ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION will celebrate their best hits album, “BEST HIT AKG” release with a special program on NicoNico Live. The best hits album, previously reported on here, is set to drop on January 18th and the NicoNico Live program begins...

The charts for December 2011 are dominated by another 1+ million selling single by AKB48 with their “Uekara Mariko” selling a huge 1,273,748 and putting it nearly 1 million ahead of the second place single. The rest of the top 5 singles is dominated by boy groups with ...

Rock trio The Sketchbook’s third single “Message” and b-side song “HERO” which is featured as the new ending theme to ongoing anime SKET DANCE has been announced for release on February 1st. The Sketchbook’s formation and each of there 3 releases...

Idol group 9nine has released the CD cover jackets for the 4 different editions of their new single “Shoujo Traveler” previously reported here. The title track is featured as the current ending theme to ongoing anime Beelzebub (Sundays 7:30am JST) and is set for release on January...

Chatmonchy has gathered up 17 of their best songs and will release them in the album “Chatmonchy BEST ~ 2005-2011 ~”. The Limited edition version includes a bonus DVD with 17 live performances covering 20 songs. Look for both the final Chatmonchy album that features...

SKE48 new single “Kataomoi Finally” will be their 8th overall and is set for a big release on January 25th. The single will come in three limited editions all with CD+DVD and each edition features different CD accompanying and DVD video tracks. Release details follow,SKE48 -...

A new music charity project has been announced,  “JAPAN UNITED with MUSIC” with 30 top artists to cover The Beatles‘ hit song “All You Need Is Love”. All profits from the project will be donated to help children affected by the earthquake. Details follow, Participating...

A bit of a quiet week for major new releases on both the singles and albums after New Years. Landing in the #1 spot for singles is Johnny’s Entertainment group NYC (featuring member Yuma Nakayama) and their single “Wonderful Cupid/NYC Glass no Maho” with about 40,000...

Takahashi Ai’s full music video of “Jishin motte Yume wo motte Tobitatsu Kara” which is part the “Petit Best 12 DVD” released back on December 7th 2011 has been posted on the Morning Musume official YouTube channel. The “Petit Best 12...

ORANGE RANGE celebrates their 10th anniversary of their CD debut this year and will be releasing a new album in April to commemorate. They will also embark on a national tour beginning in May as well as provide special treats to their fans on the 10th of every month leading up to a...

Singles week chart preview 2012 January 2nd - 8th A very quiet week for new releases after New Years and based on the Oricon daily numbers for singles the #1 spot will go to Johnny’s Entertainment group NYC (featuring member Yuma Nakayama) and their single “Wonderful ...

T.M.Revolution held a two day live event to bring in the New Year - “T.M.R. NEW YEAR PARTY '12 LIVE REVOLUTION” - at Nippon Budokan on January 1st and 2nd. 20,000 fans packed into the Budokan over the 2 days to celebrate with Takanori Nishikawa or has...

Nana Mizuki’s 26th single “Synchrogazer” is set for release on January 11th. The new single is featured as the opening theme for Winter 2012 anime “Senhime Zessho Symphogear” (Symphogear).  Release details follow,Besides providing the opening theme song,...

Idol group 9nine is busy again with a new single “Shoujo Traveler” which made its debut as the new ending theme to ongoing anime Beelzebub on January 7th. The new single doesn’t have an official title yet, nor are the covers released but the track lists and...

Minori Chihara will be releasing her 4th album titled “D-Formation” which will include 5 previously released singles as well as other tracks from composers/songwriters such as Saori Kodama and Aki Hatake. The new album will come in 3 editions one of which includes Blu-ray which completely captures...

Jin Akanishi tops the singles charts with his latest single “Seasons” just edging out AKB48 subgroup No Sleeves (no3b) and sister group SDN48 who were 2nd and 3rd respectively. On the album charts the combo album of EXILE...