Hello! Project on ASAYAN

Hello! Project related appearances on ASAYAN.

1997

• 1997-04-27 - Talk with Sharan Q about the auditions and clips of Fukuoka audition.
• 1997-05-11 - Sharan Q Fukuoka Audition part 1
• 1997-05-18 - Sharan Q Fukuoka Audition part 2
• 1997-05-25 - Sharan Q Fukuoka Audition part 3. Winners:Kouguchi Azusa/Aoki Akiko/Matsumoto Yumie
• 1997-06-01 - Sharan Q Tokyo Audition part 1
• 1997-06-08 - Sharan Q Tokyo Audition part 2
• 1997-06-15 - Sharan Q Tokyo Audition part 3
• 1997-06-22 - Sharan Q Tokyo audition part 4. Winners:Fukuda Asuka/Kawamura Risa/Kabutomori Masayo
• 1997-06-29 - Sharan Q Fukuoka audition - Nakatomi Kazumi
• 1997-07-06 - Sharan Q Osaka audition part 1
• 1997-07-13 - Sharan Q Osaka audition part 2
• 1997-07-20 - Sharan Q Osaka audition part 3. Winners:Nakazawa Yuko/Heike Michiyo
• 1997-07-27 - Sharan Q Sapporo audition part 1
• 1997-08-03 - Sharan Q Sapporo audition part 2. Winners:Iida Kaori/Ishiguro Aya/Abe Natsumi
• 1997-08-10 - Showing the audition girls at home + training in temple
• 1997-08-17 - Training in the temple
• 1997-08-24 - Brief clips of what's happened so far, then the 11 finalists dance in the studio and are interviewed
• 1997-08-31 - The final 11:

1. Heike Michiyo
2. Fukuda Asuka
3. Nakazawa Yuuko
4. Abe Natsumi
5. Iida Kaori
6. Ishiguro Aya
7. Matsumoto Yumie
8. Kawamura Risa
9. Aoki Akiko
10. Kabutomori Masayo
11. Kouguchi Azusa

compete in final stage of audition. Each one sings "GET" then speak to Tsunku. Afterwards they watch a video of Sharan Q deciding the winner. Heike Michiyo is chosen as the winner.

• 1997-09-07 - Tsunku announces if Fukuda Asuka, Nakazawa Yuuko, Abe Natsumi, Iida Kaori and Ishiguro Aya sell 50,000 "Ai no Tane" singles in 5 days he'll give them a record deal.
• 1997-09-14 - Tsunku names the group "Morning Musume"
• 1997-09-21 - We meet the girls parents
• 1997-09-28 - voice training & cd jacket photoshoot
• 1997-10-05 - Heike Michiyo update, Ai no Tane recording
• 1997-10-19 - Yuko records her solo part for Ai no Tane
• 1997-10-26 - Ai no Tane promotion campaign
• 1997-11-02 - Ai no Tane promotion campaign & performance
• 1997-11-09 - Ai no Tane promotion campaign
• 1997-11-16 - 1st and 2nd day of Ai no Tane sales event at HMV, Osaka & Fukuoka. 16,610 copies sold at Osaka, 9,004 at Fukuoka, making for a total of 25,614 copies sold overall.
• 1997-11-23 - Ai no Tane promotion campaign & Heike Michiyo GET performance
• 1997-11-30 - 3rd day of Ai no Tane sales event at HMV, Sapporo. 14,853 copies sold, making it a total of 40,467 copies sold overall.
• 1997-12-07 - 4th day of Ai no Tane sales event at Nagoya Ball Park, 50,000 mark achieved. Ai no Tane Performance.
• 1997-12-14 - in studio recording 3 songs (Dou ni ka Shite Doyoubi, Morning Coffee and Usotsuki Anta)
• 1997-12-21 - in studio recording 3 songs
• 1997-12-28 - Morning Coffee chosen, posing for photos, dance lesson

