Oricon yearly charts 2013 have been released.
As for the previous years, AKB48 are the best selling singles artists. Sayonara Crawl topped the Oricon yearly singles chart with 1,955,162 copies sold.
Their sister groups SKE48 and NMB48 reached the top 10. Nogizaka46, HKT48, Morning Musume, Not Yet, Kashiwagi Yuki, Takahashi Minami, Momoiro Clover Z, Super☆Girls, Watanabe Mayu, Maeda Atsuko, and no3b (No Sleeves) are the other idols in the top 100.
Nogizaka46 1st Year Birthday Live 2013 will be released on DVD on January 29 and on Blu-ray on February 26.
The concert Nogizaka46 1st Year Birthday Live 2013 was held on February 22, 2013 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba.
A video of the concert has been posted.
Nogizaka46‘s 7th single Barrette (バレッタ) will be released on November 27.
5 editions are available. The center is the 2nd generation member Hori Miona.
The coupling track Tsuki no Ookisa (月の大きさ) is the opening theme song for the anime Naruto Shippuden (ナルト 疾風伝).
Kashiwa Yukina and Miyazawa Seira announced their graduation from Nogizaka46.
Kashiwa Yukina leaves the idol group in order to focus on her studies.
Miyazawa Seira decided to start new activities to realize her dreams.
Both girls will make their last appearance on November 17 at the special event which is going to be held for Nogizaka46’s 6th single Girl’s Rule (ガールズルール).
Nogizaka46‘s 1st photobook Nogizaka Ha (乃木坂派) will be released on October 22.
The theme is a camping trip of the students of a seaside school. The members of Nogizaka46 participate in various challenges such as cooking curry, milking cows in a farm… The photobook includes also pictures in swimsuit for the first time.
Nogizaka46 will perform the new opening theme song for the anime series Naruto Shippuden (ナルト 疾風伝).
The song is titled Tsuki no Ookisa (月の大きさ).
It will appear for the first time on the episode which will be broadcast on October 3 on TV Tokyo (テレビ東京).
Ikoma Rina and Shiraishi Mai (Nogizaka46) will be starring in the movie Bad Boys J.
The film is a sequel of the drama of the same title which was aired between April and June on NTV (日本テレビ). Nogizaka46 members Hashimoto Nanami, Matsumura Sayuri, Akimoto Manatsu, Ito Marika, Ito Nene, and AKB48’s Itano Tomomi appeared in the drama.
Shiraishi Mai is going to play the role of the girlfriend of Shigeoka Daiki (Johnny’s Jr).
Ikoma Rina, who made a surprise appearance in the last episode of the series, will play a part-time employee falling in love with Iwamoto Hikaru (Snow Man).
Bad Boys J will be released in theaters on November 9 in Japan.
Hashimoto Nanami (Nogizaka46) will be acting in the drama Summer Nude.
The story is about a love triangle. Hashimoto Nanami has a supporting role.
Summer Nude will start airing on July 8. The series will be broadcast every week on Monday evenings at 21:00 on Fuji TV.
HKT48‘s variety show HaKaTa Hyakkaten 2 (HaKaTa百貨店2号館) will be released on DVD on September 18.
The program is presented by Sashihara Rino.
Some members from AKB48 (Ichikawa Miori, Shimada Haruka, Umeda Ayaka, Kasai Tomomi, Oba Mina), SKE48 (Matsui Rena, Matsui Jurina), and Nogizaka46 (Ikoma Rina) participated in this 2nd season of HaKaTa Hyakkaten as guests.
Nogizaka46‘s 6th single Girl’s Rule (ガールズルール) will be released on July 3.
Shiraishi Mai has been chosen as the center for this single.
The 16 Senbatsu members have also been announced.