My 2014 Predictions.

Happy new year everyone.

Sorry for completely ignoring the blog. Been having a hard time trying to stay awake after working double shifts for months on end.

So I've decided to do this predictions post to get me back into the swing of things.

Morning Musume '14

They will perform on Kohaku!!
I was disappointed that they didn't get invited to perform but as the saying goes "when one door closes, another opens".

They appear more on TV.
And not just for promotion of singles/albums, but for just being them.

Sayumi doesn't announce her graduation.
Like hell she can. She wants to perform at Kohaku again so she has to stay until she's 27.

#kanon2014
If you follow me on twitter, you'll know that I started using this hash tag for Zukki. THIS IS HER YEAR TO SHINE!!!!! She's defending her weight on TV, her vocals ate beautiful and she (finally) got a line in a single that's in the section that will be performed. THIS IS HER YEAR!!!!!

Berryz Koubou

They actually get a budget.
Bigger budget means better PV.

They make an album that's not boring.
I was very disappointed in their last 2 albums. 6th Otakebi Album was the first album I got from them back when I first started getting into Hello! Project. So for me that is their greatest album.

Make it the Berryz Koubou show not the miyabi/Risako show featuring Berryz Koubou.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is anything wrong with having the two best singers in the group lead but when they sung 3/4 of the song but themselves for majority of the single releases, it does get borning......quickly.

They remind people that they do have great group chemistry.
This relates to their budget. Remember when they had good PVs and their group chemistry was showing more? Didn't they have a better budget then?

No-one graduates.
I've been reading that a lot of people think that someone (namely Captain) or all are going to graduate this year. Please don't.

C-ute

No-one graduates.
They've got a good thing going at the moment. Having a member graduate now will hurt the group, especially with the tabloid media trying to get Airi fired for having a (non existent) relationship.

S/milage

They continue to get happy, smiley songs.
Yatteruchan was the best thing to happen to them this year. They need more songs like that.

They step up their game and have a chance to perform at Budokan in 2015.
With J=J in the screen, the girls need to step up and show that they are not another Berryz Koubou.

Katsuta Rina becomes interesting.
The girl needs to act like she wants to be there. Right now, I feel it would be best if she gtfo. She got picked over Kanoko Rie who just left H!PK after 5 years. A girl who always showed us just how much she wants to be an idol. A girl who never got the chance to debut, but this girl did and she looks like she doesn't want to be there.

Nakanishi and Takeuchi get a Photo book.
Kana is beautiful and Akari has this tomboy coolness going on. Wouldn't a pb with just them in it acting like lover be great? Especially if Sayumi or Fukuda puts in the ideas.

Juice=Juice

They perform on music station.
They're good enough and hungry enough to do this.

They announce that their going Budokan before S/milage.
It happened to C-ute, it could happen to them.

They release an album and have their first nation wide tour.
Nuff said.

Hello! Project Kenshuusei

A new unit is announced.
I like the idea of having the girls from the 12th gen audition forming their own unit. Also Sasaki Rikako, Hamaura Ayano, Kosuga Fuyuka and Tanabe Nanami need to debut. So that's two new units I would like to see announced.

On a side note, it would be nice to see another group achieve that #1 on or icon. I think that either C-ute or Juice=Juice might get that what with their sales and promotions.

End of Year Polls.

I'm sorry that i can't make this more interesting but my cousin's computer chair is really uncomfortable and giving me a really bad backache.

Anyway

In the side bar to the right, I have placed a number of polls.

The polls are:

Stand Out Member - モ (minus 9th and 10th gens), ベ, キ, マス (minus 2nd) Both Aichan and Sakitty are included

Stand Out Newcomers - Pick your top 3 members. 10th gen included as they have been active since they were announced and Kosuga Fuyuka is not included as she has not been apart of any performances

Best single - Song, Dance, PV and Costume, this includes Please Miniskirt Postwoman

And just to help you all remember who the newcomers are and what the songs were i will post them after the jump.

Please Miniskirt Postwoman? I want more of this.

I can't believe i'm writing this while completely exhausted. My fault reall for not getting enough sleep due to watching the MBCMS event on Nicox2 at 4 in the morning (and i had to look after my aunts shop for 8 hours as well).

Anyways, a few days ago, S/mileage staff uploaded a rehearsal video for their new single Please Miniskirt Postwoman and i'm really excited about this single.

This single marks the offical debut for 2nd gen and the last for Yuukarin. It's released on the same day as Kikkawa You's new single Konna Watashi de Yokattara on December 28th, 3 days before Yuukarin graduates beaning a nice friendly battle between former eggs and Yuukarin not being able to celebrate with the girl when the weekly ranking comes in.





