Sakura no Ki ni Narō

"Sakura no Ki ni Narō"
"Sakura no Ki ni Narō"
Single by AKB48
from the album 1830m
B-side	"Gūzen no Jūjiro"; "Kiss Made 100 Mile"; "Area K"; "Ōgon no Center";
Released	February 16, 2011
Recorded	2011
Genre	J-pop; ballad;
Length	5:30
Label	You, Be Cool! / King
Songwriter(s)	Yasushi Akimoto
Producer(s)	Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
Music video
	"Sakura no Ki ni Narō" on YouTube

"Sakura no Ki ni Narō" (桜の木になろう, "Let's Become Cherry Blossom Trees") is a 20th single by Japanese idol girl group AKB48, released on February 16, 2011.

Main song from this single was redone in Thai as B-track by BNK48 and released in 2022.

Release information

It is the 20th major-label single (22nd overall) released by AKB48. It was released in five versions: a limited type-A CD+DVD edition, a regular type-A CD+DVD edition, a limited type-B CD+DVD edition, a regular type-B CD+DVD edition, and a limited CD-only theater edition. The limited type-A and type-B editions came with a national handshaking event ticket, while the theater edition came with a "Sakura no Ki ni Narō" handshaking event ticket and one member picture at random. The title track was used as the theme song for the drama Sakura Kara no Tegami: AKB48 Sorezore no Sotsugyō Monogatari, which starred all AKB48 members. The single sold 655,344 copies on its first day of release, which is at the time, the most that any artist has sold in a single day since Oricon started reporting daily sales in March 2009.^[1]

When the music video published in YouTube, official discretion states that "The most heart-warming song in all of AKB48 history is born."^[2]

Track listing

Type-A CD track list

Sakura no Ki ni Narō (桜の木になろう)
Gūzen no Jūjiro (偶然の十字路) (Undergirls)
Kiss Made 100 Mile (キスまで100マイル) (MINT)
Sakura no Ki ni Narō off vocal ver.
Gūzen no Jūjiro off vocal ver.
Kiss Made 100 Mile off vocal ver.

Type-A DVD track list

Sakura no Ki ni Narō Music Clip
Gūzen no Jūjiro Music Clip
Kiss Made 100 Mile Music Clip
Members' Personal Clothes Fashion Show (Type-A) (ガチ私服ファッションショー（Type-A）)

Type-B CD track list

Sakura no Ki ni Narō (桜の木になろう)
Gūzen no Jūjiro (偶然の十字路) (Undergirls)
Area K (エリアK) (DIVA)
Sakura no Ki ni Narō off vocal ver.
Gūzen no Jūjiro off vocal ver.
Area K off vocal ver.

Type-B DVD track list

Sakura no Ki ni Narō Music Clip <Complete Version> (桜の木になろう　Music Clip＜完全版＞)
Gūzen no Jūjiro Music Clip
Area K Music Clip
Members' Personal Clothes Fashion Show (Type-B) (ガチ私服ファッションショー（Type-B）)

Theatre CD track list

Sakura no Ki ni Narō (桜の木になろう)
Gūzen no Jūjiro (偶然の十字路) (Undergirls)
Ōgon Center (黄金センター) (team Kenkyuusei)
Sakura no Ki ni Narō off vocal ver.
Gūzen no Jūjiro off vocal ver.
Ōgon Center off vocal ver.

Contributing members

"Sakura no Ki ni Narō"

Center: Atsuko Maeda

Team A: Haruna Kojima, Rino Sashihara, Mariko Shinoda, Aki Takajō, Minami Takahashi, Atsuko Maeda
Team K: Tomomi Itano, Yuko Oshima, Minami Minegishi, Sae Miyazawa
Team B: Tomomi Kasai, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rie Kitahara, Mayu Watanabe
Team S (SKE48): Jurina Matsui, Rena Matsui

"Gūzen no Jūjiro"

Credited as "Undergirls"

Center: Yui Yokoyama, Kanon Kimoto.

Team A: Aika Ota, Haruka Nakagawa, Ami Maeda
Team K: Mayumi Uchida, Ayaka Kikuchi, Moeno Nito, Reina Fujie, Yui Yokoyama
Team B: Haruka Ishida, Manami Oku (last single), Mika Komori, Sumire Sato, Miho Miyazaki
Team S (SKE48): Masana Oya, Kumi Yagami
Team KII (SKE48): Akane Takayanagi, Manatsu Mukaida
Team E (SKE48): Kanon Kimoto

"Kiss Made 100 Mile"

Credited as "Mint"

Team A: Haruka Katayama, Atsuko Maeda
Team K: Moeno Nito, Sakiko Matsui
Team B: Tomomi Kasai

"Area K"

Credited as "Diva"

Team A: Misaki Iwasa, Shizuka Ōya, Asuka Kuramochi, Chisato Nakata, Sayaka Nakaya, Natsumi Matsubara
Team K: Sayaka Akimoto, Ayaka Umeda, Miku Tanabe, Tomomi Nakatsuka, Misato Nonaka, Rumi Yonezawa
Team B: Kana Kobayashi, Amina Sato, Natsuki Sato, Mariya Suzuki, Rina Chikano, Natsumi Hirajima, Yuka Masuda

"Ōgon Center"

Credited as "Team Kenkyūsei"

9th Generation: Mina Oba, Haruka Shimazaki, Haruka Shimada, Miyu Takeuchi, Mariya Nagao, Mariko Nakamura, Anna Mori, Suzuran Yamauchi
10th Generation: Maria Abe, Rina Izuta, Miori Ichikawa, Anna Iriyama, Rena Kato, Yuki Kanazawa, Marina Kobayashi, Shiori Nakamata, Nana Fujita
11th Generation: Sara Ushikuba, Rina Kawaei, Natsuki Kojima, Shihori Suzuki, Wakana Natori, Ayaka Morikawa, Nau Yamaguchi

Oricon Charts (Japan)

Release	Oricon Singles Chart	Peak position	Debut sales (copies)	Sales total (copies)
16 February 2011	Daily Chart	1	655,344
	Weekly Chart	1^[3]^[4]	942,479	1,079,460
	Monthly Chart	1	997,963

References

^ "AKB48新曲「桜の木になろう」"初日"だけで実売65.5万枚" (in Japanese). Oricon. February 17, 2011. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
^ AKB48 (2011-01-14), 【MV full】桜の木になろう / AKB48 [公式], retrieved 2019-04-10{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "AKB48新曲、初週売上歴代6位94.2万枚" (in Japanese). Oricon. February 22, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
^ "AKB48、女性グループ"最速"ミリオン SPEED＆モー娘。上回る3週目" (in Japanese). Oricon. March 8, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2011.

[1] "AKB48新曲「桜の木になろう」"初日"だけで実売65.5万枚" (in Japanese). Oricon. February 17, 2011. Retrieved February 17, 2011.

[2] AKB48 (2011-01-14), 【MV full】桜の木になろう / AKB48 [公式], retrieved 2019-04-10{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] "AKB48新曲、初週売上歴代6位94.2万枚" (in Japanese). Oricon. February 22, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2011.

[4] "AKB48、女性グループ"最速"ミリオン SPEED＆モー娘。上回る3週目" (in Japanese). Oricon. March 8, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2011.

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