Ryōhei Abe

Profile Overview

Snow Man is a Japanese idol boy band under Starto Entertainment. The group's activities focused on acrobats and stage play.
Snow Man made their official debut on January 22, 2020, at the same time as SixTones. The groups' simultaneous debut marked the first time for two groups to debut on the same day in the company's history. "D.D."/"Imitation Rain" became the best-selling debut release in Asian history with more than 1.8 million physical copies sold, making Snow Man the best selling debut group since KAT-TUN in 2006.
It is also the first male idol single in 17 years to remain in the top 100 of the Oricon chart for more than 100 weeks. Since their debut in 2020, the group has sold over 160 million physical copies in Japan. In 2021, their debut studio album, Snow Mania S1, sold in its first week more than 1.8 million physical copies, and became in the best selling first week for a boy group studio album in Japanese history, and the second best week for a debut album in the country's history. Their single "Grandeur" was the best-selling release of 2021 in Japan with more than 2 million physical copies sold. With this, Snow Man became the first male artist since L'Arc-en-Ciel in 1999 to have multiple releases sell more than a million copies in two consecutive years.
In January 2022, Snow Man moved from label Avex Trax to MENT Recording. MENT Recording is a joint label between Avex Entertainment and Starto Entertainment. Kis-My-Ft2, another group from the same company and under Avex Trax, also moved to MENT Recording.