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===Albums===
===Albums===
*Studio
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#'''[[Everlasting]]''', [[April 9]], [[1997]]
#'''[[Everlasting_(album)|Everlasting]]''', [[April 9]], [[1997]]
#'''[[Time to Destination]]''', [[April 15]], [[1998]]
#'''[[Time to Destination]]''', [[April 15]], [[1998]]
#'''[[Eternity (Every Little Thing album)|eternity]]''', [[March 15]], [[2000]]
#'''[[Eternity (Every Little Thing album)|eternity]]''', [[March 15]], [[2000]]

Revision as of 18:27, 22 March 2006

This article is about Every Little Thing, the Japanese band. For the song by the Beatles, see Every Little Thing (song).
Every Little Thing
Kaori Mochida and Ichiro Ito
Every Little Thing from their latest single "azure moon"
Background information
Years active1996 – Present
MembersKaori Mochida, Ichirō Itō
Past membersMitsuru Igarashi

Every Little Thing (エヴリ・リトル・シング), 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.

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, Ichirō Itō, 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 Itō 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".

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The old Every Little Thing

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. It's an obvious thing that the ballads are ELT's best shots. The ballad single "Fragile", which was released later in 2001, also became one of the huge hits of the band.

At the release of the third studio album of the band, "Eternity", released in 2000, Mitsuru Igarashi decided to leave the band, and since then, Every Little Thing was known as a duo (like was planned by Igarashi at the beginning). Since Igarashi left the band, ELT has transitioned their style from synthesized pop-rock to a more acoustic feeling soft rock, and with the departure of producer/songwriter Igarashi. The single "Sure", which was the last song that Igarashi participated in, was the first song that marked the transition. Also, Kaori Mochida's vocal technique has changed to better fit the style of their music.

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The current Every Little Thing

ELT's popularity has declined over the years, and 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. 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.

Recently ELT is going only for soft tunes, releasing althrough 2005 and 2006 one acoustic album, the soft rock single "Kimi no te", and the expected release for February, the ballad-tune "Azure Moon".

Discography

Albums

  • Studio
  1. Everlasting, April 9, 1997
  2. Time to Destination, April 15, 1998
  3. eternity, March 15, 2000
  4. 4 FORCE, March 22, 2001
  5. Many Pieces, March 19, 2003
  6. commonplace, March 3, 2004

Singles

  1. Feel My Heart, August 7, 1996 — #24
  2. Future World, October 23, 1996 — #20
  3. Dear My Friend, January 22, 1997 — #9
  4. For the moment, June 4, 1997 — #1
  5. Deatta koro no you ni (出逢った頃のように), August 6, 1997 — #3
  6. Shapes Of Love / Never stop!, October 22, 1997 — #3
  7. Face the change, January 7, 1998 — #1
  8. Time goes by, February 11, 1998 — #2
  9. FOREVER YOURS, June 17, 1998 — #1
  10. NECESSARY, September 30, 1998 — #2
  11. Over and Over, January 27, 1999 — #4
  12. Someday,Someplace, March 3, 1999 — #4
  13. Pray / Get Into A Groove, January 1, 2000 — #2
  14. sure, February 16, 2000 — #3
  15. Rescue me / Smile Again, June 14, 2000 — #2
  16. Ai no Kakera (愛のカケラ), October 18, 2000 — #2
  17. fragile / JIRENMA, January 1, 2001 — #1
  18. Graceful World, February 21, 2001 — #5
  19. jump, October 17, 2001 — #7
  20. KIWOKU (キヲク), May 15, 2002 — #4
  21. Sasayaka na Inori (ささやかな祈り), August 16, 2002 — #5
  22. UNTITLED 4 ballads, December 18, 2002 — #1
  23. Grip!, March 12, 2003 — #7
  24. FUNDAMENTAL LOVE (ファンダメンタル・ラブ), July 30, 2003 — #9
  25. Mata Ashita (また あした), November 12, 2003 — #3
  26. SORAAI (ソラアイ), February 25, 2004 — #8
  27. Koibumi / good night (恋文 / good night), December 15, 2004 — #1
  28. Kimi no te (きみの て), October 26, 2005 — #2
  29. azure moon, March 15, 2006 — #12 17,212 copies sold
  30. Title to be determinated, May 10, 2006

Vinyls Sets

DVD

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