Board Thread:Hello! Talk-/@comment-131168-20160113183533

For 1997-2014, if you looked at who wrote Hello! Project's songs, the answer would overwhelmingly be Tsunku. 2015 was the first Tsunku-lite year, so I was curious how much various people were responsible for this year. So I looked at the big three credits from this year's songs and summed them up.

It's possible someone doing this a slightly different way could end up with slightly different set of results. Rules I went by, including some nitpicky decisions:
 * Not counting cover songs for lyrics and composition, though if it's known to be a new arrangement I'll count that. In general no song duplications--(Nen'iri version) isn't gaining anyone any more credits.
 * The last Berryz album had a lot of tracks from weird sources which might not have all been released before, but I'm counting "Love together!" as the only new new song.
 * If people share a credit, I'm splitting it. So if there are three lyricists, they each get credited for a third of a song.
 * Things like "English Lyrics", "Rap Lyrics", "Brass Arrangement" will also count as shared credits.

Here are the people who got more than 1 in any given category. If you want to see more of the people who did very little and see a bit of the math, check this.

Lyrics:
 * 10.5: Tsunku
 * 10: Kodama Ameko
 * 5.5: Miura Yoshiko
 * 5: Hoshibe Shou
 * 4: Nakajima Takui
 * 3.5: Tsunoda Takanori
 * 2: Iijima Ken
 * 2: Kondo Kaoru
 * 2: SHOCK EYE

Tsunku's role may be greatly diminished, but being the only person who does most of the songs for a whole group, he's still got a plurality. Kodama Ameko isn't far behind, though.

Composition:
 * 9: Tsunku
 * 9: Hoshibe Shou
 * 6: Nakajima Takui
 * 2: Kato Yusuke
 * 2: Kondo Kaoru
 * 2: Oba Koji
 * 2: Jean Luc Ponpon
 * 2:
 * 1.5: Kawanabe Hiroshi
 * 1.5: KOUGA
 * 1.5: Ueda Tadashi

For the same reason he's high on lyrics, it makes sense Tsunku is high on composition too. But this time he only ties for first, which is especially surprising since Hoshibe's credits only begin in July.

Arrangement:
 * 6.5: Suzuki Shunsuke
 * 5: CMJK
 * 4.5: Hirata Shoichiro
 * 4: Okubo Kaoru
 * 3: Hamada Pierre Yusuke
 * 2: DANCE☆MAN
 * 2: Nakamura Yoshinori
 * 2: Jean Luc Ponpon
 * 2: soundbreakers
 * 1.5: Kato Yusuke
 * 1.5: Nakajima Takui

Most of the top 4 have been doing Hello! Project arrangements for years, but #2 CMJK is new. Also note the return of DANCE☆MAN after a nearly 6 year gap. 