Oricon reveals their weekly charts for March 26th

Oricon has just revealed the result of their weekly charts for the week of March 26th.

Check it out below!

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<Single Weekly Ranking>

1. “STILL” – Tohoshinki (TVXQ) : 3/14 (138,664)

2. “Wild at Heart” - Arashi : 3/7 (46,411)

3. “Wanna Be With You” – Lead : 3/14 (23,193)

4. “IF YOU WANT” – Himuro Kyosuke : 3/14 (21,204)

5. “Ikiyou” – THE ALFEE : …


Check out the full PV for DiVA’s latest single “Lost the way”!

DiVA has just released their third single “Lost the way” on March 21st, and the full PV to the new song has been unveiled!

As reported previously, the song has been chosen as the theme song for upcoming movie “Ultraman Saga“ (to be released on March 24th) in which seven AKB48 members (four from DiVA: Akimoto Sayaka, Umeda …


Morning Musume reveals the PV to “Renai Hunter”

Morning Musume has finally released the PV to their 49th single “Renai Hunter”. The PV features a lot of sparkles and energy with Morning Musume leader Niigaki Risa getting the center position for her final single.

Check out catchy lyrics and dancing below!

Thanks to everyone who sent this tip in!


Recochoku’s weekly download charts for 03/14~03/20

Recochoku has just updated their weekly charts for the week of March 14th to March 20th.

Check out the top ranking digital singles, chaku-uta, and music videos for this week after the cut!


ORANGE RANGE releases full PV for “Hello Sunshine Hello Future”

Rock group ORANGE RANGE has revealed the full PV for their new song, “Hello Sunshine Hello Future” through Victor Music’s official YouTube channel!

“Hello Sunshine Hello Future” is a track off of the band’s upcoming album, “NEO POP STANDARD“, which is set for release on April 18th.

Check it out below!


Hamasaki Ayumi releases 4 PV’s from “Party Queen”

With the release of her new album on March 21st, singer Hamasaki Ayumi has released four of the music video’s from her album.

The album “Party Queen” is her 13th album contains fourteen songs and three versions. (You can see the track list here.)

Check out four of the fourteen tracks after the jump!


bump.y to release 1st album “Happy! Lucky! Bump.y!”

Idol group bump.y is releasig their first full length album “Happy! Lucky! Bump.y!” on March 21st. The limited edition will include a DVD with music videos and the making of the videos.

This album includes not only their released singles, but also “Colors”, which is the song they sang only at live performance, and “Smileflower”, which was selected one of the song …


Check out the nominees for the 2012 VMAJ

Yesterday we announced that Perfume would be hosting the “MTV VMAJ 2012” (MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2012) at Makuhari Messe on June 23rd. Now a list of performers, special guests, and the nominees have been revealed.

Acts performing at VMAJ 2012 are as follows: EXILE, Kato Miliyah, 2NE1, 2PM, and Sandaime J Soul Brothers

The guest …


Vision Factory opens it’s online dance school!

Home to some of the top artists in Japan, agency Vision Factory has opened their dance school website “RISING Dance School“.

VF has always had it’s own private dance studio but is now opening to it up to the world with dance lesson videos. There will be six genres of dance including B-boy, Hip Hop, and House. All genres will had …


Cocco releases short music video of ‘KOTOKO’

Last September, it was revealed that the movie ‘KOTOKO‘ was awarded with the Orizzonti prize at the ‘68th Venice International Film Festival’.

The movie stars singer-songwriter Cocco, who also provided the ending the theme song “Lollypop”. The singer wrote the song herself and the video to the song has been released on YouTube. The video was made by the pictures …


SPACE SHOWER reveals it’s Video Music Awards Winners

Although the MTV VMAJ’s are coming up, music channel SPACE SHOWER had it’s own music video award show, ‘SPACE SHOWER MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS‘.

Taking home the “BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR AWARD” for the second year in a row is Sakanaction with “Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiitaseidesu.“. Tokyo Jihen took home the award for “BEST ARTIST“.

In the voting category, …


Saito Kazuyoshi to provide theme song for Odagiri Joe’s new drama

It’s been revealed that Saito Kazuyoshi’s new song, “Gekkou“, has been chosen as the theme song for Odagiri Joe’s upcoming drama, “Kazoku no Uta“!

“Kazoku no Uta” is Fuji TV’s newest drama that will air in the ‘dramatic Sunday’ time slot (every Sundays at 9:00 pm) starting April 15th. It’s a human drama that tells a story of …


Ieiri Leo to sing theme song for Amami Yuki’s upcoming drama

Singer-songwriter Ieiri Leo will be singing the theme song for Amami Yuki’s upcoming drama, “Kaeru no Oujo-sama“!

Titled “Shine“, the theme song is described as a support song with powerful lyrics and a beautiful melody. The song will be distributed in Chaku-Uta form starting April 12th, which is the kick off night of the drama.

Ieiri will release “Shine” …


Merengue sings the theme song for Kora Kengo’s upcoming drama ‘Tsumi to Batsu’

On March 19th, it was announced that rock band Merengue will be providing the theme song for the upcoming WOWOW drama ‘Tsumi to Batsu A Falsified Romance‘, starring Kora Kengo.

The drama is a live-action adaptation of Ochiai Naoyuki’s manga of the same title, which is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s famous novel “Crime and Punishment” (1866).

Dostoyevsky’s novel was adapted into modern-day …


PIKO’s new single produced by L’arc-en-Ciel’s TETSUYA

Male singer PIKO has announced a new single is underway. Titled “Emiiro Refrain”  the single will be released April 25th.

The single is also produced by L’arc~en~Ciel bassist TETSUYA. This is TETSUYA’s first time to produce a song for another artist. A treat for PIKO, considering that he is a huge fan L’arc~en~Ciel and also belongs to the same company, Ki/oon …