is a song by

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idol group

Morning Musume , formerly simply and colloquially referred to as , are a Japanese girl group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon, Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles ...

, released as their first official single on January 28, 1998 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 200,790 copies. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the ''

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'' and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. The lead vocalist of the single was

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. Early on,

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had decided that

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was going to be the lead vocalist. Before the recording on the second day, Tsunku changed his mind and told the group that he was going to change the lead vocals to Abe instead. A re-arranged and re-recorded version of this song was featured as the B-side for Morning Musume's 14th single, " Souda! We're Alive". It is the group's only major-label single to exclusively feature the original members, as the second generation would join before the release of " Summer Night Town". It is also their first and only single to be released by the defunct

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-affiliated label One Up Music and distributed through

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; before the release of the group’s next single, One Up Music would end its distribution deal with Warner and merge with Y.J. Sounds (another former

-affiliated label) to form a new label called Zetima. Distribution rights for Zetima's catalog would be given to Sony Music Japan's sub label Epic Records for " Summer Night Town", Morning Musume's first album " First Time" and all of Zetima's subsequent releases.

Track listing

The "Ai no Tane" tracks were composed by Hanzō Seiki and Tetsutarō Sakurai. All other tracks were composed by

8 cm CD

# – 4:32 # – 4:11 # – 4:32

12 cm CD (''Early Single Box'' and individual release)

# – 4:32 # – 4:11 # – 4:32 # –

Members at time of single

*1st generation:

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Performances

In television shows

*1998-02-09 – ''

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'' *2000-10-08 – ''

Hello! Morning was a weekly Japanese TV show featuring members of Morning Musume, and sometimes other Hello! Project members on TV Tokyo. It was also known by the shorter name of . On April 1, 2007, the show ended after seven years of broadcast. A new show fe ...

'' - Episode 027 (Last Phrase Karaoke)

In concerts

*''Hello! First Live at Shibuya Kohkaido'' *''Morning Musume Memory Seishun no Hikari'' *''Morning Musume First Live at Budokan ~Dancing Love Site 2000 Haru~'' *''Morning Musume Live Revolution 21 Haru'' *''Morning Musume Concert Tour 2002 Haru "Love Is Alive!" (2002 Version)'' *''Morning Musume Concert Tour 2003 "15nin de Non Stop!"'' *''Morning Musume Sakuragumi Hatsukouen ~Sakura Saku~'' *''Hello! Project 2005 Winter All-Stars Dairanbu ~A Happy New Power! Iida Kaori Sotsugyo Special~'' *''Morning Musume Concert Tour 2005 Haru ~Dai 6 kan Hit Mankai~'' *''

Nochiura Natsumi was a one-off Hello! Project unit formed in 2004. The members were Maki Goto, Aya Matsuura and Natsumi Abe. The group was composed of soloists, similar to Gomattou, and released their only single, , on October 6, 2004. It reached 4th place on ...

Concert Tour 2005 Haru "Triangle Energy" (2002 Version)''

Oricon Rank and Sales

External links

Morning Coffee
entry on the Up-Front Works official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Morning Coffee (Song) Morning Musume songs Warner Music Japan singles Zetima Records singles 1998 singles Songs written by Tsunku Song recordings produced by Tsunku 1998 songs