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AKB48 has announced that they will be holding auditions for the 19th generation members. The announcement of this new member audition was made during a concert held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. Applications for the audition have been opened on the official AKB48 website on the same day from 20:00 until November 19, 2023, at 23:59 JST.
akb48.co.jp. 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. [2] AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with its own theater and ...
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Mar 9, 2022 · AKB48. Source: Billboard Japan. Over 500 girls. 60 million CDs sold. The title of the best selling girl group of all time. For better or worse, AKB48 has been one of Japan’s defining music acts.
Monica Hesse wrote in the Washington Post: “How to explain AKB48. The group contains 60-ish members, selected through a rolling “American Idol”-esque audition process. It is the largest pop group in the world. When its members get older, they graduate and are replaced with trainee AKB48s.
Oct 24, 2023 · AKB48's 19th generation auditions were announced at the Budokan concert on 22nd October 2023! Application period: October 22, 2023 (Sun) 20:00 until November 19, 2023 (Sat) 23:59. First screening (document): Those who have passed will be contacted by November 20, 2023 (Sun). Second screening (online): November 25 (Sat) to November 26 (Sun), 2023.
May 17, 2019 · When back in 2005 record producer Yasushi Akimoto held auditions for the first generation of AKB48 idols, not many thought of this as the beginning of a groundbreaking social phenomenon in the history of Japanese music. Thirteen years later, however, AKB48 consists of over 100 members who, with a long list of achievements — including over 56 million records sales — have forever changed ...
Jun 7, 2013 · The AKB48 Theater (AKB48劇場) is a live performance venue created especially for performances by AKB48, based around the concept of AKB48 being “idols you can meet”. The AKB48 Theater is located on the 8th Floor of the Don Quixote Akihabara Building in Kanda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo.
