Happy Valentines Day, Arama!

What kind of man Japanese women would like to give their chocolates to? For the occasion, ORICON STYLE released results for one of their most popular yearly polls, “Which male celebrity do you wish to be your lover?”. Arashi’s Aiba Masaki reigns at the top for the 3rd year in a row.

Find out the overall results and top 5 for the different age groups below.

AISHA has signed a new record deal! She is now under Universal Music Japan’s Universal D sub-label. The first release under this new deal is the digital single “Usotsuki LIAR”, out February 14. In the song, AISHA calls out her lying boyfriend. The video for the song features AISHA partying with her friend Miyagawa Maya in celebration of the relationship’s end. Check it out below!

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

This week, STU48 topped the Oricon single chart with their debut single “Kurayami”, selling 136,456 copies in its first week.

EXO topped the Oricon album chart with their debut Japanese album “COUNTDOWN”, selling 89,425 copies in its first week.

EXILE topped the Oricon digital single chart with their new single “PARTY ALL  NIGHT ~STAR OF WISH~”, selling 29,635 copies in its first week.

WANIMA topped the Oricon digital album chart for the third consecutive week with “Everybody!!”, selling 3,148 copies in its second week.

Hello, Arama! Japan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week saw NEWS defeat Mr.Children and DAOKO x Yonezu Kenshi. Mr.Children and DAOKO x Yonezu Kenshi are back again this week, facing off against a newcomer. Find out what various staff members thought of the songs that topped the singles charts this week and share your thoughts on them too!

Singer-songwriter MEG has joined Shibuya-based management company ASOBISYSTEM, whose artist roster features Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and previous collaborators Nakata Yasutaka and TeddyLoid.

MEG’s most recent musical project was her 8th studio album CONTINUE, which was released on December 4, 2013. Since then, there has been radio silence in terms of future music releases from the artist known to release multiple albums in a single year.

This week, KinKi Kids topped the Hot 100 chart with their single “Topaz Love.”

AKB48 topped the Hot Albums chart with their new album “Bokutachi wa, Ano Hi no Yoake wo Shitteiru”

DAOKO x Yonezu Kenshi topped the Streaming Songs chart with “Uchiage Hanabi”, topping the chart for the 13th non-consecutive week.

Mr.Children topped the Download Songs chart with their single “here comes my love” for the second consecutive week.

Jonghyun topped the Download Albums chart with his posthumous album “Poet Artist.”

Gender-defying talent Ryucheru has branded as RYUCHELL for his musical debut under Universal Music Japan today with digital single “Hands up!! If you’re Awesome.“

This brand new song is an ’80s-inspired pop number produced by Kenmochi Hidefumi of Suiyoubi no Campanella and co-written by songwriter Kanata Okajima and RYUCHELL himself.

RYUCHELL pulled all the stops with this throwback bop, complementing the sound with a cusp-of-’90s VHS-quality music video directed by artist Fantasista Utamaro and reminiscent of the urban sets from American television series “In Living Color“.