19
Group · Japan · formed 1998
Japanese pop/folk music duo
Timeline
1990s
Biography
Biography
19 (ジューク, Jūku) was a Japanese pop/folk duo of Kenji Okahira and Keigo Iwase. It debuted in 1998 and broke up in March 2002. They had multiple albums and singles in the top ten on the Oricon charts.
Ohakira is now a member of the band 3B Lab.
Singles
'Ano Ao wo Koete' (21 November 1998)
'Ano Kamihikoki Kumori-zora Watte' (20 March 1999)
'Subete he ' (21 October 1999)
'Hate no nai Michi' (21 April 2000)
'Sui Riku Sora, Mugendai' (5 July 2000)
'Haikei Roman' (29 November 2000)
'Ashiato' (25 April 2001) (reached #2 on the Oricon charts, charted for 9 weeks)
Taisetsuna Hito (たいせつなひと; lit, Important Person) (22 August 2001) (reached #3 on the Oricon charts, charted for 8 weeks)
'Tanpopo' (21 March 2002) (reached #2 on the Oricon charts, charted for 7 weeks)
Albums
Ongaku (23 July 1999)
Mugendai (26 July 2000)
up to you (27 September 2001) (reached #2 on the Oricon charts, charted for 8 weeks)
19 BEST Haru (27 April 2002) (reached #5 on the Oricon charts, charted for 6 weeks)
19 BEST Ao (27 April 2002) (reached #3 on the Oricon charts, charted for 8 weeks)
19 BEST LIVE Audio use only (24 July 2002)
Video
Seireki Zenshin 2000nen "Daibakusin Eizo!" (23 March 2000)
19 LAST LIVE TV use only (24 July 2002)
19 VIDEO CLIPS 1>9 (21 August 2002)
DVD
Seireki Zenshin 2000nen "Daibakushin Eizo!" (6 December 2000)
19 LAST LIVE TV use only (24 July 2002)
19 VIDEO CLIPS 1>9 (21 August 2002)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 28 | 62th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put 19 head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 28 | 62th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385610genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385610seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_%28band%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_%28band%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of J-pop artists
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q385610 · MusicBrainz: 6df3b2b5-e1a5-497f-833f-d653dd5da6a7
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