All of Tanpopo
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is the second album by the Hello! Project
girl group Tanpopo
. It was released September 4, 2002 with the catalog number EPCE-5177. The limited edition contained a booklet with three different covers. The album peaked at #4 on the weekly Oricon
chart and charted for five weeks, selling 75,670 copies in its first charting week.
This album contains the A-sides
to all seven of the singles that Tanpopo had released at the time (their final single
was released three weeks later). It also includes three B-sides, one song from their previous album, an updated version of their debut A-side, and one new song.
Hello! Project
is the umbrella name for all female idol Japanese pop recording artists collective that are under contract with the Up-Front Group. The "mothership" group of Hello! Project is the super-group Morning Musume. Hello! Project's current leader is Risa Niigaki, the leader of Morning Musume...
girl group Tanpopo
Tanpopo
was the first official subgroup of Japanese pop girl group Morning Musume formed in November 1998. They specialized in singing slow and mature songs, which morphed to an old-fashioned and upbeat style—a genre somewhat similar to that of the band from which it originated.-History: The group...
. It was released September 4, 2002 with the catalog number EPCE-5177. The limited edition contained a booklet with three different covers. The album peaked at #4 on the weekly Oricon
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...
chart and charted for five weeks, selling 75,670 copies in its first charting week.
This album contains the A-sides
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
to all seven of the singles that Tanpopo had released at the time (their final single
Be Happy Koi no Yajirobee
is the 8th and final single by the Hello! Project girl group Tanpopo, and the first and only release by the group's "third generation" . It was released on September 26, 2002 with the catalog number EPCE-5178. The first pressing came with a special trading card...
was released three weeks later). It also includes three B-sides, one song from their previous album, an updated version of their debut A-side, and one new song.
Track listing
External links
- All of Tanpopo entry on the Hello! Project official website