Shūji to Akira

Shūji to Akira

is a special temporary unit formed by Kazuya Kamenashi and Tomohisa Yamashita, under Johnny's Entertainment from fall 2005 to winter 2006. This unit was created to promote the duo's Japanese TV series, Nobuta wo Produce. Shūji and Akira are the names of the characters of Kamenashi and Yamashita respectively. Although the TV show has long finished on television, the duo are still asked from time to time to perform on TV specials.

ingle

The unit's sole single, nihongo|"Seishun AMĪGO"|青春アミーゴ|, was released on 2 November, 2005 and debuted at #1 in the Oricon singles top 200 the following week. The single sold more than a million copies in less than 4 weeks and has spent 34 weeks on the chart. The single also topped the annual Oricon top 999 singles chart of 2005, making it the best selling single in Japan in 2005. The single remained on the charts until early 2006, and was also the third best-selling single of 2006. The song was also released as a single in Sweden on 21 June, 2006 and entered the Swedish singles chart at #41 the following week.

Tracklist

# (zopp, Shusui, Fredrik Hult, Jonas Engstrand, Ola Larsson) – 4:36
# (Tomohisa Yamashita, Kosuke Morimoto) – 4:29 (featured in Dragon Zakura)
# (Kazuya Kamenashi, Koji Makaino) – 4:11 (featured in Gokusen)The limited edition includes 3 songs and a special 12-page photo booklet, and the regular edition includes 3 songs and their instrumentals.

Television performances

*2005.10.23 UTAWARA HOT TOP 10 (First performance)
*2005.10.27 UTABAN
*2005.10.28 MUSIC STATION
*2005.10.31 HEY!HEY!HEY!MUSIC CHAMP
*2005.11.04 MUSIC FIGHTERS
*2005.11.04 MUSIC STATION (On a round performance stage surrounded by 200 fans)
*2005.11.11 MUSIC STATION (3rd performance due to requests by fans)
*2005.11.20 UTAWARA HOT TOP 10
*2005.11.30 BEST ARTIST VOTED BY 130M PEOPLE (1億3000万人が選ぶ!ベストアーティスト)
*2005.12.23 MUSIC STATION (Music Station Super Live 2005)
*2005.12.31 JOHNNY'S COUNTDOWN LIVE
*2006.03.18 SONG OF JAPAN VOTED BY FAMILIES (家族で選ぶにっぽんの歌)
*2006.08.26 24 JIKAN TEREBI
*2007.12.31 JOHNNY'S COUNTDOWN LIVE


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