1998

• 1998-01-11 - Talk & Ai no Tane performance
• 1998-01-18 - We see them at home with their families
• 1998-01-25 - Major Debut Special, Morning Coffee performance
• 1998-02-01 - Recording their Hey! Hey! Hey! & Music Station appearances
• 1998-02-08 - Morning Coffee sales figures & performance
• 1998-02-22 - Photobook sale decision
• 1998-03-01 - Photoshoot in Saipan
• 1998-03-08 - Tsunku secret talk
• 1998-03-15 - Morning Musume in the middle of a break
• 1998-03-22 - 2nd generation audition announcement
• 1998-03-29 - Morning Musume informed of new member addition
• 1998-04-05 - New member applications near closing deadline
• 1998-04-19 - 2nd generation audition
• 1998-04-26 - 2nd generation audition
• 1998-05-03 - 2nd generation audition winners announced + First meeting with original 5 + Summer Night Town photoshoot
• 1998-05-10 - Recording Summer Night Town
• 1998-05-17 - Recording Summer Night Town, dance lesson, PV, talk
• 1998-05-24 - Summer Night Town performance
• 1998-06-07 - 1st album announcement + Summer Night Town Oricon ranking
• 1998-06-21 - Big incident outbreak since formation!?
• 1998-06-28 - Nakazawa Yuko's Enka solo debut announcement
• 1998-07-05 - Nakazawa Yuko's Enka debut song decision
• 1998-07-12 - Nakazawa Yuko - Recording of Karasu no Nyoubou
• 1998-07-19 - Morning Musume concert & Nakazawa's Enka campaign
• 1998-07-26 - Nakazawa's Enka campaign + Karasu no Nyoubou performances
• 1998-08-02 - Nakazawa's Enka campaign + Karasu no Nyoubou performances
• 1998-08-09 - Karasu no Nyoubou PV + Oricon ranking + Enka campaign in Hawaii + Morning Musume 3rd single announcement
• 1998-08-16 - Nakazawa's Enka campaign in Hawaii
• 1998-08-23 - Asayan hosts get to hear 3 tiny clips of Daite Hold On Me!
• 1998-08-30 - Daite Hold On Me event + performance
• 1998-09-06 - Daite Hold On Me event + performance
• 1998-09-13 - Daite Hold On Me making of PV
• 1998-09-20 - Daite Hold On Me Oricon Ranking + performance
• 1998-09-27 - Morning Musume One Year Anniversary part 1 - Highlights of the Sharan Q audition
• 1998-10-04 - Morning Musume One Year Anniversary part 2 - Highlights of the Sharan Q audition and the 50,000 CD challenge
• 1998-10-18 - Tsunku makes a new unit with Iida & Ishiguro + audition for 3rd member between Yasuda, Yaguchi & Ichii - Yaguchi chosen + test recording Last Kiss + unit is named Tanpopo
• 1998-10-25 - Tanpopo - recording Last Kiss
• 1998-11-01 - Tanpopo - CD Jacket Photoshoot
• 1998-11-08 - Tanpopo - talk + dance lesson + Last Kiss performance
• 1998-11-15 - Tanpopo TVO
• 1998-11-22 - Tsunku's new unit decision - Taiyo to Ciscomoon
• 1998-11-29 - Morning Musume NHK Kouhaku news + Tanpopo's Last Kiss Oricon Ranking + Tsunku talking about Taiyo to Discomoon
• 1998-12-06 - Nakazawa Yuko talk about Odaiba Moonlight Serenade
• 1998-12-13 - Odaiba Moonlight Serenade Oricon ranking
• 1998-12-20 - Taiyo to Ciscomoon

