Every Little Thing
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- This article is about Every Little Thing, the Japanese band. For the song by the Beatles, see Every Little Thing (song).
Template:Unreferenced Template:Infobox band Template:Nihongo, is a J-pop and soft rock duo from Japan who debuted in August 1996 with the release of their first single called "Feel My Heart". Also known as ELT by their Japanese fans. Every Little Thing went from being a group of two men and a woman, to a man and a woman, Kaori Mochida (vocals, song writing) and Ichirō Itō (guitar, composing, arrangements, etc). Mitsuru Igarashi, ex-member of the band, went solo in 2000 to produce another bands like the old dream and the now disbanded band day after tomorrow, which was criticized for sounding too much like the early Every Little Thing.
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Members
- Template:Nihongo (Born March 24, 1978) - vocals, song writing
- Template:Nihongo (Born November 10, 1967) - guitarrist, composer, arranger
- Template:Nihongo (Born May 17, 1969) - keyboardist, producer (Left the band in 2000)
Biography
The group was created by Mitsuru Igarashi in 1996. Igarashi was a producer at the label Avex Trax at that time and he was looking for a girl for a new duo with him as the keyboardist. He listened to a demo tape from Kaori Mochida, whom at that time was a young girl trying to get a music contract after she went solo from her group called The Kuro Buta All-Stars (a group with many girls similar to Morning Musume). She was still in school at that point of time.
Igarashi was speechless after listening Kaori, impressed by her strong and sweet voice at the same time. He asked her to being part of a new band, and she accepted. Igarashi had a friend who played the guitar really well, Ichiro Ito, and Igarashi asked him to help in the first single of the duo called "Feel My Heart", written, composed, produced and arranged by Igarashi himself, and Ito agreed to help his friend; after "Feel My Heart" did so well at the charts and the group was gaining popularity, Itō finally decided to stay permanently in the group with Mochida and Igarashi.
Their first studio album, called "Everlasting" was a big success, selling early two million copies in Japan, and marking ELT as a popular group that was about stay for a long time in the public eye. The band reached the first at the Oricon charts for the first time with their fourth single, "For The Moment".
Image:Every little thing.jpg The second studio album of the band, entitled "Time to Destination", released in 1998, was one of the best-selling albums of that year, and is still the best-selling album of the band even now. This album also included their best-selling single, "Time goes by", which was a ballad tune.
At the release of the third studio album of the band, "Eternity", released in 2000, Mitsuru Igarashi decided to leave the band to produce other artists inside Avex, and since then, Every Little Thing was known as a duo (like was planned by Igarashi at the beginning). From that time and marked since the release of their 16th single released, "Ai no kakera", ELT has transitioned their style from synthesized pop-rock to a more acoustic soft rock sound. The single "Sure", which was the last song that Igarashi participated in, was the first song that marked the transition, with "Ai no kakera" marking it definitely. Their single "fragile" later released January 1 2001 became a massive hit single, becoming one of ELT's greatest hits from all time, selling approximately 829,580 copies in 2001.
In 2002 the band was highly criticized because of Kaori's vocal technique, which has changed a lot, for some people she started from singing amazingly to singing like a 10 year-old kid. But her vocal technique has changed to better fit the style of their recent soft music, and in general the fans accepted the change. Template:Citation needed Image:ELT2.jpg Their latest album from 2004, "commonplace", which is mainly based on ballads and acoustic songs, is the album with the poorest sales of the band, with only 313,000 copies sold. ELT's popularity has declined over the years, but although many of similar bands like My Little Lover, Day After Tomorrow and Do As Infinity had disbanded, Kaori and Ichirō are one of the few old bands that are still together, along with globe. In November 2004 the duo released their single "Koibumi / Good Night", and was a surprise for everybody, because it did pretty well at the charts, selling more than many of their previous singles. Partly because the 2nd song, good night, was the theme song for the game Tales Of Rebirth
Every Little Thing hasn't release so many stuff lately, releasing two singles through 2004, and just one single in 2005, the soft rock "Kimi no te", and the acoustic compilation album "ACOUSTIC:LATTE".
In 2006 after the release of their single "azure moon", the band will be celebrating their 30th single aniversary in May.
