Unison Square Garden (stylized as UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, or USG) is a Japanese teen pop band signed to Toy's Factory. [1] The band includes Kosuke Saito (vocals/guitar), Tomoya Tabuchi (bass/backing vocals), and Takao Suzuki (drums).
In July 2004, the band was formed, and named as "unison" (ユニゾン) and later renamed the band name to "Unison Square Garden". They took part in Teens 'Music Festival Musical Instrument Store Competition, they won the Grand Prix finally. [2] In 2008, they made a major debut at Toy's Factory. [2] In February 2014, they gave their first performance on Music Station. [3] In July, 2015, they released the anniversary album Dugout Accident, and held a concert in Nippon Budokan. [4]
Release Date | Title | Peak Position | Album |
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JPN [5] | |||
July 23, 2008 | Sentimental Period (センチメンタルピリオド) | 109 | Unison Square Garden |
January 28, 2009 | Master Volume (マスターボリューム) | 49 | |
February 10, 2010 | Cody Beats | 38 | Jet Co. |
November 24, 2010 | Scarsdale (スカースデイル) | 35 | Populus Populus |
May 11, 2011 | Tracing Orion (オリオンをなぞる) | 14 | |
July 25, 2012 | Meteor Squall | 21 | Cider Road |
September 19, 2012 | Listening to Linear Blue | 8 | |
November 6, 2013 | After Cherry Blossoms (all quartets lead to the?) (桜のあと (all quartets lead to the?)) | 10 | Catcher in the Spy |
February 5, 2014 | Harmonized Finale | 8 | |
May 20, 2015 | Sugar Song and Bitter Step | 5 | Dr. Izzy |
August 9, 2017 | 10% Roll, 10% Romance | 3 | Mode Mood Mode |
November 8, 2017 | Invisible Sensation | 5 | |
November 15, 2017 | Fake Town Baby | 6 | |
March 7, 2018 | Spring is Coming to Us (春が来てぼくら) | 5 | Patrick Vegee |
November 7, 2018 | Catch Up, Latency | 3 | |
October 11, 2019 | Phantom Joke | 5 | |
April 13, 2022 | Kaleido Proud Fiesta | 4 | Kaleido Proud Fiesta |
Release Date | Title | Peak Position |
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JPN [5] | ||
April 15, 2009 | Unison Square Garden | 20 |
April 7, 2010 | Jet Co. | 24 |
July 6, 2011 | Populus Populus | 18 |
February 6, 2013 | Cider Road | 9 |
August 27, 2014 | Catcher in the Spy | 5 |
July 6, 2016 | Dr. Izzy | 3 |
January 24, 2018 | Mode Mood Mode | 2 |
September 30, 2020 | Patrick Vegee | 2 |
Release Date | Title | Peak Position |
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JPN [5] | ||
January 16, 2008 Re-released: July 3, 2019 | Shin Sekai Note (新世界ノート) | 25 |
January 16, 2008 Re-released: July 3, 2019 | Ryusei Zenya (流星前夜) | 24 |
Release Date | Title | Peak Position |
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JPN [5] | ||
July 22, 2015 | Dugout Accident | 2 |
July 3, 2019 | Bee side Sea side ~B-side Collection Album~ | 5 |
Release Date | Title | Peak Position |
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JPN [5] | ||
October 11, 2019 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN The 1st Collection for streaming | — |
Release Date | Title | Peak Position | |
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JPN DVD [5] | JPN Blu-ray [5] | ||
February 6, 2013 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN ONEMAN TOUR 2012 SPECIAL ~Spring Spring Spring~ at ZEPP TOKYO 2012.04.21 | 9 | — |
November 6, 2013 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN TOUR 2013 CIDER ROAD TOUR at NHK HALL 2013.04.10 | 8 | — |
January 27, 2016 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN LIVE SPECIAL "fun time 724" at Nippon Budokan 2015.7.24 | 4 | — |
May 17, 2017 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN TOUR 2016 Dr.Izzy at Yokosuka Arts Theatre 2016.11.21 | 7 | 9 |
December 26, 2018 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN TOUR 2018 “MODE MOOD MODE” at Omiya Sonic City 2018.06.29 | 6 | 10 |
December 25, 2019 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN 15th Anniversary Live at Osaka Maishima 2019.07.27 | 9 | 6 |
June 24, 2020 | UNISON SQUARE GARDEN「Bee-side Sea-side U-side」at Zepp Tokyo 2019.10.16 | 6 | 4 |
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