Hey! Say! JUMP (HSJ or JUMP) is an eight-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency

Johnny & Associates is a Japanese talent agency, formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which trains and promotes groups of male entertainers known as . History 1962–1989 In 1962, Kitagawa launched his first group, Johnnys. In its early days, Kitagawa's agency re ...

. The group is split into two sub-groups: Hey! Say! BEST and Hey! Say! 7. In Japan they sold more than 10 million physical copies. Hey! Say! JUMP originally debuted with ten members, the largest group in Johnny's history. In 2011, Ryutaro Morimoto was indefinitely suspended from the group following an underage smoking scandal. On April 11, 2021, Keito Okamoto announced that he would be leaving the group in order to pursue a career in acting but would be remaining under Johnny & Associates.

History

Formation

During a

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spring concert on April 3, 2007,

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Daiki Arioka is a Japanese singer, actor, tarento, and model as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. Career On June 2, 2003, he joined Johnny & Associates as a trainee. As a Johnny's Jr., he was a member of ...

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Yuto Nakajima is a Japanese singer, actor and model. He is a member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He played Koji Kiritani in the 2005 Japanese television drama, ''Nobuta wo Produce''. Career 2004: Becoming an artist for Johnny's Entertainment Nakajima joined Johnny' ...

and

Yuri Chinen , is a Japanese singer and actor as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. Early life Chinen is the son of Takashi Chinen, a former Japanese gymnast who won a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olym ...

were announced to become part of a temporary group called Hey! Say! 7. The name refers to the Heisei period during which all members were born, as well as to the year 2007 as the group's formation year. On June 16, 2007, it was announced that Hey! Say! 7 would release " Hey! Say!" as a single on August 1. This later became Hey! Say! JUMP's single. The song and the single's B-side, "Bon Bon", were used as the second opening and closing themes for the anime ''

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''. The single sold 120,520 copies in its first week, making the group the youngest male group to top the

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singles chart. On September 24, the five members of Hey! Say! 7 were joined by

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Kei Inoo is a Japanese singer, actor, and member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Saitama Prefecture. On September 23, 2001, he entered Johnny & Associates as a trainee. He later became a member of ...

Hikaru Yaotome is a Japanese singer, actor, tarento, and model. He is a member of Hey! Say! JUMP under Johnny & Associates. He was born in Miyagi Prefecture. On December 1, 2002, he entered Johnny & Associates as a trainee. Later, he was put in the junior ...

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and

Ryutaro Morimoto Hey! Say! JUMP (HSJ or JUMP) is an eight-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. The group is split into two sub-groups: Hey! Say! BEST and Hey! Say! 7. In Japan they sold more than 10 million physical co ...

, all represented by Johnny's Jr's. The ten-member group was organized into two sub-groups of five, with the older members forming Hey! Say! BEST and the younger members in Hey! Say! 7.

Early releases

It was announced that they would release their first CD on November 14, 2007, including the song "

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", which was used as the theme at Japan's Volleyball World Cup Relay 2007. On December 22, the group held their debut concert: ''Debut Concert Ikinari! in Tokyo Dome''. With an average age of 15.7, they were the youngest group to perform in the

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. A concert DVD was released on April 30, 2008. The group released their third single " Dreams Come True" on May 21, which topped the Oricon Chart. In July 2008, it was announced that the group's fourth new single " Your Seed" would be used as the title song for the Japanese release of the animated film ''

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''. In October 2008, the group released the single "

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". It was used as the theme song for the drama ''

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'', which starred members Arioka, Yamada, Nakajima, and Chinen. After the full group's tour, junior division Hey! Say! 7 had their first concert series called ''Hey! Say! 7 Spring Concert 09 MONKEY''. Following this, the entire group toured their concert ''Hey! Say! JUMP CONCERT TOUR Spring '09''. A second concert DVD, '' Hey! Say! JUMP-ing Tour '08–'09'', was released in April 2009. On February 24, 2010, after a year and a half of touring, the group released their sixth single " Hitomi no Screen", which topped the Oricon weekly singles chart with 202,000 sales. The group released its first album, '' Jump No. 1'', on July 7, 2010. On December 15, the group released the single "

Arigatō (Sekai no Doko ni Ite mo) "Arigatō (Sekai no Doko ni Ite mo)" is a single by Hey! Say! JUMP. It was released on December 15, 2010. Information "Arigatō (Sekai no Doko ni Ite mo)" is the second single by Hey! Say! JUMP for the year 2010. They compiled their hits from t ...

