Hey! Say! JUMP

Hey! Say! JUMP

Hey! Say! JUMP is a J-pop group under Johnny & Associates, made up of ten members. Hey! Say! JUMP is considered an expansion of the original Hey! Say! 7. The name Hey! Say! refers to the fact that all the members were born in the Heisei period and JUMP is an acronym for Johnny's Ultra Music Power.

History

As Hey! Say! 7 (Temporary Group)
In a KAT-TUN spring concert on 3 April 2007, 5 members of Johnny's Jr's were named to be part of a new group called Hey! Say! 7. These members were Yuya Takaki, Daiki Arioka, Yuto Nakajima, Yuuri Chinen and Ryosuke Yamada. Initially, the temporary status of the group was unclear, worrying a lot of fans of Johnny Jr's groups J.J. Express as it could mean that the group was splitting up and that Yuya Takaki and Daiki Arioka would permanently be in this group instead.
On 16 June 2007, it was announced that Hey! Say! 7 would release a single, Hey! Say!, which was then used as the opening song for the popular anime Love★Com (Lovely Complex). The single also contains the ending song used for the same anime, titled BON BON. This is the first time a Johnny's Jrs group released a single since Ya-Ya-yah in 2002, and there was uncertainty in whether if the debut is permanent or just a CD release.
On 1 August 2007, the single Hey! Say! was released. The following week, on 8 August 2007, Oricon Style confirmed that Hey! Say! sold 120,520 copies in its first week and this made it top the Oricon Weekly Charts. At the same time, Hey! Say! 7 broke an all-time record by being the youngest group to ever reach the number 1 spot in the Oricon chart, with their average age being just 14.8 years.
In the month of August, the single Hey! Say! topped the Oricon Monthly Charts, outselling even their Johnny's Entertainment seniors, Tackey and Tsubasa and TOKIO. Since then, the Hey! Say! single had been certified gold by the RIAJ

Former Hey! Say! 7 (Temporary Group)


- Yuya Takaki / 高木雄也 - March 26, 1990 (age 18)
- Daiki Arioka / 有岡大貴 - April 15, 1991 (age 17)
- Yuto Nakajima / 中島裕翔 - August 10, 1993 (age 14)
- Ryosuke Yamada / 山田涼介 - May 9, 1993 (age 15)
- Yuuri Chinen / 知念侑李 - November 30, 1993 (age 14)


Transition to Hey! Say! JUMP
The formation of Hey! Say! JUMP was announced on September 24th, 2007 during the Johnny's Jr Hey Say 07 in Yokohama concert, which was broad casted live by Fuji TV. The boys were introduced with reference to other debuted group such as NEWS and V6. This new unit will function in the same sense as V6's Coming Century and 20th Century with the two subunits, Hey! Say! BEST and Hey! Say! 7, where BEST stands for Boys Excellent Selection Team.
The word JUMP not only stands for Johnny's Ultra Music Power, but also jumping high in the heisei era. Immediately after the junior concert, the boys appeared on the filming of popular program Hey! Hey! Hey!, where they announced the unit officially. The new group draws most of its members from popular junior units Ya-Ya-yah and J.J. Express. The future of this unit is yet unknown but their debut single was released on November 14th, 2007, titled Ultra Music Power, coming in #1 on the Oricon charts for that week. It was the theme song for the year's Volleyball World Cup Relay. Also the unit had already held their debut concert on the 22nd of December 2007 at Tokyo Dome, where very few debuted units have had the chance for a concert, KAT-TUN being one of them. The date for the debut is to match the record set by Tackey & Tsubasa, who had their debut concert on the 38th day of their debut.
It was stated that the idea for the unit came from the overwhelming sales of Hey! Say! 7's single Hey!Say!. The members of the unit only found out about their debut three days before the official announcement. The average age of the unit is 15 with the youngest member being 13 and the oldest 18. Also with the unit having Okamoto Keito as a member, who is the son of Otokogumi's Okamoto Kenichi, marks the first parent-child pair in Johnnys.

Members

Hey! Say! BEST

Hey! Say! BEST (Boys Excellent Select Team) is the older subgroup of Hey! Say! JUMP, consisting of 5 members:
- Kota Yabu / 薮宏太 - January 31, 1990 (age 18)

- Yuya Takaki / 高木雄也 - March 26, 1990 (age 18)

- Kei Inoo / 伊野尾慧 - June 22, 1990 (age 18)

- Hikaru Yaotome / 八乙女光 - December 2, 1990 (age 17)

- Daiki Arioka / 有岡大貴 - April 15, 1991 (age 17)



Hey! Say! 7

Hey! Say! 7 is the younger subgroup of Hey! Say! JUMP, consisting of 5 members. This Hey! Say! 7 should not be confused with former Hey! Say! 7 (Temporary Group), which produced the single Hey! Say!
- Keito Okamoto / 岡本圭人 - April 1, 1993 (age 15)

- Ryosuke Yamada / 山田涼介 - May 9, 1993 (age 15)

- Yuto Nakajima / 中島裕翔 - August 10, 1993 (age 14)

- Yuuri Chinen / 知念侑李 - November 30, 1993 (age 14)

- Ryutaro Morimoto / 森本龍太郎 - April 6, 1995 (age 13)


Original songs

As Hey! Say! 7 (Temporary Group) (3 April 2007 - 23 September 2007)
-Fatalism
-Hey! Say! (Love★Com Opening theme)
-BON BON (Love★Com Ending theme)
-Iをくれ (I wo kure)
-The ONE
-Hey Boys and Girls

As Hey! Say! JUMP
-Ultra Music Power
-Too Shy
-Star Time
-トビラの向こう (Tobira No Mukou)
-心・技・体 (Shin Gi Tai)
-Chance to Change
-Dreams Come True
-HIGHER

As Hey! Say! BEST (Sub-group of Hey! Say! JUMP)
-ス・リ・ル (Thrill)
-BUMP UP

As Hey! Say! 7 (Sub-group of Hey! Say! JUMP)
-ワンダーランド・トレイン (Wonderland Train)

Solos
-麗しのBad Girl (Uruwashi no Bad Girl) by Nakajima Yuto
-パフューム (Perfume) by Yamada Ryosuke
-アジアの夜 (Asia no Yoru) by Yamada Ryosuke
-炎-Flame of Love by Yaotome Hikaru
-Rain Dance by Yabu Kota
-My Everything by Yabu Kota
-俺たちの青春 (Oretachi No Seishun) by Takaki Yuya [Gokusen 3's insert song]
-On The Wind by Chinen Yuuri
-Stars in Heaven by Chinen Yuuri and Yamada Ryosuke
-Ame No Melody by Nakajima Yuto
-Eien Ni by Yamada Ryosuke and Nakajima Yuto