On December 15th at 7 PM, Japan’s NTV network will broadcast live their year end program, “Best Artist 2010″, and they’ve finally announced the full lineup of guests for the special event.
This year the show will feature:
YTV will be holding their annual music awards presentation of the “Best Hit Kayousai 2010” on November 25th. The show will be broadcast through NTV, and they have finally announced their nominations for the “Gold Artist Award.”
Currently, the artists nominated for the prestegious award are ICONIQ, Ikimonogakari, Uemura Kana, EXILE, AKB48, GIRL NEXT DOOR, Koda Kumi, Nishino Kana, …
The 43rd annual Yuusen Taishou Awards have announced their nominees for their winter award ceremony on November 18th.
The “Yuusen Ongaku Yuushuu Shou” award for musical excellence has several nominations. Among the performers honored are Uemura Kana, Ootsuki Miyako, JUJU, Nishino Kana, Hikawa Kiyoshi, hilcrhyme, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, and Mizumori Kaori for a total of eight nominees. Besides the overall musical …
This week’s episode of Music Station was broadcasted with a lot of gorgeous guests on August 13th! Make sure to watch it fast!
Popular hip-hop group, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS has reached a total of 20 millions views on their official Youtube channel. This is the most amount of views among all Japanese artists.
One of the members, Funky Kato said, “It’s only 80 millions more to reach 100 millions! After coming this far, we want to try the unprecedented record on Youtube!”
Let’s participate to …
With the fast pace of the internet and file sharing, Japan’s CD album sales have plummeted. SIP, a market research company conducted a research for CD sales for the first half of the fiscal year. The accumulated costs of CD singles and albums for 2010 are 120.6B yen. This is a 7.4% drop from around the same time in 2009. While CD …
The list of artists and singers scheduled to perform on the July 25th edition “MUSIC JAPAN” (NHK) has been released. This week, Umika as Yamako (Kawashima Umika), GACKT, No Sleeves (AKB48), FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, and WaT will be performing on the show.
One of the members of idol group 9nine, Kawashima Umika is using the name “Umika as Yamako” to …
Monkichi on right
Monkichi on right
Monkichi of hip-hop group, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, announced on his blog that he has been married since January 23rd.
“I’m sorry for late and sudden announcement. I’ve been busy and behind schedule. This year, on January 23rd, my unrequited love has been answered and I got married. Oh man, it was long~ but a ‘good job’ …
