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The Nimaime

2004 studio album by Melon Kinenbi

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2021
Entity authorityQ3135106 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Nimaime (THE 二枚目; "The Second") is the second album from the J-pop group Melon Kinenbi, containing five of their singles, released on December 1, 2004. Since Tsunku was inactive at the time, it was produced by the other members of Sharam Q instead. Its highest ranking on the Oricon weekly chart was #28, and it charted for two weeks.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Nimaime” as 2004 studio album by Melon Kinenbi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nimaime, studio and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nimaime, studio and album providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Nimaime”, the useful work is to connect “2004 studio album by Melon Kinenbi” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 24, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q3135106. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “The Nimaime” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.