Berryz Koubou

Berryz Koubou certainly are a second-tier Japan girl music group predicated on the Hi there! Project Children, a task of the feminine idol company Up-Front. BK’s size could be reported to be larger than the range of their achievement: the group features seven users, all vocalists (there have been eight until 2008), but non-e of their 1st five albums were able to sell over 20,000 copies, and non-e from the 20 singles from the same period shifted over 40,000 CDs, even though sheer quantity of produces still produces some nice product sales numbers. The name of the group means “Berryz Workshop,” as well as the music group was initially designed to add a revolving cast that could ultimately feature every person in Hello! Project Children. The gimmick was fell fast, as well as the music group settled on the long lasting lineup including Saki Shimizu, Momoko Tsugunaga, Chinami Tokunaga, Maasa Sudo, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Yurina Kumai, Risako Sugaya, and Maiha Ishimura, with seven various other Hello! Project Children going to type C-ute. All associates of Berryz Koubou, despite getting very young, currently had prior showbiz knowledge: they proved helpful as back-up dancers in W’s promo movies, participated in Aa! and ZYX, and made an appearance in the film Okashi na Daibouken starring the music group Mini Moni. The recently set up group kicked items off using their personal radio display, which went in 2004-2009, and debuted in 2004 having a trio of singles (“Anata Nashi de wa Ikite Yukenai,” “Fighting with each other Pose wa Day ja Nai!,” “Piriri to Yukou”) accompanied by their 1st studio recording 1st Cho Berryz. In 2005, Ishimura “graduated” from your project to focus on her education, however the remaining ladies pressed on, liberating the second record, Dai 2 Seichouki, as well as the EP, Particular! Greatest Mini 2.5 Maime no Kare, within per month of every other (both had been out in 2005). They continuing release a one record a calendar year, popping out the EP 3 Natsu Natsu Mini Berryz in 2006, as well as the full-lengths 4th Ai no Nanchara Shisu in 2007 and 5 (Five) in 2008. In 2007, in addition they broke the record for the group using the youngest associates to try out an world: they sold-out the 20,000-chair Saitama Super Market using the bandmembers averaging significantly less than 14 years of age, thereby beating Morning hours Musume, who kept the prior record with 16.three years. 2009 was designated by Berryz Koubou 1st best-of collection, which offered 13,000 copies — the same quantity as their studio room albums.