". It reached number one on the Oricon singles chart and sold 64,206 albums on its first day.

2011: ''Yan Yan JUMP'', Morimoto's suspension, ''The Smurfs''

Hey! Say! JUMP and other Johnny's Jr. members starred in the 2011 variety show ''Yan Yan JUMP''. It was based on ''Yan Yan Utau Studio'', which had aired two decades earlier, featuring senior celebrities of Johnny & Associates. The group was surrounded by controversy in June 2011 after photos of Ryutaro Morimoto smoking while underage were leaked. When he was asked about the photos, he said "it was alright" and that it was "no big deal". In response to the scandal,

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issued a statement of apology the following day and planned to indefinitely suspend Morimoto from all of his activities. Following the removal of Morimoto's profile from the official Johnny & Associates website,

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stated that Morimoto had ambitions to focus on studying and denied any possibility of his returning to the group. On June 29, the group released the new single " Over". It peaked at number one on the

singles chart on its first day, and was the group's highest-selling single since "Ultra Music Power" in 2007. On September 21, 2011, they released their ninth single, " Magic Power", their first release after Morimoto's suspension. "Magic Power" was used as the theme for the Japanese dub of ''

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'', in which members Yamada and Chinen provided the voices for Clumsy Smurf and Brainy Smurf.

2012: Asian tour, musical and second album

The group held their first Asian concert tour from March to June 2012, performing in

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, and Japan. However, on March 15, it was announced that the

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leg would be postponed until May and that the Bangkok tour was cancelled for unstated reasons. The tour was launched at the

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on May 3. Their tenth single, " Super Delicate", was released on February 22, and was used as a theme song for '' Risou no Musuko''. On March 22, it was announced that a new musical called ''Johnny's World'' would be produced and directed by Johnny Kitagawa and start its run at the

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in November 2012. Hey! Say! JUMP would be the main cast while one hundred others made an appearance including

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, A.B.C-Z and Johnny's Jr., and guest appearances by

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and Domoto Koichi. On April 25, the group announced that they would be releasing their second album, ''

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'', with their singles from "

" onwards. At the end of 2012, it was announced that

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would be making his solo debut with the single "

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" on January 9, 2013. The song was first solicited to mainstream on the radio on November 30, 2012 and was available for digital download on December 26, 2012.

2013–2014: ''S3art'', ''Live with Me'' and shows

JUMP held another nationwide tour, Hey! Say! JUMP Zenkoku e JUMP Tour 2013, from April to August 2013. Both of the singles that they released in 2013, " Come On A My House" and " Ride with Me", went to number one on the Oricon chart. The latter was the theme song of the 2014 sequel to ''

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'', with Yamada reprising his role. In January 2014, the group released " AinoArika". The song was used as the theme for ''Dark System Koi no Ouza Ketteisen'', starring Yaotome and Inoo. The single topped the Oricon chart. Other acting appearances by the group's members include Yamada and Arioka in the drama ''Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Neo'', Nakajima and Takaki in ''

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'', with Takaki also appearing in ''Dr. DMAT'' and ''HAMU''. The group released a double A-side single called "

Weekender/Asu e no Yell "Weekender" / "Asu e no Yell" is a single by Hey! Say! JUMP. It was released on September 3, 2014. It debuted in number one on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart and reached number one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 The ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 1 ...

", which was the theme song for Yamada's and Nakajima's dramas, and topped the Oricon chart. The group's third album '' S3ART'' went to number one on the Oricon chart the week it was released. The group embarked on an accompanying tour for the album titled ''Hey! Say! JUMP Live Tour 2014 S3ART'' including a show in Tokyo Dome.

