The Recording Industry Association of Japan (or 'RIAJ' for short), has just released the digital recording sales certifications that artists achieved during the month of January. To announce the certifications, the RIAJ works together with almost all of the digital and mobile download portals in Japan, including recochoku, dwango, music.jp, mu-mo (Avex), oricon ME, and many more. After compiling the data from all the major download por

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B'z will be providing a theme song for Capcom's new game "Dragon's Dogma," titled, "Into Free -Dragon-." The new song "Into Free -Dragon-" is a re-recorded version of "Samayoeru Aoi Dangan" which was released in 1998, with a newly written lyrics in English.  It's currently undecided whether they would release that version or not. "Dragon's Dogma" is an upcoming action game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 that will be released from Ca

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Rock duo B'z has uploaded their new CM for 'Pepsi Nex' on their official YouTube channel. The CM, titled "Xmas Lover", depicts a merry couple ice skating in the snow. B'z also makes an appearance in the CM, singing their hit song, "Itsuka no Merry Christmas". Check out the CM below! - <60 sec> <30 sec> Source: natalie

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Weekly entertainment magazine “Only★Star” has revealed its 8th “20,000 Music Fans Select Their Favorite Artist Ranking”. As expected, Arashi kept their position from last year, coming in at #1 for two consecutive years. Additionally, this year also saw some big leaps. Popular for their hit songs and infamous “Senbatsu General Election”, the girls of AKB48 jumped from #30 to #11. Meanwhile, Perfume jumped from #28 to #20 with their movie a

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B'z's new album "C'mon" sold approximately 272,000 copies in its first week, topping the weekly ranking for August 8th and pushing their total lifetime record sales to a staggering 80 million copies! Since making their debut back in September of 1988, the legendary rock duo has released forty-nine singles and nineteen original full albums. With the release of their latest album "C'mon", B'z has sold approximately 80.046 million copies of t

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“C’mon”, the newest album of the popular rock band B’z, has already sold 112,000 copies on its first day and topped the Oricon Daily Album Ranking chart. Since their November 2009 release of their album “MAGIC” (sold 500,000 copies in total), they have placed first a total of 24 times on the Oricon Weekly Album Ranking. With this achievement, they broke their previous record for most albums topping the chart. This album comprises of a tota

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Aside from mobile music download site Recochoku, Oricon also recently published the results of a survey that asked 900 people to choose their favorite song for the summer. Moreover, Oricon decided to split the result into three different rankings, showing the different tastes of those in their teens, twenties and thirties. However, there is one song that stands out being on the top of every of those three rankings. Can you guess which s

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Rock duo B'z has officially opened their own Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook accounts! The group's YouTube channel opened on July 8th, and currently features several of their latest PVs, CMs, live performances, and more for their fans. The Twitter and Facebook accounts both recently opened as well and currently have little information so far, but most of the posts / tweets are centered around their current North American tour. The only m

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Fans of the famous rock band, B’z, will be excited to hear that the boys plan to Ustream their final concert stop from the ‘B’z LIVE – GYM 2011 – long time no see-‘ tour on the night of July 24th. This concert will be held in Los Angeles, and marks the final show for the band's mini North American tour. They will be performing at Vancouver and San Francisco, before they head down to L.A. What's particularly exciting is that the concerts ar

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Rock duo B'z will appear in the latest set of "Pepsi Nex" CMs! For their latest endorsement, B'z will give a dynamic performance to express the deliciousness and appeal of the drink. The commercial shows B'z performing on a street corner, where their live drams in person after person to the area. Filming for the commercial reportedly utilized a huge residential set 1.4 times the size of Nihon Budoukan, in addition to using a large crowd of ext

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