| 92nd | Top J-pop artists |
| 39th | Top Japanese celebrities |
| Thelma Aoyama 青山 テルマ |
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| Birth name | 青山 テルマ (Aoyama Thelma) |
| Born | October 27, 1987 |
| Origin | Nara, Japan |
| Genres | J-pop, R&B |
| Occupations | Singer |
| Years active | 2007 – present |
| Labels | Universal Music Group (Japan) |
| Website | Official Website |
Thelma Aoyama (青山 テルマ Aoyama Teruma), born October 27, 1987, is a Japanese Pop and R&B singer. She part Trinidadian and Japanese.
She is famous for her collaboration song with SoulJa, "Koko ni Iru yo", and her answer song "Soba ni Iru ne". In September 2008, the Guinness World Records certified that "Soba ni Iru ne" became the best-selling digital download single in Japan with over two million "full-track" downloads (Chaku Uta Full).[1] However, the record of the Guinness World Records was replaced by Greeeen's song "Kiseki" in the next year of that.[2][3] Including various forms of digital downloads, it sold over 8.7 million downloads by November 2008.[4]
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She spent six years at Osaka International School as an elementary school student. At age 12, her family moved to Torrance, California, and she attended Calle Mayor Middle School. She lived there for two years. She returned to Japan in the winter of 2002. Her family moved to Tokyo. Aoyama attended the American School in Japan.
Aoyama's first release in the music world was a collaboration on DS455's single "Summer Paradise: Risin' To Tha Sun, feat. Aoyama Thelma". The single reached #46 on the Oricon charts. On September 9, 2007, Aoyama made her solo debut with the single "One Way". This single debuted at #98 on the Oricon charts. Two weeks later, Aoyama was featured on the hit single "Koko ni Iru yo" with fellow J-Soul artist SoulJa. The single stayed on the charts for many weeks. Despite only reaching up to #6 on the charts, the single has sold over 100,000 copies.
In early 2008, Aoyama released an answer song to the single "Koko ni Iru yo" by SoulJa with her own single titled: "Soba ni Iru ne" which also featured SoulJa. Both of the songs are similar, and both share the same chorus. However, the song "Soba ni Iru ne" proved to be more popular than the song "Koko ni Iru yo", debuting at #3 in its first week on the Oricon charts, and in its second week, reaching #1 on the charts. "Soba ni Iru ne" stayed in the Top 5 ranking for 7 consecutive weeks. It became the highest-selling female single (strictly a duet song) on the Oricon 2008 yearly charts.[5]
Her debut album, Diary, was released in Japan on March 26, 2008.
On February 11, 2009, she released album Love!: Thelma Love Song Collection, which debuted at the number-one position on the Oricon weekly charts. The latest album with a title name of Emotions was released in September, 2009.
In late December, it was announced that Aoyama will collaborate with Big Bang's Taeyang for her single, "Fall in Love", which will be released on January 27, 2010[6].
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