H.P. All Stars

H.P. All Stars (H.P. オールスターズ)

H.P. All Stars (or Hello! Project All Stars) was a temporary group made up of various Hello! Project groups and solo artists for a total of 46 members. The logo for this group indicates that they are the 2004 shuffle unit, formed to celebrate Hello! Project’s seventh anniversary.

The groups who participated were Morning Musume, Melon Kinenbi, Country Musume, Biyuuden, W, Berryz Koubou, Hello! Project Kids, and the soloists who participated were Matsuura Aya, Nakazawa Yuko, Abe Natsumi, Yasuda Kei, Goto Maki, Inaba Atsuko, Maeda Yuki, and Kimura Ayaka.

They released one single, ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ALL! on December 1, 2004 which sold 45,141 copies in its first week and 61,440 copies in total. The song itself is a running history of Hello! Project where members sing in the order they first appeared in H!P.

H.P. All Stars performed at the end of each concert in the Hello! Project 2005 Winter ~A HAPPY NEW POWER!~ tour, but with only 45 members, since Abe Natsumi had been temporarily suspended.