Discography
Albums
| # | Cover | Information | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Image:ELT Everlasting.jpg | everlasting | 1,922,160 copies sold |
| 1st Remix Album | Image:ELT TheRemixes.jpg | THE REMIXES
| 647,020 copies sold |
| 2nd | Image:ELT TimeToDestination.jpg | Time to Destination | 3,520,330 copies sold |
| 2nd Remix Album | Image:Nocover.gif | THE REMIXES Ⅱ
| 299,380 copies sold |
| 1st Best Of Album | Image:Every Best Single3.jpg | [[Every Best Single +3]] | 2,556,314 copies sold |
| 3rd | Image:ELT Eternity.jpg | eternity | 966,710 copies sold |
| 4th | Image:ELT 4Force.jpg | 4 FORCE | 847,330 copies sold |
| 2nd Best Of Album | Image:Nocover.gif | Every Ballad Songs
| 493,530 copies sold |
| 3rd Remix Album | Image:Nocover.gif | SUPER EUROBEAT presents Euro Every Little Thing
| 202,650 copies sold |
| 4th Remix Album | Image:Nocover.gif | The Remixes Ⅲ ~Mix Rice Plantation~
| 35,070 copies sold |
| 5th Remix Album | Image:ELT Trance.jpg | Cyber TRANCE presents ELT TRANCE
| 61,870 copies sold |
| 5th | Image:ELT ManyPieces.jpg | Many Pieces | 526,542 copies sold |
| 3rd Best Of Album | Image:Every Best Single2.jpg | Every Best Single 2
| 712,460 copies sold |
| 6th | Image:ELT Commonplace.jpg | commonplace | 313,647 copies sold |
| 1st Acoustic Album | Image:Nocover.gif | ACOUSTIC:LATTE
| 136,553 copies sold |
Singles
- Feel My Heart, August 7, 1996 — #24 129,120 copies sold
- Future World, October 23, 1996 — #20 110,050 copies sold
- Dear My Friend, January 22, 1997 — #9 488,890 copies sold
- For the moment, June 4, 1997 — #1 688,270 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, August 6, 1997 — #3 602,830 copies sold
- Shapes Of Love / Never stop!, October 22, 1997 — #3 526,130 copies sold
- Face the change, January 7, 1998 — #1 633,970 copies sold
- Time goes by, February 11, 1998 — #2 1,149,600 copies sold
- FOREVER YOURS, June 17, 1998 — #1 475,470 copies sold
- NECESSARY, September 30, 1998 — #2 233,910 copies sold
- Over and Over, January 27, 1999 — #4 314,600 copies sold
- Someday,Someplace, March 3, 1999 — #4 183,840 copies sold
- Pray / Get Into A Groove, January 1, 2000 — #2 407,030 copies sold
- sure, February 16, 2000 — #3 250,660 copies sold
- Rescue me / Smile Again, June 14, 2000 — #2 99,280 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, October 18, 2000 — #2 206,360 copies sold
- fragile / JIRENMA, January 1, 2001 — #1 834,020 copies sold
- Graceful World, February 21, 2001 — #5 194,400 copies sold
- jump, October 17, 2001 — #7 107,240 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, May 15, 2002 — #4 136,970 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, August 16, 2002 — #5 77,130 copies sold
- UNTITLED 4 ballads, December 18, 2002 — #1 369,674 copies sold
- Grip!, March 12, 2003 — #7 65,037 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, July 30, 2003 — #9 55,914 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, November 12, 2003 — #3 181,426 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, February 25, 2004 — #8 48,019 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, December 15, 2004 — #1 156,512 copies sold
- Template:Nihongo, October 26, 2005 — #2 74,857 copies sold
- azure moon, March 15, 2006 — #12 17,212 copies sold
- Title to be determinated, May 10, 2006
- SACD
Vinyls Sets
- The REMIXES Analog Box Set, December 19, 1997
- The REMIXES II ANALOG SET, June 16, 1999
DVD
- DVD Video
- THE VIDEO COMPILATION, March 29, 2000
- concert tour '98, March 29, 2000
- Concert Tour Spirit 2000, August 30, 2000
- Template:Nihongo, January, 31, 2001
- The Video Compilation II, March 7, 2001
- fragile ~ Graceful World, March 28, 2001
- Concert Tour Spirit 2001 4 FORCE, September 27, 2001
- The Video Compilation I & II, March 13, 2002
- BEST CLIPS, December 11, 2002
- nostalgia, January 29, 2003
- THE VIDEO COMPILATION III, April 16, 2003
- 2003 tour MANY PIECES, December 3, 2003
- commonplace tour 2004~2005, March 24, 2005
- DVD-Audio
- Every Best Single +3, January 28, 2004
- Template:Nihongo, December 15, 2004
External links
- Every Little Thing Official Website
- Nippop Profile | Every Little Thing
- Template:Musicbrainz artistca:Every Little Thing
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