Ok, So obivious this is a rehearsal, REMEMER THAT!!!! They will get better with more practice.

The song is, in my opinion, is their best to date. It's catchy, super cute and keep with the S/mileage theme of putting a smile on your face. The line distrubution is quite fair i'd say. Cinderella, Meimei and Takechan get the most lines and i have to say that both Meimei (who is growing on me) and Takechan are the stand outs. It's quite obvious that management is pushing Meimei and here is where i fell that she deserves it. She fits the s/mileage image perfectly even if she does scares the living daylights out of me. Her singing has improved greatly, she's learned to tone down her projection while improving her tone and pitch.

Takechan is a surprise for me. What i mean is, while she is the best singer and dancer out of 2nd gen, i thought that we'd have another Riho/Fukuchan situation (where Fukuchan is the most experienced and overall better talent, Riho is getting all the promotion), expecting management to push Kanana a bit more, but this is good. She's a strong singer, something S/mileage has been missing since Sakitty left.

Kanana only gets one solo line and i'm quite thankful for that as she is the weakest singer in the group. She has improved but i still think that she should have either beed left as a sub member or demoted to the eggs.

Katsuta is forgetfull. I completely forget what she sounds like as soon as she's finished her solo lines. Another girl that should not have been promoted.

Yuukarin doesn't get as many lines in this single as she usually does, this is mainly due to her leaving soon. a few people have commented on youtube about her not singing as much and i think that it's fair as mamagement need to distrubute her line between the other girls and the less lines she has the less of a problem it'll be.

I'm loving the DAWA/Meimei combo. It's cuteness overload and having this combo in the beginning, middle and end of the song means you can't escape these Fang Toothed Wacky Cuties or Team Fang as i will mow call them.

This single has the most complicated dance routine S/mileage has ever had but it fits the song so well. I especially like Team Fang's parts and when they all sing "Please, Please". Unfortunately Kanana is the worst in this video as she is all over the place and forgets the dance. But she's not the only one. If you take your eyes away from her, you will see that Yuuka, Meimi and Rina alson mess up a bit but not as badly. you have to give her a chance as she is the member with the lease dance experience and she has said that she struggles with learning the dances.

This video was posted on monday and their first perfoemance was dueing the event yesterday. This video was made when they just learnt the dance so judging from the timeline (Oct 16th - Promotion of Sub-members and single announcement - Nov 23rd MBCMS event), they have had to learn the song, have singing lessons on the song, record the song, learn the dance and perfect the dance with heels while doing rehearsals, performances and interviews for MBCMS and rehearsals for the upcoming H!P winter tour. Kanana didn't mess up during the live from what i could see which means she got 10x better.

I AM GOING TO MAKE THIS COSTUME!!!!!!

With the exception of Shortcut stage and Pig song costumes, S/mileage never disappoints. I'm loving this costume. it's clear where UFA spend their money.

I'm really excited for this single and can not wait till were get a view of the PV. Hopefully it's better than Tachiagirl's PV (Which is an utter pile of shit)

S/mileage – Additions and Subtraction

Well as the title says, I will be talking about S/mileage here.

To me, S/mileage represented the future of H!P. They hold the hope that all those talented Eggs will be used and the potential that the marketing team behind H!P has to promote not only the S/mileage girls but H!P as a whole.

Their image has a distinct theme, the group with the shortest skirts in Japan. Their music, although not my cup of tea, is Catchy and cute and the fact that they are polished performers (by polished, I mean that they could be crying their hearts out and still sing and dance on cue) is another reason to love these girls.

So when it was announce that UFA would be looking for girls who can add what is missing to this group was a huge kick in the teeth, not only to the girls but also to us fans. To me, the only thing missing from this group was promotion (which also happens to be the main problem with UFA anyway), so i kept thinking “why not just look to the eggs if you think something is missing? Adding random girls who have no training to a group that perform like idols 10-15 yrs older than them is stupid” nothing would convince me that this is they right move for this group.

So they streamed the auditions live on Niconico Douga and i see quite a few girls that have that polished feel that wouldn’t hinder the group and a few girls that H!P should take on as eggs since the eggs seem to be getting smaller and smaller these days. On to another live streaming, this time from the training camp and again, with the exception of the 3 eggs that made it through, the other girls looked like candidates for future eggs, I was getting a little excited to see the girls that want to debut but i kept thinking “these girls are not ready to join S/mileage”.

When the day came to finally hear who passed, i was quite disappointed in the selection and the term used for these girls.

Katsuta Rina, 7th gen Egg (2yrs experience) – a pretty girl but the only thing that stood out to me about her was her experience as an egg

Kosuga Fuyuka, no experience – has that intelligent look to her but she resembles DAWA too much for me and I’m not talking about her looks.

