The album reached #5 on the Oricon charts. On February 28, 2001, dream released their first album, titled Dear. Ironically, the group's next single, " Believe in you", would be their worst-charting to date, peaking at #36. "My will" was the song that gave dream new found fame as it was used as the first ending theme song for the popular anime Inuyasha. Their next few singles all charted in similar territory, failing to break the top 10 until their sixth single, " My will", which made it to #6 at the end of 2000. On January 1, 2000, dream debuted with the single " Movin' on", which charted within the top 15 on the Oricon charts. They formed avex's next idol group, dream.ΔΆ000-2002: Debut, first album and Matsumuro Mai's departure The final winners of the competition were Matsumuro Mai, Tachibana Kana and Hasebe Yu. ![]() ![]() Interestingly enough, one of the entrants was Koda Kumi, who placed second and is now a popular singer (as well as Dream's label-mate within rhythm zone). Over 120,000 hopefuls auditioned in front of a panel of judges, notably including Mochida Kaori of the popular band, Every Little Thing. In 1999, avex trax organized a huge talent contest, called "avex dream 2000", looking for the next big hit idol group.
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