Dream5 and Big Bang’s Daesung (D-LITE) top the weekly Oricon charts! 10/27-11/02
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Dream5 and Big Bang’s Daesung (D-LITE) top the weekly Oricon charts! 10/27-11/02

After what feels like forever, Oricon has finally changed up the visual style of their charts! It looks great but it required a bit of tweaking on our end to continue pulling the information from there.

On this week’s Oricon physical music chart, Dream5’s outro theme for popular anime “Yokai Watch” tops the single charts with their song “Dan Dan Dubi Zuba!” featuring Buri Taicho selling 66,450 copies. Big Bang’s Daesung, known in Japan as D-LITE, dropped his third album (and second this year) “Delight” , pushing more than 68k units and taking the coveted #1 spot on the album charts.

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Digital Singles Charts For The Week Of 10/29 – 11/4
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Digital Singles Charts For The Week Of 10/29 – 11/4

Recochoku:
1. Che’Nelle – Happiness
2. SEKAI NO OWARI – Dragon Night
3. Miyuki Nakajima – Mugi no Uta
4. Nishino Kana – Suki
5. Hata Motohiro – Himawari no Yakusoku
6. Sandaime J Soul Brothers – C.O.S.M.O.S. ~Akizakura~
7. Ikimonogakari – Netsujou no Spectrum
8. Nishino Kana – Darling
9. GARNiDELiA – BLAZING
10. Dream5+Taicho Buri – Dan Dan Dubi Zuba!

iTunes:
1. Che’Nelle – Happiness
2. SEKAI NO OWARI – Dragon Night
3. GARNiDELiA – BLAZING
4. Hata Motohiro – Himawari no Yakusoku
5. Nishino Kana – Suki
6. Miyuki Nakajima – Mugi no Uta
7. Sakanaction – Sayonara wa Emotion
8. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
9. Nishino Kana – Darling
10. Ikimonogakari – Netsujou no Spectrum

Namie Amuro releases Brighter Day pv
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Namie Amuro releases Brighter Day pv

Namie Amuro’s official youtube channel has just uploaded the video for “BRIGHTER DAY” (short ver)

“BRIGHTER DAY” currently serves as the theme for Fuji TV’s drama “First Class”. The single will be released digitally on November 5th and physically on November 12th.

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Akanishi Jin reveals new PV – Mi Amor
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Akanishi Jin reveals new PV – Mi Amor

Jin Akanishi‘s new PV “Mi Amor” which is the title track of his upcoming mini album, has just been released.

The PV itself features Akanishi covered in body tattoos and playing a guitar that emits laser beams. As a whole, the PV is somewhat abstract and not like his previous songs. Akanishi stated he was trying a new style. This song was created with the melody first, then the lyrics.

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Miliyah Kato ranks top 3 pvs in her videography
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Miliyah Kato ranks top 3 pvs in her videography

On October 29th Miliyah Kato released her new album “MUSE”, commemorating her 10th anniversary in the music business. Rankingbox asked Miliyah to reflect on her career and choose 3 videos with particularly strong feelings attached to them.

Miliyah has always been a chameleon throughout her career in terms both music and style. Find out which videos made the cut below!

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What would a more human-like Hatsune Miku look like?
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What would a more human-like Hatsune Miku look like?

The answer to that question is answered thanks to Square Enix’s Nomura Tetsuya . In October a collaboration between Nomura and Miku took place in celebration of “The Hatsune Miku Art Exhibition”. He created original artwork and a 54 second CGI video for the exhibition.

The only way to see the video was if you attended the event, fortunately for those outside of Japan Hatsune Miku‘s official youtube channel uploaded the CGI video for all to enjoy. Nomura expressed interest in a possible video-game collaboration but the decision lies in the hands of Crypton Future Media, the producers of Vocaloid.

Check out the video below

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RADWIMPS release trailers for their 2014 Live&Document DVD / Blu-ray
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RADWIMPS release trailers for their 2014 Live&Document DVD / Blu-ray

Popular rock band RADWIMPS recently revealed that they would be releasing both live footage of their “RADWIMPS GRAND PRIX 2014 Jikkyou Chuukei” as well as a tour documentary.  Bundled together as a single release titled “RADWIMPS LIVE&DOCUMENT 2014 ‘Batsu to Maru to Tsumi to'”, the DVD / Blu-ray will be released on December 3rd of this year.

Since that announcement the band have published trailers for both halves of the release:  the live concert tour and the documentary, “RADWIMPS 2014 DOCUMENT 4×4”.  These videos give a good look at what can be expected from the DVD, demonstrating both the special effects used in the concerts and the style used to record the documentary.

Be sure to check out both of the trailers and the track list for the concert included right after the jump!

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