Left to right: Yoh, Yamato, Ryo, Hiroki, & Naoto
Background information
Origin	Japan
Genre(s)	J-Rock, J-Pop
Years active	2002–Present Time
Label(s)	Sony Music Entertainment Japan / GR8! Records
Website	Orange Range Official Site
Members
Naoto Ryo Yamato Hiroki Yoh
Former members
Kitao Kazuhito

Orange Range (オレンジレンジ, Orenji Renji^?) is a Japanese group signed to Sony Music (SMEJ) in Japan. They were signed in 2002. The Jayawijaya Mountains, formerly known as the Orange Range, are the eastern mountain range of the Maoke Mountains in the central highlands region of the Indonesian part of New Guinea. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links OrangeRange06. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Japanese rock is the Japanese form of rock and roll music, often abbreviated to J-Rock or jrock, as J-Pop and jpop are used as an abbreviation of Japanese Pop. ... J-pop (or Jpop) is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... The most familiar view of Carlyle is as the bearded sage with a penetrating gaze. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. ... Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

History

Origin and Indies

The band has roots in the Okinawa area of Japan. The area is famous for being the home of many well known acts.^[1] Before they were signed by a major label, Orange Range played mostly in small art houses and clubs until they were found by a record agent. The band is mix of Pop and Rock style music as can be heard by the vocals and the instrumentals. Their style is also made up of many different cultures and musical styles from around the world. This is attributed to their hometown being Okinawa, a well known station for American military bases and thus cultures and different styles often blend. Due to high sales of their works, Orange Range's singles are often attached to various movies, shows or Japanese products.^{[2] [3]} This is usually seen as a sign of a band or singer having hit "the big time" in the Japanese media. This article is about the prefecture. ... For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ...

Originally, Orange Range was a cover band, doing mostly covers of songs by other artists. The band was started by childhood friends Kitao "Kat-chan" Kazuhito and Hiroyama Naoto, but Naoto has professed that Kazuhito was the one to come up with the idea of forming a band. Soon a longtime friend of Naoto, Miyamori Yoh, would join the band as a bassist. Unlike the current band members, the next band member to join, Hokama Hiroki, was relatively an "outsider" in the group of friends that made up the original band. Hiroki was also the first vocalist of the band. Next Miyamori Yoh invited his younger brother, Miyamori Ryo, to join the band as a low vocalist and the second overall vocalist. The band stayed like this for a few months before scouting high range vocalist, Ganeko Yamato to the band.

Between the time that Yamato joined and the band being signed to Spice Music's Japanese division, Orange Range mainly did covers of already famous singers and bands, like GLAY and Mr Children, for school concerts and for small art houses. In early 2002, the band was signed to Spice Music and released their first official commercial work, the mini-album "Orange Ball" which contained the single "Michishirube" which peaked at #250 on the Oricon charts. ^[4] It was around this time that the band finally left their home of Okinawa and began touring across the country and opening for various Japanese acts such as Do As Infinity. GLAY （グレイ） is a popular Japanese rock (or J-Rock ) band, comprised of four main members--Takuro, Hisashi, Teru, and Jiro--and a changing cast of support musicians. ... Mr. ... Oricon ), also known as Oricon Style, is a Japanese company which provides music industry-related information. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

2003

In June 2003, the band signed with Sony Music and released their first wide release single, Kirikirimai. The single only had a moderate amount of sales and peaked at #50 on the mainstream Oricon charts.^[5] The very next month though, any doubts of Orange Range being able to make it to the "big time" in the Japanese music scene were dashed when they released their second single, Shanghai Honey, the single peaked at #5 on the Oricon charts. This was seen as a large feat for the band as the single had almost no promotion due to the low sales of Kirikirimai. ^[6]

The band then released two more singles, Viva★Rock in which the title song was used as the third ending to the anime Naruto, and Rakuyou which was used as commercial song for Daiichi Kosho Mero Dam. "1st CONTACT", the band's first full album was then released in late 2003. It entered the charts at #2 and was only able to stay there for a single week. The album's sales dropped by nearly double in the time frame of a month. Even with the low sales, the album became the 15th highest selling album of 2004. ^[7] Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump Shonen Jump BANZAI! Shonen Jump Weekly Comic Original run November 1999 – Ongoing No. ...

