Summer is here and Lyrical School wants to properly welcome it. Set against a backdrop of colorful fireworks, the group performs the choreography to their newest single ‘Sama Fuandeshon‘. You might notice that their moves are in sync with the fireworks display. Thanks to the city of Aioi and it’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, they were able to receive the fireworks launch schedule for the Aioi Dragon Boat Festival Eve celebration so that they could time their dance to the fireworks display. They only had one shot to get it right, so failure wasn’t an option. Continue on to watch the video and find out more about the release.
nano‘s first remix album, “nano’s REMIXES”, is being released next week, featuring six remixes and one new song, “Freedom is Yours”. For its MV, nano requested fans to express what is freedom for them sending pictures of them holding a sign or of something representing freedom by itself. Now the MV has been released and it features loads of pictures from fans on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The MV has been edited in vertical with mobile SNS layouts, so watching it from your phone will be undoubtly more fitting! Have a look at the creative clip just after the jump!
This week’s guests were Kanjani8, Ken Hirai, BLUE ENCOUNT, and BTOB.
Kanjani8 – Tsumi to Natsu
Ken Hirai – Mahoutte Itte Ii Kana?
BLUE ENCOUNT – Daijoubu
BTOB – L.U.V
The performers on this week’s show were Naoto Inti Raymi, Passepied, and NEWS. Hashimoto Manami was the talk guest.
Naoto Inti Raymi – Overflows ~Kotoba ni Dekinakute~
Passepied – Nagasugita Haru
NEWS – Koi wo Shiranai Kimi e
We’re now halfway through 2016 and Soundscan has released its midyear charts for 2016! The following information pertains to the period from 12/28/15 – 6/26/16.
Soundscan has completely revamped their format for 2016. Soundscan says that the numbers for previous years cannot be compared to those from this year since their format is completely different; however, they have not detailed exactly what these changes entailed. They’ve combined all the editions of a release into 1 title, instead of showing the sales of each edition as before. It also appears as if they now count sales from company stores instead of just conventional store sales, something they never did before.
Music sales in the first half of 2016 were valued at 139.9 billion yen from 50,560,000 units sold. CD sales made up 99.52 billion yen of that amount, with 44,000,000 units sold. DVDs and Blu-rays sold 6,560,000 units, generating 40.36 billion yen.
Sandaime J Soul Brothers topped the album chart with “THE JSB LEGACY”, selling 615,000 copies. AKB48 topped the single chart with “Tsubasa wa Iranai”, selling 2,499,000 copies. Arashi topped the music video chart with “ARASHI BLAST in Miyagi”, selling 366,000 copies.
AKB48 tops the artist sales revenue chart with 4.98 billion yen in sales. Arashi comes in second, with 4.39 billion yen in sales. Sandaime J Soul Brothers round out the top 3 with 4.25 billion yen in sales.
Check out the rest of the charts below!
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On July 18, this year’s edition of Fuji TV’s annual midyear music show, FNS Uta no Natsu Matsuri, will air. The show will run from 11:45 AM to 11:24 PM. It will be hosted by Chisato Moritaka and Watabe Ken, the hosts of Fuji TV’s Friday night music show, Love music.
Today, several additional acts were added to the lineup. Arashi, V6, and TOKIO are among those joining the previously announced performers. See who else is performing below!
Music Station debuted on October 24, 1986. To mark the 30th anniversary of the show, Music Station Ultra Fes was held last September. The celebration will continue on September 19 when Music Station holds another Ultra Fes.