This week’s guests were Moriyama Naotaro, Hiromi Uehara, AI, SixTONES, King Gnu, and flumpool.

Moriyama Naotaro – Sakura (Dokusho)

Hiromi Uehara – Ue o Muite Arukou

AI – Story / Aldebaran

SixTONES – Kyomei

King Gnu – Chameleon

flumpool – Akashi

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This week’s episode featured JUJU. Later this month, she will release a Yumi Matsutoya cover album. Yuming appears on the show when JUJU attends one of her concerts.

JUJU – Mamotte Agetai / DESTINY / Sotsugyou Shashin

This week, NMB48 topped the Combined Single chart with her single “Koi to Ai no Sono Aida ni wa”, with 152,985 points in its first week of physical release.

Utada Hikaru topped the Combined Album chart with their new album “BAD Mode”, with 96,286 points in its first week.

NMB48 also topped the Single chart with “Koi to Ai no Sono Aida ni wa”, selling 152,131 copies in its first week.

Hikaru also topped the Album chart with “BAD Mode”, selling 91,102 copies in its first week.

Aimer topped the Digital Single chart for the second consecutive week with her single “Zankyou Sanka”, selling 16,469 copies its 12th week, topping the chart for the seventh non-consecutive week.

The “ENDWALKER:FINAL FANTASY ⅩⅣ” original soundtrack topped the Digital Album chart, selling 6,392 copies in its first week.

Aimer also topped the Streaming chart for the fourth consecutive week with “Zankyou Sanka”, with 8,614,454 streams in its 12th week, topping the chart for the seventh non-consecutive week.

Cocomi has won numerous awards for her flute playing since first learning the instrument at the age of 11. She is now ready to make her reording debut.

On April 29, Cocomi will release her debut album, “de l’amour” on New York-based label DECCA GOLD. The album’s title, French for “love”, was chosen by Cocomi and was inspired by French composer Francis Poulenc‘s 1940 song “Les Chemins de l’amour.”

“de l’amour” will feature ten classic songs that Cocomi loves and wants to share with the world. Muramatsu Takatsugu serves as the album’s arranger. Cocomi is joined on the album by various classical musicians, including David Garrett, Ray Chen, and Milos, much to her delight.

Ahead of the release of the album, one of its songs, a new version of French composer Gabriel Faure‘s 1893 song “Sicilienne”, has been releases to streaming services. Cocomi has also releases a shirt teaser for the album featuring the song. Check it out below!

Snow Man member Hikaru Iwamoto is the cover boy for the 829th issue of the fitness magazine Tarzan, out March 10.

Hikaru currently has a column in the magazine dedicated to his own muscle training techniques, the title of which translates as “Muscle Bard Iwamoto Hikaru Betrayal Muscle Training Method.”

A former track and field club member, Hikaru has wanted to reappear on the magazine’s cover for about a year, since his 50m sprint plan came to be realized. His sprint time will be revealed in the magazine, as well as his thoughts on the importance of core training.

Check out Hikaru’s full cover below!

The Johnnys’ Jr. group Travis Japan made a surprise announcement during an Instagram Live today. The group revealed that they will be moving to Los Angeles later this month to train.

The group’s time in the US will be spent honing their singing and dancing skills, as well as continuing their English language studies. All of this will be done while living together.

During their time overseas, Travis Japan will compete in the “Orange County 2022” portion of the “World of Dance Championship” on March 27. This stems from their desire to compete in a local dance competition.

YOSHIKI and NTV are teaming up to create a new boyband via a survival series. Coming on the heels of the channel’s “Nizi Project”, which created NiziU, and “THE FIRST”, which created BE:FIRST, comes “YOSHIKI SUPERSTAR PROJECT X.” The goal is to created the strongest boyband that can compete on the world stage.

YOSHIKI said that he wanted to take on this project as a means of contributing to the next generation of musical stars. He wants to give advice to young people based on his decades of experience and as one who has overseas activities.

Even though he is known for visual kei, YOSHIKI said that the group that emerges from the show could be a dance or hip hop one. He is looking for a fashionable and edgy genreless group that doesn’t have to be eccentric.

Recruitment of trainees for the started this week.

In related news, YOSHIKI recently donated ¥10,000,000 to the “Ukrainian Humanitarian Crisis Emergency Assistance Fundraiser.” Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Rakuten Group CEO Hiroshi Mikitani created the “Ukrainian Humanitarian Crisis Emergency Assistance Fundraiser” so that Rakuten shoppers could donated money or Rakuten points to help in the relief effort.

YOSHIKI retweeted Mikitani and announced his donation to the fund.

Chrleck out his tweet and a teaser for “YOSHIKI SUPERSTAR PROJECT X” below!