Are you Happy? / A gonna is Morning Musume '18's 65th single. It was released on June 13, 2018 in 5 editions: 2 regular and 3 limited. The first press of the regular editions came with a random trading card of 14 kinds depending on the jackets (28 in total). Limited Edition SP came with an event lottery serial number card.
This is the last single to feature 12th generation member Ogata Haruna.
Tracklist[]
CD[]
- Are you Happy?
- A gonna
- Are you Happy? (Instrumental)
- A gonna (Instrumental)
Limited Edition A DVD[]
- Are you Happy? (Music Video)
Limited Edition B DVD[]
- A gonna (Music Video)
Limited Edition SP DVD[]
- Are you happy? (Dance Shot Ver.)
- A gonna (Dance Shot Ver.)
- "Are you Happy?" MV Satsuei Making Eizou (MV撮影メイキング映像; MV Shoot Making Footage)
Event V[]
- Are you Happy? (Close-up Ver.)
- A gonna (Close-up Ver.)
Featured Members[]
Morning Musume '18 promoting "Are you Happy?"
Morning Musume '18 promoting "A gonna"
- 9th Gen: Fukumura Mizuki, Ikuta Erina
- 10th Gen: Iikubo Haruna, Ishida Ayumi, Sato Masaki
- 11th Gen: Oda Sakura
- 12th Gen: Ogata Haruna (last), Nonaka Miki, Makino Maria, Haga Akane
- 13th Gen: Kaga Kaede, Yokoyama Reina
- 14th Gen: Morito Chisaki
Single Information[]
- Are you Happy?
- Lyrics and Composition: Tsunku
- Arrangement and Programming: Hirata Shoichiro
- Chorus: Fukumura Mizuki, Sato Masaki, Oda Sakura
- Dance Choreography: YOSHIKO[1]
- Music Video: Mayama Hiroki
- A gonna
- Lyrics and Composition: Tsunku
- Arrangement, Keyboard, and Programming: Okubo Kaoru
- Chorus: Oda Sakura
- Dance Choreography: YOSHIKO[1]
- Music Video: Okawa Shin
Performances[]
TV Performances[]
- [2018.05.28] The Girls Live (A gonna)
- [2018.06.03] Shibuya Note (Are you Happy?)
- [2018.06.04] The Girls Live (Are you Happy?)
- [2018.06.05] FULL CHORUS
- [2018.06.15] Buzz Rhythm 02 (A gonna)
- [2018.06.27] TV Tokyo Music Festival 2018 (Are you Happy?)
- [2018.07.06] Music Station (Are you Happy?)
- [2018.07.14] Ongaku no Hi 2018 (A gonna)
- [2018.07.25] 2018 FNS Uta no Natsu Matsuri (Are you Happy?)
Concert Performances[]
An asterisk (*) is used when a song is performed in the entirety of a Hello! Project CITY CIRCUIT concert tour, including special, final, and graduation dates.
If the song is only performed for a part of the tour, the specific tour/concert name will be written without asterisk.
- Are you Happy?
- Morning Musume Tanjou 20 Shuunen Kinen Concert Tour 2018 Haru ~We are MORNING MUSUME~
- Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2018 SUMMER ~ALL FOR ONE~
- Morning Musume '18 Concert Tour Aki ~GET SET, GO!~
- MORNING MUSUME '18 Fall Concert Tour ~GET SET, GO!~ in Mexico City
- Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project COUNTDOWN PARTY 2018 ~GOOD BYE & HELLO!~
- Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2019 WINTER ~YOU & I~ - Hello! Project
- Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Morning Musume '19 Dinner Show "Happy Night"
- Morning Musume '19 Concert Tour Haru ~BEST WISHES!~
- Morning Musume '19 Concert Tour Aki ~KOKORO&KARADA~
- Morning Musume '19 ~KOKORO&KARADA~ at Shinjuku ReNY
- Morning Musume '21 Concert Teenage Solution ~Sato Masaki Sotsugyou Special~
- Morning Musume '22 CONCERT TOUR ~Never Been Better!~* (part of a medley)
- Morning Musume '22 CONCERT TOUR ~Never Been Better! Encore~ (part of a medley)
- Morning Musume '23 25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR ~glad quarter-century~
- Morning Musume '23 25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR ~glad quarter-century~ encore
- A gonna
- Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project Hina Fes 2018
- Morning Musume Tanjou 20 Shuunen Kinen Concert Tour 2018 Haru ~We are MORNING MUSUME~
- Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project 2018 SUMMER ~ONE FOR ALL~
- Hello! Project 20th Anniversary!! Hello! Project COUNTDOWN PARTY 2018 ~GOOD BYE & HELLO!~
- Morning Musume '19 Concert Tour Haru ~BEST WISHES!~ (part of a medley)
- Morning Musume '23 25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR ~glad quarter-century~ part of a medley
- Morning Musume '23 25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR ~glad quarter-century~ encore (part of a medley)
Event Performances[]
- Are you Happy?
