Since her debut album, From Me to You, each of her albums has topped the charts, and has had at least one single reach number one yearly since 2007, including five straight from mid-2008 to late-2010. She is popular in Japan and in surrounding countries, ranking number one in 2011 Count Down TV "Dearest Female Artist" and Music Station "Artist You Most Want to Marry" polls, as well as Radio Television Hong Kong's "Most Popular Japanese Artist". After retiring from music as a soloist in 2012, she formed the band Flower Flower in 2013.
INITIAL CAREER
Her professional career began in March 2004 when, at the recommendation of her cram school instructors, she applied for an audition hosted by Sony Music Japan. Although instructed that a participant could only perform two songs, she first sang "Why Me" (a song later included in her debut Sony Records single), followed by "It's Happy Line," and then half of "I Know", performing a third song because she wanted the judges to hear a song full of hope.
The judges gave her the maximum score. Because "I Know" was incomplete at the time, the judges were able to get a glimpse of what would later be dubbed "Yui-go" (YUI語?)", or Yui-speak, nonsensical English hummed to a tune during her songwriting process – an example of Yui-go can be found in the film Song of the Sun when Yui is working on the song "Goodbye Days".
On December 24, 2004, she released her debut single, "It's Happy Line", under the indie label Leaflet Records, coupled with the track "I Know," although the pressing was limited to only 2,000 copies in her home area.
Flower Flower
Yui returned from hiatus shortly thereafter with a new band called Flower Flower, which performed incognito throughout Japan.[45] The band has since released four digital and Japan-only singles; "月(Tsuki)", "神様(Kamisama)", "夏/秋(Natsu/Aki)" and "素晴らしい世界(Subarashii Sekai)". On March 27, 2014, Yui revealed in her band blog that she had been diagnosed with a panic disorder, which resulted in the cancellation of some presentations.
On April 17, 2015, the singer announced via the official blog of her band Flower Flower that she has married a man outside of the industry and is currently pregnant. In August 2015, it was announced that, in the first week of August, Yui gave birth to two healthy twin boys.
Studio albums
2006: From Me to You
2007: Can't Buy My Love
2008: I Loved Yesterday
2010: Holidays in the Sun
2011: How Crazy Your Love
Compilation albums
2008: My Short Stories
2012: Green Garden Pop
2012: Orange Garden Pop
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