Nakanishi Kana, No experience – pretty smile but didn’t stand out to me, I actually had to look her up in the auditions just to find out what she sounded and danced like.

Tamura Meimi, Played Yuiki Yaya in the Shugo Chara Musical so knew 3/4 members of S/mileage before auditioning (all members of Shugo Chara Egg were in the musical though only Kanyon and Yuukarin had roles) – this girl stood out from the very beginning mainly for her projection. I felt that she might be a good addition for the group just for the power she has when projecting.

Takeuchi Akari, 4th gen Egg (3yrs experience), Yajima Maimi’s cousin – Akari stood out as the egg most likely to debut. She can sing and dance and wouldn’t need to feel that awkward feeling that people get when talking to her senpais due to them being eggs together.

My reaction after hearing that these girls got though was still "meh" but i was excited for the 2 eggs that go in until i re-read the title of all the blog posts that was coming in. WTF is with the SUB member thing?

No offence but adding the term Sub is basically another way of saying that they weren’t sure that this was the right decision. And to that I agree, although I didn’t agree with this whole process and what bloggers were comparing to the system that AKB has when different members are selected to be a part of a single.

Then the shocker came. All this was to find a replacement for one of the original members, Ogawa Saki.

Sakitty was going to graduate 4 days after the graduation announcement.

Now i agree that school is important and that without an education, you have no back up plan, something that has been drilled into me since I was a kid. What I don’t agree with is the way Saki graduated.

In the past, with the exception of the eggs, whenever a member decided to graduate, they got a graduation ceremony. The only members not to get a ceremony were the ones who were involved in a scandal. So for Saki to not get the standard ceremony at the end of a concert was not only shocking but had a bad taste to it.

So the “true” reason for the rushed audtition was to replace Saki? I still don’t buy it and i don’t think i ever will. No matter what the reason for her departure is, as long as it wasn’t a scandal, she deserved a graduation ceremony as one of the founding members of S/mileage.

The next departure was Kosuga. Due to Illness she had to leave. The decision to place her in the eggs was a welcomed one for me because it should have been made since the announcement of the new members. All i can say is Have a speedy recovery Fuuchan.

October 16th...........Happy 26th Birthday Kira. Shame your bad luck started then. And Wow, All 4 Sub members became full member, the 2nd most disappointing thing to happen to S/mileage. At least 2 of the girls should have been demoted to the eggs. And WTF was Tsunku thinking when he was placing Kanyon in the sub members? I know she has a great sense of hummer but still, mess with DAWA, not Kanyon. Anyway, i’m glad that Takechan became a full member, this means that both the 4th Gen Eggs, Fukumura and Takeuchi, have not only graduated from the eggs but have both debuted in the same year.

Now onto more upsetting news.

Maeda Yuuka is to Graduated on New Years Eve.

WTF IS GOING ON WITH THIS GROUP?????

Again education IS important. AGAIN it’s another graduation without a ceremony.

What is with H!P and not giving these irls who have spent the last 7 years of their lives not only doing everything they have been told to do by UFA but also entertaining us with their talents, looks and personalities?

Yuukarin is S/mileage’ and one of H!P’s most popular member having been apart of numerous units and Sakitty had one of the best voices in H!P and with a few more years, could rise to the height that former MM and H!P leader Takahashi Ai had. It’s still shocking that the OG S/mileage members are dropping like flies. It seems to me that the audition has shaken up this group both for the better in terms of the OG’s roles and personalities coming out more and for the worst.

Since Saki left, I’ve seen another side to the girls. Kanyon has been getting better at self promoting and has been teaching the new members how to introduce themselves, Yuukarin has been showing a motherly side to her and DAWA has finally decided to become a leader. I’m glad that the girls have improved greatly but i still can’t help but think how all of these sudden changes to the group have also affected them negatively but i hope that they can pull through this and not lose fans.

On a separate note. TAMURA MEIMI SCARES THE LIING DAYLIGHT OUT OF ME!!!

 

It might be just because of her teeth.....and eyes.....and her forehead.....okay it's her whole look that scares me. I think she need a frigne....

i know my photo shop skills are bad but i think she's a lot ess scary looking with a frigne. What do you Think?

PS:A youtuber named ShugoCharaUniverse has uploaded the whole musical. It's not subbed but if you've watched the anime (season 1 only) then you can gather that they are saying.....sort of. and i think that Meimei dyed her hair for that role because her hair looks more real that some of the other characters with different colloured hair.

upcoming songs

lots of summer songs, so little money.

