"Sayonara Crawl" (さよならクロール, Sayonara Kurōru, "Goodbye Crawl") is the 31st single by the Japanese idolgirl groupAKB48; it was released in Japan on May 22, 2013.[1]
As of the release day, the CD single "Sayonara Crawl" had been shipped in 2.3 million copies, besting the group's previous record of 2.0 million from "Manatsu no Sounds Good!".[2] As of June 16, 2013[update], over 1.9 million copies have been sold.[3]
Release
The single was released in the form of several different editions: 3 generally distributed editions titled Type A, Type K, and Type B and Theater Edition to be sold at the AKB48 Theater.
There are also limited editions of Types A, K, and B. All editions contained a voting card for the AKB48 2013 General Election to determine the lineup for the group's 32nd single.
^Oricon sales figures are from the first four weeks on Chart as logged from http://stage48.net/wiki/index.php/Sayonara_Crawl. Exact sales figures are not available as Oricon does not count sales below the top 200; this figure is rounded to the nearest hundred.
^"2013年のCDシングル年間ランキング" [2013 CD Single Yearly Ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon. 2012. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2013.