[Dream] The Perfect Girls Who Are Going To The Top in their 2nd Thread

[dayydreeaming]

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*Info from JpopStop Wiki

Pre-Debut/avex dream 2000

In 1999 the avex label organized a huge talent contest, called "avex dream 2000", looking for the next big hit idol group. Over 120,000 hopefuls auditioned in front of a panel of judges, notably including Mochida Kaori of the popular band, Every Little Thing. Interestingly enough, one of the entrants was Koda Kumi, who placed second and is now a popular singer (as well as Dream's label-mate within rhythm zone).
The final winners of the competition were Matsumuro Mai, Tachibana Kana and Hasebe Yu. They formed avex's hit idol group of the next millennium, dream.

Debut as 3-member dream

On January 1, 2000, dream debuted with the single "Movin' On", which charted within the top 15 on the Oricon charts. Their next few singles all charted in similar territory, failing to break the top 10 until their sixth single, "My will", made it to #6 at the end of 2000. "My will" was the song that gave dream new found fame as it was the first ending theme to the popular anime Inuyasha. Ironically, the group's next single would be their worst-charting to date, peaking at #36.
On February 28, 2001, dream released their debut album, titled Dear.... The album reached #5 on the Oricon charts.
On November 28, 2001, dream released "Get Over", the first opening theme to the anime Hikaru no Go. It is considered one of the group's most iconic songs. "Get Over" charted as high as #12 on the Oricon charts.
On Valentine's Day 2002, dream released their 2nd album, Process, which reached #8 on the charts.
Following the release of Process, Matsumuro Mai, who wrote most of the group's lyrics, announced that she was to leave in pursuit of a solo career. dream then released their final single as a 3-member group, "SINCERELY ~ever dream~".
On June 26, 2002, dream released their final release as a 3-member group and their first best album, Eternal Dream. On July 7th, 2002, Mai left dream. Many considered this to be the disbandment of the group.
[edit]8-member dream

8-member dream (2004)

Following Mai's departure, avex held more auditions for a replacement, and ended up with 6 new girls. They were Ai Risa, Abe Erie, Takamoto Aya, Nakashima Ami, Nishida Shizuka, and Yamamoto Sayaka.
The new 8-girl group "re-debuted" in 2003 with the single "MUSIC IS MY THING".
In February 2003, the group released their third album, dream world. The album was met with mediocre success, only reaching #23 on the Oricon charts. Because of their high member count and distinctly idolized image, many saw the new dream as an attempt to emulate the success of top girl-group Morning Musume.
Nonetheless, following dream world, dream's popularity once again peaked. They participated in the first a-nation summer concert festival held by avex. They appeared on popular singer Hamasaki Ayumi's TV show, Ayuready. Subsequently, dream's next single, "I Love Dream World", became their first single to chart within the Oricon top 10 since "My Will" in 2000.
In 2004, following the release of dream's fourth album ID, Ai Risa left dream to pursue a solo career, bringing the group's member count down to 7.

7-member dream/DRM

Despite having performed at many live performances, dream failed to find a permanent audience and struggled to build a solid fanbase. From 2004-2005, dream released the singles "PURE", "Love Generation", and "Soyokaze no Shirabe / STORY". They also released 2 mini albums, Natsuiro and Boy meets Girl. In addition, dream released a best album (777 -Best of dreams-), an avex cover album (dream meets Best Hits avex) and a self cover album (777 -another side story-). Their lack of success was attributed to the lack of promotion by the record label.
After a long period without much activity, dream released 7th Anniversary Best (a best of album featuring songs from the groups debut as a 3-member unit up till their latest single) and Greatest Live Hits (an album featuring recordings of their live performances) on January 1, 2007 (the group's 7th anniversary). For the next few months, nothing was heard of from dream and fans feared that disbandment was once again near.

DRM

On June 27th, 2007, dream was "reborn" as the dance/chorus group DRM in an attempt to shed their image as idols.
The group debuted with the mini album DRM.
In 2008, DRM released 4 digital singles, the first being released in January and the last, in April. The singles were released on the 7th of each month (January 7th, February 7th, and so on). Like their mini album, the singles were not met with much success.
During this period, DRM spent much of its time performing at small concerts, even singing on sidewalks next to the streets. The group slowly eased back into a state of little activity.

