The Boom is a Japanese rock band. Its members are Kazufumi Miyazawa (vocals), Kobayashi Takashi (guitar), Yamakawa Hiromasa, and Tochigi Takao (drums).
Morning Musume '21, formerly simply Morning Musume and colloquially referred to as Momusu, are a Japanese female idol group, holding the second highest overall single sales on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an amount of 64, and they have sold over 21 million copies in Japan alone.
Hikari Ishida is a Japanese actress. She starred along with Megumi Odaka and Natsuki Ozawa in the TV-series Hana no Asuka-gumi!. She also released several singles and six albums and she had one minor hit with the song "Emerald no Suna". Ishida also made numerous commercials for hair products and released several photobooks and videos. Ishida has had at least one song appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta. She is younger sister of Yuriko Ishida, also an actress.
"Ai no Tane" is the unofficial debut single of Japanese pop idol group Morning Musume, released under a defunct independent label on November 3, 1997. It is sometimes called the "zeroth single"—"Morning Coffee" (モーニングコーヒー) being the "first single" and so on.
Asuka Fukuda is a Japanese pop singer, and she was a member of Japanese girl group Morning Musume from 1997 until April 18, 1999. Her only album with the group is the 1998 release First Time. She was the first ever Hello! Project member to graduate.
Best! Morning Musume 1 (ベスト！モーニング娘。１) is the first "best of" compilation from the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, and was released January 31, 2001. It is currently the largest selling album of their career and sold a total of 2,259,510 copies. It contained their first eleven singles in non-chronological order and some other album and single favorites; it also included a new song, "Say Yeah!: Motto Miracle Night." The first press came in special packaging with a mini board game.
"Morning Coffee" (モーニングコーヒー) is a song by J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released as their first official single on January 28, 1998 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 200,790 copies. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. The lead vocalist of the single was Natsumi Abe.
"Memory Seishun no Hikari" is the fourth single from the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released on February 10, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 410,850 copies, and reached number two on the Oricon Charts. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. Lead vocals of this single were Natsumi Abe and Asuka Fukuda. Prior to this singles release, on January 17, 1999, Fukuda shocked viewers of the television show Asayan with her decision to "graduate" from Morning Musume and continue with her studies.
"Manatsu no Kōsen" is the fifth single of the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released on May 12, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 235,010 copies, and reached number three on the Oricon Charts. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005, as a 12 cm CD. The lead vocalist of this single was Natsumi Abe. It was first single without Asuka Fukuda
"Furusato" is the sixth single of the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released on July 14, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It has sold over 170,670 copies and reached number five on the Oricon Charts. In 2004 it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. The lead vocalist of this single was Natsumi Abe.
Sambomaster is a Japanese rock band signed by Sony Music Japan. The band's name, Sambomaster, refers to the Russian martial art called Sambo.
Yui Sakakibara is a Japanese voice actress, choreographer, dancer and singer from Hyōgo Prefecture. She appeared on Kōhaku Uta Gassen as background dancer behind Ami Suzuki in 1999 and 2000. She used the name Mayo Hinano and others in her previous roles. She is also credited as FES from the band "Phantasm" (ファンタズム) in the Science Adventure visual novel series, which is a stage name of her character Ayase Kishimoto from Chaos;Head.
Yozuca*, stylised in all lowercase, is a Japanese female singer. She performs songs mainly for games and anime and is known especially for her vocal contributions to the Da Capo series. Her debut was in 2002 with the song "Da Capo: dai-2 botan no chikai", used as the theme song for the adult PC game D.C.: Da Capo. She works under Peak A Soul+, and most of her works are released by Lantis.
CooRie is a self-produced Japanese music unit by singer-songwriter Rino that performs songs for anime and games. CooRie used to be a two-person unit when it debuted in 2003, with Rino doing the lyrics and vocals and Naoyuki Osada doing the music compositions and arrangements. After Osada left by the end of 2003 Rino maintained the name CooRie and composed the music by herself, although she sometimes sings under her own name, especially if the song is for adult games. CooRie's records are released under Lantis and Mellow Head.
"Sakura Mankai" is the second single of the J-pop idol group Morning Musume sub-group Morning Musume Sakuragumi. In addition to the title song and its karaoke version, the single also contains Morning Musume Sakuragumi versions of the earlier Morning Musume songs "Say Yeah!: Motto Miracle Night" and "Daite Hold on Me!". "Say Yeah!: Motto Miracle Night" was originally featured on the Best! Morning Musume 1 album and "Daite Hold on Me!" on the "Daite Hold on Me!" single. Morning Musume Otomegumi also did a version of "Say Yeah!: Motto Miracle Night" at the same time as Morning Musume Sakuragumi on the "Yūjō " single.
"Bokura ga Ikiru MY ASIA" is the first single of Morning Musume's tenth anniversary team Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai. It was released on January 24, 2007, while the Single V DVD was released on February 21.
Morning Musume All Singles Complete: 10th Anniversary is a compilation of the first 34 singles from the Japanese female idol group Morning Musume, covering every A-side track from each of their singles since their major debut in 1997. It was released on October 24, 2007 in two editions; the normal edition contained only the two CDs, while the limited edition came with an alternative cover and a bonus DVD.
Haruka Nakagawa, is a Japanese singer and actress based in Indonesia. She is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 and its sub-unit Watarirouka Hashiritai, as well as its Indonesian sister group JKT48, all produced by Yasushi Akimoto.
Dreams 1, stylized as Dreams (1), is Dream Morning Musume's first original studio album.
Aika Ōno is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She is contracted with the Giza Studio record label
