Hey! Say! JUMP shows fans their their next PARADE with new album!

After their Oricon charting hit “fanfare”, popular male idol group Hey! Say! JUMP announced that they will be dropping a brand new album, PARADE, October 30. This will be the group’s latest album since SENSE or LOVE back in August 2018 and will be their seventh full album overall. Hey! Say! JUMP hopes to entice fans with the otherworldly theme of “dreams” and “fascination” and will have PARADE be released with fourteen tracks. The album will also drop with three editions, a CD-only standard edition and two CD + DVD limited editions simply titled Type 1 and Type 2. Not much is different between the two limited editions as will both ship with a making-of and video clips of different songs exclusive to the edition. In true Johnny’s fashion the standard editions will have fans thinking twice about which editions to buy, as they will release with two additional songs, upping their track totals to sixteen.

Pre-order all three editions of PARADE along with a CDJapan only bundle edition in the links below!

Standard edition

Limited edition Type 1

Limited edition Type 2

Bundle edition 

Hey! Say! JUMP「PARADE」

CD

・COSMIC☆HUMAN

・Lucky-Unlucky

・愛だけがすべて -What do you want?-

・ファンファーレ！

Along with others

Limited Edition Type 1 DVD

・”獣と薔薇” (“Kimono to Bara”) Music video and making-of *Track is only attached to this edition 

Limited Edition Type 2 DVD

・”パレードが始まる” (“Parade ga Hajimaru”) Music video and making-of *Track is only attached to this edition 

m-flo has lost their humanity

Hip-hop sensation m-flo revealed they will be doing the main theme for the upcoming animated movie Human Lost. Human Lost is a science fiction movie that is a modern-day retelling of the 1948 short novel No Longer Human. m-flo has teamed up with J. Balvin to create a song that brings various different cultures together. J. Balvin is a singer from Colombia who is growing in popularity in the States and has worked with super-popular artists like Cardi B and Bad Bunny. The song will also be called “Human Lost” and is set to be released October 23. On the single, along with “Human Lost”, will be the latest ending for fantasy anime Black Clover and it will be titled “against all gods”. “Human Lost/ against all gods” will be released in a single CD-only edition. You can pre-order your copy of the upcoming single here and if you’re curious about the upcoming movie Human Lost, give the official trailer a watch.

Music Corner Week 21: BiSH

BiSH is an alternative idol group that got its start in January of 2015 when it was announced the group was being formed. It is a spin-off of the sister group BiS, which stands for Brand new Idol Society. BiSH, like their sister group, is also an acronym but this time it means Brand new Idol Shit. BiSH’s initial line-up consisted of five members and over the course of the group, while they had a few members come and go, they have managed to maintain a consistent number of five members. SCRAMBLES.Inc is the production team behind BiSH and they contribute to an array of other groups like Gang Parade, EMPiRE, and KAT-TUN, just to name a few. 

Today’s current members are Aina The End, Cent Chihiro Chittiii, Momoko Gumi Company, Lingling, Hashiyasume Atsuko, and Ayuni D. BiSH had their very first release be digital with their song “Spark” which would go on to be the first song on their debut album Brand-new Idol SH**, released May 27, 2015. BiSH has since gone on to release a total of five albums with the latest release from July 3 of this year. Their latest album Carrots and Sticks is the combination of two mini-albums, one titled Carrots and the other titled Sticks. Showing no signs of slowing down, BiSH has already revealed their next single—currently untitled—will be out in November and serve as the group’s sixth single overall. 

In BiSH’s song “Life is Beautiful” you get a really good showcase of the vocal talent of the ladies in the group. They do such a good job conveying a wide range of emotions that allow the listener to really connect with them. However, the great thing about BiSH is that they have a wide variety of songs and really cover a bunch of different styles of music. “Here’s Looking At You, Kid” is very much a fun upbeat song that has a very nice punk vibe to it and then you have songs like “Sharr” where they go full alternative idol with lots of shrilling and screaming throughout the song. BiSH is truly a group I recommend listening to several songs of before passing judgment.

You can check out more stuff about BiSH on their official website and you can follow them on Twitter. Finally, be sure to check out their heart-touching song “Life Is Beautiful” below.

Nogizaka46 says goodbye to another member

On September 1 Nogizaka46 held its final stop for their 2019 live tour titled Nogizaka 46 Midsummer Tour 2019 which was also the final performance for long-term member Reika Sakurai. Per usual, it was a somber affair filled with tears and a level of camaraderie shining through as fellow members wished Sakurai one final goodbye. In the encore of the show Sakurai addresses the audience and discusses her emotions as she leaves the group. She expresses how much the group has meant to her but mentions she has a dream and feels that in order to achieve her dream she needs to branch out on her own. Akimoto, owner of the Nogizaka46 brand, came out on stage to recall some of the good times with Sakurai. Reika Sakurai will be the center of the upcoming single “Yoakemade Tsuyogaranakutemoii”, her last, which is already out on YouTube (you can check it out for yourself below). “Yoakemade Tsuyogaranakutemoii” is currently available for pre-order and will be posted below. We wish Sakurai the absolute best in her future endeavors.

Standard Edition

Limited Edition Type A

Limited Edition Type B

Limited Edition Type C

Limited Edition Type D

Sphere achieves a first for upcoming single!

Popular returning four-member voice actress-turned-idol group sphere announced that they they will be releasing a brand new single titled “Sign” October 23.  “Sign” will be the latest single since “best friends” back in June and will be the group’s second single since returning from their hiatus back in 2017. It will be a first for the group as it will be attached to a live action project compared to their usual animated ones. “Sign” will be the second season’s  ending theme song for popular Tokusatsu show Ultraman Taiga with its coupling B-side track being the main theme for Gekidan Sphere, a drama that Sphere will also star in airing on TOKYO MX October 16. The single will drop with two editions, a CD-only standard edition and a CD+ Blu-ray which will include the music video as well. Pre-order both editions in the link below!

Standard edition 

Limited edition