Its been more than a decade since a female idol group (Morning Musume) managed to break the half million sales mark with their 3rd album “Love Paradise”. However, AKB48 still has a long way ahead if they want to break the record set by SPEED first two albums, “Starting Over” and “RISE” which sold 823,000 and 1.32 million copies respectively.

Source: Tokyograph and Oricon

Have you bought your copy yet? I’m still waiting for my copy to start shipping from CDJapan.

The popular group consisting of Okinawa-born singers — Hitoe Arakaki, Takako Uehara, Eriko Imai and Hiroko Shimabukuro — will hold a concert at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan that will be broadcast on Nippon Television’s 24-hour TV program on Aug. 30 and Aug. 31.

The last time all the members performed live together was in autumn 2003, when they temporarily reunited for a two-month concert tour.

Speed will consider getting back together permanently depending on the reaction of their fans, the group’s talent agency said.

Source: Mainichi Japan

I wonder if they will still remain popular after this long period of absence.