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Must Be Now

Limited Edition Type-A Cover
Regular Edition Type-A Cover
Limited Edition Type-B Cover
Regular Edition Type-B Cover
Limited Edition Type-C Cover
Regular Edition Type-C Cover
Theater Edition Cover
Artist
NMB48
Single
Must be now
Released
2015.10.07
Catalog Number
YRCS-90096 (Regular Edition Type-A)
YRCS-90097 (Regular Edition Type-B)
YRCS-90098 (Regular Edition Type-C)
YRCS-90099 (Limited Edition Type-A)
YRCS-90100 (Limited Edition Type-B)
YRCS-90101 (Limited Edition Type-C)
YRCS-90102 (Theater Edition)
Price
¥1,646 (Type-A, B, C)
¥1,000 (Theater Edition)
Type-A CD Tracklist
  1. Must be now
  2. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... (片想いよりも思い出を…; Memories Rather Than Unrequited Love...)
  3. Yume ni Iro ga Nai Riyuu (夢に色がない理由; The Reason Dreams Have No Color) (Team N)
  4. Must be now off vocal ver.
  5. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... off vocal ver.
  6. Yume ni Iro ga Nai Riyuu off vocal ver.
Limited Edition Type-A DVD Tracklist
  1. NMB48 Arena Tour 2015 ~Tooku ni Itemo~ 2015.2.25 @ Nippon Budokan (遠くにいても)
Regular Edition Type-A DVD Tracklist
  1. Must be now (Music Video)
  2. Must be now (Music Video Dancing Version)
  3. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... (Music Video)
  4. Yume ni Iro ga Nai Riyuu (Music Video)
  5. Bonus Video "Riripon Road to Mahjong Victory Part 1" (りりぽん 麻雀勝利への道 前編)
Type-B CD Tracklist
  1. Must be now
  2. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... (片想いよりも思い出を…)
  3. Good-bye, Guitar (Team M)
  4. Must be now off vocal ver.
  5. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... off vocal ver.
  6. Good-bye, Guitar off vocal ver.
Limited Edition Type-B DVD Tracklist
  1. NMB48 Arena Tour 2015 ~Tooku ni Itemo~ 2015.2.26 @ Nippon Budokan (遠くにいても)
Regular Edition Type-B DVD Tracklist
  1. Must be now (Music Video)
  2. Must be now (Music Video Dancing Version)
  3. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... (Music Video)
  4. Good-bye, Guitar (Music Video)
  5. Bonus Video "Riripon Road to Mahjong Victory Part 2" (りりぽん 麻雀勝利への道 後編)
Type-C CD Tracklist
  1. Must be now
  2. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... (片想いよりも思い出を…)
  3. Kuufuku de Ren'ai wo Suruna (空腹で恋愛をするな; Don't Fall in Love on an Empty Stomach) (Team BII)
  4. Must be now off vocal ver.
  5. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... off vocal ver.
  6. Kuufuku de Ren'ai wo Suruna off vocal ver.
Limited Edition Type-C DVD Tracklist
  1. NMB48 Kenkyuusei "Souzou no Shijin" Theater Performance (NMB48研究生「想像の詩人」劇場公演)
Regular Edition Type-C DVD Tracklist
  1. Must be now (Music Video)
  2. Must be now (Music Video Dancing Version)
  3. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... (Music Video)
  4. Kuufuku de Ren'ai wo Suruna (Music Video)
  5. NMB48 feat. Yoshimoto Shinkigeki Vol.13 (NMB48 feat.吉本新喜劇 Vol.13)
Theater Edition CD Tracklist
  1. Must be now
  2. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... (片想いよりも思い出を…)
  3. Orera to wa (俺らとは; We are)
  4. Must be now off vocal ver.
  5. Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo... off vocal ver.
  6. Orera to wa off vocal ver.


Information

"Must be now" is the thirteenth single released by NMB48. The single was released in seven versions: three limited CD+DVD versions in types A, B, and C, three regular CD+DVD versions in types A, B, and C, and a regular CD only edition.

Selected Members

NMB48 promoting the single
Type-A Cover
Type-B Cover
Type-C Cover
Theater Edition Cover
  • Front: "Must be now" 9 Senbatsu Members
  • Back: "Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo..." 16 Senbatsu Members

"Must be now"

(Center: Yamamoto Sayaka)

"Kataomoi Yori mo Omoide wo..."

(Center: Yabushita Shu)

"Yume ni Iro ga Nai Riyuu"

Artist: Team N

(Center: Yamamoto Sayaka)

"Good-bye, Guitar"

Artist: Team M

(Center: Shiroma Miru, Yagura Fuuko)

"Kuufuku de Ren'ai wo Suruna"

Artist: Team BII

(Center: Watanabe Miyuki)

Kamieda Emika was absent from this song due to hiatus.

"Orera to wa"

Artist: Orera (俺ら)

Song Information

Lyrics
Akimoto Yasushi
Music
Carlos K.
Other Information
Arrangement: Carlos K.

Disambiguation

There are currently two versions of "Must be now" to be found in NMB48's discography. These versions are:

Must be now (Original)
Found on the "Must be now" single as track #1.
Must be now off vocal ver.
Found on the "Must be now" single as track #4. This is the standard version without the main vocals.

Oricon Chart Positions

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Week Rank Sales
- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 307,036
1 8 8 5 6 5 4 6 10,942
4 20 20 12 10 12 10 16 4,759
11 42 41 26 16 29 24 34 3,571
34 45 48 40 36 40 39 46 1,459
1 33 49 36 33 35 28 7 16,892
1 - - - 41 50 49 9 15,174
1 - - - - - - 22 7,551
1 - - - - - - 13 7,928
3 - - - - - - 8 11,008
1 - - - - - - 12 12,498
1 - - - - - - 16 7,614
- - - - - - - 80 491
- - - - - - - 82 472
- - - - - - - 151 271
- - - - - - - 161 205
1 - - - - - - 20 5,713
- - - - - - - 187 195
- - - - - - - 172 236
2 weeks OUT
- - - - - - - 94 522
- - - - - - - 109 451
- - - 44 38 39 - 55 804
- - - - - - - 168 247
- - - - - - - 164 263
- - - - - - - 142 262
- - 46 19 24 16 19 28 1,496
Year Month Month Rank Sales
2015 October 2 326,308
2015 November 10 41,076
2015 December 11 39,048
2016 January 49 7,152

Total Reported Sales: 418,060*
Total Sales of 2015: 386,320 (#18 single of the year)

Total of weeks charting inside Top 200: 26

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