1999

• 1999-01-03 - Morning Musume & Suzuki Ami 60 Minutes Special
• 1999-01-17 - Morning Musume - Fukuda shocking announcement
• 1999-01-24 - Morning Musume - Fukuda resignation talk + 4th single announcment
• 1999-01-31 - Morning Musume - Memory Seishun no Hikari PV Making
• 1999-02-07 - Morning Musume - Memory Seishun no Hikari talk + performance
• 1999-02-14 -
• 1999-02-21 - Taiyo to Ciscomoon - New unit
• 1999-02-28 - Tanpopo - Motto PV making
• 1999-03-07 - Taiyo to Ciscomoon in USA, Tanpopo talk + Motto performance
• 1999-03-28 - Morning Musume tour rehearsal
• 1999-04-18 - Fukuda Asuka last performance on Asayan
• 1999-04-25 - Memory Seishun no Hikari tour last day (Fukuda Asuka's Graduation)
• 1999-05-02 - Fukuda Asuka graduation & Manatsu no Kousen PV making
• 1999-05-09 - Talk + Manatsu no Kousen performance
• 1999-05-16 - Nakazawa + Inaba
• 1999-05-23 - Nakazawa + Inaba
• 1999-06-13 - Tanpopo talk + Tanpopo performance
• 1999-06-27 - Furusato talk + Memory Seishun no Hikari, Junjou Koushinkyoku & Tanpopo ranking updates + Coconuts Musume debut + Morning Musume 7th single release date revealed + Morning Musume 3rd generation audition announced
• 1999-07-04 - 3rd generation audition + Coconuts Musume dance practice + we meet their parents
• 1999-07-11 - Morning Musume vs Suzuki Ami studio confrontation
• 1999-07-18 - Morning Musume vs Suzuki Ami comments + Morning Musume 3rd Generation Audition letters + Coconuts Musume Talk + Summer Night Town (English version) performance
• 1999-07-25 - Result announcement > Ami overwhelming victory
• 1999-08-01 - Morning Musume defeated. Member comments. 3rd Generation Audition top 21.
• 1999-08-08 - 3rd Generation audition. Candidates are reduced from 20 to the last 5 (#6 is Koda Kumiko), then we see them setting off for training camp
• 1999-08-15 - 3rd Generation Audition. Training camp (dance lesson, cooking, voice lesson, individual practice, cleaning. On the final day they have their final examination singing Summer Night Town)
• 1999-08-22 - 3rd Generation Audition (studio recording test, Goto Maki announced as the winner, Maki's first meeting with Morning Musume during new single jacket shooting, Maki's first ASAYAN studio appearance)
• 1999-08-29 - Recording LOVE Machine
• 1999-09-05 - Talk & LOVE Machine performance
• 1999-09-12 - Goto Maki has 10 days to prepare for her first live with Morning Musume & LOVE Machine PV full version
• 1999-09-19 - Morning Musume wait to see what position LOVE Machine is in the charts/talk & LOVE Machine performance
• 1999-09-26 - Goto Maki prepares for her first live performance with Morning Musume
• 1999-10-03 - From Tsunku - Petitmoni formation announcement
• 1999-10-10 - Petitmoni + Tanpopo recording Seinaru Kane ga Hibiku Yoru
• 1999-10-17 - Abe Natsumi new development, Nakazawa solo activity, Petitmoni name candidacy
• 1999-10-24 - Abe Natsumi photoshoot in Hawaii + Petitmoni talk & name decision
• 1999-10-31 - Tanpopo #2 Oricon rank, Petitmoni debut single name decision & in studio recording Chokotto LOVE
• 1999-11-07 - Petitmoni recording Chokotto LOVE + dance practice
• 1999-11-14 - Petitmoni mini training camp, preview of Abe Natsumi going to New York to have voice and dance lessons
• 1999-11-21 - Abe Natsumi goes to New York and has voice and dance lessons, Petitmoni's Chokotto LOVE performance
• 1999-11-28 - Abe Natsumi goes to New York and has voice and dance lessons, Chokotto LOVE rehearsals(?)
• 1999-12-05 - Chokotto LOVE performance and #1 ranking in Oricon, Ishiguro Aya shock retirement announcement
• 1999-12-19 - Ishiguro Aya last message, old clips: Fukuda Asuka leaves, Goto Maki joins
• 1999-12-26 - Old clips: Goto Maki joins, LOVE Machine recording & making PV, Petitmoni

