The H!P Musings/Rants Thread

[Shoujo Q]

Hopefully Spotify handles the artist names better than Apple Music. It’s a mess over in Apple Country on the US side.

[chaosgamma]

Taiyou to Ciscomoon had so many bangers. I forgot how many songs of theirs were just, amazing. Their career was so short too. I'm glad Up-Front makes it a point to still use some of their songs in H!P concerts.

Things I'd love to see, some more covers. This time of Uchuu de La Ta Ta, Hey! Mahiru no Shinkirou or Marui Taiyou.

Uchuu de La Ta Ta seems to have kind of caught on recently, it's been performed a fair few times over that last couple years. Though, I believe, only by members doing it solo; a group performance might be nice to see.

It's always nice when obscure or at least lesser worn songs get dusted off. Country Girls doing Futari no Hokkaido and Yukigeshiki, and even Michiyo's GET showing up for one of the concerts back during the 20th anniversary.

[wotakubrandon]

I wish Morning Musume would drop the numbers. It does a huge disservice to them to have it in this digital word. Every year and every new release moves the group. So now you have Morning Musume and Morning Musume 14-24. If they were to hit Spotify what would it be like? If they could just find a way to merge all those “groups” into 1?

Taiyo to Ciscomoon and T&C Bomber are combined into one artist page so it'll probably go something like that if it ever happens.

[Shoujo Q]

It was a smart move to do that. But there has been no smart moves done for Morning Musume.

[koregaboku]

It doesn't appear to have happened to the others, but Airi's monthly listener count has gotten significantly higher, to 116.6k on Spotify.

[Amped]

Spotify monthly listeners (6/11)

116,764 Suzuki Airi
8,539 Taiyou to Cisco Moon
7,963 T&C Bomber

M-Line
7,284 Michishige Sayumi
5,667 Sato Masaki
4,237 Miyamoto Karin
3,932 Tanaka Reina
2,783 Inaba Manaka
2,699 SIOOM
2,503 Ogata Risa
753 Ozeki Mai
675 Takahashi Ai
675 Natsuyaki Miyabi
412 Bitter & Sweet

[koregaboku]

It really goes to show just how much of a crazy draw that Airi is.

I'm very grateful that UF* (finally) started pursuing post-H!P singing careers but these numbers really put things into perspective.

[Zunu]

Oh brother, y'all acting over here like she's getting more than twice as many plays as the rest of them put together or something...

[chaosgamma]

It occurs to me that with Niinu's grad Tsubaki Factory is now mostly non-KSS (5 KSS vs 6 not). Which, I believe, is the first time any of the post Elder Club new groups has been so.

[wotakubrandon]

Spotify monthly listeners (6/11)

116,764 Suzuki Airi
8,539 Taiyou to Cisco Moon
7,963 T&C Bomber

M-Line
7,284 Michishige Sayumi
5,667 Sato Masaki
4,237 Miyamoto Karin
3,932 Tanaka Reina
2,783 Inaba Manaka
2,699 SIOOM
2,503 Ogata Risa
753 Ozeki Mai
675 Takahashi Ai
675 Natsuyaki Miyabi
412 Bitter & Sweet

They've also added Heike Michiyo which I wasn't expecting at all