- [2018.08.12] ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL 2018 (8gatsu 12nichi Kokuei Hitachi Kaihin Kouen)
- [2019.08.10] ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL
Chart Positions[]
Oricon Chart Positions[]
- Daily & Weekly Rankings
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Week Rank | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 100,436 |
3 4,761 |
5 | 4 | 9 | 1 3,804 |
1 | 114,105 |
| 16 | 19 | 7 | 27 | 32 | 38 | 36 | 16 | 4,556 |
| 38 | - | 13 | 41 | - | - | - | 41 | 1,781 |
| - | - | 2 3,025 |
- | - | - | - | 18 | 3,371 |
| - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 21 | 3,019 |
| - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | 43 | 1,578 |
| - | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | 39 | 1,961 |
- Monthly Ranking
| Year | Month | Month Rank | Sales | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | June | 4 | 120,442 | [2] |
- Yearly Ranking
| Year | Year Rank | Sales | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 53 | 130,371 | [3] |
Total Reported Sales: 130,371*
Billboard Japan Top Single Sales[]
| Week Rank | Sales | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 156,458 | [4] |
| 17 | 4,533 | [5] |
| 30 | 2,467 | [6] |
| 13 | 5,688 | [7] |
| 20 | 4,746 | [8] |
| 26 | 2,788 | [9] |
| Out for 1 week. | ||
| 24 | 3,593 | [10] |
Total Reported Sales: 180,273*
Recochoku Music Video Rankings[]
| Song | Daily Rank | Weekly Rank | Monthly Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Are you Happy? | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| A gonna | 4 | 7 | 17 |
Other Chart Rankings[]
| Country | Chart | Highest Position |
Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
 Japan
|
Billboard Japan Single Sales (First Three Days) | 1 (149,359) |
[11] |
| Billboard Japan Top Singles Sales Year End 2018 | 42 | [12] | |
| "Are you Happy?" only | |||
| Billboard Japan Hot 100 | 1 | [13] | |
| Billboard Japan Top Download Songs | 23 | [14] | |
| CDTV Original Ranking | 1 | [15] | |
| "A gonna" only | |||
| Billboard Japan Top Download Songs | 40 | [14] | |
Trivia[]
- Makino Maria is the center for ‘’Are you Happy?’’, and Sato Masaki is the center for ‘’A Gonna’’.
- The single was announced on May 5, 2018 at the Morning Musume Tanjou 20 Shuunen Kinen Concert Tour 2018 Haru ~We are MORNING MUSUME~ in Hokkaido.[16]
- This is the first single to not feature Kudo Haruka since "Kono Chikyuu no Heiwa wo Honki de Negatterun da yo!".
- "A gonna" is a pun on the phrase "ee gana" (ええがな), which is Kansai dialect for "ii ja nai ka" (いいじゃないか), meaning "why not?" or "who cares?".
- The "Are you Happy?" music video was shot at Fuefukigawa Fruit Park in Yamanishi Prefecture.[17][18] The indoor plaza was also the location for T&C Bomber's "HEY! Mahiru no Shinkirou".
- This is the first single to sell over 100,000 copies on the first day since "Tsumetai Kaze to Kataomoi / ENDLESS SKY / One and Only" in 2015, which it also reached daily #1 on the Oricon singles chart, easily beating "F.L.Y. BOYS F.L.Y. GIRLS" by LDH group GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE by over 24,000 copies.
- This is the first weekly #1 to feature the 13th and 14th generations, and the last weekly #1 to feature Ogata Haruna.
- This is the sixth of 9 consecutive singles to have a lineup change (First single without Kudo Haruka and last single of Ogata Haruna).
- In a Billboard Japan interview with the 12th generation members, Ogata revealed that the single was recorded while she was still waiting for the results of her university entrance exams and had not yet made the decision to graduate.[19]
Videos[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "振付しましたシリーズ☆" (in Japanese). Room No.445. 2018-05-28.
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/m/2018-06/
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/y/2018/p/6/
- ↑ "【ビルボード】モーニング娘。'18『Are you Happy?/A gonna』が156,458枚を売上げて週間セールス首位" (in Japanese). Billboard JAPAN. 2018-06-18.
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales&year=2018&month=07&day=2
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales&year=2018&month=07&day=9
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales&year=2018&month=07&day=16
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales&year=2018&month=07&day=23
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales&year=2018&month=07&day=30
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales&year=2018&month=08&day=13
- ↑ "【先ヨミ】モーニング娘。'18の両A面SGが15万枚目前の売上で首位 AKB48/GENERATIONSが続く" (in Japanese). Billboard JAPAN. 2018-06-14.
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=sales_year&year=2018
- ↑ http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2018&month=06&day=25
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=dlsongs&year=2018&month=06&day=25
- ↑ https://twitter.com/TBSCDTV/status/1010570680268492800
- ↑ Ishida Ayumi. "北海道はでっかい‥‥どー！石田亜佑美" (in Japanese). Morning Musume Tenkigumi Official Blog. 2018-05-05.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Alphafree_music/status/1001407095638409216
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Alphafree_music/status/1001839227812773889
- ↑ "モーニング娘。'18尾形春水卒業記念12期全員インタビュー" (in Japanese). Billboard JAPAN. 2018-06-19.
External Links[]
- Discography: Hello! Project, UP-FRONT WORKS, Tsunku.net
- Event V Announcement
- Wikipedia: Japanese, English
- Lyrics: Are you Happy?, A gonna