Music program 'Music Station' has announced their music guest lineup for December 2nd. This Friday's program will host six artists that include KAT-TUN, Koda Kumi, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, JUJU, Perfume, and Yuzu. Perfume will perform a special medly including a track from their upcoming album "JPN", which is due out November 30th. Check out the line up below! - KAT-TUN - 'BIRTH' Koda Kumi - 'Love Me Back' Sandaime J Soul Broth

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On November 14th, it was announced that a cover album for Oda Kazumasa sang by various great artists, such as Suzuki Masayuki and Makihara Noriyuki, titled "Kotoba ni Dekinai~Oda Kazumasa Best Covers~" will be released on December 21st.  It will be a collection cover album of Oda's masterpieces from his time in the band "Off Course" to the present. This will be the first time for a cover album of Oda will be released. The album will have total

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It's been revealed that GLAY's new song, "Time for Christmas", will feature JUJU as a guest vocalist. "Time for Christmas" can be found in GLAY's upcoming mini-album, "Hope and The Silver Sunrise". JUJU recently covered GLAY's "BELOVED" for a Sony CM, which inspired TAKURO to approach JUJU with an offer to participate in their next project. The mini-album will be released on December 14th, and will only be available through GLAY's offic

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On November 9th, model/actress Anne and actor Kiritani Kenta received the 'Whiskey Lovers Award' at a ceremony in Tokyo. The two of them were chosen as the two 'New Whiskey Lovers', representing young stars that are expected to 'mature' towards a great future, just like good whiskey. Anne commented while receiving the award, "With this I've finally joined the group of adults. From now on I'd like to deepen my knowledge about and love fo

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It's been revealed that singer YURI will be making her solo debut with her cover album, "LoveRespectHarmony", on January 11th. YURI is known as a 'large-scale' new artist as she has provided background vocals in live tours and recording for many artists including Kubota Toshinobu, Dreams Come True, Tortoise Matsumoto, JUJU, and AI. For the album, YURI will cover songs from artists she has already worked with in the past. She will collab

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Below is the artist line-up for the next MUSIC STATION episode airing on October 28th. "Special medley" - AKB48 "Negau Ijyou no Koto, Inoru Ijyou no Koto" - KinKi Kids "Eien wa Tada no Ichibyou Kara" - JAY'ED x JUJU "365-nichi no Love Story" - Sonar Pocket "Spice" - Perfume Source: MUSIC STATION (TV Asahi)

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The Recording Industry Association of Japan (or ‘RIAJ’ for short), has just released the digital recording sales certifications that were achieved within the month of September. In order to be able to announce the certifications, the RIAJ works together with almost all of the digital and mobile download portals in Japan, including recochoku, music.jp, mu-mo (Avex), oricon ME, dwango and many more. Totalizing the data from all those maj

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An all star Christmas live event called "LAWSON present MUSIC FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE supported by Sukapaa" will be held during a three day span between December 23rd and 25th at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Some top names such as flumpool, Hilcrhyme, and Kimaguren have already been chosen to perform at this live event. During the three day event, 15 groups will participate in making it a memorable Christmas for everyone. Now, it has been reve

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It's been revealed that singer JUJU's new song, "Lullaby Of Birdland", has been chosen as the theme song for Sawamura Ikki's upcoming drama, "DOCTORS Saikyou no Meii". JUJU expressed her happiness saying, "Since last year, this will be the second time my song will be used in Sawamura-san's drama. I'm very honored to have 'Lullaby Of Birdland', the song I used to cover during my stay in New York, will be used for the drama." She continued,

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The radio rip for JAY'ED and JUJU's collaboration single, "Eien wa Tada Ichibyou Kara" has been revealed! This single is set for release on October 19th under the name of "JAY'ED×JUJU". This upcoming single is their collaboration in two and a half years and features the smooth vocals of the two artists along with the fitting beautiful melody in the background. Listen to it below!

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