Oh ok, I see. At least the old threads are locked and saved, for archive purposes, and not deleted.

yup you got that right :yes

it took me FOREVER to know who's who in HSJ , it's not funny having 10 members in a Johnny's group :dead2

I think I might check out their music, and give them a try. 10 members? Woah!

yup 10 members :dead2 they're the biggest group , Johnny's wise

Your Seed was the song that started my HSJ's music journey & it was used to promote Kung Fu Panda when it was released in Japan

^ I still think 10 members is quite a lot.

I wonder if JE put 10 members on purpose just to attract people's attention. I'm sure it did get people's attention. ^^

HSJ is subbed divided into 2 groups namely Hey ! Say ! 7 & Hey ! Say ! BEST

HS7 has 5 members who're younger than HSB & naturally the other 5 members in HSB are the older ones

& yes it was a chore remembering who's who in HSJ :dead2

That would make things easier I guess to know who is who.

I remember V6 did that too, they split into two groups based on age group. But they didn't have 10 members though. XD

LOL yeah I know V6 did something like that too

I think 1 way to get this done's to notice on how the way they sitted together especially in HEYx3

during the time when they promoted Your Seed / Bouken Rider via http://newshfan.livejournal.com/46879.html , the older guys were sitting 1 row above the younger guys

they did the whole intro blah blah via http://newshfan.livejournal.com/30564.html

it took me FOREVER to remember Yuto's name but now I do because he said that he loves raw horse meat :laugh

^ Do they all look somewhat similar?

It would be more difficult to remember who is who if they all looked a bit alike, hehe. XD

not really they're not like triplets or twins that you have difficulty telling them apart :laugh

Oh ok, I see.

JE sure has a lot of artists under it's company. ^^

yeah & I support 11 of them , 3 of them are temporary units

:dead2

^ Do you know how many artists they have in total? Including all sub-labels and everything?

I always thought they had about 15-20, but my guess is more than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_%26_Associates

many people always assumed & called them JE . Even I did so for the longest time but in recent times after doing my research , Johnny's Entertainment is the name of the record label & not the talent agency

for me now , I go with Johnny's it's easier

^ Thx for the link.

So, JE doesn't have as many artists as AVEX, SONY, Universal Music, or other record companies.

I think the number of artists/groups they have is a reasonable amount.

well, JE is only guy groups, so i think you can only have as much as possible. plus, it's also a talent agency. avex is a music record label, so of course there's probbably more :D

Why does it take so long for JE artists to debut? I think artists like KAT-TUN were with JE since 2001, but didn't debut til 2006?

I don't know you have to ask the top management about this aka Johnny-san & yes KT were put together by KinKi Kids's Domoto Koichi 8 years ago & they didn't managed to debut til 5 years later

That really sucks. They sure could have been in the music industry longer if they debuted earlier.

I thought it was funny how KT's first album was called "BEST of", although it wasn't a BEST album, and was their first studio album. But then I found out at the time when it was released that fans knew about their songs early on from concerts. The title can be a bit misleading, hehe.

that's right , I find it odd myself initally when I 1st started into KT's music on why their 1st album's titled as such

It might sound strange to call their debut album Best of KAT-TUN but the reason why that's so is because the album comprises of many of the songs they made popular during lives along with 7 new songs recorded just for the album in which the 7 new songs are in question , they're MIRACLE , BLUE TUESDAY , RHODESIA , SPECIAL HAPPINESS , ONE ON ONE , BUTTERFLY & RUSH OF LIGHT .

& speaking of albums , *cries* I want a HSJ debut album now :weep