Every year, fans vote to determine 64 of the most popular girls out of a member pool of more than 100 singers. The most popular are then rotated in and out of four main troupes.
Roughly 10 years ago, as AKB48's popularity exploded, it started spawning sister groups across Japan in cities such as Osaka. This brought the total membership to more than 300 singers. But now, the group is in the midst of an even grander feat: building up foreign satellites across Asia.These overseas groups — seven in total— bring the combined number of singers in the AKB48 universe to well over 500.
"With so many singers" — BNK48 alone has more than 50 —"they can be everywhere at once," he said."They can split up, holding a live event over here, performing on TV over there, all on the same night."for nearly two decades: How can musical acts profit when fans keep pirating and streaming instead of buying albums?
Imagine Beatlemania at its mid-1960s peak, the"I Want to Hold Your Hand" era, when the Beatles' live shows conjured screaming mania from crowds. Now, try to picture John, Paul, George and Ringo stepping offstage, asking fans to line up and then charging them money to literally hold their hands.That's more or less what AKB48 and its sister acts will do. They sell"handshake tickets" that are often acquired by purchasing a CD.
Within each group in the AKB48 empire, singers must wage a never-ending internal war to amass more public adoration than their bandmates. "To be honest, I just don't see myself as a super cutesy person," said 16-year-old BNK48 member Suchaya"Jib" Saenkhot in the documentary."Like, if you try to make me meow like a cat, I really can't stand it."
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