Ya-ya-yah
Group · Japan · Japan · formed 2001
music Group
Timeline
2000s
· Member joins
八乙女光 joins the band
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· Member leaves
八乙女光 leaves the band
source: musicbrainz
Biography
Biography
Ya-Ya-yah is a former Johnny's Jr. group from Johnny & Associates.
History
The group was formed in 2001. On May 15, 2002, the group released double A-side single "Yūki 100%/Sekai ga Hitotsu ni Narumade." The single debuted at #9 on the Oricon charts. On September 24, 2007, members Kota Yabu and Hikaru Yaotome debuted under Hey! Say! JUMP. As of November 30, 2007 after the resignation of Taiyo Ayukawa from Johnny & Associates, Ya-Ya-yah has been removed from the Johnny & Associates official line-up. In 2010, the remaining previous Ya-Ya-yah member Shoon Yamashita, resigned from the company.
Former members
Y Kota Yabu (Left in 2007, debuted under Hey! Say! JUMP)
Y Hikaru Yaotome (Left in 2007, debuted under Hey! Say! JUMP)
A Naoya Akama (Left in 2004)
Y Shoon Yamashita (Resigned in 2010)
A Taiyo Ayukawa (Left in 2007, resigned)
Y Yuuki Yoshida (Left in 2002)
A Yasuhiro Ando (Left in 2002)
H Masaki Hoshino (Left in 2004)
Single
Yuuki 100% (by Yabu, Akama, Yamashita, Ayukawa, and Hoshino)
Television
Ya-Ya-yah Archived 2007-01-02 at the Wayback Machine (Hatena Vision Channel)
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 | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 25 | 55.9th |
| 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 Ya-ya-yah head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | 25 | 55.9th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 八乙女光 | 2003 | 2007 |
Where this record comes from
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3276677genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3276677seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya-ya-yahbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya-ya-yah
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: Q3276677 · MusicBrainz: 2dc40af7-0886-4f8f-a94d-4e44e7736fbb
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