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On December 22, this year’s edition of Music Station’s year end special, Music Station Super Live, will air. The show starts at 7 PM JST and ends at 11:10 PM JST. Earlier today, forty-seven acts were announced to be performing on the show. This roster includes the likes of Arashi, Shiina Ringo, Gesu no Kiwami Otome., Daichi Miura, Ken Hirai, Keyakizaka46, Hoshino Gen, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, Nishino Kana, DAOKO, and more. Check it out below!
![Shiina Ringo, [Alexandros], back number, and More Perform on Music Station for December 1](https://aramajapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/aramajapan_music.png "Shiina Ringo, [Alexandros], back number, and More Perform on Music Station for December 1")
This week’s guests were [Alexandros], back number, Kis-My-Ft2, BiSH, Shiina Ringo, and Masaharu Fukuyama.
[Alexandros] – Ashita, Mata
back number – Mabataki
Kis-My-Ft2 – Akai Kajitsu
BiSH – Promise the Star
Shiina Ringo – Otona no Okite
Masaharu Fukuyama – Tomoe Gakuen
Hello, Arama! Japan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week saw Yonezu Kenshi defeat Arashi and DAOKO x Yonezu Kenshi. DAOKO x Yonezu Kenshi is back again 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!
![[WATCH] Shiina Ringo’s MV for “Jinsei wa Yume Darake”](https://aramajapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/aramajapan.com-aramajapan.com-news-xlarge-sheenaringo-art201711-yori.jpg "[WATCH] Shiina Ringo’s MV for “Jinsei wa Yume Darake”")
Next week, Shiina Ringo will be releasing her second self-covers album “Gyakuyunyuu ~Koukuukyoku~.” (or simply “Reimport 2”). This morning she released the Yuichi Kodama directed music video for “Jinsei wa Yume Darake“- a simple, gentle music video that opens with Ringo accompanied by two girls playing piano, eventually climaxing into another big showtune with her strutting her stuff down a crowded street. You know, daily life in the world of Shiina Ringo.
Keep reading to view the MV!
On November 29, Suiyoubi no Campanella will release a new digital single, “Gala.” The song serves as the CM song for the Suntory’s “Freixenet” line of sparkling wine. In the “Gala” music video, Freixenet is prominently featured, with KOM_I dancing alongside bottles of the sparkling wine and popping out of bottles of it. Later in the clip, she attends a gala where Freixenet is being served. Check out the video below, along with the digital single’s cover!
On November 29, Akiko Yano will release her new album, “Soft Landing.” It is the latest in her series of piano-centric albums. The album is a mix of covers and original material, including the title track, which served as the theme song for the NHK drama “Blanket Cats.” In terms of covers, Akiko will cover the likes of YUKI, Fujifabric, and Burt Bacharach.
“Soft Landing” will be released in a limited edition and a regular edition. The limited edition’s DVD is split into three parts. The first part oversees the album’s making, while the second part includes performance footage from the 90s to today, some of which has never been released before. The third part contains music videos. The limited edition also includes a 76-page booklet which contains interviews with Akiko and the musicians who helped make the new album.
Check out more information on “Soft Landing”, including the album’s trailer, below!
On November 29, 2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) in Japan held in Yokohama Arena celebrated performances and achievements in Korean music. Popular idol group AKB48 and their producer Yasushi Akimoto were also in attendance at the award show. At this event, Mnet announced the upcoming collaboration project between AKB48 and PRODUCE 101. “PRODUCE48” plans to create a global girl group in a collaboration between Mnet and Akimoto.
PRODUCE 101 is a large-scale ‘survival show’ that brings together 101 idol trainees to undergo training in various areas by industry professionals. The audience then gets to ‘produce’ the group by selecting the top 11 members to form a temporary girl unit that will perform for only 1 year. This girl group will release a debut song and promote under a group name and concept that are also chosen by the viewers. On the other hand, we may all be bit more familiar with AKB48 as the “idols you can meet” through their daily theater performances. PRODUCE48 aims to combine the concepts of these two entities to form an unprecedented collaboration program between Japan and Korea in 2018.