321 STARS
321 STARS
Song Information
Artist: DJ SIMON (beatmania, beatmania IIDX, DDR), ♪♪♪♪♪ (pop'n music)
Composition/Arrangement: Kiyotaka Sugimoto
BPM: 192
Length: 1:24
Genre: TECHNO POP (テクノポップ)
pop'n music Character: KINOKO BOY [8]
VJ: VJ GYO (CS DistorteD), ?? (CS US)
pop'n CG design: shio
Jacket design: moroEX
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania completeMIX2
Other Music Game Appearances:
- beatmania US (5-key chart only)
- beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS (new 7-key charts)
- beatmania III APPEND CORE REMIX
- DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME
- pop'n music 8
Lyrics
Includes samples of "3", "2", "1", "the stars", and "hi".
Song Connections/Remixes
- orangenoise shortcut song Like a surfing borrows some parts of 321 STARS' melody.
Trivia
- The title, 321 STARS, is a reference to Sugimoto's birthday, March 21st (3/21).
- KINOKO BOY does not have a 2P color.
- Along with the other BEMANI songs crossed over to pop'n music 8, 321 STARS displays ♪♪♪♪♪ as the artist. This has never changed.
- 321 STARS received an EX chart in pop'n music 9. This chart was carried to pop'n music 8 CS.
- Counting jumps, 321 STARS' Single EXPERT chart has exactly 321 steps in it in DanceDanceRevolution, a reference to its name.
- Unfortunately, due to jumps counting as one step for combo purposes in all future DanceDanceRevolution titles after EXTREME, this little in-joke is lost.
- A similar joke occurred with 321 STARS in pop'n music with its NORMAL chart; if one achieved a full combo in pop'n music 8, it was 321 (MAX COMBO in earlier pop'n music game was the song's notecount total minus 1). Once the MAX COMBO got updated in later pop'n music games to include all of a song's notes, though, this joke was lost once more.
- Unfortunately, due to jumps counting as one step for combo purposes in all future DanceDanceRevolution titles after EXTREME, this little in-joke is lost.
- In the DanceDanceRevolution series, 321 STARS is titled as 321STARS.
- 321STARS received a Double BEGINNER chart in DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2.
- 321 STARS appears on beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS, with new 7-key charts, as part of the BEMANI 10th Anniversary Commemoration.
Music Comment
This popular beatmania song makes its appearance in pop'n!
Song Production Information
pop'n music
Original Simonman
I will now answer the question of how to read this song title.
It is read as "three-two-one-stars".
Video Production Information
None.
Character Information
Untranslated.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards. (Ratings obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | Normal | Hyper | Another | |
| Notecounts | — | 276 | 413 | 588 | 294 | 436 | 626 |
| beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS | — | 5 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 9 |
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 95 / 0 | 146 / 5 | 239 / 15 | 308 / 7 | - / - / - | 147 / 5 | 241 / 7 | 307 / 7 | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | — | 4 | 7 | 8 | — |
| DanceDanceRevolution X→Present | 4 | 5 | 9 | 11 | — | 5 | 8 | 11 | — |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS JP/US | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | — | 4 | 7 | 8 | — |
| Dancing Stage Fusion CS | 2 | ※6 | ※7 | ※8 | — | ※4 | ※7 | ※8 | — |
| DanceDanceRevoluion ULTRAMIX2 / Dancing Stage Unleashed2 | N/A | 4 | 6 | 8 | — | 4 | 7 | 8 | — |
※ These charts don't have Freeze Arrows in the PlayStation version of Dancing Stage Fusion CS.
pop'n music
| Game | Standard | Battle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Button | Normal | Hyper | EX | Normal | Hyper | |
| Notecounts | 188 | 322 | 591 | 824 | 305 | 498 |
| pop'n music 8 | 9 | 21 | 29 | - | 15 | 24 |
| pop'n music 9 | ↓7 | ↑22 | ↑31 | 40 | 15 | 24 |
| pop'n music 10→17 THE MOVIE | 7 | 22 | 31 | ↓39 | 15 | 24 |
| pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝→20 fantasia | 7 | 22 | ↑32 | 39 | 15 | 24 |
| pop'n music Sunny Park→Present | - | 28 | 38 | 45 | 15 | 24 |
| pop'n music 8 CS | 7 | 22 | 31 | 40 | 15 | 24 |