[1/23] Morning Musume's 52nd Single "Help me!!"

[lynnkung]

better sales than yesterday?
Go! Girls!

anyway, I saw tweets mentioning Tsunku saying there was stock shortage in the second day? is it true? did he tweet that or was it just made up that he said it?

[randompasserby]

I don't know if Tsunku said it himself officially but I've seen multiple tweets to Tsunku reporting stock shortage in stores and most online orders are still in waiting condition too. Some said to him that it's a shame because while long time fans know enough to pre-order before the release day, it's a bit harder for the newer and more casual fans to buy one now.

[otaku_blue]

Happy Music
[youtube]LwOyh2I-9EE[/youtube]

@ 2:15 Mizuki made a mistake

I love how during the parts that make Haruna go up and down shes just pretty much a spazzing piece of hair, @ 2:22

I totally feel tempted to gif the parts where Haruna's hair just gets really messy and in her face

[Amped]

Cuca went with her mom to purchase her Help me!! CDs and handshake tickets today at the Marugame, Kagawa prefecture Tower Records. she bought A & B
http://cuca2002.blog43.fc2.com/blog-entry-1457.html
Sayumi and Mizuki are going to have a handshake event in Marugame, Kagawa prefecture for the first time on 2/12.

[LiamMusume]

Close up ver. has finally been posted to youtube!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... hPXkgGyRjk

[Amped]

promotion

another Jijipress clip

MM video message promoting the single

[AyuHikaru]

^
^I have to give Riho some props here, she looks severe and cool and it's like she's looking right through you. She is in that moment and completely dominating her close ups. It really makes one think "She is so cool, I want to be her." She s very much in her element here

Obligatory HARUNA LOOKS SO PRETTY.Seriously though, she's starting to get the hang of close up shots. It's her best one yet.

[Celedam]

Help me!! no.1 on Music Station
Start at 28:33
http://video.fc2.com/en/content/2013012 ... P1/?otag=1

Edited...

[youtube]uuEplvke32g[/youtube]

[Chatin]

03. Missing you
02. Promise you
01. Help me!!

[Jessi]

^x2

... lest we for forget though, the last few MM singles that managed to get an oricon weekly #1st after 2003 are

-- *1 *1 *1 *2 *4 *5　　*1　*84,251　03/04/23(水) モーニング娘。「AS FOR ONE DAY」
-- *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1　　*1　*40,967　06/11/08(水) モーニング娘。「歩いてる」
-- *1 *5 *1 *2 *5 *6　　*1　*47,528　09/05/13(水) モーニング娘。「しょうがない 夢追い人」

If you take into account that the singles between those oricon 1st singles only averages about 30-50k total and compare it to MM's last three singles...

　　　　123　　　　ワクテカ　　ヘルプミー　　　
　　　12/07/04　12/10/10　13/01/23　　　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━　━━━━━
火　　*56,139　　*54,047　　*61,291　　　　
水　　*14,104　　**7,720　　**6,786　　　
木　　*13,824　　**3,995　　**5,011　　　　
金　　**4,682　　**8,406　　**5,312　　　　
土　　**6,098　　***,***　　***,***　　　　　
日　　**3,856　　**3,658　　***,***　　　　　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━　━━━━━
合　　*98,703　　*77,826　　*78,400　　　　　

I'm still PRETTY FRIKKIN HAPPY with the direction we're going right now

Better than Wakuteka but not as good as One Two Three... That's exactly as I expected. Though I was hoping for more than I what I expected. Maybe the single will have some good second week sales?