Unison Square Garden

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Unison Square Garden (stylized as UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, or USG) is a Japanese pop rock band signed to Toy's Factory.[1] The band includes Kosuke Saito (vocals/guitar), Tomoya Tabuchi (bass/backing vocals), and Takao Suzuki (drums).

Career

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In July 2004, the band was formed, and named as "unison" (ユニゾン) and later renamed the band name to "Unison Square Garden". They took part in Teens 'Music Festival Musical Instrument Store Competition, they won the Grand Prix finally.[2] In 2008, they made a major debut at Toy's Factory.[2] In February 2014, they gave their first performance on Music Station.[3] In July, 2015, they released the anniversary album Dugout Accident, and held a concert in Nippon Budokan.[4]

Discography

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Studio albums

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Release date Title Peak position
JPN
[5]
April 15, 2009 Unison Square Garden 20
April 7, 2010 Jet Co. 24
July 6, 2011 Populus Populus 18
February 6, 2013 Cider Road 9
August 27, 2014 Catcher in the Spy 5
July 6, 2016 Dr. Izzy 3
January 24, 2018 Mode Mood Mode 2
September 30, 2020 Patrick Vegee 2
April 12, 2023 Ninth Peel 1

Mini albums

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Release date Title Peak position
JPN
[5]
January 16, 2008

Re-released: July 3, 2019

Shin Sekai Note (新世界ノート) 25
January 16, 2008

Re-released: July 3, 2019

Ryusei Zenya (流星前夜) 24

Anniversary albums

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Release date Title Peak position
JPN
[5]
July 22, 2015 Dugout Accident 2
July 3, 2019 Bee Side Sea Side: B-side Collection Album 5
July 24, 2024 Sub Machine, Best Machine 4

Compilation albums

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Release date Title
October 11, 2019 Unison Square Garden The 1st Collection for Streaming

Video albums

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Release date Title Peak position
JPN DVD
[5]
JPN Blu-ray
[5]
February 6, 2013 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN ONEMAN TOUR 2012 SPECIAL ~Spring Spring Spring~ at ZEPP TOKYO 2012.04.21 9
November 6, 2013 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN TOUR 2013 CIDER ROAD TOUR at NHK HALL 2013.04.10 8
January 27, 2016 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN LIVE SPECIAL "fun time 724" at Nippon Budokan 2015.7.24 4
May 17, 2017 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN TOUR 2016 Dr.Izzy at Yokosuka Arts Theatre 2016.11.21 7 9
December 26, 2018 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN TOUR 2018 “MODE MOOD MODE” at Omiya Sonic City 2018.06.29 6 10
December 25, 2019 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN 15th Anniversary Live at Osaka Maishima 2019.07.27 9 6
June 24, 2020 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN「Bee-side Sea-side U-side」at Zepp Tokyo 2019.10.16 6 4

Singles

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Release date Title Peak position Album
JPN
[5]
July 23, 2008 Sentimental Period (センチメンタルピリオド) 109 Unison Square Garden
January 28, 2009 Master Volume (マスターボリューム) 49
February 10, 2010 Cody Beats 38 Jet Co.
November 24, 2010 Scarsdale (スカースデイル) 35 Populus Populus
May 11, 2011 Tracing Orion (オリオンをなぞる) 14
July 25, 2012 Meteor Squall 21 Cider Road
September 19, 2012 Listening to Linear Blue 8
November 6, 2013 After Cherry Blossoms (all quartets lead to the?)
(桜のあと (all quartets lead to the?))
10 Catcher in the Spy
February 5, 2014 Harmonized Finale 8
May 20, 2015 Sugar Song and Bitter Step 5 Dr. Izzy
August 9, 2017 10% Roll, 10% Romance 3 Mode Mood Mode
November 8, 2017 Invisible Sensation 5
November 15, 2017 Fake Town Baby 6
March 7, 2018 Spring is Coming to Us (春が来てぼくら) 5 Patrick Vegee
November 7, 2018 Catch Up, Latency 3
October 11, 2019 Phantom Joke 5
April 13, 2022 Kaleido Proud Fiesta 4 Kaleido Proud Fiesta

References

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  1. ^ "UNISON SQUARE GARDENの基本情報。".
  2. ^ a b "知らないなんて恥ずかしい!大人気邦ロックバンド『UNISON SQUARE GARDEN』とは一体?!".
  3. ^ "HKT48・コブクロ・JUJU・UNISON SQUARE GARDEN".
  4. ^ "ユニゾン初武道館ワンマン「大事な皆さんの大事なバンドでありたい」".
  5. ^ a b c d e f "UNISON SQUARE GARDENの作品".