This week, BOYS AND MEN topped the Oricon single chart with their new single “Shinka Riron”, selling 139,703 copies in its first week.

LiSA topped the Oricon album chart with her new best album “LiSA BEST -Way-”, selling 42,325 copies in its first week.

Yonezu Kenshi retook the top spot on the Oricon digital single chart with his single “Lemon”, selling 27,285 copies in its 13th week, and topping the chart for the 11th non-consecutive week.

Charlie Puth topped the Oricon digital album chart with his new album “Voicenotes”, selling 4,257 copies in its first week.

This week’s guests were A.B.C-Z and Bentham.

A.B.C-Z – Future Light

Bentham – FATEMOTION

Hello, Arama! Japan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week saw Utada Hikaru defeat Nogizaka46 and Nishino Kana. Kana is back this week, facing off against two newcomers. Find out what various staff members thought of the songs that topped the singles charts this week and share your thoughts on them too!

This week’s performers were MOROHA, The BONEZ, and Ohashi Chippoke. Ikuta Toma was the talk guest.

MOROHA – Kimi to Haru

The BONEZ – SUNTOWN

Ohashi Chippoke – Kakumei

This week’s guests were Takegami Yoshinari, Tabu Zombie, Igarashi Makoto, Kimura Jinya, Hokazono Shoichiro, Toyo Mika, Yamazaki Hironari, and Kawata Hiromi.

It seems the love life of Enon Kawatani is still full of drama.

The controversial musician has recently been linked to model Ai Matsumoto.  She has an exclusive contract with the popular “gal” magazine JELLY, she’s half Japanese and half Filipino. Matsumoto has become renowned in the model scene for her short black haircut.

Over the past six months or so, many articles have been popping up online disparaging the popular mascot Funassyi.

“Funassyi has disappeared“, “Funassayi is over“, “Nobody cares anymore“.

In particular, back in November 2017 popular website Nifty published an article about the sharp decline in popularity for Funassyi, claiming that it had been completely overtaken by the bear mascot Kumamon.

Taiwanese pop diva Jolin Tsai was one of the many people who ventured out to see Namie Amuro perform for the very last time in Taipei.

At her two Taipei dates Amuro performed for a massive crowd, attracting over 22,000 people. Many of her hits were performed including Mint, CAN YOU CELEBRATE?, and Hero.

As a gift and token of their close friendship, Tsai personally created a fondant cake made out of Amuro’s likeness!