In 2007,
Japanese idol group
Hello! Project held the Hello! Project New Star Audition to recruit members for a new
girl group based in Taiwan in an attempt to expand towards the Chinese market. The results were announced in September 2008, where six winners were selected. The winners were then taken to Japan for three months to undertake singing and dancing lessons as well as to record their first
mini-album. The group was named Ice Creamusume, and they were set up as
Hello! Project's first overseas group and Hello! Project Taiwan's flagship group. On February 4, 2009, a music video for their second mini-album title track, a cover version of "
Love Revolution 21", was released. The music video for Ice Creamusume's third title track, "
There Can't Be Love on a Planet Without Rain, Right?", was released in March 2009. In spite of promotions, Ice Creamusume's sales performed below expectations and they failed to attract an audience. Ice Creamusume made their last appearance as a group in July 2009 at the
Hello! Project Concert 2009 Summer: Hello! Champloo concert, performing "Love Debut (Japanese Version)" with
Morning Musume's
Jun Jun and
Lin Lin filling in for Tseng and Ku. Afterwards, they became inactive for the rest of 2009 and were dropped as a music act in 2010. ==Members==