POP-STEP-UP

Not to be confused with STEP UP.

POP-STEP-UP

Song Information

POP-STEP-UP's pop'n music banner.

Artist: SOUNDROID
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics: Seiya Murai
Vocals: ?
BPM: 130 (NORMAL, HYPER), 32-260 (EX)
Length: 1:35
pop'n music Genre: LESSON (レッスン)
pop'n music Character: Mimi [5]
pop'n CG design: いぬ千代
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music 5
Other Music Game Appearances:

• ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット

Lyrics

3-2-1 Let's Play!

※Give me a "P"
 Give Me a "O"
 Give me a "P"
 Give me a "N"
 Give me a "M"
 Give me a "U"
 Give me a "S"
 Give me a "I"
 Give me a "C"
 POP'N MUSIC!

Good!

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Keep going!

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Song Connections / Remixes

• A MIDI arrangement of POP-STEP-UP appears in ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット.
• The EX chart of POP-STEP-UP has entirely different melodies during most of the song, to match the more advanced chart.

Trivia

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POP-STEP-UP's pop'n music 6 banner.

코나미 팝픈뮤직's banner.

• POP-STEP-UP's charts are made of several different patterns, for which the song serves as a "training" song.
  • The note patterns at the start, middle, and end of POP-STEP-UP's charts roughly spell "POP'N MUSIC", following the lyrics.
• POP-STEP-UP received a brand-new NORMAL chart in pop'n music 9. The original NORMAL chart was moved to the HYPER chart.
• POP-STEP-UP marks the first appearance of Mimi as a rival character in pop'n music (not counting the spin-off pop'n stage). Before this song, the only time where she was a rival character was along Nyami on Theme of staff roll ~special mix~ as POPPERS.
• A small loop of music from POP-STEP-UP is used in pop'n music 9's How to Play tutorial.
• POP-STEP-UP is used as the tutorial song for ポップンミュージック.
• POP-STEP-UP's NORMAL chart was re-rated in pop'n music éclale on March 22nd, 2016.
• POP-STEP-UP received a brand-new EX chart in pop'n music peace. It can be unlocked from May 23rd, 2019 by obtaining eight stamps on the first pop'n music 5 card in the pop'n time trip (ポップンタイムトリップ) event.
  • Unlike the other charts for the song, POP-STEP-UP's EX chart has Long pop-kuns, Highlight Zones, and BPM changes.
  • In POP-STEP-UP's EX chart, the regular "POP'N MUSIC" pattern is used at the start, a more complex alternate pattern is used in the middle, and there is a very complex pattern at the end that spells "POP'N MUSIC! PEACE♥".

Music Comment

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Song Production Information

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Character Information

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Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 5 in ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards.

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	- / -	96 / 0	128 / 0	- / -	- / - / -	- / -	- / -	- / -	- / - / -
ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット	-	2	5	-	-	-	-	-	-

pop'n music

Game	Normal Mode				Battle Mode
	5-Buttons	NORMAL	HYPER	EX	NORMAL	HYPER
Notecounts	242	348	456	1008	453	-
pop'n music 5	-	※30	-	-	-	-
pop'n music 6	12	※↓22	-	-	N/A	-
pop'n music 9→20 fantasia	↓9	15	30	-	22	-
pop'n music Sunny Park→ラピストリア	-	↑22	36	-	22	-
pop'n music éclale→うさぎと猫と少年の夢	-	↑28	36	-	22	-
pop'n music peace→Present	-	28	36	48	22	-
pop'n music 5 CS	-	※30	-	-	-	-
pop'n music 6 CS	12	※22	-	-	-	-
pop'n music 9 CS	9	15	30	-	22	-

※ The notecount of this chart correspond to the later 9-Buttons HYPER chart.