SKE48’s latest single “Kokoro ni Flower” sold 213,000 copies in the first week, and got the first place in the latest “Oricon Weekly Single Ranking” on March 15th.

It became the 25th single in a row from “Banzai Venus” on March 21, 2021, and the “number of singles that got the 1st in a row” by female artists, has been tied with Ayumi Hamazaki as SKE48 became the 3rd place from 4th place. In total, the single got the 1st place in the 25th single, and the female artist’s “Number of singles that got the 1st place in total” went from the 5th place to the 4th place in history along with Seiko Matsuda. SKE48’s 29th single “Kokoro ni Flower”, Mirei Hayashi who played a role in a center, was the youngest member of the AKB48 group and at the time in the previous single “I found you at that time”

Akane is a choreographer and is in charge of dance performance. The choreographer is from the Tomioka High School dance club called ”Bubbly Dance”. The characteristic dance is the “Dera” flower dance, which is a combination of the action of rotating the hands like a flower and the word “Dera” from the Hagoya dialect. In the music video, SKE48 is also challenging the first full scale action scene.

Record of “Number of singles that got the first place in a row” by female artists.

1st place: AKB48(45 singles), 2nd place: Nogizaka46 (27 singles), 3rd place : Ayumi Hamasaki, SKE 48 (25 singles)

Record of “Number of singles that got first place in total” by female artists.

1st place: AKB48 (45 singles), 2nd place : Ayumi Hamasaki (37 singles), 3rd place: Nogizaka46 (27 singles), 4th place: Seiko Matsuda, SKE48(25 singles) 

Credit : Oricon survey with March 21, 2022 : Aggregation period :March 7th to 13th, 2022