On September 24, 2007, Johnny & Associates announced the formation of Hey! Say! JUMP, the agency's largest Johnny's group in history. The five members of Hey! Say! 7 was joined by Johnny's Jrs Kota Yabu, Kei Inoo, Hikaru Yaotome, Keito Okamoto and Ryutaro Morimoto, and the ten-member group was split into two subgroups of five based on age.It was also announced that they would make their CD debut on November 14, 2007 with "Ultra Music Power", which was used as Japan's Volleyball World Cup Relay 2007 theme song.
In July 2008 it was announced that the group's third new single "Your Seed" would be used as the image song for Japanese release of the animated film Kung-Fu Panda. In October 2008, the group released their fourth single "Mayonaka no Shadow Boy", which was used as the theme song for the drama Scrap Teacher starring members Yamada, Nakajima, Arioka and Chinen.
On February 24, 2010, the group released their fifth single "Hitomi no Screen", which topped the Oricon weekly single charts with 202,000 copies.Hey! Say! JUMP released their first album titled Jump No. 1 on July 7, 2010.
Recently on December 15, 2010, the group released a new single with the name of ""Arigato" (Sekai no Doko ni Itemo)."
It's been reported that Hey! Say! JUMP and other Johnny Juniors will be starring a new variety show called "Yan Yan JUMP". According to the report the show will start on April, 16, 2011. The show will begin at 6:30 JST every Saturday. �Yan Yan JUMP� is said to be an entertainment show that combines �SPORTS�, �GAME� and �LIVE�. The name and theme of the show is based off "Yan Yan Utau Studio," a program that aired roughly 20 years ago, featuring some of the senior Johnny's members.
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