"Heavy Rotation" (ヘビーローテーション) is the 17th major single (19th overall) released by AKB48. It was released in three editions: two CD+DVD editions (Types A & B) and a CD only Theater version. The first pressings came with a random member card. The Top 40 members selected for this single were chosen by the fans with voting cards from the first pressings of their previous (17th) single Ponytail to Shushu. The title song has been certified Double Platinum by the RIAJ for full song downloads of over 500,000.

Just before the single came out the Kenkyuusei members went through another test/selection process to determine their future in the group (with the possibility of being promoted to the actual Teams). The #40 senbatsu member, Kenkyuusei Ishiguro Atsuki, failed the process. She wasn't featured in this single, and her spot wasn't filled. 

Motto

「好きな人ができると、頭の中は、ずっと、ヘビーローテション！」 ("Suki na Hito ga dekiru to, Atama no Naka wa, Zutto, Heavy Rotation!")
Translation: "Once you like someone, inside your head, it's always a Heavy Rotation!"

Contents 1 Tracklist 1.1 Type-A CD Tracklist 1.2 Type-A DVD Tracklist 1.3 Type-B CD Tracklist 1.4 Type-B DVD Tracklist 1.5 Theater Version Tracklist 2 TV Performances 3 Selected Members 3.1 Heavy Rotation 3.2 Namida no SeeSaw Game 3.3 Yasai Sisters 3.4 Lucky Seven 4 Oricon Chart Positions 5 Trivia 6 Comments

TracklistEdit

Type-A CD TracklistEdit

1. Heavy Rotation (ヘビーローテーション)
2. Namida no Seesaw Game (涙のシーソーゲーム) (Under Girls)
3. Yasai Sisters (野菜シスターズ)
4. Heavy Rotation off vocal ver. (ヘビーローテーション off vocal ver.)
5. Namida no Seesaw Game off vocal ver. (涙のシーソーゲーム off vocal ver.)
6. Yasai Sisters off vocal ver. (野菜シスターズ off vocal ver.)

Type-A DVD TracklistEdit

1. Heavy Rotation (ヘビーローテーション) (Music Clip)
2. Namida no Seesaw Game (涙のシーソーゲーム) (Music Clip)
3. Yasai Sisters (野菜シスターズ) (Music Clip)
4. 2nd AKB Election Document Video Part 1 (第2回 AKB48総選挙 ドキュメント映像 (前編))
5. Issho ni Koreichi! <Type-A Ver.> (いっしょにこれイチ! <Type-A Ver.>)

Type-B CD TracklistEdit

1. Heavy Rotation (ヘビーローテーション
2. Namida no Seesaw Game （涙のシーソーゲーム) (Under Girls)
3. Lucky Seven (ラッキーセブン)
4. Heavy Rotation off vocal ver. (ヘビーローテーション off vocal ver.)
5. Namida no Seesaw Game off vocal ver. (涙のシーソーゲーム off vocal ver.)
6. Lucky Seven off vocal ver. (ラッキーセブン off vocal ver.)

Type-B DVD TracklistEdit

1. Heavy Rotation (ヘビーローテーション) (Music Clip)
2. Namida no Seesaw Game (涙のシーソーゲーム) (Music Clip)
3. Lucky Seven (ラッキーセブン) (Music Clip)
4. 2nd AKB Election Document Video Part 2 (第2回　AKB48総選挙 ドキュメント映像 (後編))
5. Issho ni Koreichi! <Tybe-B Ver.> (いっしょにこれイチ! <Type-B Ver.>)

Theater Version TracklistEdit

1. Heavy Rotation　(ヘビーローテーション)
2. Namida no Seesaw Game (涙のシーソーゲーム)
3. Yasai Sisters (野菜シスターズ)
4. Lucky Seven (ラッキーセブン)

TV PerformancesEdit

• [2010.08.11] AKBINGO!
• [2010.08.18] AKBINGO!
• [2010.08.22] CDTV
• [2010.08.25] AKBINGO!
• [2010.09.15] AKBINGO!
• [2010.12.06] HEY! HEY! HEY! (Medley)
• [2010.12.24] Music Station Super Live 2010
• [2011.06.07] SMAPxSMAP (Medley)

Selected MembersEdit

Heavy RotationEdit

Senbatsu (21 Members (1#~21#), Members bloded are part of Media Senbatsu, Oshima Yuko Center)

