Chance no Junban

"Chance no Junban"
Type A cover, featuring Sumire Sato, Haruka Nakagawa, Haruka Ishida, Mayumi Uchida, Haruna Kojima, and Ami Maeda.
Single by AKB48
from the album Koko ni Ita Koto
B-side	"Yoyaku shita Christmas" "Kurumi to Dialogue" "Alive" "Love Jump" "Fruit Snow"
Released	December 8, 2010 (2010-12-08)
Format	CD Single, digital download
Recorded	2010
Genre	J-pop
Length	04:19
Label	King Records/You! Be Cool
Writer(s)	Yasushi Akimoto
Producer	Yasushi Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
"Beginner" (2010) "Chance no Junban" (2010) "Sakura no Ki ni Narō" (2011)
Music video "Chance no Junban" on YouTube

"Chance no Junban" (チャンスの順番, "The Order of Chance"^?) is Japanese idol girl group AKB48's 19th single, released on December 8, 2010.

Release Information

At the end of the last day of AKB48's July concerts held in Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, it was announced that the senbatsu line-up for the 19th single will be decided in a bracketed, single knockout tournament of Rock-Paper-Scissors/janken between all members of AKB48 and four representatives of research students also decided by janken. The top 16 in that tournament will become the new senbatsu for the 19th single, with top 12 becoming media senbatsu members and the overall winner will also be awarded with center position. Due to a last minute graduation of Team K member Erena Ono, the field ultimately consisted of 51 members. The actual tournament was later held in Nippon Budokan on September 21, and was won by Team K's Mayumi Uchida, thus becoming the new center for Chance no Junban.

Chance no Junban was released in four different versions and cover variations, with the theater version being exclusively sold in the AKB48 theater in Akihabara, Tokyo. Versions A, K, and B contained a different third track aside from the title track and "Yoyaku shita Christmas", which was performed by one of the respective teams of AKB48. The theater version included a third track that was performed by Team Research Students. In addition to including their respective music videos, versions A, K, and B also included footages of the janken tournament that took place in Budokan in September. All first press releases was enclosed with a handshaking event ticket, to be redeemed later in national handshaking tours held across Japan in promotion of the single release.

Chance no Junban was able to sell 471,242 copies in its first day on the top of the Oricon daily charts^[1], and went on to sell 54,780 more on the second day This makes Chance no Junban the 6th consecutive number one daily single for AKB48 on the Oricon. The single has been certified triple platinum by the RIAJ for physical sales.^[2]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto. 

Type A
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Chance no Junban" (チャンスの順番 "The Order of Chance")	Yuko Konishi	4:19
2.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas" (予約したクリスマス "Promised Christmas")	Tsukasa Nakagawa	4:13
3.	"Kurumi to Dialogue" (胡桃とダイアローグ "Walnut and Dialogue", performed by Team A)	PJ	3:20
4.	"Chance no Junban" (Off Vocal Ver.)	Y. Konishi	4:19
5.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas" (Off Vocal Ver.)	T. Nakagawa	4:13
6.	"Kurumi to Dialogue" (Off Vocal Ver.)	PJ	3:20

Type K
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Chance no Junban"	Yuko Konishi	4:19
2.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas"	Tsukasa Nakagawa	4:13
3.	"Alive" ("ALIVE", Performed by Team K)	Yō Yamazaki	3:53
4.	"Chance no Junban" (Off Vocal Ver.)	Y. Konishi	4:19
5.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas" (Off Vocal Ver.)	T. Nakagawa	4:13
6.	"Alive" (Off Vocal Ver.)	Y. Yamazaki	3:53

Type B
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Chance no Junban"	Yuko Konishi	4:19
2.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas"	Tsukasa Nakagawa	4:13
3.	"Love Jump" (ラブ・ジャンプ, performed by Team B)	Fumiki Ikema	3:20
4.	"Chance no Junban" (Off Vocal Ver.)	Y. Konishi	4:19
5.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas" (Off Vocal Ver.)	T. Nakagawa	4:13
6.	"Love Jump" (Off Vocal Ver.)	F. Ikema	3:20

Theater version
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Chance no Junban"	Yuko Konishi	4:19
2.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas"	Tsukasa Nakagawa	4:13
3.	"Fruit Snow" (フルーツ・スノウ, performed by Team Research Students)	Ryosuke Shigenaga	3:48
4.	"Chance no Junban" (Off Vocal Ver.)	Y. Konishi	4:19
5.	"Yoyaku shita Christmas" (Off Vocal Ver.)	T. Nakagawa	4:13
6.	"Fruit Snow" (Off Vocal Ver.)	R. Shigenaga	3:48