LDH and re-debut as Dream

On August 1, 2008, Hasebe Yu left DRM in pursuit of a solo career, leaving Tachibana Kana behind as the only member of the original dream. The group changed its name to Dream and their official fanclub (Live Your Dreams) closed down. Also, the group changed management from Avex to LDH (Love Dream Happiness). Nothing was heard from Dream afterward until almost a year later in the summer of 2009.
On September 9, 2009, the group released its first single as Dream and its first physical single since 2005's "Soyokaze no Shirabe / Story". The new single was titled "Perfect Girls / To The Top" and was sold exclusively at a series of free shows Dream did throughout Japan as well as on mu-mo (an online store). As a special release, it did not chart on Oricon. To promote their comeback, Dream embarked on a nationwide tour of Japan, performing at free lives in numerous cities.
Dream appeared on their first TV live on December 31, 2009 on CDTV Premium Live 2009>>2010, performing Perfect Girls. Tachibana Kana was unable to perform because she suffered from right spontaneous pneumothorax (Tachibana was diagnosed with left spontaneous pneumothorax at 16). Therefore, the CDTV live became Dream's first live performance as a five member unit.
On March 1, 2010, Dream released their second single as a six member group, titled "Breakout", another mu-mo exclusive.
In May 2010, having completed their nationwide free performance campaign, Dream held a 3-date live tour titled Dream Live Tour 2010 ~Road to Dream~. Dream also toured as a special guest on EXILE's 2010 Tour (FANTASY) alongside fellow LDH artists Happiness and FLOWER.
On August 18, 2010, Dream released its major label debut single, "My Way~ULala~" under the rhythm zone label.
On October 6, 2010, Dream will release its second major label single, Ev'rybody_Alright!. On November 24, 2010, Dream will release its currently untitled debut album. To promote the album, Dream will go on another tour, titled Dream LIVE TOUR 2010-2011 "Hands Up!!".

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[TITANIC]

if you want add the sales in the first post. here you go

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dream

Singles
00.01.01　*15位　**7回　***50,480　**100,910　Movin' on
00.03.08　*14位　**6回　***21,430　***51,450　Heart on Wave
00.05.03　*13位　**7回　***26,310　***61,920　Private wars 【Original Mix】
00.08.09　*17位　**5回　***22,940　***45,090　reality
00.09.20　*20位　**4回　*****,***　***36,030　SUPER EUROBEAT presents NIGHT OF FIRE
00.11.29　**6位　**9回　***42,570　**105,380　My will
01.02.28　*36位　**2回　***12,120　***15,690　Believe in you
01.05.23　*17位　**3回　***22,210　***30,810　solve
01.08.08　*25位　**3回　***16,640　***24,570　Our Time
01.10.31　*19位　**2回　***16,680　***20,180　STAY ～now I' m here～
01.11.28　*12位　**8回　***28,960　***59,890　Get Over
02.01.01　*21位　**4回　***17,690　***23,840　Yourself
02.06.10　*19位　**4回　***16,400　***24,240　SINCERELY ～ever dream～
03.02.13　*18位　**4回　***12,252　***18,730　MUSIC IS MY THING
03.09.10　*10位　**6回　***14,560　***22,923　I ♥ world
04.02.25　*23位　**4回　****9,227　***12,800　Identity ―prologue―
04.08.04　*33位　**3回　****6,051　****8,506　PURE
04.08.11　*26位　**3回　****6,493　****8,483　Love Generation
05.03.02　*26位　**3回　****6,194　****8,504　そよ風の調べ／STOR Y

Albums
01.02.28　**5位　**8回　***62,260　**124,570　Dear...
02.02.14　**8位　**4回　***43,910　***65,520　Process
02.06.26　**9位　**4回　***56,390　***88,290　eternal dream
03.02.26　*23位　**3回　***12,842　***16,265　dream world
04.03.10　*21位　**3回　***10,475　***14,149　ID

Mini-Albums
05.07.27　*28位　**2回　****7,776　****9,344　ナツイロ
05.12.21　*66位　**3回　****4,028　****6,467　Boy meets Girl
07.06.27　108位　**1回　****2,037　****2,037　DRM (as DRM)

Other Albums
00.09.20　*10位　**6回　***30,840　***72,320　SUPER EUROBEAT presents EURO "dream" land
04.09.29　*33位　**3回　****8,992　***11,395　777 -Best of dreams-
04.12.08　*54位　**2回　****4,757　****5,782　dream meets Best Hits avex
05.03.09　*63位　**2回　****4,156　****4,913　777 -another side story-
07.01.01　*62位　**4回　*****,***　*****,***　7th Anniversary Best *
07.01.01　293位　**2回　*****,***　*****,***　Greatest Live Hits *

* Unavailable/missing data.

