Tsugi no Ashiato

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Label You, Be Cool! / King Release date 22 January 2014 Genre J-pop		Artist AKB48 Producer Yasushi Akimoto

Released January 22, 2014 (2014-01-22) Tsugi no Ashiato(2014) Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe!(2015) Nominations World Music Award for World’s Best Album Similar AKB1/149 Ren'ai Sōsenkyo, AKB1/48, AKB1/48: Idol to Guam to, AKB48’s Ambition

unboxing akb48 5th album tsugi no ashiato type a limited edition

Tsugi no Ashiato (次の足跡, "The Next Footsteps") is the fifth studio album by Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It is the second AKB48 double-album, and was released in Japan on January 22, 2014 by King Records. It debuted at number one in the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, selling over 960,000 copies. On February 6, the album became AKB48's second successive album to sell over one million copies.

Promotion and release

On 24 November 2013, it was announced that AKB48 would release their 5 studio album, their first in over a year. It was revealed that the album would have 25 songs, including songs such as Manatsu no Sounds Good! and Koisuru Fortune Cookie from their previous singles. The album title, cover and tracks were subsequently reviewed on 21 December 2013. It was also announced that 15 of the tracks were written for this album, and that many of the songs were sung by different units within AKB48. This album is marketed under the catchphrase Our footprints are ahead of us.

The album was released in Japan on January 22, 2014 under King Records in Japan, in several editions: Type A limited, Type A regular, Type B, and Theater. The albums consist of 2 CDs. The Type A limited contains a bonus DVD. The Theater edition is only sold at the AKB48 theater and only contains the first CD.

The first CD (CD1) includes seven of AKB48's singles that were released in 2012–2013, from "Manatsu no Sounds Good!" to "Koi Suru Fortune Cookie". It includes original songs performed by Team Kenkyusei, as well as songs that were B-sides of singles. The second CD (CD2) has different track lists for Type A and Type B. It contains more B-side singles as well as original songs by AKB48 members. The limited edition has a DVD which shows a short documentary of the group members at a concert.

The seven singles and their B-sides were also sung by and with famous members, currently graduated from AKB48 Tomomi Itano, Mariko Shinoda, Sayaka Akimoto, Tomomi Kasai or Atsuko Maeda. Therefore, these members are not credited in the album.