The voting is something unique (I think) to AKB48, where for the last 6 years they have an annual event where fans get to vote for which performers will be in t

The voting is something unique (I think) to AKB48, where for the last 6 years they have an annual event where fans get to vote for which performers will be in the singles. I believe in the last election there were 200+ participants, including all the '48' family groups and training members. http://stage48.net/wiki/index.php/Senbatsu_Election http://stage48.net/wiki/index.php/Senbatsu_Election The tickets usually refer to hand-shake events where you can meet and shake hands with members of the group. Another hook is including different DVDs in each of several versions of a single, for example Making of videos, close up versions of the video, dance versions, etc. I have seen up to 6 different versions of the same single.