Eien Pressure

"Eien Pressure"
"Eien Pressure"
Song
B-side	"Totteoki Christmas"; "Tsuyogari Tokei" (Type-A); "Ha!" (Type-B); "Hatsukoi Butterfly" (Type-C); "Eien Yori Tsuzuku Yō ni" (Type-D); "Watashitachi no Reason" (Theater Edition)

"Eien Pressure" (永遠プレッシャー, Eien Puresshā, "Eternal Pressure") is the 29th major single by the Japanese female idol group AKB48, released in Japan on December 5, 2012.^[1]

Background

The sixteen members that were featured in the title track were decided in the AKB48 rock-paper-scissors tournament held in September along with their position at Nippon Budokan.^[2] The overall winner of the tournament was Haruka Shimazaki who sang the lead vocals for the song and took up the center position during it's performances.

The single was released in five versions: Type-A, Type-B, Type-C, Type-D, and Theater Edition.

The third tracks of the DVDs that come with Types A, B, and C are music videos for the songs that placed, respectively, first, second, and third in the recently held Music Video Request, in which fans could vote for a song to get a music video.

Its music video was directed by Eiki Takahashi (also director of Keibetsu Shiteita Aijō). It premiered on MTV Japan.^[3]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto, except "Eien Yori Tsuzuku Yō ni". "Eien Yori Tsuzuku Yō ni" is written by Hisaya Okada (Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!'s staff).

Type-A

CD
No.	Title	Artist(s)
1.	"Eien Pressure" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Eien Puresshā)
2.	"Totteoki Christmas" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Totteoki Kurisumasu)
3.	"Tsuyogari Tokei" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))	SKE48
4.	"Eien Pressure off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
5.	"Totteoki Christmas off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
6.	"Tsuyogari Tokei off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Eien Pressure Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
2.	"Totteoki Christmas Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
3.	"Tsuyogari Tokei Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
4.	"Team B Oshi" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Chīmu Bī Oshi)
5.	"29th Single Senbatsu Janken Taikai Document (Zenpen)" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

Type-B

CD
No.	Title	Artist(s)
1.	"Eien Pressure" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Eien Puresshā)
2.	"Totteoki Christmas" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Totteoki Kurisumasu)
3.	"Ha!" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))	NMB48
4.	"Eien Pressure off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
5.	"Totteoki Christmas off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
6.	"Ha! off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Eien Pressure Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
2.	"Totteoki Christmas Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
3.	"Ha! Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
4.	"First Rabbit Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
5.	"29th Single Senbatsu Janken Taikai Document (Chūhen)" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

Type-C

CD
No.	Title	Artist(s)
1.	"Eien Pressure" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Eien Puresshā)
2.	"Totteoki Christmas" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Totteoki Kurisumasu)
3.	"Hatsukoi Buttefly" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Hatsukoi Batefurai)	HKT48
4.	"Eien Pressure off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
5.	"Totteoki Christmas off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
6.	"Hatsukoi Buttefly off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Eien Pressure Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
2.	"Totteoki Christmas Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
3.	"Hatsukoi Butterfly Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
4.	"Sakura no Hanabiratachi (Maeda Atsuko solo ver.) Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
5.	"29th Single Senbatsu Janken Taikai Document (Kōhen)" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

Type-D

CD
No.	Title	Artist(s)
1.	"Eien Pressure" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Eien Puresshā)
2.	"Totteoki Christmas" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Totteoki Kurisumasu)
3.	"Eien Yori Tsuzuku Yō ni" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))	OKL48
4.	"Eien Pressure off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
5.	"Totteoki Christmas off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
6.	"Eien Yori Tsuzuku Yō ni off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Eien Pressure Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
2.	"Totteoki Christmas Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
3.	"Eien Yori Tsuzuku Yō ni Music Video" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

Theater Version

CD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Eien Pressure" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Eien Puresshā)
2.	"Totteoki Christmas" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Totteoki Kurisumasu)
3.	"Watashitachi no Reason" (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) Watashitachi no Rīzon)
4.	"Eien Pressure off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
5.	"Totteoki Christmas off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))
6.	"Watashitachi no Reason off vocal ver." (error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help))

Members

"Eien Pressure"

Center: Haruka Shimazaki The rank of each member in the AKB48 29th single selection rock-paper-scissors tournament is in parentheses.

Team A: Mariko Shinoda (5), Moeno Nitō (2)
Team K: Maria Abe (6), Tomomi Itano (13), Mayumi Uchida (4), Chisato Nakata (16), Ami Maeda (10), Natsumi Matsubara (14)
Team B: Ayaka Umeda (15), Yuki Kashiwagi (11), Haruka Shimazaki (1), Miyu Takeuchi (7), Mariko Nakamura (8)
AKB48 Team A / NMB48: Yui Yokoyama (3)
SKE48 Team E: Kasumi Ueno (9), Kanon Kimoto (12)

"Totteoki Christmas"

Team A：Rina Kawaei, Minami Takahashi, Mayu Watanabe, Yui Yokoyama (NMB48)
Team K：Tomomi Itano, Yūko Ōshima, Rie Kitahara (SKE48)
Team B：Yuki Kashiwagi, Haruna Kojima, Haruka Shimazaki, Minami Minegishi
Team Kaigai / JKT48: Aki Takajo

"Tsuyogari Tokei"

The song is performed by SKE48.

AKB48 Team K / SKE48：Rie Kitahara
SKE48 Team S / AKB48 Team K：Jurina Matsui
SKE48 Team S：Masana Ōya, Yuria Kizaki, Akari Suda, Yūka Nakanishi, Rena Matsui, Kumi Yagami
SKE48 Team KII / AKB48 Team B：Anna Ishida
SKE48 Team KII：Shiori Ogiso, Akane Takayanagi, Sawako Hata, Airi Furukawa, Manatsu Mukaida, Miki Yakata
SKE48 Team E：Kanon Kimoto

"Ha!"

