| Cheeky Parade | |
| Alias: | Chikipa |
| Origin: | Japan |
| Genre: | J-pop |
| Years Active: | 2012 – 2018 |
| Label: | iDOL Street |
| Current Members: | Asami Watanabe Yūna Sekine Rino Shimazaki Yuriya Suzuki Marin Yamamoto Hina Nagai Mariya Suzuki |
| Past Members: | Seran Mizorogi Momoka Kodakari |
, also known as was a Japanese girl group formed by Avex Trax in 2011.[1]
Formed in 2012, Cheeky Parade is one of Japan's rising girl idol groups. Their unique style fuses Japanese Idol music with the seemingly limitless energy of the 9 girls that make up Cheeky Parade. The group's name fittingly represents both the girl's saucy attitude and the parade-like excitement they generate. Cheeky Parade is on the Avex idol label, “iDOL Street”, and debuted with their 1st single “BUNBUN NINE9’” in January 2013. Their 1st single ranked in at #4 on the Oricon weekly chart, and their 2nd single and 3rd singles, “C.P.U !?” and “Mugendai Shoujo” also made the top five, ranking in at #5 and #4 respectively. Cheeky Parade made history as the first Japanese act to ever perform at the CBGB Music & Film Festival.[2]
In October 2014, Cheeky Parade was invited to do a special live in New York City's Times Square. Recordings of the trip were featured in the music video for "CANDY POP GALAXY BOMB!!" including their live and appearance at New York Comic Con.
On 28 June 2016, Marin Yamamoto and Mariya Suzuki started a two-year hiatus with GEM member Maaya Takeda to study abroad in Los Angeles, California to study music and dance.[3]
In April 2017, Cheeky Parade performed a remix version of "Shout along!" at SXSW 2017 live from Tokyo via NTT Japan Factory's "cyber teleportation" technology. The performance could be found in iDOL Street's official YouTube channel.
On 19 May 2017, members Seran Mizorogi and Momoka Kodakari announced their departure from Cheeky Parade. Their last live with Cheeky Parade was held on 9 June 2017.
During January 2015, members Asami Watanabe, Seran Mizorogi, and Hina Nagai formed a subunit called NERFY GUINER BIEBER with Watanabe as WATANABE (ワタナベ), Mizorogi as ROGY (ロギー), and Nagai leading as GUINER (ガイナー).[4] The subunit performs as an opening act for Cheeky Parade. After Mizorogi's departure from Cheeky Parade in 2017, Rino Shimazaki joined the subunit as Motherky (マザーキー).
On April 12, 2018 Cheeky Parade announced they will disband on July 31, 2018. The group will hold their last concert as 7 members, with Marin Yamamoto and Mariya Suzuki returning from their hiatus to participate in the show.[5]
| Name | Nickname | Birth date | Age | Birthplace | Notes | |
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| 27 September 1994 | Tochigi Prefecture |
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| 28 September 1994 | Saitama Prefecture |
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| 15 May 1996 | Kanagawa Prefecture |
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| 28 August 1996 | Tokyo |
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| 11 June 1997 | Mie Prefecture |
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| 6 February 1998 | Tokyo |
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| 26 September 1999 | Tokyo |
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| Name | Nickname | Birth date | Age | Birthplace | Notes | |
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| 22 April 1997 | 20 | Tokyo |
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| 21 February 1999 | 18 | Osaka Prefecture |
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| Title | Release date | Featured Songs | Chart position | Sales (Oricon) | Certification | Notes | ||||
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| Oricon Weekly Singles Chart | Billboard Japan Hot 100 | First week | Total | |||||||
| Cheeky Parade I | 27 November 2013 |
| 14 | 35 | 8,487 | 8,908 | - |
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| Together | 18 June 2014 | Together | - | - | - | - | - | Mini Album with solo versions of "Together" by all nine members. | ||
| Cheeky Parade II | 1 June 2016 |
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| Title | Release date | Featured Songs | Chart position | Sales (Oricon) | Certification | Notes | ||||
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| Oricon Weekly Singles Chart | Billboard Japan Hot 100 | First week | Total | |||||||
| Cheeky Dreamer | 1 April 2012 | - | - | - | - | - | Indie Single (5,000 copies only) | |||
| BUNBUN NINE9′ | 9 January 2013 |
| 4 | 36 | 22,176 | 24,495 | - | |||
| C.P.U!? | 10 April 2013 |
| 5 | 65 | 18,623 | 19,616 | - | |||
| 4 September 2013 | 4 | 24 | 28,340 | 29,231 | - | |||||
| CANDY POP GALAXY BOMB! | / | 12 December 2014 |
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| M.O.N.ST@R / | 15 July 2015 |
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| SKY GATE | 24 February 2016 |
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| Hands up! | 7 September 2016 |
| - | - | - | - | - | First single to not feature Marin Yamamoto and Mariya Suzuki before hiatus. | ||
| Shout along! | 26 April 2017 |
| 22 | - | 4,993 | - | - |
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| Title | Release date | Featured Songs | Chart position | Sales (Oricon) | Certification | Notes | |||
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| 22 November 2017 |
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| Answer | 14 February 2018 |
| - | - | - | - | - | Final Single | |
| SUPER☆GiRLS | 4 July 2012 | With All iDOL Street Members | |||
| IRF, Idoling!!!, Dream5, Tokyo Girls' Style, BiS, iDOL Street, and DJ KOO from TRF | 19 December 2012 |
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| Celebration | SUPER☆GiRLS | 20 February 2013 | Celebration | With All iDOL Street Members | |
| SUPER☆GiRLS | 12 June 2013 | PAN-PAKA-PAN! | With All iDOL Street Members | ||
| SUPER☆GiRLS | 13 August 2014 | With All iDOL Street Members | |||
| – | 20 December 2017 | Featured in the 10th Anniversary album for . |
| Title | Official YouTube link | Album | Single | Music Card | Notes | ||
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| BUNBUN NINE9′ | watch | Cheeky Parade I | BUNBUN NINE9' | - | |||
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| C.P.U !? | watch | C.P.U !? | - | Panorama Version | |||
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| Together | watch | Together | Together | - | Call and Response Version | ||
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| CANDY POP GALAXY BOMB! | watch | Cheeky Parade II | CANDY POP GALAXY BOMB! | / | - | ||
| M.O.N.ST@R | watch | M.O.N.ST@R / | - | Down the Road ver. | |||
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| SKY GATE | watch | SKY GATE | - | ||||
| GARLIC&ONION | watch | - | - | As NERFY GUINER BIEBER | |||
| WE ARE THE GREATEST9' | watch | Cheeky Parade II | - | - | |||
| Hands up! | watch | - | Hands up! | - | Short ver. | ||
| Shampoo & conditioner | watch | - | Shout along | - | As NERFY GUINER BIEBER | ||
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| OHANA | watch | - | - | - | As NERFY GUINER BIEBER | ||
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| JUMPER JUMPER | watch | - | - |