GReeeeN
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is a Japanese pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

/rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

/hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

/breakbeat
Breakbeat
In 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...

 vocal group from Kōriyama city
Koriyama, Fukushima
is a city in the center of the Nakadōri region of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of May 2011, the city had an estimated population of 336,328. The total area is 757 km²....

 in Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region on the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Fukushima.-History:Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Fukushima prefecture was known as Mutsu Province....

, comprising the all-male four members Hide, Navi, 92, and Soh. They made their debut with Universal Music in 2007. Their logo image is of a mouthful of teeth, and the four Es indicate the number of members. The sound production is handled by Hide's older brother JIN, a former guitarist of Pay money To my Pain
Pay Money To My Pain
Pay Money to My Pain is a Japanese alternative rock/metal band. All of the band's lyrics are in English.-History:...

. According to their website at Universal Music Japan, their catch phrase is "Rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 'n' Breakbeat
Breakbeat
In 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...

s with Four Microphones".

One notable characteristic is that none of the members have ever shown their faces in the public sphere as a part of GReeeeN, whether in their promotional video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s, CDs, television performances, or the Internet. In their only performance on TV-U Fukushima's music show Music Bar Palo Palo (broadcast on January 19, 2007), the group even went as far as censoring their faces during the performance. GReeeeN cites keeping their professional lives in dentistry
Dentistry
Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...

 compatible with their musical ventures as the reason, but one of the members, Hide, has hinted that after all of the members pass the prefectural examination in dentistry and receive permission from the directors of the hospitals they work for, the group may consider a public appearance.

All members studied at the dentistry department at Ohu University
Ohu University
is a private university in Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan, founded in 1972....

 in Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region on the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Fukushima.-History:Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Fukushima prefecture was known as Mutsu Province....

 and the group debuted while still in school in 2007.

The members of the popular band GReeeeN have finally achieved their goal, because all have passed their dentistry exams.

The members' identities are still unknown, as their faces have never been made public. At first, the group stated that they would wait until all of the members passed the exam before revealing their faces, but in 2009 they indicated that they will still keep their identities secret to avoid any interference with their careers as dentists.

History

Hide began his music career as a member of a Japanese hardcore
Japanese hardcore
Japanese hardcore punk refers to the fast-paced Japanese punk/hardcore genre. The original intent of Japanese hardcore was to protest the social and economic changes sweeping Japan in the 1980s. The band SS is regarded as the first, forming in 1977. Bands, such as G.I.S.M. and The Stalin, soon...

 band in his junior high school. Hide and Navi formed duo "GReeeN" (The name was three e's sequence at that time) in 2002. Their music was influenced under Western rock bands such as Sublime
Sublime (band)
Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...

 and Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray is a band from Orange County, California. The band, starting off more as an alternative metal band, first gained fame in 1997 with their release of the song "Fly". This song's success, coupled with its pop rock sound that was quite different from the rest of their material at the time,...

. However, the group was renamed "Greeeen" in 2004 when 92 and Soh joined the group. Soh was a fan of hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 and reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

. 92 came from Okinawa Prefecture
Okinawa Prefecture
is one of Japan's southern prefectures. It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū to Taiwan. Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of Okinawa Island...

 and had his musical roots in Ryukyuan music. After they released the EP Greeeen in February 2006, the Universal Music Japan recruited them in March 2006.

They debuted under the label Nayutawave Records of the Universal Music Japan in January 2007 with the single "Michi". They released their third single "Ai Uta" on May 16, 2007. The single having a peak position of 8 on the Japanese 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...

 weekly single charts and 2 on the daily charts, and in its 6th week, reached number 2 on the weekly charts. "Ai Uta" was certified Two Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan
Recording Industry Association of Japan
The Recording Industry Association of Japan is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved the music industry...

 for 2,000,000 full-track ringtone digital downloads (Chaku Uta Full). Their debut album, A, Domo. Hajimemashite
A, Domo. Hajimemashite
Ā, Domo. Hajimemashite is the first studio album by the Japanese band GReeeeN, released on .- Track listing :# 道 # Day by Day# 愛唄 # High G.K Low~ハジケロ~ # New Life# 子犬 # Miss You# 手紙 # パリピポ...

, was released on June 28, 2007, debuting at No. 2 on the Oricon weekly album charts. The debut album was certified Double Platinum by RIAJ for shipment of 500,000 copies.

Their 7th single, "Kiseki
Kiseki (Greeeen song)
is the 7th single released by Greeeen on May 28, 2008. The term "Kiseki" is the kakekotoba of and on the lyrics of the song.It reached the number-one position on the Japanese Oricon weekly charts for 2 weeks and physically sold over 500,000 copies. The song was ranked at the number-one position...

