Editing Morning Musume (section)

{{short description|Japanese girl group}}
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{{Infobox musical artist  <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name                = Morning Musume
| caption             = Morning Musume in 2016
| image               = 161006 AMN 빅 콘서트 - 모닝구무스메 16 우타카타 새터데이나이트 직캠 by DaftTaengk 3m50s.jpg
| landscape           = yes
| background          = group_or_band
| native_name         = モーニング娘。
| native_name_lang    = ja
| alias               = Momusu<br />{{lang|zh|早安少女組。}}
| origin              = Tokyo, Japan
| genre               = {{flatlist|
* [[J-pop]]
}}
| years_active        = {{start date|1997}}–present
| label               = {{flatlist|
* [[Zetima]]}}
| spinoffs  = {{flatlist|
* [[Tanpopo]]
* [[Petit Moni]]
* [[Mini-Moni]]
* [[Morning Musume Sakuragumi]]
* [[Morning Musume Otomegumi]]
* [[Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai]]
* [[W (duo)|W]]
* Ecomoni
* [[Dream Morning Musume]]}}
| website            = {{URL|www.helloproject.com/morningmusume}}
| current_members     = See [[List of Morning Musume members]]
| past_members        = See [[List of Morning Musume members]]
}}
{{nihongo|'''Morning Musume '25'''|モーニング娘。 '25 |Mōningu Musume Two-Five.}}, formerly and commonly known as {{nihongo|'''Morning Musume'''|モーニング娘。 |Mōningu Musume.}} and colloquially referred to as {{nihongo|'''''Momusu'''''|モー娘。|Mōmusu.}}, is a Japanese [[girl group]], holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the [[Oricon|Oricon charts]] as of February 2012,<ref name="oricon">{{cite web|url= http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/2007273/full|title= AKB48、女性歌手初の6作連続ミリオン 33年半ぶり新記録|language= ja|publisher= [[Oricon]]|date= February 21, 2012|access-date= May 19, 2012|archive-date= October 26, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131026114109/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/2007273/full/|url-status= live}}</ref> with the Oricon record of most top-ten singles, having 64 of them.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Morning Musume was formed in 1997 by rock singer-songwriter turned record producer [[Tsunku]], who later composed the vast majority of the group's songs over the decade. They are the lead group of [[Hello! Project]] that specialises in upbeat, pop-oriented music coupled with dance performance. The group produced several splinter groups, and often collaborates with other Hello! Project acts, including [[Country Musume]], [[Berryz Kobo]], [[Cute (Japanese idol group)|Cute]], [[Melon Kinenbi]], and [[V-u-den]]. The group's name can be translated as "Morning Girls"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/aug/21/popandrock3|title=J-Pop's dream factory|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=August 21, 2005|archive-date=June 14, 2013|access-date=December 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614000713/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/aug/21/popandrock3|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/03/13/music/morning-musume-not-ready-to-graduate-yet/|title=Morning Musume not ready to graduate yet|publisher=[[The Japan Times]]|date=March 13, 2009|archive-date=June 7, 2019|access-date=September 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607203406/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/03/13/music/morning-musume-not-ready-to-graduate-yet/|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2002/09/29/music/morning-musume-its-a-family-affair/|title=Morning Musume: It's a family affair|author=Setsuko Kamiya|publisher=[[The Japan Times]]|date=September 29, 2002|archive-date=October 7, 2014|access-date=September 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007031808/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2002/09/29/music/morning-musume-its-a-family-affair/|url-status=live}}</ref> or "Morning Daughters";<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wpwhvJo_bYC&pg=PA125|title=Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan|author1=Alisa Freedman |author2=Laura Miller |author3=Christine Yano |date=April 17, 2013|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0804781145}}<br />{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fdHZAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT52|title=Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool|author=Brian Ashcraft|date=May 14, 2014|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=9781462914098}} (1st Edition: Kodansha International Ltd., 2010-07-01, {{ISBN|978-4770031150}})</ref> it consists of members mostly in their late adolescence and early 20s.