• Team A: Kojima Haruna (16231), Sashihara Rino (6704), Shinoda Mariko (23139), Takajo Aki (11062), Takahashi Minami (17787), Nakagawa Haruka (6567), Maeda Atsuko (30851)
• Team K: Akimoto Sayaka (8049), Itano Tomomi (20513), Oshima Yuko (31448), Ono Erena (9468), Minegishi Minami (9692), Miyazawa Sae (12560)
• Team B: Kasai Tomomi (11080), Kashiwagi Yuki (15466), Kitahara Rie (8836), Sato Amina (6921), Miyazaki Miho (6371), Watanabe Mayu (20088)
• SKE Team S: Matsui Jurina (12168), Matsui Rena (12082)

Namida no SeeSaw GameEdit

Artist: Undergirls (18 Members (22#~40#)

• Team A: Oota Aika (6145), Katayama Haruka (1935), Kuramochi Asuka (5355), Matsubara Natsumi (1859)
• Team K: Umeda Ayaka (2499), Nito Moeno (2693), Fujie Reina (2460), Yonezawa Rumi (2171)
• Team B: Ishida Haruka (3235), Komori Mika (2613), Sato Sumire (2591), Hirajima Natsumi (4106), Masuda Yuka (4137)
• Kenkyuusei: Shimazaki Haruka (3076), Yamauchi Suzuran (1945), Ishiguro Atsuki (1603, Not Featured)
• SKE48 Team S: Oya Masana (4634), Yagami Kumi (1909)
• SKE48 Team KII: Takayanagi Akane (2030)

Yasai SistersEdit

Artist: Yasai Sisters (25 Members)

• Team A: Oota Aika, Kuramochi Asuka, Kojima Haruna, Sashihara Rino, Shinoda Mariko, Takajo Aki, Takahashi Minami, Maeda Atsuko, Maeda Ami
• Team K: Akimoto Sayaka, Itano Tomomi, Oshima Yuko, Ono Erena, Nito Moeno, Minegishi Minami, Miyazawa Sae
• Team B: Kasai Tomomi, Kashiwagi Yuki, Kitahara Rie, Komori Mika, Sato Sumire, Miyazaki Miho, Watanabe Mayu
• SKE48, Team S: Matsui Jurina, Matsui Rena

Lucky SevenEdit

Members: (16 Members)

• Team A: Kojima Haruna, Sashihara Rino, Shinoda Mariko, Takajo Aki, Takahashi Minami, Maeda Atsuko
• Team K: Itano Tomomi, Oshima Yuko, Minegishi Minami, Miyazawa Sae
• Team B: Kasai Tomomi, Kashiwagi Yuki, Kitahara Rie, Komori Mika, Miyazaki Miho, Watanabe Mayu

Oricon Chart PositionsEdit

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Week Rank	Sales
-	1 340,487	1 68,439	1 36,469	1 29,323	1 20,521	1 20,773	1	527,336
1 10,178	6	5	4	3 7,870	3 7,614	3 6,309	4	64,671
3 4,898	5	3 3,698	2 2,759	2 2,624	1 3,624	1 3,799	3	27,520
2	10	11	6	6	6	6	6	14,842
4	16	14	10	7	6	8	10	10,550
8	18	14	12	10	11	10	13	8,657
10	18	16	14	11	7	6	14	7,660
8	20	15	10	8	6	5	8	7,178
4	18	13	8	9	5	4	9	8,620
7	23	21	13	13	7	7	14	6,669
8	33	33	23	18	10	12	20	5,511
8	19	20	19	19	14	12	19	4,898
7	34	30	30	21	18	18	27	4,162
13	34	39	31	30	27	27	31	3,745
36	42	-	47	27	24	21	34	3,817
19	40	44	30	27	22	25	31	3,506
21	35	30	26	23	18	20	25	3,933
16	31	26	20	17	16	11	20	4,780
8	12	12	6	5	4	5	8	8,396
5	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	9,616
3	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	12,901
2	6	6	5	4	3	3	5	10,801
3	15	12	12	11	6	6	11	8,594
4	23	17	x	x	x	x	15	7,716
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	6,156
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	5,132
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	4,716
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	28	3,848
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	29	3,013
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	1,709
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	2,468
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	--	2,850
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	2,855
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	2,438
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	2,390
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	31	2,548
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	41	x,xxx
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	41	1,608
-	-	-	-	-	-	23	45	2,374
23	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	2,129
30	x	x	x	x	x	x	xx	xx,xxx

Total estimated Sales: 822,313 copies sold.

