''Early Single Box'' is the first

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compilation from

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idol group

Morning Musume , formerly simply and colloquially referred to as , are a Japanese girl group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an ...

, and was released December 15, 2004. It contains their first eight singles in their entirety, each on a separate disc with an additional bonus track each. It also includes a ninth disc with fifteen

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of some songs from their first three albums. Although the original versions of the first six singles were pressed on 8 cm CDs, all of the ones included in the Early Single Box were 12 cm CDs. All eight of the new versions of the singles were later reissued separately. The instrumental album is still exclusive to the box set.

Track listing

1st single: Morning Coffee

# "Morning Coffee" # " Ai no Tane" # "Morning Coffee" (Instrumental) # "Morning Coffee" (Unreleased B♭ Version)

2nd single:
Summer Night Town is a song by J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released as their second single on May 27, 1998 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 417,330 copies. In 2004 It was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. ...

# "Summer Night Town" # "A Memory of Summer '98" # "Summer Night Town" (Instrumental Version) # "Summer Night Town" (First Live Version)

3rd single:
Daite Hold on Me! is the third single of the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released on September 9, 1998 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 410,850 copies. In 2004 it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. L ...

# "Daite Hold on Me!" # "Tatoeba" # "Daite Hold on Me!" (Instrumental) # "Daite Hold on Me!" (Morning Keiji Version)

4th single:
Memory Seishun no Hikari is the fourth single from the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released on February 10, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 410,850 copies, and reached number two on the Oricon Charts. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the '' Ear ...

# "Memory Seishun no Hikari" # "Happy Night" # "Never Forget" # "Memory Seishun no Hikari" (Instrumental) # "Memory Seishun no Hikari" (1999-04-19 Live Version)

5th single:
Manatsu no Kōsen is the fifth single of the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released on May 12, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 235,010 copies, and reached number three on the Oricon Charts. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the Early Singl ...

# "Manatsu no Kōsen" # "Koi no Shihatsu Ressha" # "Manatsu no Kōsen" (Instrumental) # "Manatsu no Kōsen" (Early Version)

6th single: Furusato

# "Furusato" # "Wasurerannai" # "Furusato" (Instrumental) # "Furusato" (Early Vocal Version)

7th single: Love Machine

# "Love Machine" # "21seiki" # "Love Machine" (Instrumental) # "Love Machine" (Early Unision Version)

8th single: Koi no Dance Site

# "Koi no Dance Site" # "Koi wa Rock n' Roll" # "Koi no Dance Site" (Instrumental) # "Koi no Dance Site" (Groove That Soul Remix) # "Koi no Dance Site" (M.I.D. KH-R CLUB MIX)

Bonus Karaoke Disc

# "Ai no Tane" # "Good Morning" # "Dō ni ka Shite Doyōbi" # "Mirai no Tobira" # "Usotsuki Anta" # "Happy Night" # "Never Forget" # "Suki de x5" # "Papa ni Niteiru Kare" # "Senkō Hanabi" # "Da Di Du De Do Da Di!" # "Aisha Loan de" # "Kuchizuke no Sono Ato" # "Dance Suru no da!" # "Harajuku 6:00 Shūgō"

External links

Early Single Box entry
on the Up-Front Works official website Morning Musume compilation albums 2004 compilation albums Zetima compilation albums {{2000s-compilation-album-stub