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 charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an ...

's ninth original studio album, released approximately two years after their previous album, ''

Sexy 8 Beat ''Sexy 8 Beat'' (stylized as ) is the eighth studio album by the J-pop girl group Morning Musume. Overview It is the first album to feature 8th generation member Aika Mitsui and the last full-length studio release to feature 4th generation member ...

''. It was released on March 18, 2009 in both limited (EPCE-5629) and regular (EPCE-5631) editions. The limited edition comes with a bonus DVD. The regular edition include one of ten photo cards, there is one for each member and one for the whole group.

Track listing

Featured lineup

* 4th generation:

Hitomi Yoshizawa is a Japanese former singer and actress. In 2000, Yoshizawa debuted as a 4th generation member of the idol girl group Morning Musume and became their leader in 2005 until leaving the group in 2007. Following her departure, Yoshizawa continued to ...

(uncredited in Track 13) * 5th generation:

Ai Takahashi (born September 14, 1986) is a Japanese singer and actress formerly associated with the Hello! Project and is best known as the leader of Morning Musume and Hello! Project until 2011. She is also a former member of its popular subgroup Mini Moni ...

Risa Niigaki is a Japanese actress and singer. She was a fifth-generation member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined Morning Musume in 2001 along with 3 others- Ai Takahashi, Asami Konno and Makoto Ogawa. She grew up in Yokohama after movin ...

* 6th generation:

Eri Kamei is a Japanese pop singer and model. She is a former member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined in late 2003 as a sixth generation member along with Miki Fujimoto, Sayumi Michishige, and Reina Tanaka. She graduated on December 1 ...

Sayumi Michishige is a Japanese singer, actress and model. She is a former sixth-generation member and former leader of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Following the departure of fifth-generation member Risa Niigaki on October 12, 2013, Michishige has the longe ...

Reina Tanaka is a Japanese singer and actress. She is the leader of the Japanese rock band Lovendor. From 2002 to 2013, she was one of the main vocalists of the girl group Morning Musume and participated in other music acts under the Hello! Project name. ...

Miki Fujimoto (born February 26, 1985), professionally known by her birth name of , and nicknamed Mikitty, is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. After failing the audition to join girl group Morning Musume with the fourth generation members, Fujimoto de ...

(uncredited in Track 13) * 7th generation:

Koharu Kusumi is a Japanese actress, model, television personality, singer, and voice actress. In 2005, she became the only seventh generation member of the Japanese girl group Morning Musume, a part of Hello! Project. While Kusumi was in Morning Musume, she p ...

* 8th generation:

Aika Mitsui is a Japanese singer. She is a member of Hello! Project and a former member of the J-pop group Morning Musume, joining as a member of the eighth generation from the audition in Japan during December 2006. Mitsui's audition process was documented ...

, Junjun,

Linlin Qian Lin (born March 11, 1991), better known in Japan as , is a Chinese singer. She is a former Morning Musume member and leader of the Hello! Project sub-group Shin Minimoni. She was announced to be joining as the eighth generation of Morning ...

Personnel

* Lyrics, Composition:

Tsunku , known professionally as , is a Japanese singer, record producer, and songwriter. He is the lead singer of the rock band Sharam Q. As a songwriter, Tsunku is the primary producer for Morning Musume and other Hello! Project acts, such as Coconut ...

* Arrangement: Nao Tanaka (tracks 1, 4, 10), Hideyuki "Daichi" Suzuki (2, 8, 9), Koichi Yuasa (3, 6), Kaoru Okubo (5, 7), Kōtarō Egami (11, 12), Jun Yamazaki (13) * Tenor Saxophone: Yoshinari Takejō (2) * Saxophone: Akio Suzuki (11) * Guitar: Koji Kamata (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) * Chorus: Chino (2, 3, 5, 11), Hiroaki Takeuchi (3), Atsuko Inaba (12)

Oricon ranks and sales

References

External links

''Platinum 9 Disc''
entry on the Hello! Project official website
J-Ongaku: Platinum 9 Disc
{{Authority control 2009 albums Morning Musume albums Zetima albums