This week’s guests were Johnny’s WEST, RöE, ≠ME, and BOYS AND MEN.
Johnny’s WEST – Shouko / Kidoairaku
RöE – YY
≠ME – Kimi wa Kono Natsu, Koi wo Suru
BOYS AND MEN – New Challenger
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LiSA and Suzuki Tatsuhisa announced their marriage in January 2020. Shukan Bunshun has now revealed though that Tatsuhisa is cheating on LiSA. The other woman in their relationship is A-san, a woman in her 20s who works at a studio where Tatsuhisa records.
According to a music industry official, Tatsuhisa has always had a drinking problem and was bit of a bad boy. Recently, LiSA has expressed worry about her husband to other people. LiSA is a child of divorce, with her father leaving home when she was young. Her wish was to overcome her parents’ issues and have a happy marriage of her own.
However, according to the music industry official, rumblings that her marriage was in trouble begain to circulate a year and half after they announced their marriage.
This week, Snow Man topped the Hot 100 single chart with their single “HELLO HELLO”, with 31,290 points.
BTS topped the Hot Albums chart with their album “Butter.”
BTS also topped the Artist 100 chart for the second consecutive week.
Ayase topped the Hot 100 Lyricists chart for the fourth consecutive week.
Ayase also topped the Hot 100 Composers chart for the fourth consecutive week.
BTS also topped the Streaming Songs chart with their digital single “Permission to Dance.”
millennium parade × Belle topped the Download Songs chart with their new digital single “U.”
Arashi topped the Download Albums chart with their new best album “Ura Ara BEST 1999-2007.”
Noted bully Cornelius has a new victim: his supergroup METAFIVE. Their second album, “METAATEM”, was set for release on August 11. But that is no more.
It was announced that the new METAFIVE will no longer be released. This was to be their first album since their debut one, “META”, in January 2016.
Popular tabloid Bunshun has released more details on the ill-fated Tokyo Olympics. They released a lengthy “confidential” report that detailed specific plans for the Opening Ceremony, in total the report spanned 1199 pages but Bunshun shared the highlights.
One section that has been gaining traction online was a proposed segment involving comedian Naomi Watanabe and the videogame powerhouse Nintendo. In the segment Naomi was going to be joined by American singer Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga was to appear remotely from a warp pipe, a device commonly seen in videogames from the Super Mario franchise. In the actual stadium “Naomi Gaga” would have appeared, this segment was meant to poke fun at former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance at the 2016 Rio games.