This week, Johnny’s WEST topped the Combined Single chart with their new single “Dekkai Ai / Kido Airaku”, with 203,053 points in its first week.

SHINee topped the Combined Album chart with their new mini album “SUPERSTAR”, with 74,254 points in its first week.

Johnny’s WEST also topped the Single chart with “Dekkai Ai / Kido Airaku”, selling 202,798 copies in its first week.

SHINee also topped the Album chart with “SUPERSTAR”, selling 73,975 copies in its first week.

millennium parade × Belle topped the Digital Single chart for the third consecutive week with their digital single “U”, selling 16,972 copies its third week.

The “Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime” soundtrack topped the Digital Album chart, selling 2,507 copies in its first week.

BTS topped the Streaming chart for the third consecutive week with their digital single “Permission to Dance”, with 13,169,106 streams in its fourth week.

Over the past few weeks, Shukan Bunshun has teased bits and pieces of the original plan for the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Now, on the day of the Closing Ceremony, the publication has leaked the full plan!

What would have happened if MIKIKO‘s full plan was realized, and she wasn’t fired in favor of Dentsu’s Sasaki Hiroshi, who himself later resigned after joking about Naomi Watanabe‘s weight?

MIKIKO’s plan started in June 2019. In charge of both of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Olympics, she had to create about seven hours of content from scratch. She worked so hard on the plan that she should that she would retire upon its completion.

The team of elite creators around MIKIKO worked just as hard, as one to achieve a singular goal. But how would they direct the stage? How would they tell the story they wanted to tell? What would the costumes be? The team figured all of this out. Everything was set to go for the big day, a day that would never come.

All of the hard work of MIKIKO and her team was thrown away upon the appointment of Sasaki. Even though her plan couldn’t be executed in reality, we do have the document showing what would have been.

This week’s guests were Koda Kumi, Yamazaki Ikusaburo, and Aoi Shota.

Koda Kumi x Yamazaki Ikusaburo x Aoi Shota – Sayonara no Mukougawa

Aoi Shota – give me ♡ me

Yamazaki Ikusaburo – Ta ga Tame

Koda Kumi – We’ll Be OK

Naomi Watanabe was personally invited to the final live show between American singers Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. The concert took place earlier in the week in New York at the famed Radio City Music Hall venue. The two will also be releasing a new album in the fall together titled “Love for Sale”, which will be Bennett’s last studio album.

Earlier in the year it was revealed that he has been living with Alzheimer’s Disease for over 4 years, in his 7 decade career the 95-year-old has released over 60 studio albums.

Lady Gaga is one of the celebrities Naomi regularly does parodies of, last year she did a full MV parody of Gaga’s song “Rain on Me” which Gaga tweeted support of. This resulted in dozens of high profile international websites and news television shows reporting on Naomi’s MV. which has so far achieved over 25 million hits on YouTube.

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This week’s guests were milet, Sexy Zone, FANTASTICS, and Zenbu Kimi no Sei da.

milet – Ordinary days

Sexy Zone – Natsu no Hydrangea

FANTASTICS – Drive Me Crazy

Zenbu Kimi no Sei da. – Cult Scream

This week’s guest was BiSH.

BiSH – BE READY / SPARK (THE YELLOW MONKEY cover)

On August 18, JO1 will release their fourth single, “STRANGER.” The concept of this single is entering an unfamiliar world and discovering a new version of one’s self.

“STRANGER” will be released in three editions: CD+DVD limited edition A, CD+Photobook limited edition B, and CD only regular edition.

Ahead of the release of “STRANGER”, JO1 has released the music video for the single’s main song, “REAL.” The music video features the “hug dance”, which symbolizes the discovering of one’s new self, tying into the single’s concept. Check it out below, along with more information on their new single!