Chart Records

• First AKB48 Single to rank 1# in the Chaku-uta (tune) daily and weekly charts
• First AKB48 Single to ship 650,000 copies (previous record being Ponytail to Shushu with 500k)
• First AKB48 Song (Heavy Rotation) to top all the Rocochoku Rankings in the same week.
• This single made AKB48 the third female artist to have to singles with over 500k of first-week sales. For female idol groups, AKB48 made history as the first ones
• This single outsold Ponytail to Shushu's first week

TriviaEdit

• This is the third AKB48 single, after Bingo! and RIVER, to have an English name.
• Heavy Rotation charted #1 in both the Request Hour Setlist Best 100 of 2011 and 2012.
• Heavy Rotation is the most played Karaoke song in Japan.

AKB48
Team A	Izuta, Iriyama, Iwata, Oshima R, Kawaei, Kikuchi, Kodama (HKT48 Team H), Kobayashi M, Sasaki, Sato S, Shinoda (C), Suzuki M (SNH48), Takahashi J, Takahashi M (48G GM), Tano, Nakatsuka, Nakamata, Matsui S, Morikawa, Yagura (NMB48 Team M), Yokoyama, Watanabe May
Team K	Akimoto, Abe, Itano, Uchida, Oshima Y (C), Kitahara, Kuramochi, Kobayashi K, Sato A, Shimada, Suzuki S, Chikano, Nagao, Nakata, Hirata, Fujita, Furuhata (SKE48 Team E), Maeda Am, Matsui J (SKE48 Team S), Matsubara, Miyazaki, Miyazawa (SNH48), Muto
Team B	Ishida H, Ichikawa (NMB48 Team N), Iwasa, Umeda (C), Oba (SKE48 Team KII), Omori, Oya, Kashiwagi, Katayama, Kato, Kojima N, Kojima H, Komori, Shimazaki, Takajo (JKT48 Team J), Takeuchi, Tanabe, Nakamura, Natori, Nonaka, Fujie, Yamauchi, Watanabe Miy (NMB48 Team N)
Team Kaigai	Suzuki M (SNH48), Takajo (JKT48), Nakagawa (JKT48), Miyazawa (SNH48)
Kenkyuusei	13th Gen: Aigasa, Iwatate, Umeta, Okada A, Kitazawa, Shinozaki, Takashima, Murayama, Mogi 14th Gen: Uchiyama, Okada N, Kojima M, Nishino, Hashimoto H, Maeda Mi 15th Gen: Ichikawa M, Owada N, Komiyama, Sato K, Tsuchiyasu, Fukuoka, Mukaichi, Yumoto 1st Gen: Minegishi
Singles	Indie: 01, 02, Major: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 18, 19, 20, 21 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
Albums	Set List ~Greatest Songs 2006-2007~, Kamikyokutachi, Koko ni Ita Koto, 1830m
Stage Albums	A1, A2, A3, K1, K2, K3, A5, K5, B4, K6, B5, A6, A4, K4, B1, B2, B3, H1, H2, 4-1
Senbatsu Events	Senbatsu Sousenkyo: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Senbatsu Janken Taikai: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Soloists	Matsui Sakiko (Piano), Iwasa Misaki (Enka), Watanabe Mayu, Kashiwagi Yuki, Takahashi Minami, Itano Tomomi, Sashihara Rino, Kuramochi Asuka (Gachi Uma 2), Kasai Tomomi (Gachi Uma - Former member), Maeda Atsuko (Former member), Oshima Mai (Former member), Hoshino Michiru (Former member), Oku Manami (Former member), Ohori Megumi (Former member), Ono Erena (Former member), Hayano Kaoru (Former member)
Units	No Sleeves, Watarirouka Hashiritai 7, French Kiss, Not yet, DiVA
One-Shot Units	NO NAME, YM7, YJ7, Ojarumaru Sisters, Team KISHIN from AKB48, Sukeban Girls, Team Dragon from AKB48, Honegumi from AKB48, ICE from AKB48, Crayon Friends from AKB48, AKBIdoling!!!, Queen & Elizabeth, Natto Angel, Natto Angels Z, Okashina Sisters, Team Z, BABY GAMBA, Mini Skirt, Porrima from AKB48, Team Surprise, Team BS
Sister Groups	SKE48, SDN48 (Disbanded), NMB48, HKT48, JKT48, TPE48, SNH48