S/mileage Shortcut Video Spam

Just a Quicky

1. UFA are reaching out to us international fans. Please support Phil over at Up Front Link. It's an English AND French blog all about UFA. So far there are only 2 post, one on the recent Additions/Graduation announces to Morning Musume and the other is a welcoming post. On a sad note, there already is some hate towards the English blog. I won't name names ararat010, but it's sad that some people feel the need to put good things down, especially when we have been asking for it.
2. S/mileage's PV for Short Cut was released. The most upsetting thing about this PV, is that is shows Yuuka (and Ayaka) cutting off her lovely locks. other wise, first impressions are mixed.
3. We finally have an idea of who the H!P Hair Stylist is.

This person MUST NOT be allowed to go anywhere near the girls with a pair of scissor. Just Look at what she did to Gaki's precious locks

(all opinions on the woman in the S/mileage Short Cut video is pure speculation. No hate must ever go toward that woman)

My 2010 Rankings

First off i have to say that H!P has had an amazing couple of weeks, what with the gradustion of Eri, Junjun and Linlin on December 15th, S/Mileage's big win at the Japan Record Awards and the announcement of the new 9th generation members. 2011 seems like it's going to be the year H!P starts to fight back and i am so excited to see what UFA will do to keep this recent push going.

Now on to my rankings of H!P. I will include Eri and JunLin in this.

Top Members

I will try to be as unbias as i can with this.

Morning Musume

Takahashi Ai is still the top dog in H!P. It's kinda hard for me to find something from this year that was bad for her. She released another PB, solo DVD and remains the lead in MM. But it is getting tiring always hearing her vocals on every single. Hopefully this year, management will still keep her as the lead but distrbute the lines a bit more fairly.



For Berryz, it was hard for my to be completely unbias here. I just wanted to put Captain as top member. So instead i went for Momoworld. I feel that she's the most consistant member of BK right now. Dancing and vocal skills are as strong as ever, released a PB this year that fit her perfectly from the images that i've seen over on the Picture board at H!O.

Again, it was hard to find a top member for C-ute. I wanted to put Chisa here but i felt that it would be better to put Chisa in the most improved member than top member. So why did i Put Maimi here? Well because i can't stand Airi, Mai is annoying and Saki didn't really shine that much this year leaving Maimi. And if you know me, you'd know that i can not stand Maimi voice so me putting her here is completely unbias.

The overall winner for Top Member has to go to S/mileage as a whole. They have had an amazing year, gaining 16,000 smiles for them to debut, having all 3 of their singles enter the top ten, releasing an album, having their own concert, out shining Mano at their joint concert, declaring war on every female idol group including their senpais finally ending in them winning Best New Artist. Couldn't really give a single member this award but i feel that they really deserve everything that they are getting after all the hard work that they've been putting in all these years.

Most Improved Members

Kumai has improved a lot this year. She's taken to being center with easy and her dance and vocal skills are improving, all be it not that much in the vocal department.

Mano has improved this year, her singles weren't as depressing as her earlier singles were. Her vocals are improving, but not as fast as i would like considering that she is (for the moment) H!P's only soloist. Her new single sounds good, lets hope she learns to put out twice as much energy into her performances than she does now. Oh and i watched Death Game Park the other day, it was good, confusing but good. Her character was just annoying and i was laughing at the end when she finally died.

This award has to go to Okai Chisato. Going from back up dancer to front girl in 4 singles is quite an improvement. Her vocals rival that of Airi's if not better. She has her own Ustream channel, Okai Chan Sleep, she has over 2 million views on youtube with her dance covers, released a PB and solo DVD ans was the first current H!P member to release a digital single on iTunes with a cover of Matsuura Aya's LOVE Namida Iro. What does 2011 hold for Chisa? well this year is promising to be another great year for her. As i understand, she's not only in the center for C-ute's new single Kiss Me Aishiteru, but she has more lines than Maimi. Chisa is definately on a roll and it will be good to see how far UFA is willing to push her.

Bottom Members

Now this is my completely bias opinion.

And the award for worst member of H!P goes to.......

Tanaka Reina

For stealing Eri, Risa, Junjun, Linlin, Sayumi and Ai's concert and album solo's, lines and screen time.

As for mu personally rankings,

Knotice how Sayu has gone up above Ai, this is due to having to see her everytime i looked at this blog.

My Top and bottom Tens of 2010

I'm going to do a overall thingy here cos i'm not quite sure when i'm going to be able to do a H!P only one.

My Top ten songs of 2010

10. Kirari - TGS

These girls are talented and this song is a good song, i just wished that Avex started them out in the indies first then went major as like Momoclo and S/milegs did just to gain more fans. These girls have a bright future ahead and i hope that they continue to produce great singles. I especally like their new one, Love like Candy Floss.

