo! (Instrumental)"Akimoto, NaruseOuchi4:09
4."Only Today (Instrumental)"Akimoto, OuchiOuchi4:17
Total length:17:00

Charts

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Chart Peak
position
Bingo!
Oricon Weekly Chart[4] 6

Reported sales

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Chart Amount
Oricon physical sales 26,000

Personnel

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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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "AKB48公式サイト|ディスコグラフィー" (in Japanese). AKS. Archived from the original on 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  2. ^ a b c d "Bingo! AKB48's impressive show of numbers". supermerlion. Archived from the original on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  3. ^ "AKB48 Bingo! 【初回生産限定盤】" (in Japanese). Sony Music Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  4. ^ a b "アーティスト&楽曲検索 Bingo!" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2011-04-26.