2004

In the time following their first album, the band rereleased Michishirube and Kiririmai. Michishirube was used as the ending theme to the popular J-Drama, Fire Boys ~Megumi no Daigo~, this version of the single went straight to #1 on the Oricon charts. ^[8] It marked the first single from the band that was able to reach the coveted spot on the charts. The band's next single was Locolotion, which rocked the group with plagiarism controversy and accusations. ^[9] Even with what was seen as "bad media light" for the band, the single still reached the #1 spot, as would their next seven singles. Making Orange Range the band to have the single most amounts of consecutive number one singles since the start of the new millennium.

The band's 8th single, Hana, went on to become the highest selling single from the band, to date the single has sold nearly 800,000 copies. This single also went on to become the number four highest selling single of 2004 and was able to stay on the Oricon charts for nearly 50 weeks. ^[10] Their second album, MusiQ, debuted at the #2 spot on the Oricon charts. It only stayed at the spot for one week though, its second week saw the album climb to the number one spot. This would go on to become Orange Range's best selling album, claiming the number one spot for 2005. ^[11]

2005

The band's next single, Asterisk, was used as the first opening theme to the anime Bleach and went straight to #1 on the charts and has been able to stay in the top 20 for 22 weeks so far. Because it was released in late 2005, it was counted as a 2005 album, often album sales for albums released late in the year are counted for next year's charts. Asterisk, however, was counted in both 2005 and 2006. The album's chart run ended with over 900,000 sales and was the 11th highest selling album of 2005.^[12] Bleach (ブリーチ) is a manga and anime series by Tite Kubo (久保 帯人 Kubo Taito), mangaka of Zombie Powder. ...

The band then somewhat slowed down as they had what many fans called a "face change". This was due to the fact that founding member, Kitao Kazuhito, left the band in the middle of 2005. At first it was reported by the Japanese media that he left the band due to tendinitis that had increased in severity. It was later revealed that he left the band due to "creative differences", it was said that Kazuhito did not like that the band was moving more and more to hip-hop and away from rock. As of December 2006, the band has yet to find a replacement member. Tendonitis (also tenonitis or tendinitis) is an inflammation of a tendon. ...

2006

The band finally returned to the studio and release their first single of 2006, Champione, in mid 2006. The single became the official song of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Un Rock Star, the band's next single, would break the string of consecutive number one singles. The single debuted at number 3 and has stayed there ever since. Although it should be noted that this was a limited released single, only having 100,000 copies made.^[13] This article is about world cups in general. ...

The band's 16th single is titled "Sayonara", contrary to rumors of this being the band's final single, this is supposed to mark the second phase of the band's life, thus they are saying goodbye to the first phase. Sayonara was used as the TBS drama Teppan Shoujo Akane!!'s theme song.^[14] In addition, the band has also created new songs with commercial tie-ins, one titled "Dance Dance" to be used in a Pocky advertisement and the other called "Hello," which will be used by the Disney Channel. Currently the band is in the middle of their largest tour yet, 47 venues in just under four months. When the band is finished with the tour, they will return to the studios to begin work on their fourth original album and fifth album overall. Sayonara is the 16th single from the Japanese band Orange Range. ... Image:Tokyo Broadcasting System(年末瑞穂第一小学校) in Akasaka . ... Pocky logo American Pocky Pocky ) (Japanese pronunciation IPA: /pokːiː/)   is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan. ... For Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel around the world. ...

Their fourth album, the self titled "Orange Range" was released on December 6th, 2006, it contained 17 tracks, three re-releases and 14 new tracks. Even with a #2 peak, this was the band's lowest charting album in four years, as well as their lowest selling album to date. ^[15]

Orange Range performed at "Music Station Super Live 2006" on December 22nd. Music Station is a long-running Japanese music television program that holds a "Super Live" extended edition to celebrate Christmas and the end of the year every December. This was the second year in a row that Orange Range was invited back. MUSIC STATION ) is a long-running Japanese music television program. ...

