Scandalスキャンダル

pop rock, rock · Osaka

Japanese name

スキャンダル [WJA]

Founded

2006

City

Osaka

Status as of 24 September 2026

active; disbandment announced for 21 August 2027

Connections

2 edges, 2 distinct neighbors · betweenness 0.000 (rank 167 of 324) · personnel only 0.000 (rank 220)

Confidence

High · sources: [W] [WSC] [WNY] [JPS] (register)

Formed August 2006 in Osaka at the Caless vocal and dance school: Haruna (vocals, guitar), Mami (guitar), Tomomi (bass), Rina (drums), one lineup throughout. Played Show-Ya's revived NAON no YAON on 29 April 2008, six months before the Epic Records Japan major debut with Doll (October 2008); Budokan 28 March 2012; first world tour 2015 (Paris, London, Essen, Singapore, Taipei, Chicago, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Mexico City, Hong Kong); own label her from December 2018; JPU Records internationally, the same export gateway as Band-Maid, Lovebites and Nemophila. Announced on 24 August 2026 that the band ends on 21 August 2027, its 21st anniversary, after a final tour of all 47 prefectures from October 2026 closing at Yokohama Arena; the members' stated reason is that the four of them have done all they could together. Not a metal band and not coded as one: it is on the map through two documented institutional edges, the NAON revival and JPU, as the girls band the scene's infrastructure carried first and the commercial reference point every later all female band is measured against.

Connections

Labels, festivals, collaborations

• labelJPU RecordsInternational distribution, including Echo2010s to present
• appearedNAON no YAONNAONのYAONThe revived NAON no YAON, 29 April 2008, before Scandal's major debut2008