Trajectories

Singles

そよ風の調べ／STORY
05/03/14　*26　**6,194　**6,194
05/03/21　*82　**1,620　**7,814
05/03/28　145　***,690　**8,504

Albums

SUPER EUROBEAT presents EURO "dream" land
00/10/02　10位　30,840
00/10/09　16位　16,160
00/10/16　24位　10,620
00/10/23　34位　*7,310
00/10/30　51位　*4,500
00/11/06　89位　*2,890

Dear...
01/03/12　**5位　62,260
01/03/19　*16位　26,780
01/03/26　*23位　12,380
01/04/02　*36位　*7,560
01/04/09　*63位　*5,730
01/04/16　*64位　*3,960
01/04/23　*81位　*3,130
01/04/30　100位　*2,770

Process
02/02/25　**8位　43,910
02/03/04　*26位　13,160
02/03/11　*49位　*5,640
02/03/18　100位　*2,810

eternal dream
02/07/08　*9位　56,390
02/07/15　16位　18,250
02/07/22　37位　*8,590
02/07/29　48位　*5,060

Identity-prologue-
*23 9,227 *9,227 2004/03/08
*83 1,806 11,033 2004/03/15
112 1,211 12,244 2004/03/22
173 *,556 12,800 2004/03/29

777～ANOTHER SIDE STORY～
05/03/21　*63　**4,156　**4,156
05/03/28　289　***,757　**4,913

[Polyrhythm]

^Wow....lots of info. Great job! I will try to add all that to Dream's JpopStop page when I have time

[TITANIC]

^ cool I really appreciate that. Nanako has asked me but Im kinda busy right now, hahah.

[nanakopy87]

wow.cool.maybe i should do the same for Love.haha

[nanakopy87]

the single will release 15 days later.i can't wait to listen to the songs.by the way,they performed those songs live before right?

[Polyrhythm]

I think they performed Secret Party

[nanakopy87]

i remember i saw cinnamon on the tour tracklist also.so,most of the songs in the singles are not new (at least to the japanese,its not new.haha)

[Polyrhythm]

Preview of the tracks now available:

http://dream-ldh.jp/discography/index.html#everybody

Much better single than My Way Ulala

[TITANIC]

I think My Way~Ulala~ still the best single so far. ev'rybody alright is not such a good A-side

[nanakopy87]

i don't know which one is better.but if based on the previews,i think i prefer My Way ~ULala~ more than this.

[Polyrhythm]

[nanakopy87]

O.O don't really like shizuka's hair in the PV.
i wish that it can be more upbeat.it seems like quite slow?

[TITANIC]

Sayaka looks scary o.0

[nanakopy87]

収録時間:00:33:32
[Disk1]
1  Ｅｖ’ｒｙｂｏｄｙ　Ａｌｒｉｇｈｔ！ / (00:03:44)
2  ＧＬＯＲＹ / (00:05:09)
3  Ｓｅｃｒｅｔ　Ｐａｒｔｙ / (00:03:24)
4  ｃｉｎｎａｍｏｎ / (00:04:29)
5  Ｅｖ’ｒｙｂｏｄｙ　Ａｌｒｉｇｈｔ！　（Ｉｎｓｔｒｕｍｅｎｔａｌ） / (00:03:44)
6  ＧＬＯＲＹ　（Ｉｎｓｔｒｕｍｅｎｔａｌ） / (00:05:09)
7  Ｓｅｃｒｅｔ　Ｐａｒｔｙ　（Ｉｎｓｔｒｕｍｅｎｔａｌ） / (00:03:24)
8  ｃｉｎｎａｍｏｎ　（Ｉｎｓｔｒｕｍｅｎｔａｌ） / (00:04:29)

[TITANIC]

it's super cool
I cried so happy to hear Erie's solo part. Amazing
their song getting better and better
Ev'rybody alright > My Way~Ulala~ > Breakout > Perfect girls

[nanakopy87]

listening and watching the PV now.yuhoo~!
cool.I LOVE IT.i'm not regret for pre-order this single.

<3

[TITANIC]

I already played 6 times. its so addictive. I cant wait for the HQ.hahaha. I am so excited about the album

[nanakopy87]

LOL.i just listen to once.i'm going to wait for my copy to come and listen non-stop!
i think its cool if they make a remix for perfect girl-breakout-my way ulala-ev'rybody alright.
LOL

[TITANIC]

hahaha. I cant wait if you ask me.hehe I am too excited for this single. Erie.... I love you