Morning Musume ’17 will release their new album 15 Thank you, too on December 6th.
As its title indicates, this is the 15th regular album of the idol group.
This album is the first by the idol group for 3 years, the first with the members of the 12th, 13th and 14th generations (integrated respectively in January 2015, January and June 2017) and the last with Kudo Haruka who will gradauate from Morning Musume ’17 in mid-December.
This is a first time for the group!
The original members of Morning Musume met (eighteen years later) to perform a new version of their first single, Ai no Tane (愛の種 ; seeds of love), with current members of Morning Musume. ’17. This new version is titled Ai no Tane (20th Anniversary Ver.) and will be released on November 3, 2017, in digital format, on iTunes.
This special sub-unit is named « Morning Musume. 20th », to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this song and the group.
Morning Musume ’17 announced that they will hold a special concert to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the idol group.
Though this announcement was made in early August ; the concert will take place on September 14 at Shinkiba STUDIO COAST.
For this concert, the fans could vote for their favorite songs of Morning Musume and the combination of members that they want to perform these songs ; the voting period ran until August 14, and tickets went on sale on August 19.