This week’s guests were Gospellers, BiSH, Sexy Zone, and GANG PARADE.

Gospellers – Mimosa / VOXers

BiSH – Rhythm

Sexy Zone – Kirin no Ko

GANG PARADE – Rabyu

On November 3, ARASHI celebrates their 20th anniversary and drops a whole lot of news to fans. 30 mins prior to the scheduled YouTube Live at 11:30am JST, official social media accounts of the group have been opened with the message “We wanted to get closer to our fans across the world. Come along with us!!!!!” Aside from officially announcing the opening of their YouTube channel, there are so many things announced during the YouTube LIVE press conference so here’s a list:

• official accounts for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Weibo and TikTok
• new Music Video “Turning Up” will premiere 9pm JST
• digital distribution of a total of 65 singles, including the digital single “Turning Up”, will be released from 7pm. 
• National Stadium concert to be held on May 15 – 16, 2020. Arashi will be the first artist to perform at the new National Stadium which will be completed by November .
• “ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5 × 20” Live Viewing on December 25, 2019 in TOHO Cinemas across 47 prefectures
• 20th anniversary press conference “JET STORM” in 4 Asian cities: – November 9, 2019 (Sat): Tokyo → Jakarta / November 10, 2019 (Sun): Jakarta → Singapore → Bangkok / November 11, 2019 (Monday): Bangkok-> Taipei-> Tokyo
• a concert in Beijing will be held next spring. The decision was made based on the hope that Arashi could become a bridge between Japan and China. More details TBA

Hey, Arama Japan! It’s Friday, so it’s Open Post time! Feel free to chat with your fellow readers about whatever you like! Enjoy!

This week, Sexy Zone topped the Combined Single chart with their new single “Kirin no Ko / Honey Honey”, with 159,861 points in its first week.

WANIMA topped the Combined Album chart with their new album “COMINATCHA!!”, with 78,863 points in its first week.

Sexy Zone also topped the Single chart with “Kirin no Ko / Honey Honey”, selling 159,861 copies in its first week.

WANIMA also topped the Album chart with “COMINATCHA!!”, selling 72,524 copies in its first week.

Yonezu Kenshi topped the Digital Single chart for the tenth non-consecutive week with his single “Uma to Shika”, selling 32,316 copies in its 11th week.

WANIMA topped the Digital Album chart with “COMINATCHA!!”, selling 4,746 copies in its first week.

Official HIGE DANdism topped the Streaming chart for the 23rd consecutive week with their song “Pretender”, with 4,003,786 streams in its 26th week.

On November 13, Yomiuri TV will air this year’s edition of its annual year end music special, Best Hits Kayousai 2019. It will air from 7 PM JST to 8:54 PM JST. The show will take place at Osaka Jo Hall, with Miyane Seiji and Hashimoto Manami hosting. There will be many performers on the show, including Daichi Miura, Kanjani8, BiSH, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, Kobukuro, and Keyakizaka46. See who else is performing below!

Last week, an unfinished music video for a new duet between Shiina Ringo and Utada Hikaru leaked online. The full, finished video has now been uploaded on Ringo’s YouTube channel.

It was specualated at the time of the leak that the music video was for the untitled new song on Ringo’s upcoming best album, “Newton no Ringo ~Hajimete no Best Ban~.” The song is in fact from this release, and it is titled “Roman to Soroban”, as opposed to the previously supposed title “Soraban.” It should be noted that this version of the song is known as the “LDN ver.”, meaning that there is an alternative version perhaps.

“Roman to Soroban” was written and composed by Ringo. H ZETT M (piano) and Torigoe Keisuke (bass) played on the song. Murata Yoichi was in charge of the wind instrument arrangement. As “LDN ver.” suggests, the song does have a tie to London, stemming from a performance of the London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios being included in the song.

Check out the video below!

Happy Halloween! The spookiest holiday of the year has arrived again, and many celebrities decided to show off their costumes across various SNS platforms.

Perhaps Satan’s influence is waning in Japan, as quite a few celebrities who dressed up in the past didn’t wear anything this year, or perhaps they simply decided to not share their costume. Nevertheless, tons of stars did dress up this year, and one of our favorites goes to former Morning Musume member Nozomi Tsuji.

Nozomi and her friends dressed up as zombified Sailor Senshi, while for his very first Halloween Nozomi’s youngest son Koa dressed as Minnie Mouse! Our other favorites would be talent Kemio also did an accurate costume of Frank-n-Furter from the musical “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, and Hades from Disney’s 1997 animated adaptation of “Hercules”.

Check out the costumes below!

On October 30, AKLO will release his fourth album, “REGULAR.” This is his first album since June 2016’s “Outside the Frame.” The album consists of nine songs, all produced by BACHLOGIC.

AKLO recently released the music video for one of the album’s tracks, “Too Fast.” The clip is a mixture of live and studio footage. Check it out below, along with more information on AKLO’s new album!