On November 13, Shiina Ringo will release her first best album, “Newton no Ringo ~Hajimete no Best Ban~.” The album includes two new songs. At the time the album was announced, the title of one of the songs, “Kouzen no Himitsu”, was released, while the other one was untitled at the time. The second new song is still technically untitled, but we now have a name for it: “Soroban.” This title comes courtesy of a music video for the song that leaked earlier today. The video also reveals that the song is a collaboration with Utada Hikaru. The video can be seen as a continuation of the music video for their previous duet, “Nijikan Dake no Vacance”, from Utada’s 2016 album “Fantôme.” Check it out below!

This week’s guests were Kanjani8, THE RAMPAGE, Ken Hirai, Shiina Ringo, and WANIMA.

Kanjani8 – Tomo yo

THE RAMPAGE – SWAG & PRIDE

Ken Hirai – #302

BiSH – KiND PEOPLE / BiSH-Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-

Shiina Ringo – Kouzen no Himitsu

Ken Hirai – Strawberrry Sex

WANIMA – GONG

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Visuals and a full tracklist have finally been released for Koda Kumi‘s upcoming album “re(CORD)“. It will be the 16th studio album for the singer.

14 tracks will be included in total, including a cover of “Livin La Vida Loca” by Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin, and a collaboration with Jamaican rapper Sean Paul. Kumi prevciously worked with Sean Paul on the track “Loaded”, featured on her 2014 album “Bon Voyage”.

On October 23, Petrolz will release their second album, “GGKKNRSSSTW.” This is the band’s first album since September 2015’s “Renaissance.” Before the release date, Petrolz has been selling the album on their nationwide tour “3 Code.” “GGKKNRSSSTW” includes 11 songs, including the songs “KAMONE” and “SHAPE”, which the band last been playing live recently. Check out more information on the album below!

We’re back with this week’s edition of Oricon Flashback! This is where we look back on what topped the charts this week 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years ago. Think of it as a way to reminisce and learn about the past of Japanese music.

BABYMETAL has recently released their third studio album “Metal Galaxy” and it just made history. It finished in first place on Billboards top rock album chart, making them the very first Asian group to ever achieve this.

“Metal Galaxy” also topped Billboards “Hard Rock Albums” chart, making them the very first Asian female act to achieve this. The first Asian act overall was System of a Down singer Serj Tankian, with his 2007 solo album “Elect the Dead“.

It’s been a rough couple years for the iconic, but disgraced, musician Tetsuya Komuro. Notorious tabloid “Weekly Bunshun” has dug into the divorce proceeding for TK and soon-to-be former wife KEIKO. In the 90s and early 00s the two enjoyed tremendous success as members of the group globe.

The divorce proceedings have been extremely long, and is currently in “mediation” status”. Basically what that means is that a neutral third party is supposed to assist the two disputing parties so they can both come to a mutual agreement.