Koko ni Ita Koto
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Regular Edition cover
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| Studio album by AKB48 | ||||
| Released | June 8, 2011 (JP) | |||
| Recorded | 2010–2011 | |||
| Genre | J-pop, Dance, electronica, Hip Hop, Breakbeat | |||
| Length | 69:27 | |||
| Label | You, Be Cool!/King | |||
| Producer | Yasushi Akimoto | |||
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| Singles from Koko ni Ita Koto | ||||
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| "Ponytail to Chouchou" on YouTube | ||||
| "Heavy Rotation" on YouTube | ||||
| "Beginner" on YouTube | ||||
| "Chance no Junban" on YouTube | ||||
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Limited Edition cover
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Theater Edition cover
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Koko ni Ita Koto (ここにいたこと?, "We Were Here") is the third album by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48.
"Koko ni Ita Koto" was released in Japan on June 8, 2011 by King Records. There are three versions available: Limited Edition (catalog number KIZC-90117/8), Regular Edition (KIZC-117/8), and Theater Edition (NKCD-6546).
While all the group's albums had been almost entirely collections of previously released material, "Koko ni Ita Koto" took a different approach. Although it featured four 2010 hits, one theatre stage song, and a theme from an early 2011 movie, the rest were new songs.
Although the album was negatively received by English J-pop journalists, it met with great commercial success, topping the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart and, with just one week of sales, placed second in the list of best selling albums of the first half of 2011 in Japan. In the same month, it was already certified Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for shipments of over one million copies.
The upcoming release of the first AKB48's original album was announced on February 21, 2011. The then-unnamed album would be released on April 6, 2011 and contain the hits "Ponytail to Chouchou", "Heavy Rotation", "Beginner", and "Chance no Junban", the rest being new songs. In addition to a regular edition, there would be a limited edition of the album and a theater edition. The limited edition would contain a 100-page photobook shot by photographer Mika Ninagawa, who was the director of their Heavy Rotation music video, a DVD, lottery entry card to win a special present from the band and also comes with a photo in 14 types, while the regular came with 14 alternate changeable covers featuring them in circus costumes and also the DVD which was featured in limited edition and the theater edition would be a CD-only version coming with 14 alternate changeable covers featuring them in school uniforms, a handshake event ticket and a photo of an AKB48 member chosen at random.
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