9. Monster - Arashi

Now i don't really listen to a lot of male artist in general, but i heard this song on another blog and instantly fell in love with it and the video. I later started to listen to more of their singles, watched a few episodes of that varity show where they have no idea who their guests are and even been watching drama that Matsumoto Jun has been in (Hana Yori Dango, Gokusen)

8. Onaji Jikyuu de Hataraku Tomodachi no Bijin Mama - S/Mileage

 Aside from the talking parts, i love this song. S/mileage are going from strength to strength, And Congratulations on winning Best New Artist and beating SNSD. GO S/MILEGS

7. Ikuze! Kaito Shojo - Momoiro Clover

The best Debut single this year, it's upbeat, energtic and catchy, not to mention, the PV is great too. It's a shame that their now with King Records cos their PV for Kimi no Sekai was completely wrong on all levels. If they continue to going down that road, i know that i won't have the same respect for them that i have a the moment

6. Aitai Lonley Christmas - C-ute

Such a beautiful song, and Chisa's vocals are just amazing, Maimi and Airi  better watch out, Chisa is stealing their limelight and about time too. I agree that this song should have com higher but i'm not the biggest fan or ballads and making it into my to ten was an achivement in it self.

5. Shunkan Sentimental- Scandal

 Although i don't really follw them, when i heard this song, i fell in love with it. It made me want to just rock out with them and the lead's vocals are amazing

4. Dance de Bakoom - C-ute

 thr lyrics, dance and Chisa made this song for me.

3. Onna to Otoko no Lullaby Game - Morning Musume

Their fairest song to with this line up. I hate the costumes, hate majority of the video, hate how Tanaka steals Eri's moment, but this is their best song since Nanchatte Renai was released.

2. Otakebi Boy WAO! - Berryz Koubou

Was in love with this song from the start. Epic song, strong vocals, Risako actually made me change my mind about her vocals with this song. This song should have gone to number 1 but alas, due to H!P's main problem being promotion, it didn't.

1. Beginner - AKB48

Surprised that AKB had one of my favourite songs this year? Well don't be. Since i heard this song, it's been in my head and can't seem to get it out. I really wish that they did dance shots like H!P do so i can learn this dance. The dance videos that they have for this single going around, the camera, for me, moves around too muce and i tend not to want to learn frn dance covers cos they tend to either mess up or miss some movements (worst personality treat i have is being a perfectionist, it's either perceft or not doing it al all)

My Bottom Ten Songs of 2010, no explaination need, i just find these songs either annoying, plain, boring or i just have no real reason to want to like it except that i just don't want to listen to it.

10. Genkimono de Ikou! - Mano Erina

8. Onegai Dakara... - Mano Erina

7. Going On! - Guardians 4

6. Campus Life ~ Umarete Kite Yokatta~ - C-ute

5. Chance no Junban AKB48

5. Idolulu - Lil Pri

4. Little Princess Lil Pri - Lil Pri

3. Ponytail to Shushu - AKB48

2,Gagaga - SDN48

1. Seishun Collection - Morning Musume

Poll results - Best Song of 2010

Last year, H!P released 25 singles, 6 albums, 2 groups and 2 collaborative singles.


They have sold nearly 500,000 copies of their singles and nearly 60,000 copies of their albums.

I know it’s not much in comparison to Idol Projects like Johnny’s and OOO48, But this is the Idol company that got me hooked on the whole Idol culture to begin with, and i’ll keep supporting them. Plus this post is all about them.



So a few weeks ago, i started the Best song of 2010, here are the results in order of release date

C-ute Shock

Released: January 6



Total Sales: 23,389

Weekly Chart Ranking: 5

No. of Votes: 3

Guardians 4 Going On!

Released: January 27



Total Sales: 11,677

Weekly Chart Ranking: 8

No. Of Votes: 2

Buono! Our Songs

Released: February 3



Total Sales: 15,692

Weekly Chart Ranking: 8

No. Of Votes: 2

Morning Musume Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai

Released: February 10



Total Sales: 44,035

Weekly Chart Ranking: 5

No. Of Votes: 2

Mano Erina Hare no Arashi

Released: February 24



Total Sales: 15,392

Weekly Chart Ranking: 10

No. Of Votes: 1

Berryz Koubou Otakebi Boy WAO!

Released: March 3



Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda



Total Sales: 35,0002

Weekly Chart Ranking: 3

No. Of Votes: 5

S/mileage Otona ni Narytte Muzukashii!!!

