| Summertime | |
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 Digital Cover | |
| Released: | June 12, 2024 |
| Genre: | J-Pop, P-Pop |
| Format: | CD Single |
| Label | Hallohallo Entertainment Inc. |
| Producer | Akimoto Yasushi |
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| MNL48 Singles Chronology | |
| Previous: NO WAY MAN 7th Single (2022) |
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Summertime is the 8th single released by MNL48. This is their first original single release.
Single Tracklist Details
- Summertime / Undergirls Senbatsu
- Summertime (off-vocal)
Included Members
"Summertime"
★ Undergirls Senbatsu (アンダーガール選抜) (10 Members) (Cole Center)
Trivia
- First original single of MNL48.
- This is the second single in all AKB48 Group which the A-side song being sung in full English after JKT48's Flying High in 2022.
- This single's Senbatsu was formed from the MNL48 3rd General Election. They are the Undergirls lineup who are originally announced to perform the coupling song of the 7th Single. This was later dropped and they became the Senbatsu of the next single release.
- This is the first single in AKB48 Group where the Senbatsu is from the Undergirls lineup of the previous Senbatsu Sousenkyo's single.
- The single was announced on October 1, 2022 during the MNL48 7th Single "NO WAY MAN" Mini Handshake Event.
- On November 20, 2023, the group announced that their upcoming 8th single would be their first original single.
- First A-side center of Cole
- First Senbatsu to not include any of the 1st Generation members, aside from not including Abby and Sheki.
- Although Cole is part of the 1.5th Generation as she joined the group almost a month after its debut, she is still considered as 2nd Generation member as per the management's system of determining generations by the time of a trainee's promotion to regular members rather than the time they joined the group as a trainee.
- First Senbatsu to not include any Senbatsu members from the previous single.
- Originally, Gia Jie, Mari and Miho were part of the Senbatsu lineup but they graduated before the single's release.
- However, Jie has posted pictures of herself behind the scenes of the music video with the other members.
- First Senbatsu of:
- First single after the dissolution of Team MII, Team NIV, Team L, and Team Unknown
- First single to have 10 members in the Senbatsu
- First single and Senbatsu after Abby, Andi, Dian, Jan, Ruth, and Yzabel's graduations
- The music video for Summertime was shot in 2024 before the song's digital release as suggested by the teasers released on social media. However, due to internal issues, it did not push through.
- Upon the transfer of the group from Hallohallo Entertainment Inc. (old management) to MNL48 Inc. (new management) in 2025, it was hinted that there are no plans to release the music video anytime.
- The last single released under Hallohallo Entertainment Inc. (MNL48's old management).