High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mr. Children (?????????, Misuta Chirudoren?), commonly called "Misuchiru" (?????), is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the "Misuchiru Phenomenon" (???????) in the mid 1990s in Japan. They held the record for the highest first week sales of a single in Japan for 15 years, with 1.2 million copies of their 10th single "Namonaki Uta" (??????), have 29 consecutive number 1 singles, replaced Glay as the all-male band (with 3 or more members) to have the most number 1 albums on the Oricon charts, and won the Japan Record Award in 1994 for "Innocent World" and in 2004 for "Sign". As of 2010, Mr. Children has published thirteen original studio albums and 33 physical singles, along with three compilations, a live album, and fifteen home video releases. The...