current_members website article_title past_members
maimi hagiwara yajima saki nakajima airi suzuki chisato okai mai -lsb- http://www.helloproject.com/c-ute/ helloproject.com/c-ute] cute -lrb- japanese idol group -rrb-
 megumi -lrb- 2006 -- 2009 -rrb- erika umeda -lrb- 2005 -- murakami 2009 -rrb- -lrb- 2005 -- 2006 -rrb- kanna arihara
cute -lrb- japanese idol group -rrb-

cute , stylized as , is a japanese idol girl group , consisting of five members .
cute is part of hello !
project , produced by tsunku , who also writes almost all the group 's songs .
cute made its major debut in 2007 and that year won the japan record award for best new artist .
in 2008 , the group was nominated for the main japan record award , the grand prix , its song being named one of the year 's best songs .
as of may 2013 , all of the group 's major-label singles have debuted in the top 10 of the oricon weekly singles chart .
