This week, Johnny’s WEST topped the Combined Single chart with their new single “Ame Nochi Hare”, with 159,387 points in its first week.

Kis-My-Ft2 topped the Combined Album chart with their new album “FREE HUGS!”, with 204,516 points in its first week.

Johnny’s WEST also topped the Single chart with “Ame Nochi Hare”, selling 159,387copies in its first week.

Kis-My-Ft2 also topped the Album chart with “FREE HUGS!”, selling 204,516 copies in its first week.

LiSA topped the Digital Single chart with her single “Gurenge”, selling 52,708 copies in its first week.

Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- topped the Digital Album chart with their debut album “Hypnosis Mic Enter the Hypnosis Microphone”, selling 4,066 copies in its first week.

Aimyon topped the Streaming chart for the 17th consecutive week with her single “Marigold”, with 2,189,358 streams in the chart’s 20th week.

Hello, Arama! Japan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week saw Yonezu Kenshi defeat HKT48 and Aimyon. Aimyon is back this week, facing off against a newcomer and herself. Find out what Ronald thought of the songs that topped the singles charts this week and share your thoughts on them too!

This week’s guests were EXILE SHOKICHI, Mayumura Chiaki, and Fujikawa Chiai.

EXILE SHOKICHI – Kimi ni Au Tame ni Boku wa Umarete Kitanda

Mayumura Chiaki – Piccolo Mushi

Fujikawa Chiai – Laica

Johnny’s group Arashi has announced the release of their long awaited new best album! The announcement was made today on Arashi’s official website.

Titled “5×20 All the BEST!!” it is scheduled to come out on June 26th, 2019. Pre-orders for the album will become available on May 8th, it’s expected that more details such as a tracklist will be released on that day too.

This release marks Arashi’s first a-side best album release in almost a decade, with the last being 2009’s “All the BEST! 1999~2009“.

Last week the world went into a frenzy when Instagram user Rola debuted her sleek short hair! It was the first time in her professional career that she donned a short cut.

Not to be outdone, fellow Instagram user Akemi Darenogare decided she wanted a shorter style for the new era. Throughout her career Akemi has actually had shorter hair multiple times, but never in this style. Akemi opted for the same cut her contemporary Rola got, a short clean bob.

Legendary chanteuse Tomomi Kahara will become a mother the first year of Japan’s new imperial era Reiwa! The 44-year-old “I’m Proud” singer is currently 6 months pregnant, Sponichi reports.

Kahara is expected to give birth around the end of August, around the time of her birthday in which she will turn 45 years old.

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Singer/songwriter Akira Yuki has announced that she will be releasing a new single titled “Tanjou ~Birthday~” on June 5th. This will mark Yuki’s first release under Victor Entertainment’s Speedstar imprint, and thus her major label debut.

Ahead of this release, the music video for its lead track “Birthday” has been uploaded to her YouTube channel. Directed by Tomohiro Matsumoto, this striking PV attempts to convey the song’s meaning through the use of food.

Read on below to find both this music video and the cover and track list for “Tanjou”.