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[TheFrustrated]

^ ha, if morning musume released all H!P stuff they'd've died of exhaustion by now. but yeah, the shuffles and subgroups and special units including members from MM has sold a lot that could've been done by momusu.

All of the SPEED members went solo as well. I don't know how well they did. I know it's nowhere compared to SPEED's success. I kept up with Hiro for a while and Takako Uehara.

[Sevii]

All of the SPEED members went solo as well. I don't know how well they did. I know it's nowhere compared to SPEED's success. I kept up with Hiro for a while and Takako Uehara.

After they went solo, I think they kind of just faded. Hiro was one of the bigger ones, in releasing singles and stuff afterwards, I think Takako went with drama and photo books? I'm not sure, but I hardly hear of them anymore, and it's been a while since I last read anything about them.

Sad, they were so good, a couple of their songs could probably still be considered as classics. >.<

[Ronin]

At the rate MM sells (average of 50,000 per single/album), it would literally take a massive amount of years to catch up to SPEED. Unless of course they start pooping out singles one after another (which they seem to be doing )

Well, you never know what the next single might bring. Even if there's no second "Love Machine", MM will just have to exist for a massive amount of years. Unlike other JPop bands, Morning Musume has the ability to adapt to the times and literally go with the flow by changing members and always staying fresh imo.

[55Cyanides]

3 Southern All Stars 47,083,000
13 SMAP 28,400,000
17 TUBE 23,880,000
22 KinKi Kids 20,790,000
36 Morning Musume 15,470,000

yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
especially #17 TUBE, my fav band!!!!!!!! they started their career in 1985 i think and still active now
great to knwo that they did so good
and happy that MM's in the top 50 as well~~~~

Sweet stuff yo. I love TUBE and I lvoe Southen All Stars. Love their music man. Not surprised that B'z are #1, nice stuff.

[Tony Oguri]

Matsuyama Chiharu is my friend's cousin. My friend, Hiroshi, is also a very good singer. At Karaoke parties we always like to hear him sing. Especially Kita Sakaba by Hosokawa.

[Kishimoto Erika]

Matsuyama Chiharu is my friend's cousin.

Woah, really?

Anyway, glad to see that L'Arc~en~Ciel made the list, although I knew it would. Morning Musume, Glay, SMAP, Kinki Kids, and Judy and Mary are some of my favorites, so it's great to see them here. (And ZARD, too. )

[TheFrustrated]

Matsuyama Chiharu is my friend's cousin. My friend, Hiroshi, is also a very good singer. At Karaoke parties we always like to hear him sing. Especially Kita Sakaba by Hosokawa.

I don't know who that is but that's awesome though.

[mixedmedia]

All the SPEED girls had some decent material fresh after the breakup but kind of faded away. I liked Eriko with Crunch and even Hitoe's strange R&B stuff but yeah no comparison to SPEED. Even though ZONE's not on the list at least so far the post-breakup material seems rather promising. At least H!P girls even when they graduate from a group they manage to stay in the spotlight for many years after.

I hope I didn't imply that Morning Musume would try and pad their numbers by taking away all the material from the other artists in H!P just the really good stuff being that they are the flagship group. Especially with people talking about Berryz and C-ute getting better singles than Morning Musume.

[timothy]

cant believe ZARD beat Chage & Aska! theyve been around for 15 years, but chage & aska for 20 years. uv prbly guessed i like chage & aska more '.

also surprised SPEED beat momusu by 4 million!? nvr expected that...

[TheFicusWithSuperPowers]

Great! Ayu, MoMusu there
Recently AKB was added there too!