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Anly is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter from Ie, Okinawa. She started playing the guitar at six years old, and started writing music in junior high school. In high school, she played live at various locations in Okinawa and Tokyo, allowing her to release two indie singles in 2015 before being signed to Sony Music Records. She released her debut single "Taiyō ni Warae" in 2015 and her debut album Anly One in 2017.

ChouCho (ちょうちょ, Chōcho, lit. "Butterfly", born June 21) is a Japanese female singer from Osaka Prefecture and is signed to Lantis.

ChouCho initially formed the band Lotus Lotus in 2007 when still in high school and performed covers of songs from anime. Starting in June 2008, ChouCho began submitting videos of her singing on the Nico Nico Douga video sharing website. On July 27, 2011, she made her major debut with her single "Kawaru Mirai" (カワルミライ, lit. "Changing Future"), which is used as the opening theme to the 2011 anime Heaven's Memo Pad. Her second single "Authentic symphony" was released on October 26, 2011 and is used as the opening theme to the 2011 anime Mashiroiro Symphony. In August 2011, she released the album Lapis with the producer Junky. ChouCho's third single "Harmonia" (ハルモニア) was released on November 23, 2011 and is used as the ending theme to the 2011 original video animation series The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. Her fourth single "Million of Bravery" was released on March 21, 2012 and is used as the theme song to the 2012 video game Kaku-San-Sei Million Arthur.

Little Glee Monster is a Japanese girl vocal group, formed in 2013. The group currently consists of Asahi Kobayashi, Mayu Yoshida, Karen Koga, Mika Fujihira, Yumi Nagai, and Kamala Miyu Aida. They were signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan and released their debut single “Houkago High Five” in 2014. Their fifth album, Flava, is their most successful album, peaking at number one on both Oricon and Japan's Billboard charts, and certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for sales of 100,000. In 2018, they won an award at the 2018 MTV Europe Music Awards for Best Japanese Act. In July 2022, following the extended absence and ultimate resignation of two original members for health reasons, Watanabe Entertainment and Sony Music jointly established the "Monster Groove Lab" to audition new members. From the audition process, three new singers joined in November 2022.

Nogizaka46 (乃木坂46, Nogizaka Forty-six) is a Japanese female idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto, built as the official rival (公式ライバル, kōshiki raibaru) of the group AKB48.

Nogizaka46 was named after the location of the SME Nogizaka Building, which houses Sony Music Japan’s office and it was also named after Nogizaka Station. Their producer Yasushi Akimoto also said that the number "46" was chosen as a direct challenge to AKB48.

On August 21, 2015, their associated group Keyakizaka46 was established.

In 2018, the group has sold over 16 million copies of CD from Japan.

The formation of Nogizaka46 was first announced on June 29, 2011, when it became the first group to be labelled as the "official rival" to the group AKB48. This is unlike other groups related to AKB48, like NMB48 and SKE48, because these groups are created as AKB48's sister groups. Even their name "Nogizaka46" also carries the meaning that "even with fewer members than AKB48, we won’t lose". To differentiate the group from the 48 groups, the image of Nogizaka46 is based on the Japanese people's perception of a private all-girls high school student in France, which carries the connotations of "elegant and refined".

Garnidelia (ガルニデリア) is a Japanese pop rock duo, consisting of singer Mai Mizuhashi, better known by her stage name MARiA and Vocaloid record producer Yoshinori Abe , better known by his stage name toku.

Miwa is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single "Don't Cry Anymore", which was used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta hi.

E-girls was a Japanese collective girl group created and managed by LDH while signed to music label Rhythm Zone from Avex. As of 2017, the band consisted of 11 members; 8 of which featured members of groups Happiness and Flower. Created as a sister act to boy band Exile, E-girls debuted in 2011 with their single "Celebration". After a string of promotional recordings, E-girls released their debut record Lesson 1 two years later. In 2013, their single "Gomennasai no Kissing You" catapulted the girls into commercial success, selling over 100,000 units, and its parent album Colorful Pop (2014), was met with positive reviews and high performance on the Oricon Albums Chart.