Released: March 14



No. of Votes: 2

C-ute Campus Life

Released: April 28



Total Sales: 23,932

Weekly Chart Ranking:5

No. Of Votes: 1

Mano Erina Onegai Dakara

Released: May 12



Total Sales: 13,982

Weekly Chart Ranking: 10

No. Of Votes: 4

S/mileage Yume Miru 15sai

Released: May 26



Total Sales: 24,938

Weekly Chart Ranking: 5

No. Of Votes: 4

Morning Musume Seishun Collection

Released: June 9



Total Sales: 40,865

Weekly Chart Ranking: 3

No. Of Votes: 2

LilPri Little Princess Lilpri

Released: June 16



Total Sales: 2,749

Weekly Chart Ranking: 48

No. Of Votes: 1

Berryz koubou Maji Bomber!

Released: July 14



Total Sales: 22,641

Weekly Chart Ranking: 6

No. Of Votes: 2

S/mileage OO Ganbaranakutemo Eenennde!!

Released: July 28



Total Sales: 24,489

Weekly Chart Ranking: 6

No. Of Votes: 3

C-ute Dance de Bakoom!

Released: August 25



Total Sales: 23,664

Weekly Chart Ranking:8

No. Of Votes: 4

Mano Erina Genkimono de Ikou!

Released: September 15



Total Sales:

Weekly Chart Ranking: 7

No. Of Votes: 4

S/mileage Onaji Jikyuu de Hataraku Tomodachi no Bijin Mama

Released: September 29



Total Sales: 27,972

Weekly Chart Ranking: 5

No. Of Votes: 3

Kitagawa Mimi (CV Ogawa Mana) Oshare My Dream

Released: October 13



Himuro Ibu (CV Sugaya Risako) Elegant Girl



Total Sales: 8,758

Weekly Chart Ranking: 8

No. Of Votes: 1

Muten Musume Appare! Kaiten Zushi!

Released: October 27



Total Sales: 7,336

Weekly Chart Ranking: 13

No. Of Votes: 4

Berryz Koubou Shining Power

Released: November 10



Total Sales: 25,822

Weekly Chart Ranking:7

No. Of Votes: 1

Morning Musume Onna to Otoko no Lullaby Game

Released: November 17



Total Sales: 47,204

Weekly Chart Ranking: 6

No. Of Votes: 7

LilPri Idolulu

Released: November 17



Total Sales:

Weekly Chart Ranking:

No. Of Votes: 2

Oha Girl Maple with S/mileage My School March

Released: November 24



Total Sales: 3,330 (1st week sales)

Weekly Chart Ranking: 41

No. Of Votes: 0

C-ute Aitai Lonely Christmas

Released: December 1



Total Sales: 23,682 (1st week sales)

Weekly Chart Ranking: 6

No. Of Votes: 8

So the best song of 2010 is C-ute's Aitai Lonely Chistmas. something that i was expecting really. but what really got me was how many votes LilPir got for both their songs...and how many votes Seishun Collection got. I really didn't expect those songs to even gain a vote.
 
The votes can say one thing, but in terms of sales, C-ute's highest sales landed them in 6th place amoungst H!P. MM claimed the top 3 spots with all of their singles, while Berrys Koubou's Otakebi Boy came 4th and S/Mileage 5th with Bijin Mama. (I've been making a Database with all H!P singles and their sales figures and stuff...i know i'm really sad but at least i can say to an employer that i can set up and run a database, pratice makes perfect). Heres a break down of how the main groups/soloist faired this year

• Morning Musume - Sold over 130,000 copies of their singles, highest chat position was #3 for Seishun Collection
• C-ute - Sold nearly 100,000 copies of their singles, highest chart position was #5 for both Campus Life and Shock
• Berryz Koubou - Sold over 80,000 copies of their singles, highest chart position was #3 for Otakebi Boy WAO!
• S/Mileage - Sold nearly 80,000 copies of their major and indie singles, highes chart position was #5 for both Bijin Mama and Yume Miru 15sai
• Mano Erina, Sold over 40,000 copies of her singles, highest chart position was #7 for Genkinmono de Ikou!

Video's from various Youtube channels, Sales figures and whatnots from J-ongaku.org

52nd Japan Records Awards

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I was looking at the new section over at JpopAsia.com and new of the JRA (Japan Records Awards) was released.

It seems that S/mileage have won a New Artist award and are in the running for Best New Artist along with SNSD. I really hope they win it because they have worked so hard ever since joining the Egg project that this would really help boost their sales and hopefully encouage UFA to continue to promote them more than what they are doing with C-ute, Berryz and Moring Musume.

AKB48 have won Best Song with Beginner and are now just waiting to hear if they have won the grand prize. But they are up against last year's (and the year before), EXILE. Now i know nothing about EXILE or their song, I Wish For You, but i also hope that they win this arawd too.

The awards show will be on the 30th December.