2015: ''JUMPing Car'', "Chau#", ''Itadaki High JUMP'', 24-hour television, JUMPing CARnival and "Kimi Attraction"

In 2015, the group started their first TV show called ''

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'' and hosted ''Little Tokyo Life'' with Johnny's West, another Johnny's group. They were also the main personalities of 24-hour television. In March, Yamada made his film debut as Nagisa Shiota in the live action adaptation of '' Assassination Classroom''. The movie topped the box office of Japan on its first opening week. The group released the single ''Sensations'', which was used as the image song of the movie '' Koro Sensations''. It topped the Oricon chart as did following singles " Chau#/我 I Need You" and "

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", and their fourth album ''

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''. They promoted the album with a tour titled Hey! Say! JUMP LIVE TOUR 2015 JUMPing CARnival and collaborated with the annual ''Johnny's Countdown Concert'' which was broadcast live. JUMP held their own 2015–2016 countdown concert at

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, making them the youngest group of

to ever hold their own countdown concert.

2016: ''Dear'', "Sayonara Sensation", "Maji Sunshine", "Fantastic Time", "Give Me Love" and ''FNS 27Hour Festival''

Hey! Say! JUMP returned as their sub unit, Sensations, and released the single for the movie titled "

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". It was released for the film '' Assassination Classroom: Graduation'', starring Yamada. The group also released the single " Maji Sunshine". It topped the Oricon charts in its first week, and was used for the group's CM for KOSE Cosmeport Cosmetics. They were one of the main personalities of Fuji Television's ''FNS 27Hour Festival'', with Inoo being one of the main MCs. During this, their show ''Itadaki High JUMP'' also had a crossover with

's show ''Kisumai Busaiku'' in which the two groups competed in various activities. On July 27, the group released their fifth album titled ''

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'' which sold 141,079 copies on its first day. It landed on the No. 1 spot at the Oricon Weekly Album Chart. In support of the album, a tour started on July 28 at the

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called ''Hey! Say! JUMP LIVE TOUR 2016 DEAR''. On October 26, the group released a new single called " Fantastic Time", which was used as the opening theme for anime ''Time Bokan 24''. On December 14, the group released a new single called " Give Me Love", which was used for the drama ''Cain and Abel'' starring member Yamada. It was described as a mellow R&B song about life's troubles and love.

2017–present

The song "Over the Top" was announced as the new opening theme song for the anime ''タイムボカン24 (Time Bokan 24)''. To honor the group's tenth anniversary, the greatest hits album '' Hey! Say! JUMP 2007-2017 I/O'' was released on July 26, 2017, featuring all 23 singles from their first ten years. "Maeomuke" was released on February 14, 2018, and was the theme song for the drama '' The Kitazawas: We Mind Our Own Business'', which starred Yamada.

Members

''Hey! Say! BEST''

* * * * *

''Hey! Say! 7''

* * *

Units

''Hey! Say! 7'' (a temporary group before Hey! Say! JUMP was formed) *

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'' S3ART'' Units

''Kaito y-ELLOW-voice (怪盗y-ELLOW-voice)'' *

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''Night Style People'' *

''Aioitai (愛追I隊)'' *

''Sensations''

as Scope (スコープ) *

as Rapid Fire (ラピッドファイヤー) *

as Geek (ギーク) *

as Sonic Hunter (ソニックハンター) *

as Falcon Jr. (ファルコンJr.) *

as Shinobi (SHINOBI) *

Ryosuke Yamada is a Japanese singer and actor. He is a member of Hey! Say! JUMP.Hey! Say! JUMP Pr ...

as Commander (コマンダー) *

as Bullet (弾丸) *

as Doctor (ドクター)

''JUMPing Carnival'' Units

''UNION'' *

''Pet Shop Love Motion'' *

''Sangatsu Juuyokka ~ Tokei'' * Yamada Ryosuke * Okamoto Keito

''A.Y.T.''

Discography

* '' JUMP No. 1'' (2010) * ''

'' (2012) * '' S3ART'' (2014) * ''

'' (2015) * ''

'' (2016) * '' Hey! Say! JUMP 2007-2017 I/O'' (10th Anniversary Album (2017) * '' Sense or Love'' (2018) * ''Parade'' (2019) * ''Fab! -Music Speaks.-'' (2020) * ''Filmusic!'' (2022)

Awards

Japan Gold Disc Awards

The

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recognized the group with the following Japan Gold Disc Awards for music sales: , - , rowspan="2", 2008 , Hey! Say! JUMP , The Best 10 New Artists , , - , "

" , The Best 10 Singles , , - , 2015 , Hey! Say! JUMP , Yahoo! Search Awards: Idol Award ,

References

External links

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