KinKi Kids

KinKi Kids are a Japanese J-pop duo created by Johnny & Associates in 1993. Consisting of singers Koichi and Tsuyoshi Domoto, the group holds the Guinness World record for most consecutive Number 1 singles in their native Japan between 1997 and 2020. Unlike other idol groups, KinKi Kids write and compose most of their music. After meeting at a Hikaru Genji concert at Yokohama Arena in 1991, the duo started off as backup dancers for boy band SMAP and starred in several TV dramas before making their debut with A Album in 1997, which topped the Oricon charts and sold over a million copies. The following year, KinKi Kids teamed up with labelmates V6 and TOKIO to form the charity-oriented supergroup J-FRIENDS, collaborating with the likes of Elton John, Bon Jovi, and Michael Jackson. The success of their studio debut quickly snowballed into a handful of chart-topping releases that would further consolidate their status as major players in the J-pop scene, including B Album (1998), C Album (1999), D Album (2000), and E Album (2001). The group spent the following years touring relentlessly throughout Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong while delivering an impressive streak of number 1 albums such as G Album: 24/7 (2003), H Album: Hand (2005), Phi (2007), J Album (2009), and K Album (2011), all of which also achieved pole position in Taiwan. In line with their previous releases, the album names kept coming in ascending order and so did the success—L Album (2013), M Album (2014), N Album (2016), and O Album (2020) all reached number 1 in Japan and helped the band break new records along the way. In 2021, the single “Am/Pere” peaked at number 2 on Billboard Japan’s Top 100. In 2022, KinKi Kids celebrated their 25th anniversary by releasing the singles "Koujundo Romance" and "Amazing Love," both of which hit the top of the Japanese charts. P Album, their seventeenth studio album, debuted atop the Oricon charts in December 2023.

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