Poll Results

And the winner is . . . .

Gaki-san won with 8/17 votes. YAY!!!

The results for the others are as followed:

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  Takahashi Ai - 4/17
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  Ogawa Makoto - 3/17
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  Konno Asami - 2/17

Bad luck to Konkon.

The next MM gen poll is up. please vote for your Favourite member.

Now.....as for the other polls.  A quick check shows that S/mileage has a draw with both Wada and Fukuda on 3/8 votes. Maeda has yet to score.  C-ute's Chisato Okai is leading with 3/9 votes.  Berryz Captain is leading on 3/7 votes. I'll leave all these polls up for the next 2 weeks.

UPDATE

Sorry i've not been very active recently, But

1. My cousin started his first year of Seconary School (after looking it up in wikipedia, he just started middle school for all you Americans. Seconary School here in the UK is basicly your Middle and High school joined together. We offically leave school at 16 (Year 11 = 10th Grade) but majoriy of teenagers choose to go on to Further Education (6th form aka lower (year 12) and upper (year 13) sixth = Grades 11 and 12) in order to go to university at 18.) which means loads of homework for him and less computer time for me.
2. I've doubled the amount of time i spend job hunting and working part time
3. I've just gone and gotten myself a cuddley new bloke to cuddle up to and thus beginning to actually start having a life outside of the interweb.

Sorry. (BTW, I'm not putting up any pics with this post cos it takes too long to add them and right now i just don't have the time to go looking for the pics i need to photoshop....and to use photoshop)

Anyway, Poll Update, Yosshi won with 7/15 votes. I didn't think she'd win this poll, what with the amount of Tsuji fans there are. Specking of Tsuji, She came second with 5/15, next was Aibon with 2/15, guess not eveyone has forgiven her yet and Charmy only got 1 vote. Which means that Yosshi will now join Abe Natsumi, Yaguchi Mari, Goto Maki and Kusumi Koharu in the finals (If yur wondering why Goto and Koha are through without a poll vote well, thats cos....read me other poll post, they explain it all)

The next 4 polls are up now. They are:

• Morning Musume 5th Gen Champ - Been up for some time already, but i'm only just letting you all know now.
• C-ute Champion - the only one with Pics
• Berryz Koubou Champion
• S/mileage Champion

I'm doing the group champions now because i just thought that i could kill 2 birds with one stone now before i forget. Yes, i know, i'm lazy, my gran keeps telling me that everyday.

As for other updates:

• Changed the layout due to my ever growing list of Poll winners. I want to keep them fresh in your minds ready for the MM Champion.
• I've missed about 5 birhtdays, so hopefully i'll get their picspames out of the way soon.
• I'm trying (and failing) to do a post about the Eggs and the upcoming MM 9th Gen Auditions
• Will be trying to evaluate just why the H!P costume designer needs to be sacked ASAP
• The Sayu theme will be gone by November due to the (hoprfully) new Champion of Champions member. Plus i'm getting sick of seeing her face and always wanting to just do a random picspam of her. I'M GETTING ANNOYED THAT I'M STARTING TO FALL FOR HER AND I DON'T LIKE IT. It needs to be changed ASAP!!!

Anyway, Please vote on the polls and i'll try and get everything up to date as soon as i can.

Kira, Listening to JpopAsia.com Se7en Page

Yume Miru 15sai CM's

Debuts

S/mileage



Momoiro Clover



I'm not quite sure who's debut is going to be the best. Momoclo has only 2 indies to their name while S/m has 4.

Since i'm a H!P fan, S/m has been known to be more and i know all the members and their talents while i know next to nothing about momoclo .

S/m, their indie singles start bad and end great While Momoclo's indies are all on my ipop.

S/m's debut seems to have matured from their indies, Momoclo seems to be keeping the same vibe as their indies.

While searching the net to find out more about these Momo girls, i found this page:

http://ckhp.vox.com/library/post/meet-momoiro-clover.html

It explains that they have been around for over a year and have 5 graduates, one of which joined SKE48 than graduated from them as well.

As everyone knows, S/m members have been around since 2004 when they all joined the eggs, but didn't start the group till April 09.

I'm in two minds about which of these two completely different singles is the better one, but one thing i know for certian, i love them both.

Hey All....

Hey all. Sorry for not updating, been busy trying to figure out what exactly the meaning of life is and failing at it.

So, where to begin....

