King & Prince crowns us with first album!

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After the very successful release of their third single “君を待ってる” (“Kimi wo Matteru”), Johnny’s boy group King & Prince announced the release of their first album self-titled King & Prince. Dropping June 19, the debut album is set to include mega-hit “Cinderella Girl” and “君に ありがとう” (“Kimi ni Arigatou”), the theme song for upcoming movie うちの執事が言うことには  (Uchi no Shitsuji ga Iukoto ni wa), along with many more unannounced tracks.

King & Prince will release with four different editions: a CD-only edition along with two limited editions simply titled Type A and Type B, with Type A having a CD + DVD/Blu-ray which will include the music videos of various track along with the making-ofs for the music videos; and two-disc Type B will include tracks from their Johnny Junior days. 

Pre-order at the lovely links below.

Standard Edition

DVD Limited Edition Type A

Blu-ray Limited Edition Type A

Two-disc Limited Edition Type B

King & Prince「King & Prince」

CD

・シンデレラガール (Cinderella Girl)
・Memorial
・君を待ってる (Kimi wo Matteru)
・君に ありがとう (Kimi ni Arigatou)
Along With Several New Tracks

Limited Edition Type A DVD / Blu-ray

・New Track Music Video
・Music Video Making
and more

Limited Edition Type B Additional CD

・Popular Tracks From Jr. Times

chay shows fans what colors are important to her in latest music video!

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Vocalist chay dropped the music video for her upcoming single “大切な色彩” (“Taisetsuna Iro”) on YouTube. “Taisetsuna Iro”, to be released April 24. This will be her twelfth single overall and the latest release done by chay since her single ”あなたの知らない私たち” (“Anata no Shiranai Watashitachi”) back in December of last year. The single will release with three tracks total and will include a cover of Yumi Matsutoya’s popular song “最後の春休み” (“Saigo no Haru Yasumi”). The pairing of Matsutoya’s song goes hand-in-hand with “Taisetsuna Iro”’s theme of thinking back to that specific day of having fun during one’s last spring break before graduation and all of the nostalgia that comes with it. chay hoped to convey these feelings in a very stylistic and cutesy way for the music video.

Pre-order your copy of “Taisetsuna Iro” at the link below:

Standard Edition 

Check out the track listing along with the music video in question also!

Chay’s Tisetsuna Iro

chay「Taisetsuna Iro」

01. 大切な色彩 (Taisetsuna Iro)

02. with

03. 最後の春休み(Saigo no Haru Yasumi)

NGT48 is pressing the reset button

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Mega female idol group NGT48 is officially being dissolved. Following the separation of Nigata with NGT48, the group is looking for a fresh start. Currently there are still two teams that have performances left in April; these teams are Team NIII and Team G. Their performances will be the last for NGT48.

It’s still unclear how big the shakeup will be to the lineup but the new group will be considered first generation members and trainees.

AKS and the NGT management were the ones who ultimately decided the start-over. The reason behind the decision was because there weren’t too many members left and maintaining the group had become too stressful.

EXILE SHOKICHI mysteriously announces title for next solo album!

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Vocalist-dancer EXILE SHOKICHI announced that he will be releasing his second solo album numerically titled 1114 May 15.  Included on 1114 will be SHOKICHI’s past hits such as “Underdog” and “Futen Boyz” along with the upcoming “Psychedelic Romance”—which will drop April 17— totaling to eleven tracks. 

1114 will have five different editions: a CD-only standard edition, CD + DVD/ Blu-ray standard edition, and a CD + DVD/ Blu-ray limited edition. Both editions of CD + DVD/Blu-ray will include music videos of five songs with the limited edition also including a 40-minute documentary cleverly titled 「STORY OF 1114」.

Pre-order all five editions at the links below.

CD-only 

CD + DVD Standard Edition

CD + Blu-ray Standard Edition 

CD + DVD Limited Edition

CD + Blu-ray Limited Edition 

Track listing:

EXILE SHOKICHI 1114

EXILE SHOKICHI「1114」

CD

01. 1114 Miracles

02. マボロシ (Maboroshi)

03. サイケデリックロマンス feat. SALU (Psychedelic Romance)

04. Ooo!

05. Underdog

06. プラトニック・ラブ (Platonic Love)

07. 白夜 (Byakuya)

08. Midnight Traffic

09. Futen Boyz

10. Bad Speed Play

11. 君に会うために僕は生まれてきたんだ (Kimi ni Autame ni Boku ha Umarete Kitanda)

DVD / Blu-ray

01. Underdog Music Video

02. Futen Boyz Music Video

03. 君に会うために僕は生まれてきたんだ Music Video (Kimi ni Autame ni Boku ha Umarete Kitanda)

04. サイケデリックロマンス feat. SALU Music Video (Psychedelic Romance)

05. 白夜 Special Video (Byakuya)

06. STORY OF 1114（※Only Included On Limited Editions)

Daichi Miura has new single around the corner

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Popular vocalist Daichi Miura has a new single coming out just around the corner. The new single, “片隅 (Katasumi) / Corner“, is due out June 12 and serving as an insert song for the TV drama 白衣の戦士！ (Hakui no Senshi!) . “片隅 (Katasumi)” was written and composed by popular Japanese model Koki.

Koki mentioned in a statement that she wrote the song for “someone who has high vocals” and was happy to find out that Miura would be the one performing the song. She says she finds his voice to be gentle. Miura commented how he finds the song to be very beautiful.

“片隅 (Katasumi) / Corner“ is being released in two editions. One edition is the CD + DVD Edition while the other version of “片隅 (Katasumi) / Corner“ that is being released will be a CD + Blu-ray.

Also coming out June 12 is a live recording of the concert Miura did March 13 at Osaka-Jo Hall which was titled “ONE END”. “ONE END” is coming out on both Blu-ray and DVD; both editions will come in a two-disc set along with two CDs as well.

You can pre-order your copy of “片隅 (Katasumi) / Corner“ here:

CD + DVD

CD + Blu-ray

And you can pre-order “ONE END” here.

DVD

Blu-ray