Morning Musume

Morning Musume (???????) is an ultra-commercialized all-girl J-Pop group from Japan that constantly changes its members. It is also known as "Momusu" (????). Their act revolves around singing and dancing to generally upbeat melodies.

Auditions

Morning Musume Tsuika Audition (2nd Generation Audition)

• Application Requirements: Not specified
• Total Applicants: 5,000
• Broadcasted on Asayan in 1998
• No training camp and theme song

Morning Musume 2nd Tsuika Audition (3rd Generation Audition)

• Application Requirements: Female, minimum of 7th grade student
• Total Applicants: 11,000
• Broadcasted on Asayan in 1999
• Training camp, theme song: Summer Night Town (Morning Musume 2nd single)
• Kumi Koda (????) participated in this audition

Morning Musume 3rd Tsuika Audition (4th Generation Audition)

• Application Requirements: Female, minimum of 7th grade student
• Total Applicants: 25,000
• Broadcasted on Asayan in 2000
• Training camp, theme song: Akai nikkichou (Akagumi 4's single)
• Miki Fujimoto (????) and Mai Satoda (????) participated in this audition

Morning Musume Love Audition 21 (5th Generation Audition)

• Application Requirements: Female, minimum of 7th grade student
• Total Applicants: 25,827
• Broadcasted on muSix! in 2001
• Training camp, theme song: LOVE namida iro (Aya Matsuura's single)

Morning Musume Love Audition 2002 (6th Generation Audition)

• Application Requirements: Female, 7th-12th grade
• Application Song: Do it! Now
• Total Applicants: 12,417
• Broadcasted on muSix! in 2002
• Training camp, theme song: Akai freesia (Melon Kinenbi's 8th single)

Morning Musume Lucky 7 Audition (7th Generation Audition)

• Application Requirements: Female, minimum of 9th grade and under 20 years of age
• Application Song theme: A capella
• Total Applicants: N/A
• Training camp and theme song: Haru no Uta (from Morning Musume's 6th album, Ai no dairokkan)
• Broadcasted on Hello! Morning starting September, 2004. Audition result aired on January 9th, 2005
• Result: NO ADDITIONAL MEMBERS

Morning Musume Audition 2005 (7th Generation Audition)

• Application Requirements: Female, minimum of 9th grade and under 22 years of age
• Total Applicants: 21,611
• No training camp and theme song
• Broadcasted on Hello! Morning starting February 9th, 2005. Audition result aired on May 1st, 2005
• Result: Koharu Kusumi (????) passed the audition