Lil’B

Lil’B is a well-known Japanese pop duo signed to Sony Music Entertainment. They made their major debut in June 2008 with the single Orange which was used as the 15th ending theme for the anime BLEACH. On February 11th, 2009, Lil’B released their debut album Ima, Kimi e… which reached #2 on the Oricon weekly charts.


Lil’B’s name is delivered from two words LIL and Betray.

KAT-TUN

KAT-TUN是日本傑尼斯事務所旗下的藝人組合。KAT-TUN的團名是由6名成員的姓氏羅馬拼音開頭字母所組成，有著Cartoon（卡通／動畫）以及勝利的含意。（KAT-TUN日文音同"勝運"）。他們於2001年4月7日組成，而正式發行CD的出道日是2006年3月22日。自他們組成至出道一共經過5年時間，所以也是截至目前為止傑尼斯旗下組成年歷最久才出道的團體。出道同時發行了單曲、専輯與DVD，成為日本第二個同時達成了三項公信榜冠軍的團體（歌手），第一位為濱崎步。

Hi-Prix

日本女子組合－Friends

Arashi 嵐

Arashi (嵐, literally Storm) is a Japanese boy band formed under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates, which announced the formation of the group on September 15, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After releasing one studio album, one greatest hits album and six singles under the Pony Canyon record label, the group moved to the Johnny's subsidiary label J Storm in 2001, which was initially set up for their succeeding releases.[1] In 2008, nine years after their debut, their singles "Truth/Kaze no Mukō e" and "One Love" took the top two placings on the annual Oricon sales ranking, attesting to the group's longevity in the Japanese music scene in spite of their idol group image.

In 2009, Arashi became the first artist to top the singles, album and music DVD charts and to emerge as the best-selling artist of the year within the same year in the forty-two years of Oricon's history.[3][4] They also became the third artist in Oricon history to monopolize the top three best-selling singles and the first to dominate the top two placings on the singles chart for two consecutive years.

ALI PROJECT

Ali Project (typeset as ALI PROJECT) is a Japanese band with a strong Japanese Aristocrat-style image, consisting of Arika Takarano (宝野アリカ Takarano Arika?, vocals & lyrics) and Mikiya Katakura (片倉三起也 Katakura Mikiya?, music & arrangement). In the band's earlier days, their musical style tended towards light, cheerful and/or refreshing songs. However, the sound has changed in recent times to take on a darker and more mysterious tone. Takarano Arika, lead singer/lyricist, has termed this change as a transition from White Alice (白アリ Shiro Ari?) to Black Alice (黒アリ Kuro Ari?)[citation needed]. Though there has been a general shift towards performing songs in the "Black Alice" phase, Ali Project has occasionally sung in the White Alice style as well. They made their indie debut in the charts in 1988 as Ari (Ant) Project (蟻プロジェクト Ari Purojekuto?) with their album "Fantastic Garden" (幻想庭園 Gensō Teien?). The album was later included in Tatsumi Takayuki's book Philosophy of Progressive Rock (プログレッシヴ・ロックの哲学 Puroguresshivu Rokku no Tetsugaku?), which led to the band being classified under the progressive rock genre.

Four years later in 1992 they changed their name and made their major debut with their single "Fall in love, maiden" (恋せよ乙女 Koi-seyo otome?). Most of their records are released by Toshiba-EMI, Victor Entertainment and Tokuma Japan. The band is notable in the anime community for having their songs featured in several anime opening and ending sequences, most notably in the series Noir, Rozen Maiden, Linebarrels of Iron, and Code Geass. Additionally, Katakura Mikiya has also provided the soundtrack to several anime series, such as Kaibutsu Oujo and Avenger.

AKB48

AKB48 is an all-female Japanese theater/idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto, who is also the husband of Mamiko Takai, a former member of the 1980s all-female idol group Onyanko Club. Unlike other idol groups in Japan, AKB48 is theatre-based and have their own theatre in Akihabara (a district in Tokyo) where they perform once every weekday, and more than once on both Saturday and Sunday. The theatre is set up on the 8th floor of Don Quijote. Some of the title songs released as a single have been made a tie-in song for a television show or a television advertisement.

AKB48 is divided into three teams: Team A, Team K and Team B. Currently, there are 13 members in Team A, 15 members in Team K, and 14 members in Team B, getting to the total of 42 members in AKB48. Minami Takahashi is the captain of Team A while Atsuko Maeda is AKB's most popular member.

AAA

AAA, pronounced as Triple A (トリプル・エー Toripuru Ē?) and also known as Attack All Around, is a Japanese pop band signed to the label Avex Trax which debuted in September 2005. The group originally consisted of five young men and three young women who had all acted in commercials and had been dancers for other Japanese stars, such as Ayumi Hamasaki and Ami Suzuki.