Alright! Now this is the second post so I'll show you the first singles by my favorite j-pop group. You'll probably see a lot of this group in this world.
In 1996 or 1997, somewhere around those dates, there was this contest to make a star out of these girls who entered. And though there was only one winner, the runners up were put to a task to sell 50,000 copies of their first single and if these sold them all then they would become the new j-pop group Morning Musume. They did so and over time Morning Musume has grown up to become one of the most popular j-pop groups in Japan.
This is the song that they had to sell 50,000 copies. It's not Morning Musume's first official single, but I like to think that it was. The song is called Ai no Tane:
The singers in this video are (by order of appearance) Asuka Fukuda, Natsumi Abe, Kaori Iida, Aya Ishiguro, and Yuko Nakazawa(who was the oldest).
This next song is Morning Musume's first official single (Morning Coffee):
From order of appearance the singers in this single are: Kaori Iida, Yuko Nakazawa, Aya Ishiguro, Asuka Fukuda, and Abe Natsumi.
In this next song you will see new members. The song is called Summer Night Town:
The solo appearances are too far from each other that I can't really list them. The new members are Sayaka Ichii, Mari Yaguchi, and Yasuda Kei.
This next song is called Daite Hold on Me!:
Same problem with Summer Night Town.
As you can see in these videos Abe Natsumi slowly becomes the main vocalist. This is because of her popularity at the time.
How Morning Musume Works: Other people audition to be in the group as older members graduate. Soon, many of the members of Morning Musume in these videos will graduate. Currently, none of the original members of Morning Musume are still singing in H!P (it's basically all these groups like Berryz and such that are in one big group all created by Tsunku) or Morning Musume.
