/r/CountryMusume
Japanese Idol Group, formed in 1999.
Country Girls, formerly known as Country Musume is a Japanese idol group formed in 1999. The group went on hiatus in 2007, when Satoda Mai became the only member left in the group, but was revived on November 5 2014 by adding 6 new girls.
/r/CountryMusume
The reason was stated to be a disagreement with her contract.
Earlier today, an INFO announcement on the Hello! Project website titled, "Regarding Country Girls Shimamura Uta" was posted, dated JUNE 14. This appears to have been accidentally posted and has since been removed from the website. We do not know if anyone has accessed the page, there was only the screenshot attached posted on Twitter 【Picture 1 - Left】.
In short, we know an OFFICIAL STATEMENT from Hello!Project is coming on on SUNDAY, JUNE 14 in Japan - so treat any of the speculation as totally unconfirmed. Perhaps this will have to do with an incident in her life and she may need to take a break, but we highly doubt she has left the group altogether with very little notice. We ask you to stay calm - there is no reason for anyone to lose their minds over Uta-chan just yet.
Uta-chan is not a frequent updater of her blog and all of the other girls haven't been able to update much lately either. New Hello! store merchandise for Country Girls was just released, and Uta-chan is still included 【Picture 2 - Right】. It should be noted that Country Girls is being expected to do a MAJOR performance on TV east's "Music Festival" in 12 days, with Morning Musume and some of the most popular artists in J-POP - and this performance was announced only yesterday.
The single is going to be a Double A-side named "Wakatteiru no ni Gomen ne / Tamera". According to the same source as the Morning Musume 59th single, the release date is August 5th this year.
"Itooshikute Gomen Ne / Koi Dorobou" sold 45,032 physical copies for one week and charted on #3rd place.
I decided to translate her interview. When I was reading I thought "this should be easy enough!". Enjoy!
According to Momoko's blog the single will be upgraded to feature her in and will be a major debut instead of an indie single.
The release date was postponed to March 25 this year.