", was released on May 28, 2008. The physical single reached number 1 on the Oricon charts and sold over 500,000 copies. The song was also certified Two Million by the RIAJ for 2,000,000 full-track ringtone digital downloads (Chaku Uta Full). The song was ranked at the number-one position on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Japan Hot 100
Japan Hot 100
The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....

 Singles Yearly Charts. Their second album A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu.
Ā, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu.
A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu. or あっ、ども。おひさしぶりです。is the second studio album by Japanese band GReeeeN. It was released on June 25, 2008, and is certified by RIAJ for shipment of 1 million copies.-Track listing:Source: Oricon# SUN SHINE!!# Mata ne...

debuted at No. 1 on Oricon weekly album charts, beating out Ayaka
Ayaka
is a Japanese female singer formerly signed to Warner Music Japan. Born in Osaka, she moved to Tokyo to pursue a singing career. She married actor Hiro Mizushima on February 22, 2009.-2006:...

's second album Sing to the Sky
Sing to the Sky
- Overview :Second album from Ayaka was confirmed on 26 April 2008. It is to include all of her singles from Jewelry Day up to the latest Okaeri. There are three versions, first press CD+DVD , CD+DVD , and CD-only version. Second bonus track "I Believe " only comes with the CD+DVD versions...

. The album was awarded Million status by RIAJ for shipment of one million copies.

Greeeen and Back-On
Back-On
Back-On is a four-man Japanese rock/nu metal band from Tokyo, Japan. They are recognized for creating anime opening themes such as the Air Gear opening theme, "Chain"; Murder Princess opening theme "Hikari Sasuhou " and Eyeshield 21s "Blaze Line"...

 formed supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....

 Bareeeeeeeeeen, which released single "Ashiato" on October 1, 2008. Their 8th single "Tobira", 9th single "Ayumi", 10th single "Setsuna" and 11th single "Haruka" were certified Gold by RIAJ for those physical shipments of 100,000 copies each. Their song "Haruka" debuted at the number-one position on the RIAJ Digital Track Chart
RIAJ Digital Track Chart
The is chart ranks the best selling digital singles in Japan, provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan since April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads ....

. The song "Haruka" was certified Million by RIAJ for 1,000,000 full-track ringtone digital downloads (Chaku Uta Full). Their third album Shio, Koshō
Shio, Koshō
is Japanese band Greeeen's third studio album released on June 10, 2009. There is a limited edition having DVD. There is another limited edition having bonus track "Kiseki"....

was released on June 10, 2009, debuting at the number-one position on the Oricon weekly album charts with the first-week sales of over 452,000 copies. Shio, Koshō became their second album to be awarded Million status by RIAJ.

On June 29, 2009, the Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

 certified their song "Kiseki" as the "best selling download single in Japan" with the full-track ringtone download sales of 2,301,674 copies of May 24, 2009. It was announced that Greeeen would be teaming up with Hudson Soft
Hudson Soft
, formally known as , is a majority-owned subsidiary of Konami Corporation is a Japanese electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo. It was founded on May 18, 1973...

 to create music for 2009 DS
Nintendo DS
The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

 game.

Greeeen released their greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 double album Ima Made no A Men, B Men Dest!? on November 25, 2009. On November 5, 2009, an article of Nikkan Sports
Nikkan Sports
is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1946.It has a circulation of 1,965,000, and is an affiliate newspaper of Asahi Shimbun.-Companies and regions:...

 suggested that GReeeeN would disband after the release of the album. Hide wrote on his blog that the rumours were false. On November 5, the official statement by Universal Music Japan also said that the report was false and that GReeeeN would still be releasing music after the release of the album Imamade no A Men, B Men Desuto!?.

In 2011, their song "Every" was used for a Asahi
Asahi
Asahi means "morning sun" in Japanese. It may refer to one of the following:-Towns:* Asahi, Aichi * Asahi, Fukui * Asahi, Hokkaido * Asahi, Mie...

 Beer advert. They also provided the theme song for the NHK
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

 documentary show Athlete no Tamashii. "Every" is to be included in Greeeen's first full single release in over an year "Hana Uta".

Albums

Year Information 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...

 weekly
peak position

Oricon sales
RIAJ certifications
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...


(sales thresholds)
2007 A, Domo. Hajimemashite
A, Domo. Hajimemashite
Ā, Domo. Hajimemashite is the first studio album by the Japanese band GReeeeN, released on .- Track listing :# 道 # Day by Day# 愛唄 # High G.K Low~ハジケロ~ # New Life# 子犬 # Miss You# 手紙 # パリピポ...

