This week’s guests were Love Crescendo, Hoshino Gen, Superfly, SHISAMO, My Little Lover, and Masahiko Kondo.
Love Crescendo – Cup no Naka no Komorebi
Hoshino Gen – Week End
Superfly – Kuroi Shizuku
SHISAMO – Kimi to Gerende
My Little Lover – Hello, Again ~Mukashi Kara Aru Basho~
Masahiko Kondo – Otona no Ryuugi
Johnny’s duo KinKi Kids has once again taken the top spot of Oricon’s Weekly Single Charts with their 35th single “Yume wo Mireba Kizutsuku Koto mo Aru” (154,552 copies sold). In fact, all thirty-five singles since their debut in 1997 have ranked #1.
They currently hold the world record for most consecutive number one singles since debut in any country and just extended it by one more this week.
On the album charts, AKB48 ranked #1 with their best album “0 to 1 no Aida”, selling a whopping 625,756 copies. These numbers are the second-highest first week sales of 2015 behind Arashi’s “Japonism” which was released last month.
The list of performers for this year’s edition of Kohaku Uta Gassen was recently released. Noticeably missing was Momoiro Clover Z. The group debuted on the show in 2012 and has been on it ever since. After the list was revealed, they posted a message on their website saying that the group had graduated from Kohaku. They also thanked fans for supporting them on the show. They said that they will continue on with their endeavors, including their dome tour next year.
On December 16, Flower will release their new single “Hitomi no Oku no Ginga.” The song serves as the ending theme for the second season of the Nippon TV anime series “Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns.” Today, the ladies released the short music video for “Hitomi no Oku no Ginga.” The video takes place in several locations, including a rooftop and a room full of spotlights. Check it out after the jump!
On December 14 at 7 PM, TBS will air this year’s Japan Yusen Taisho. Yoshida Yo will host the show, while Yamamoto Takaaki and Ishii Tomohiro will serve as announcers. Eight acts have been awarded the Music Excellence Award, including 8 time winner Hikawa Kiyoshi and last year’s Best New Artist Award winner Nishiuchi Mariya. These acts were given this awards because their songs have been highly requested on cable tv channels. During the show, one of these 8 acts will receive the Grand Prize. Two acts are also receiving the New Artist Award.
See who the winners and nominees are after the jump!
Last night, the second part of this year’s MTV Video Music Awards Japan took place. It was called MTV VMAJ -THE PARTY!!-. Several winners who were previously announced were present last night. The big event of the night was the naming of the winner of Best Video of the Year. The award went to Sandaime J Soul Brothers for their music video for “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe!”
Check out the video after the jump!
According to Billboard and various other publications sales of Adele’s third album 25 has surpassed 3 million copies in the United States. This sets a new album sales record for most copies sold in a single territory. Since the week still isn’t over, Adele still has one more day to add on to her record.
Fourteen years ago during the sales week of March 28th – April 3rd, history was made when Utada Hikaru and Ayumi Hamasaki both released albums on the same day. Utada’s sophomore Japanese studio album Distance sold just over 3 million copies setting the record for highest amount of first week sales in a single territory. Ayumi Hamasaki’s A BEST achieved the second highest first week sales ever with 2.8 million copies sold. With physical album sales slowly being on the decline, who would have thought that in 2015 physical sales records would still be broken.
In the future do you think a Japanese artist will be able to make history again and break Adele’s record?
FEMM and FAKY have come together to sing a Japanese cover of Sak Noel’s club hit “No Boyfriend”.
There is no word on a release for the song yet but for now, the music video can be watched on Sak Noel’s official YouTube channel. In it, the two avex-managed girl groups can be seen singing and dancing together in a Karaoke room.
Check out the fierce video after the jump!