After the contest, musician and producer Tsunku offered Nakazawa and the four other runners-up (Natsumi Abe, Kaori Iida, Aya Ishiguro, and Asuka Fukuda) the chance to be taken under his wing under one condition: they must sell 50,000 CDs of their debut song "Ai no Tane" with five days of live promotion.
Yuko Nii | Yūko Ishibashi | Maki Yūkō | Yuko Oshima | Yuko Nakazawa | Yūko Tsushima | Yuko Tojo | Yūko Tanaka | Yūko Mochizuki | yuko (judo) | Yuko Fueki | Yūko | yuko | Nakazawa Shin'ichi |
On the August 14, 2009 broadcast of Music Station, original Morning Musume members Yuko Nakazawa, Kaori Iida, Mari Yaguchi, Rika Ishikawa, Hitomi Yoshizawa, Nozomi Tsuji and Asami Konno did a special performance as backing dancers in a collaboration with the current members.