AKB48 31st Single Titled [Sayonara Crawl] + Tracklist

AKB48 has announced the tracklisting of their long awaited 31st single, AKA the Senbatsu General Election voting single. It is that time of the year again to vote vote vote! Just like last year's, the new single will have a summer theme and is titled [Sayonara Crawl], releasing on 22nd May, 2013.

[Sayonara Crawl] will be released in 7 different versions: Type A, Type K, Type B and Theatre versions. Type A, K and B is further separated into Limited and Regular Edition copies.

The Regular Edition copies of Type A, K and B come included with a voting ticket for AKB48's upcoming 32nd single Senbatsu General Election, a 20 page photobook shot by Ninagawa Mika (who directed the Heavy Rotation music video), which will be separated into type A, K and B, and a bonus photo (1 out of 50). Once again, there are Team songs on each of the Types.

The Limited Edition copies will also include the voting ticket and photobook, in addition to a national event handshake ticket and a special "kami cover jacket" but at the expense of the bonus photo.

For the first time, the Theatre Edition also includes voting tickets. Sales of the Theatre Edition have now finished, but it was available in two varieties - with voting ticket, 1 photo and 1 individual member handshake ticket, or with voting ticket and 2 photos. The photos for the Theatre Edition differ to the Regular Edition and are of the "election poster" campaign variety.

The voting period is 21st May to 7th June 2013, which closes a day before the senbatsu election itself, which is taking place as part of the AKB48 Super Festival in Nissan Stadium on 8th June.


AKB48 31st Single
Sayonara Crawl
さよならクロール
22 May 2013

TYPE A Limited Regular 1,600yen	[CD] 01. Sayonara Crawl (さよならクロール) //Senbatsu 02. Bara no Kajitsu (バラの果実) // Under Girls 03. Ikuru Koto (イキルコト) // Team A 04. Sayonara Crawl (off vocal ver.) 05. Bara no Kajitsu (off vocal ver.) 06. Ikiru Koto (off vocal ver.) [DVD] 01. Sayonara Crawl (Music Video) 02. Sayonara Crawl (Music Video ~swimsuit ver.~) 03. Bara no Kajitsu (Music Video) 04. Ikiru Koto (Music Video) 05. Making of Sayonara Crawl Music Video (Part 1) 06. Tekken Flipbook ~So long !~
TYPE K Limited Regular 1,600yen	[CD] 01. Sayonara Crawl (さよならクロール) //Senbatsu 02. Bara no Kajitsu (バラの果実) // Under Girls 03. How Come? // Team K 04. Sayonara Crawl (off vocal ver.) 05. Bara no Kajitsu (off vocal ver.) 06. How Come? (off vocal ver.) [DVD] 01. Sayonara Crawl (Music Video) 02. Sayonara Crawl (Music Video ~swimsuit ver.~) 03. Bara no Kajitsu (Music Video) 04. How Come? (Music Video) 05. Making of Sayonara Crawl Music Video (Part 2) 06. Tekken Flipbook ~Yume no Kawa~
TYPE B Limited Regular 1,600yen	[CD] 01. Sayonara Crawl (さよならクロール) //Senbatsu 02. Bara no Kajitsu (バラの果実) // Under Girls 03. Romance Kenjuu (ロマンス拳銃) // Team B 04. TBA // BKA48 05. Sayonara Crawl (off vocal ver.) 06. Bara no Kajitsu (off vocal ver.) 07. Romance Kenjuu (off vocal ver.) 04. TBA // BKA48 (off vocal ver.) [DVD] 01. Sayonara Crawl (Music Video) 02. Sayonara Crawl (Music Video ~swimsuit ver.~) 03. Bara no Kajitsu (Music Video) 04. Romance Kenjuu (Music Video) 05. BKA48 Music Video 06. Tekken Flipbook ~First Rabbit
Theater 1,000yen	[CD] 01. Sayonara Crawl 02. Bara no Kajitsu 03. TBA //AKB48 Kenkyuusei 04. Sayonara Crawl (off vocal ver.) 05. Bara no Kajitsu (off vocal ver.) 06. Track 03 (off vocal ver.)

[Sayonara Crawl] will be used as the CM song for Papico, a popular sherbet sold by Glico. You can hear a little bit of the song in the CM.





The handshake sales for this single have been pretty interesting. The inclusion of voting tickets has certainly boosted sales, after 6 rounds of sales, 1,696.2 blocks have sold out, compared to 1,285.1 for Manatsu no Sounds Good, and a lot more than the 650-850 blocks they've been selling for all singles in between. Looking at blocks sold out per sister group for this single, its AKB48 (751), SKE48 (420.3), NMB48 (266), HKT (258.9). HKT48 are the strongest gainers, almost selling out as many blocks as NMB48 but with far fewer members.