  • Released: June 28, 2007
  • Format: CD
2 578,000 Platinum
2008 A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu.
Ā, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu.
A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu. or あっ、ども。おひさしぶりです。is the second studio album by Japanese band GReeeeN. It was released on June 25, 2008, and is certified by RIAJ for shipment of 1 million copies.-Track listing:Source: Oricon# SUN SHINE!!# Mata ne...

  • Released: June 25, 2008
  • Format: CD, CD+DVD, CD (limited edition)
  • 1 902,000 2× Platinum
    2009 Shio, Koshō
    Shio, Koshō
    is Japanese band Greeeen's third studio album released on June 10, 2009. There is a limited edition having DVD. There is another limited edition having bonus track "Kiseki"....

  • Released: June 10, 2009
  • Format: CD, CD+DVD
  • 1 1,006,000 Million

    Compilation albums

    Year Information 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...

     weekly
    peak position

    Oricon sales
    RIAJ certifications
    Music recording sales certification
    Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...


    (sales thresholds)
    2009 Ima Made no A Men, B Men Dest!?
    • Released: November 25, 2009
    • Format: 2CDs regular edition, 2 CDs limited edition
    1 550,000 3× Platinum
    2010 AB Dest!? Tour!? 2010 Supported by Hudson x Greeeen Live!? Deeees!?
  • Fabricated live album.
  • Released: May 26, 2010
  • Format: 3CDs
  • 10 22,000

    Singles

    Release Title Notes Chart positions Oricon
    sales
    Album
    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...

     Singles Charts
    Billboard
    Billboard (magazine)
    Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

    Japan Hot 100
    Japan Hot 100
    The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....


    RIAJ
    RIAJ Digital Track Chart
    The is chart ranks the best selling digital singles in Japan, provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan since April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads ....

     digital tracks†
    2007 39 27* 28,000 A, Domo. Hajimemashite
    A, Domo. Hajimemashite
    Ā, Domo. Hajimemashite is the first studio album by the Japanese band GReeeeN, released on .- Track listing :# 道 # Day by Day# 愛唄 # High G.K Low~ハジケロ~ # New Life# 子犬 # Miss You# 手紙 # パリピポ...

    97 2,000
    RIAJ number 1 for two months. 2 1* 257,000
    2 6* 40,000 A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu.
    Ā, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu.
    A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu. or あっ、ども。おひさしぶりです。is the second studio album by Japanese band GReeeeN. It was released on June 25, 2008, and is certified by RIAJ for shipment of 1 million copies.-Track listing:Source: Oricon# SUN SHINE!!# Mata ne...

    2008 6 1
    5*
    8*
    47,000
    10 23 11* 47,000
    "Kiseki
    Kiseki (Greeeen song)
    is the 7th single released by Greeeen on May 28, 2008. The term "Kiseki" is the kakekotoba of and on the lyrics of the song.It reached the number-one position on the Japanese Oricon weekly charts for 2 weeks and physically sold over 500,000 copies. The song was ranked at the number-one position...

    "
    Oricon/Billboard number 1 for two weeks, RIAJ number 1 for three months. 1 1 1* 558,000
    Collaboration with Back-On
    Back-On
    Back-On is a four-man Japanese rock/nu metal band from Tokyo, Japan. They are recognized for creating anime opening themes such as the Air Gear opening theme, "Chain"; Murder Princess opening theme "Hikari Sasuhou " and Eyeshield 21s "Blaze Line"...

     as Bareeeeeeeeeen.
    7 6 2* 35,000
    2 3 3* 87,000 Shio, Koshō
    Shio, Koshō
    is Japanese band Greeeen's third studio album released on June 10, 2009. There is a limited edition having DVD. There is another limited edition having bonus track "Kiseki"....

    2009 2 2 1* 124,000
    4 4 1* 97,000
    RIAJ number 1 for four weeks. 2 1 1 145,000
    2011 "Good Lucky!!!!!" Collaboration with Becky as . 12 17 18 16,000
    7 5 7 22,000
    10 TBA 6 TBA
    * charted on monthly Chaku-uta Reco-kyō Chart
    RIAJ Digital Track Chart
    The is chart ranks the best selling digital singles in Japan, provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan since April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads ....

    .
    †Japan Hot 100 established February 2008, RIAJ Digital Track Chart established April 2009.

    Japan Gold Disc Awards

    |-
    | rowspan="2"|2008
    | Greeeen
    | New Artist of the Year
    |
    |-
    | "Ai Uta"
    | Chaku-Uta Song of the Year
    |

    Japan Record Awards

    |-
    | rowspan="2"|2009
    | rowspan="2"|Shio, Koshō
    Shio, Koshō
    is Japanese band Greeeen's third studio album released on June 10, 2009. There is a limited edition having DVD. There is another limited edition having bonus track "Kiseki"....


    | Best Album
    |
    |-
    | Album Award
    |

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