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Hello! Project group Juice=Juice has been racking up appearances on major Japanese music programs — from the year-end countdown special straight through to Music Station and CDTV Live! Live! — sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Commenters praised the streak with remarks like “They’ve officially made it” and “Impressive that it’s all major shows,” while others speculated about the group’s internal pecking order and possible PR strategies behind the bookings.
What people said
Mar 1 (Sun) — BS-TBS "All That Music ~A Love Song For You~" (Danbara)
Mar 14 (Sat) — Yomiuri TV "Ontogaku√ 1-Hour Special" (full group)
That's just seniority-based ranking though
My guess is they'll air a one-song digest from the 9/11 live show
The preview, I mean
Too pathetic lol
Probably they're just busy with live shows and not actually being passed over — still getting invited constantly
Someone should at least whip out a nose-recorder trick or something (a classic dumb comedy bit — playing a recorder through the nose)
A joke the old-timer worked hard to come up with
4. Buzz Rhythm 02
5. Music Station
6. CDTV Live! Live!
7. TV Tokyo Music Festival
8. FNS Music Festival
For a group as high-level as Juice=Juice, the numbers only need to serve as a foothold to break into the mainstream — after that it's all trust
But let's be real, this situation isn't normal
Then why are you even in this thread
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Background and Key Points
Juice=Juice is one of the current subgroups under Hello! Project (H!P), the Up-Front Group idol umbrella whose flagship act is Morning Musume; Juice=Juice debuted in 2013 and sits alongside groups like Angerme and Morning Musume in H!P’s internal roster. The shows named in the thread are not interchangeable: Music Station (TV Asahi) and CDTV Live! Live! (TBS) are the two biggest weekly music broadcasts in Japan, alongside year-end events like FNS Music Festival and Best Hit Kayousai — slots overwhelmingly reserved for major-label pop and rock acts, not niche idol groups. That’s distinct from the smaller BS-TBS or regional programs also listed, which carry far less prestige. Landing seven straight months on the big broadcasts is unusual for any H!P unit.
The thread’s actual disagreement isn’t over whether the streak happened, but over what it means. Some posters read it as proof Juice=Juice has overtaken Morning Musume and Angerme in H!P’s informal pecking order; others push back that the ranking is seniority-based (tied to debut order), not a merit ranking that TV bookings could ever move, and a few dismiss the whole “pecking order” framing as pointless squabbling.
What the thread leaves unstated is how these bookings actually get decided: as one poster notes, producers often don’t scrutinize streaming or chart numbers closely — repeat bookings tend to reflect accumulated trust with a network built over prior appearances, not a live popularity contest, and clustering slots in one stretch (rather than spacing them out) simply reads as more impressive than it mechanically is.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Shocking] Juice=Juice has been appearing on music shows for 7 straight months since March 2026 lolololololololololololololololol.”
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