Johnny & Associates has announced that King & Prince will end activites as a five member unit on May 22, 2023. This stems from Sho Hirano, Yuta Kishi, and Yuta Jinguji‘s decision to leave the group and the company.
The announcement says that since last year the group and their staff have been been discussing future activities, and realized that they were going in different directions, including overseas activities. There was also a need for more personal time. This resulted in the end of King & Prince as a five member group. Sho and Yuta J. will also leave Johnny & Associates on May 22, while Yuta K. leaving next fall. The new King & Prince, consisting of remaining members Ren Nagase and Kaito Takahashi, will continue their activities on May 23.
This week, Official HIGE DANdism topped the Hot 100 single chart with their digital single “Subtitle”, with 14,433 points in its second week.
LE SSERAFIM topped the Hot Albums chart with their new mini album “ANTIFRAGILE.”
Ado topped the Artist 100 chart for the fourth consecutive week.
Tonight, “MTV VMAJ 2022” was held. The big winner of the night was SEKAI NO OWARI, who took home the night’s top prize, Best Video Award, for “Habit”. The band also was the winner of Best Dance Video for that video.
Some of the winners appeared in person, while others sent in taped messages. Check out photos from the show below!
On November 2, Mika Nakashima will release her new single, “Wish.” The song is the ending theme for the TOKYO MX anime series “Berserk Ogon Jidai Hen MEMORIAL EDITION.”
The single’s B-side, “Mirage”, was composed and arranged by Sagisu Shiro, who created the music for the anime.
“Wish” will be released in two versions: CD+Blu-ray limited edition and CD only regular edition. The limited edition will feature a TV size version of “Wish” on the CD and a non-credit ending of the anime on the Blu-ray.
In tandem with the release of the single, Mika has released the music video for “Wish.” In it, Mika sings on a cliffside while wearing beautiful, intricate costumes. Check it out below!
Maki Goto recently attracted attention with a series of 30 song covers she did on her YouTube channel, “Gomaki no Guild.” She followed this up by going on tour with those songs in September.
On November 2, Maki will release a digital cover album, “Song of You and Me!” The album will feature 16 of the 30 songs released in the YouTube series, but remastered. These covers include songs by the likes of Namie Amuro, Utada Hikaru, AKB48, Koda Kumi, Suda Masaki, and Morning Musume.
Check out more information on this releae below!
On November 23, TV Tokyo will air its first winter music special, “TV Tokyo Music Festival 2022 Winter.” It will air from 5:30 PM JST – 9:54 PM JST. The show will be hosted by the show’s usual hosts, TOKIO’s Kokubun Taichi and Hirosue Ryoko. Johnny’s WEST will serve as the show’s cheer captains, just as they did earlier this year for “TV Tokyo Music Festival 2022 Natsu.”
Johnny’s WEST will also be performing on the show, along with seven other Johnny’s acts. See who else is performing below!
On November 1, Chara will release her new single, “A・O・U.” The song was produced by mabanua. The lyrics to the groovy song were inspired by news Chara read about how the flowers of plant that had been under the permafrost for 30,000 years has now bloomed.
The single’s B-side, “Omokage”, was produced by Ohashi Trio.
Chara’s new single comes in a CD+Blu-ray limited edition and a CD only regular edition. The blu-ray that comes with the limited edition features footage from Chara’s “Chara’s Time Machine:30th Anniversary Live” concert which was held at Tokyo’s LINE CUBE SHIBUYA on September 20, 2021.
This week’s guests were Magokoro Brothers and LIL LEAGUE.
Magokoro Brothers – Isshoku Sokuhatsu
LIL LEAGUE – Rollah Coaster
