This is not new news… but it is still something to make you wonder at the ideas that some people come up with…
Japan has a 48 member girl Jpop girl group on the market. They have a millitary feel to them and has a type of Janet Jackson Rythem Nation feel to it.
You can buy the DVD of thier performance by clicking on this link!
However, I don’t expect any member to make much money at all. This will not last long…
Here is what wikipedia says about them:
“AKB48 is an all-female Japanese theater/idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto, who is known for being the husband of Mamiko Takai, a former member of the 1980s all-female idol group Onyanko Club. Unlike other idol groups in Japan, AKB48 is theatre-based and have their own theatre in Akihabara (a district in Tokyo) where they perform once every weekday, and twice on both Saturday and Sunday. The theatre is set up in on the 8th floor of Don Quijote. Most of the title songs released as a single have been made a tie-in song for a television show or a television advertisement.
AKB48 currently consists of 48 members divided into three teams: Team A, Team K and Team B. Each team has 16 members. Currently, there are 13 members in Team A, 15 members in Team K, and 14 members in Team B, getting to the total of 42 members in AKB48. Minami Takahashi and Atsuko Maeda are lead singers of AKB48 and both their roles are as ‘head’ of AKB48.”
In order to figure out how this girl group works you need a degree in calculous…
However, they are cute and I can see them branching off into different groups. It is a unique idea… I will give them credit for that.
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