2007

Their 17th single, Ika Summer, was released in April and had a weekly peak of #3 on Oricon. This was the band's lowest selling and charting single in years, only staying in the top five for one week. ^[16]

July 2007 will see three major releases from Orange Range. To celebrate their 5th anniversary, the band will release two separate best albums in July entitled Orange and Range, each containing a different selection of their hit singles and popular album tracks. Their next single, Ikenai Taiyou, was used as the opening theme to the J-Drama adaptation of the popular manga series Hana-Kimi. Ikenai Taiyou would go on to have to obtain the #3 spot on Oricon in its first week, obtaining the band's highest sales in a year. Hana-Kimi, known in Japan as Hanazakari no Kimi-tachi e (花ざかりの君たちへ) is a shōjo manga series written by Hisaya Nakajo. ...

On the first day of their release, Orange and Range would respectively go on to obtain the top two spots on the Oricon charts and the same spots on the weekly charts. Two weeks later the albums would go on to obtain the top two spots in the United World Music charts.^{[17] [18]}

Members

Current

• Naoto Hiroyama - guitar (born May 8, 1983)
• Ryo Miyamori - low vocals (born October 1, 1985)
• Yamato Ganeko - high vocals (born January 14, 1984)
• Yoh Miyamori - bass (born December 11, 1983)
• Hiroki Hokama - mid-range vocals (born June 29, 1983)

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• Kitao Kazuhito "Katchan" - drums (born June 19, 1983) (Left the band due to tendinitis on his left little finger around the end of July, 2005, though his illness was apparently not the direct cause of his decision to leave)

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Discography

Albums

• December 17, 2003 1st Contact #2 690,282
• December 1, 2004 musiQ #1 2,630,763
• October 12, 2005 ИATURAL #1 919,650
• April 12, 2006 Squeezed (Remix Album)
• December 6, 2006 ORANGE RANGE #2 347,832
• July 25, 2007 ORANGE (Best Album) #2 210,804
• July 25, 2007 RANGE (Best Album) #1 214,149

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Independent Albums

• April 21, 2002 Orange Ball (オレンジボール) Okinawa-only release
• February 22, 2002 Orange Ball (オレンジボール) Nation-wide release

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Singles

• August 25, 2002 Michishirube (ミチシルベ) (Indies)
• June 4, 2003 Kirikirimai (キリキリマイ)
• July 16, 2003 Shanghai Honey (上海ハニー) 222 385 copies sold
• October 22, 2003 Viva Rock (ビバ★ロック)
• November 27, 2003 Rakuyou (落陽)
• February 25, 2004 Michishirube ~a road home~ (ミチシルベ～a road home～) 278 193 copies sold
• June 9, 2004 Locolotion (ロコローション) 487 267 copies sold
• August 25, 2004 Chest (チェスト) 116 206 copies sold
• October 20, 2004 Hana (花) 999 322 copies sold
• February 23, 2005 * ~Asterisk~ (＊~アスタリスク~) 628 329 copies sold
• May 25, 2005 Love Parade (ラヴ・パレード) 447 393 copies sold
• June 8, 2005 Onegai! Señorita (お願い！セニョリータ) 417 464 copies sold
• August 24, 2005 Kizuna (キズナ) 410 924 copies sold
• May 10, 2006 Champione (チャンピオーネ) 220 955 copies sold
• August 30, 2006 Un Rock Star 79 683 copies sold
• October 25, 2006 Sayonara 102 737 copies sold
• April 25, 2007 Ika Summer (イカSUMMER)
• July 18, 2007 Ikenai Taiyou (イケナイ太陽)
• February 11, 2008 Untitled Single

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DVDs

• July 28, 2004 Video la Contact (ヴィデオ・ラ・コンタクト)
• April 27, 2005 Video de Recital (ヴィデヲ・DE・リサイタル)
• December 21, 2005 Live musiQ - from LIVE TOUR 005 "musiQ" at MAKUHARI MESSE 2005.04.01
• September 20, 2006 Live NATURAL - from Live Tour 005 "NATURAL" at Yokohama Arena 2005.12.13

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References

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External links

• Orange Range's official website (Japanese)