The song is performed by NMB48.

NMB48 Team N：Yui Yokoyama (AKB48 Team A), Riho Kotani (AKB48 Team A), Miyuki Watanabe (AKB48 Team B), Mayu Ogasawara, Rina Kondō, Megumi Uenishi, Miru Shiroma, Aina Fukumoto, Nana Yamada, Sayaka Yamamoto, Akari Yoshida
NMB48 Team M：Rena Shimada, Airi Tanigawa, Fūko Yagura
NMB48 Team BII：Yūka Katō, Shū Yabushita

"Hatsukoi Buttefly"

The song is performed by HKT48.

HKT48 Team H：Chihiro Anai, Nao Ueki, Aika Ōta, Haruka Kodama、Rino Sashihara、Yuki Shimono, Chiyori Nakanishi, Natsumi Matsuoka, Sakura Miyawaki, Anna Murashige、Aoi Motomura、Madoka Moriyasu、Haruka Wakatabe
HKT48 Kenkyūsei：Meru Tashima, Mio Tomonaga, Mai Fuchigami

"Eien Yori Tsuzuku Yō ni"

The song is performed by OKL48.^[4]
(Center: Takashi Okamura as "Oka Lemon", which "OKL" is named after)

Team A: Anna Iriyama, Rina Kawaei, Rie Kitahara (SKE48), Tomomi Kasai, Mayu Watanabe
Team K: Yūko Ōshima, Asuka Kuramochi、Mariya Nagao
Team B: Miori Ichikawa, Shizuka Ōya, Rena Katō, Haruna Kojima, Mika Komori, Reina Fujie, Minami Minegishi
Ninety-nine: Takashi Okamura

"Watashitachi no Reason"

Team A: Rina Izuta, Karen Iwata, Ryōko Ōshima, Ayaka Kikuchi, Marina Kobayashi, Sumire Satō, Natsuki Satō, Juri Takahashi, Yūka Tano, Tomomi Nakatsuka, Shiori Nakamata, Sakiko Matsui, Ayaka Morikawa
Team K: Sayaka Akimoto, Kana Kobayashi, Amina Satō, Haruka Shimada, Shihori Suzuki, Rina Chikano, Sayaka Nakaya, Nana Fujita, Yuka Masuda, Miho Miyazaki, Tomu Mutō, Jurina Matsui (SKE48 Team S)
Team B: Haruka Ishida, Misaki Iwasa, Mina Ōba, Haruka Katayama, Natsuki Kojima, Miku Tanabe, Wakana Natori, Misato Nonaka, Suzuran Yamauchi, Miyuki Watanabe (NMB48 Team N)
Team Kaigai: Aki Takajo (JKT48), Haruka Nakagawa (JKT48), Mariya Suzuki (SNH48), Sae Miyazawa (SNH48)
Team Kenkyūsei: Moe Aigasa, Saho Iwatate, Natsuki Uchiyama, Ayano Umeta, Miyū Ōmori, Ayaka Okada, Nana Okada, Saki Kitazawa, Mako Kojima, Yukari Sasaki, Ayana Shinozaki, Yurina Takashima, Miki Nishino, Hikari Hashimoto, Rina Hirata, Mitsuki Maeda, Yuiri Murayama, Shinobu Mogi

Oricon charts

Release	Oricon Singles Chart	Peak position	Debut sales (copies)	Sales total (copies)
December 5, 2012	Daily Chart	1^[5]	840,043	1,197,373
	Weekly Chart	1^[6]	1,073,499
	Monthly Chart	1	1,165,527
	Yearly Chart	5^[7]	1,073,499

References

^ "AKB48ぱるるセンター「永遠プレッシャー」に48グループ曲" (in Japanese). Natalie. 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
^ "島崎初センター曲ＡＫＢ姉妹で盛り上げる" (in Japanese). Daily Sports Online. 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
^ Paruru under Pressure!
^ "ナイナイ岡村＆AKBで"OKL48"結成！　大島、まゆゆらが全身白タイツで新曲披露" (in Japanese). Oricon Style. 2012-11-22. Retrieved 2012-11-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
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^ "【オリコン】AKB、女性初の10作連続ミリオン　B'z以来16年半ぶり史上2組目快挙" (in Japanese). Oricon. December 11, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
^ "年間ランキング特集『ミリオン8作！AKB48とMr.Childrenが2012年音楽シーンを牽引』-ORICON STYLE ミュージック" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2012-12-20.

External links

King Records profiles
- Type-A
- Type-B
- Type-C
- Type-D
- Theater Edition

[1] "AKB48ぱるるセンター「永遠プレッシャー」に48グループ曲" (in Japanese). Natalie. 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-11-10.

[2] "島崎初センター曲ＡＫＢ姉妹で盛り上げる" (in Japanese). Daily Sports Online. 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-11-10.

[3] Paruru under Pressure!

[4] "ナイナイ岡村＆AKBで"OKL48"結成！　大島、まゆゆらが全身白タイツで新曲披露" (in Japanese). Oricon Style. 2012-11-22. Retrieved 2012-11-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

[5] Template:Twitter status

[6] "【オリコン】AKB、女性初の10作連続ミリオン　B'z以来16年半ぶり史上2組目快挙" (in Japanese). Oricon. December 11, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2012.

[endyear-7] "年間ランキング特集『ミリオン8作！AKB48とMr.Childrenが2012年音楽シーンを牽引』-ORICON STYLE ミュージック" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2012-12-20.

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