Well Berryz 23rd single has been announced. The titles not been comfirmed yet but it isn't a double (Thank the lord, i don't mind double a-sides but the wait between when each PV is released really got on my nerves. Especially with their last single, i mean, Why was Otakebi Boy PV released like the day before the single was released? Talk about bad promotion). From the information i got off of Hello! Sayunii, they've done a new version of Otakebi Boy titled Otakebi Boy WOW! (Spark Version)....Looking forward to hearing that. Only thing is that their still doing the ending theme to that god awful football anime/game/whatever the hell it is all i know is that it involves THE wrost sport ever invented buy the British and the THRID wrost sport in the world (Golf and Snooker come before). Anyway, I'm always looking forward to hearing what Berryz comes up with.

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A Preview of Manoeri's new PV has been released.....case of the good song with a shit PV again and just when her singles were becoming less boring.

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For some reason i knew this was coming. The anime which is bad(only to me just because i'm a grown 20 something young lady and i really shouldn't be watching things made for 10 yr olds), Lilpri, has a new H!P Unit called....Lilpri. And the Members of said unit.....are the S/mileage girls that play the main characters, Kanon, Yuuka and Ayaka (God help me). If you want to hear what their first single sounds like, Heres a link to the second episode.....It the opening track which is heavily synthesized (And happens to be an improvement for a certian member (Start Rant) who shall remain nameless due to the horrible rendition of my dear Captian's lines in Ike ZYX! Fly High at the H!P 2010 Shuffle tour which has made me take a good, long, hard look at the members of S/mileage and thinking that this certian person, although very cute, should not be there and that Saho Akari should be in the group and not stuck in the eggs when she can quite clearly keep up with the wonders that are Natsuyaki and Suzuki, which that song should have a PV for as it would look amazing (End Rant)).

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The Shuffle Groups are getting new singles released, But in 2 large compilation single groups and not separate single releases which is a bummer. The first single (titled Compilation Single A (very original)) has Tanpopo #, Pucchimoni V, and Shin Mini Moni, and the second single (Compilation Single B) Has High-King, ZYX-a, Aa!, and Zoku Biyuuden (Why oh WHY is this happening). Heres hoping fo separate PVs.

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Yajima Maimi has a new photobook which is made up of all her UTB Photo shots, interview and what nots.....Still waiting for Captian and Chisa to get what they deserve. Kinda a bit bored with hearing the same names popping up for PB's all the time. Don't get me wrong, I think that this PB is a great idea but i'm just fed up with PB's always going to the most exposed members of H!P. I bet that Aika's gonna get her's next just because A) She's in Morning Musume and B)everyone can't stop taking about (how rubbish she is, how she shouldn't be there, how much she reminds people of a dog...) Her.

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On the topic of PB's, some previews of Sayu's 'la' PB has been released and i really think that she should quite MM and go into modeling. Just as long as she doesn't do a Gaki(Bad Hair Cut) or a Koharu(Dye Job That Does Not Suit Her) she should be fine.

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I missed a lot of birthdays this month (mainly cos either i wasn't paying attention or i just didn't like the members that had a B-day) so my next couple of posts will be a Picspam of each member, Risako, Manoeri, Airi and Yossi(should have really celebrated Yosshi's since i'm going to she her live next month)

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Specking of Yosshi, Hangry and Angry Officals have said a number of things about their European concerts.

1) There will be signings in Paris and Berlin which happens to be extremely not fair to those unlucky enough to be only going to the London gig.

2) there will be a Question and Answer session at all the venues.....BUT all questions will be asked but only 2 members of the audience and all questions have to be submitted before hand to either of these sites

International Wota
Hello! Blog (Has said that you have to be going to the concerts)
JPHiP

Not that i can think of an original question to ask but we have been given insturctions not to ask any personal questions and that we should have at least 2 questions prepared.

On the plus side, there will be a photo session at every venue so look out readers, you might see me post a pic of me with the girls (not i'm wishing that my loan can earlier so that i could have enrolled onto a local Japanese language course i was looking into)

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With the new Background, If you don't like it, Please leave a message in Spamalot, i've finally managed to work out how to do it (with a little help from another blog that does templates and told me how to change the background) i'll also welcome suggestions on possible backgrounds, i'm trying to keep the Saki theme going here.

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Just giving a warning that i won't be posting anything between 12th and 17th of May due to a trip to Birmingham, Nottingham and Alton Towers (British Theme park with wicked rides that i'm currently shitting myself just thinking about them. Click here to see what the hell i'm talking about.)

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By the way, the next Picspam poll will not Be until mid June methinks due to the fact that i have Linlin, Risako, Manoeri, Airi, Yosshi, Charmy, Hangry and Angry (Doing separate one of them in their alias') and a cosplay Picspam posts, maybe any more birthdays that are coming up (Chii, Ume-chan, Asuna Okai aka the 'ugly' Okai sister, Irori Maeda aka the egg that took over Kanon's place in SCE and Kikkawa Yuu)and my trip to the midlands.