Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Ai Hashimoto
Person · female · Japan · Kumamoto · born 1996 · recording since 2021
Japanese model, actress, singer
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Also known as 橋本愛
Timeline
3 events◦ Birth 1✦ Award 1★ Debut release 1
1990s
2010s
2020s
· Debut release
Debut release: 木綿のハンカチーフ
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography183 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366008316
Biography
Ai Hashimoto (橋本 愛, Hashimoto Ai; born 12 January 1996) is a Japanese actress.
Early life and career
Hashimoto was born in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, the second of three daughters. In 2008, Hashimoto won the HUAHUA audition held by Newcome; her mother had chosen Hashimoto for the audition because she had the strongest facial complexion out of the three sisters.
In 2009, Hashimoto was selected as the youngest "Miss Seventeen" by fashion magazine Seventeen, alongside Emi Kudo, Arisa Takada and Alice Hirose, out of 5,267 applicants. The same year, she debuted as an actress in the movie Give and Go, portraying a deaf girl who is absorbed in basketball.
Hashimoto appeared in Confessions in 2010 and starred in The Kirishima Thing in 2012, for which she won new face awards from the Japan Academy and Kinema Junpo. She also appeared as Sadako in Sadako 3D.
In 2024, Hashimoto was appointed Jury member at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival for its section 'International competition'. On December 31, she left Sony Music Artists and transferred to the new agency Eden.
Dubbing
The Flash (Kara Zor-El / Supergirl (Sasha Calle))
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 | 19 | 79.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups)
Single · 2
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 木綿のハンカチーフSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 5:251木綿のハンカチーフ5:25 | 19 February 2021 | ||
| 2021 | 木綿のハンカチーフ - From THE FIRST TAKESearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 5:251木綿のハンカチーフ - From THE FIRST TAKE5:25 | 28 April 2021 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Ai Hashimoto head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 19 | 79.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hashimoto_Ai_as_Member_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854577159287%29.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3a666265-6a0f-4106-8834-fffd8cc5f337discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3a666265-6a0f-4106-8834-fffd8cc5f337core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4244195seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Hashimotobiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Hashimoto
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Japanese singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q4244195 · MusicBrainz: 3a666265-6a0f-4106-8834-fffd8cc5f337
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