Lyrics[]
Includes samples of "3", "2", "1", "the stars", and "hi".
Song Connections / Remixes[]
- The orangenoise shortcut song Like a surfing borrows some parts of 321 STARS' melody.
- 321 STARS shares the "hi" sample with OTENAMI Hurricane, from beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ.
Trivia[]
- The title, 321 STARS, is a reference to Sugimoto's birthday, March 21st (3/21).
- 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 a brand-new EX chart in pop'n music 9's Gambler de Z (ギャンブラーZ?) unlock event. It could be unlocked from February 13th, 2003 through March 12th, 2003 after unlocking 翔べない天使 and clearing 321 STARS' EX chart, or failing it enough times until it's automatically unlocked. This chart was carried to pop'n music 8 CS.
- As of March 12th, 2003, this chart is playable by default.
- 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.
- 321 STARS 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.
- 321 STARS is unlockable in pop'n music Lively from January 12th, 2022 as part of the Pop'n Quest (ポップンクエスト?) unlocking system.
Music Comment[]
This popular beatmania song makes its appearance in pop'n!
Song Production Information[]
Original Simonman[]
I will now answer the question of how to read this song title. It is read as "three-two-one-stars".
Difficulty & Notecounts[]
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through Pop'n Music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards.
| Game | Standard | Battle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | N | H | EX | N | H | |
| 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→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 |
| pop'n music Lively | - | 28 | 38 | 45 | - | - |