2000

• 2000-01-09 - Ishiguro Aya last appearance
• 2000-01-16 - Koi no Dance Site recording
• 2000-01-23 - Koi no Dance Site dance practice, making PV, PV
• 2000-01-30 - Summer Shuffles. Tsunku decides who is in each group and names the groups Kiiro 5, Aoiro 7, Akagumi 4
• 2000-02-06 - Summer Shuffles. Song titles and styles announced. Photoshoot. Voice check in recording studio.
• 2000-02-13 - Summer Shuffles. Recording studio.
• 2000-02-20 - Summer Shuffles. Recording studio; Morning Musume new member audition decision
• 2000-02-27 - Summer Shuffles. Dance rehearsals.
• 2000-03-05 - Summer Shuffles. Dance rehearsals. Talk + performances
• 2000-03-12 - Summer Shuffles. Making the PV's; Morning Musume auditions - 25000 applications flood in
• 2000-03-19 - Summer Shuffles. They find out the chart positions of the 3 singles
• 2000-03-26 - Koi no Dance Site sale studio talk
• 2000-04-02 - 4th Generation audition
• 2000-04-09 - 4th Generation audition - 10 finalists announced & training camp
• 2000-04-16 - 4th Generation first meeting with Morning Musume
• 2000-04-23 - 4th Generation first ASAYAN studio appearance
• 2000-05-07 - Ichii Sayaka retirement announcement
• 2000-05-14 - Happy Summer Wedding studio live
• 2000-05-21 - Happy Summer Wedding PV presentation
• 2000-05-28 - Ichii Sayaka last appearance
• 2000-06-04 - New Tanpopo formation
• 2000-06-11 - Nakazawa Yuko new single
• 2000-06-18 - Yoshizawa Hitomi, Petitmoni
• 2000-07-02 - Tanpopo Otome Pasta ni Kandou performance
• 2000-07-09 - Nakazawa Yuko Shanghai no Kaze performance
• 2000-07-23 - Petitmoni new song
• 2000-08-06 - Natsu Matsuri Special, part 1�: Shocking incidents
• 2000-08-13 - Natsu Matsuri Special, part 2�: What is the secret of that hit?
• 2000-08-20 - Natsu Matsuri Special, part 3�: Temple Training Special
• 2000-08-27 - PV Making Special (LOVE Machine, Furusato, Ai ni Tane, Summer Night Town, Morning Coffee, Manatsu no Kousen, Happy Summer Wedding)
• 2000-09-03 - I Wish performance
• 2000-09-17 - First broadcast of I Wish PV
• 2000-11-27 - Renai Revolution 21 sale
• 2000-12-10
• 2000-12-17 - First broadcast of Renai Revolution 21 PV
• 2000-12-24
• 2000-12-31

2001

• 2001-02-04
• 2001-02-11
• 2001-02-18 - Tanpopo talk & Koi wo Shichaimashita! performance & Petitmoni recording Baby! Koi ni Knock Out! & Nakazawa Yuko Kuyashi Namida Porori performance
• 2001-02-25 - Petitmoni recording Baby! Koi ni Knock Out! & performance
• 2001-03-25 - Goto Maki Ai no Bakayarou PV
• 2001-04-01 - Nakazawa Yuko graduation
• 2001-08-05 - Nakazawa Yuko
• 2001-08-12 - Nakazawa Yuko
• 2001-08-19 - Nakazawa Yuko
• 2001-09-02
• 2001-09-16 - Nakazawa Yuko
• 2001-09-23 - Nakazawa Yuko
• 2001-10-07 - Nakazawa Yuko
• 2001-10-14 - Yoshizawa Hitomi
• 2001-10-21 - Yoshizawa Hitomi
• 2001-10-28 - Yoshizawa Hitomi
• 2001-11-04 - Yoshizawa Hitomi
• 2001-11-11 - Yoshizawa Hitomi

2002

• 2002-03-24

2003

• 2003-12-?? - Asayan Best 100 Incidents

External links

• ASAYAN official site