Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Long Shot Party
Group · Japan · formed 1998
musical artist
Timeline
1 events◆ Formed 1
1990s
Biography
English biography111 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1322432688
Biography
Long Shot Party (often stylized as LONG SHOT PARTY) was a Japanese six-piece ska band, formed in Sendai, 1998.
They released their first mini-album titled Making Ourself Understood in our Sounds in January 2000. And then, in October 2002, their first full album Delta Force released on the Indie Label.
In October 2007, they signed with a major label, DefSTAR Records, and released their first major single, "Distance", in January 2008, which was used as the second opening theme for the anime series Naruto Shippuden. Their single "Ano Hi Time Machine" was an opening theme of the anime television series Zoku Natsume Yūjinchō. The band announced their disbandment in December 2010.
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 | 3 | 16th |
| 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 Long Shot Party head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| 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
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japan_Expo_2010_-_Concert_Long_Shot_Party_-_2010-07-03_-_P1460723.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3836640genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3836640seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Shot_Partybiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Shot_Party
Why this artist is in the database
- List of ska musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: yves Tennevin from La Garde, France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3836640 · MusicBrainz: 55ee34d0-4bbf-4d6d-ad26-457bde44adac
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