Contributing members

Chance no Junban

(Bold indicates front members who appears on the cover of theater version of the single, number in brackets denotes final placements in the Janken Tournament)

• Team A: Asuka Kuramochi (10th), Haruna Kojima (3rd), Aki Takajo (8th), Haruka Nakagawa (4th), Atsuko Maeda (15th), Ami Maeda (5th)
• Team K: Mayumi Uchida (1st), Miku Tanabe (12th), Tomomi Nakatsuka (9th), Sakiko Matsui (14th)
• Team B: Haruka Ishida (2nd), Tomomi Kasai (13th), Kana Kobayashi (11th), Sumire Sato (6th), Natsuki Sato (7th), Rina Chikano (16th)

Only 4 senbatsu members who appear in this single have appeared in the senbatsu lineup for the last single, Beginner (Haruna Kojima, Takajo, Atsuko Maeda, Kasai). Nakagawa made her return to senbatsu since last making it in Heavy Rotation. Kuramochi has not appeared in senbatsu since Iiwake Maybe, the 13th single. Kana Kobayashi and Natsuki Sato both reappeared in senbatsu after an absence of 3 years and 8 months (since the 3rd single, Keibetsu Shiteita Aijō). Finally, other members such as Uchida, Ami Maeda, Tanabe, Nakatsuka, Sakiko Matsui, Ishida, Sumire Sato, and Chikano are making their first senbatsu appearance in an AKB48 single.

Yoyaku shita Christmas

• Team A: Haruna Kojima, Rino Sashihara, Mariko Shinoda, Aki Takajo, Minami Takahashi, Atsuko Maeda, Ami Maeda
• Team K: Tomomi Itano, Yuko Oshima, Minami Minegishi, Sae Miyazawa
• Team B: Tomomi Kasai, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rie Kitahara, Mika Komori, Mayu Watanabe

Kurumi to Dialogue

Performed by Team A

(Bold indicates center member)

• Team A: Misaki Iwasa, Aika Ota, Shizuka Oya, Haruka Katayama, Kuramochi, H. Kojima, Sashihara, Shinoda, Takajo, Takahashi, Nakagawa, Chisato Nakata, Sayaka Nakaya, At. Maeda, Am. Maeda, Natsumi Matsubara

Alive

Performed by Team K

(Bold indicates center members)

• Team K: Sayaka Akimoto, Tomomi Itano, Uchida, Ayaka Umeda, Yuko Oshima, Ayaka Kikuchi, Miku Tanabe, Tomomi Nakatsuka, Moeno Nito, Misato Nonaka, Reina Fujie, S. Matsui, Minami Minegishi, Sae Miyazawa, Yui Yokoyama, Rumi Yonezawa

Love Jump

Performed by Team B

(Bold indicates center members)

• Team B: Haruka Ishida, Manami Oku, Tomomi Kasai, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rie Kitahara, Kana Kobayashi, Mika Komori, Amina Sato, Sumire Sato, Natsuki Sato, Mariya Suzuki, Rina Chikano, Natsumi Hirajima, Yuka Masuda, Miho Miyazaki, Mayu Watanabe

Fruit Snow

Performed by Team Research Students

• Team Research Students: Miori Ichikawa, Anna Iriyama, Mina Oba, Rena Kato, Yuki Kanazawa, Haruka Shimazaki, Haruka Shimada, Shihori Suzuki, Miyu Takeuchi, Mariya Nagao, Shiori Nakamata, Mariko Nakamura, Wakana Natori, Anna Mori, Suzuran Yamauchi, Nau Yamaguchi

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Oricon Daily singles[1]	1
Oricon weekly singles[3]	1
Oricon monthly singles[4]	3
Oricon yearly singles[5]	8

Chart precession and succession

Preceded by "Family (Hitotsu ni Naru Koto)" by KinKi Kids	Oricon weekly number-one single December 20, 2010	Succeeded by "Arigatō (Sekai no Doko ni Ite mo)" by Hey! Say! JUMP
	Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one single December 20, 2010

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "AKB48、じゃんけん選抜シングルが初日首位" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2010-12-09. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/82863/. Retrieved 2010-12-10. 
2. ^ "ゴールド等認定作品一覧　2010年12月 [Works Receiving Certifications List (Gold, etc) (December 2010)]" (in Japanese). RIAJ. January 14, 2011. http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201012.html. Retrieved January 14, 2011. 
3. ^ "AKB48、ピンク・レディー以来32年ぶりシングル年間5作首位" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2010-12-14. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/82953/full/. Retrieved 2010-12-14. 
4. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named monthly_single; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
5. ^ "2010年オリコン年間ランキング　シングル" (in Japanese). Oricon. http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/2010/musicrank1220/index02.html. Retrieved 2010-12-20.