Goose house（グース ハウス）は、日本の音楽のグループ及びグループの活動拠点であるシェアハウスの名前。元々は個々で活動していたシンガーソングライター、異なるミュージシャン同士が「ハウス」と呼んでいるシェアハウスの一室に集まって音楽活動を行っていた。

ソニー・ウォークマンのPR企画「PlayYou.House」の後身。「Play You.House」の番組終了後、ひき続き「Goose house」に名称を変えて番組制作を続け、YouTube、ライブ公演などを展開していた。

活動開始時は普段からユニットとして活動しているわけではなく、個々に活動しているシンガーソングライターが東京都内に実在するシェアハウスに集まり曲の制作を行っていたが、次第にグループまたはグループの一員としての活動が中心となっていった。メンバーのことはユニット名の「ハウス」になぞらえて「住人」と呼ぶ場合もある。また、グループを卒業することも「退室」「家出」「巣立ち」などと表現することもある。なお、Goose houseのメンバーは実際にシェアハウスをしている訳ではないが毎日ハウスに通い顔を合わせ、共同生活をしながら音楽活動を行っていた。

名前の由来は渡り鳥の雁で、「1羽ではできないことも群れでならできる」ということを期待して付けられた。

普通のアーティストがテレビなどのメディアを活動の場にするのに対して、Goose houseはインターネット上の動画配信サイト、UstreamやYouTubeを通じてオリジナル曲やカバー曲を配信している。また、Ustream放送中にもTwitterを通してファンとの交流をはかるなど、SNSなどのインターネット上を活動の拠点としていた。

Eir Aoi is a Japanese singer from Sapporo, Hokkaido, signed to Sacra Music. After being discovered through the Japanese video sharing website Niconico, Aoi made her major debut in 2011 with the release of her first single "Memoria", whose title track was used as the first ending theme to the 2011 anime television series Fate/Zero.

Sayuri (さユり) is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter.

In 6th grade, Sayuri was impressed by the fact that, despite being idols, Kanjani Eight formed a band. They inspired her to take up guitar as a hobby. Sayuri began composing music during her second year of junior high school, aspiring to the lyrics and songwriting of Kanjani Eight.

Afterwards, under the name Asuka, she joined an acoustic duo called LONGTAL based in Fukuoka, she started performing in the streets and live houses of places like Hiroshima, Osaka, and Nagoya. By this time, she had dropped out of high school.

In 2012, as part of LONGTAL, Sayuri was awarded the Grand Prix at the finals of the fifth Music Revolution, a competition sponsored by Yamaha Music. Afterwards, she became active as an indie artist. She adopted the name Sanketsu Shōjo Sayuri (酸欠少女さユり, lit. "Hypoxia Girl Sayuri") which is symbolic of her calling herself a 2.5-dimensional parallel singer-songwriter.

Risa Oribe , better known by her stage name LiSA, is a Japanese singer, songwriter and lyricist from Seki, Gifu, signed to Sacra Music under Sony Music Artists.

Flower was a Japanese pop girl group formed and managed by LDH from 2009 to 2019 and signed to the record label Sony Music Japan. They were a dance and vocal unit of collective girl group E-girls alongside Happiness, Dream and three other original E-girls members. The group consisted of one vocalist and four performers at the time of their disbandment.

Flower was formed firstly as a performance group, with LDH recruiting four EXPG (Exile Professional Gym) students: Elina Mizuno, Manami Shigetome, Mio Nakajima, and Shuuka Fujii in 2009. They began appearing in Exile music videos and started modeling, before gaining popularity as backup dancers on tour for Exile. On April 24, 2011, E-girls, (EXILE Girls) was formed as a joint project featuring Dream, Happiness, and Flower, but while the other two groups had vocalists, Flower only performed as a dance act at E-girls' shows, but in May 2011, vocalists were added.