Daisuke Ono Has Dramatic Reveal With Latest Single!

Vocalist Daisuke Ono revealed more information about his upcoming single “Dramatic”, which released March 4. “Dramatic” is the latest single from Ono since “Deep & Holic” back in December of last year and is his thirteenth single overall. “Dramatic” is set as the theme song for the Tokusatsu movie Ultraman Taiga New Generation Climax which dropped March 6. Ono was involved as its series narrator as well.

The single will drop with two tracks along with instrumentals, totaling to four tracks. The B-side track, “More Super Love”, is written by fellow voice actor Showtaro Morikubo and will be released with two editions, a standard CD-only standard edition and a CD + Blu-ray limited edition which will include the music video for “Dramatic”.

Pre-order both editions of “Dramatic” below!

Standard edition 

Limited edition 

Track listing:

Daisuke Ono「Dramatic 」

CD

01. ドラマティック

02. More Super Love

03. ドラマティック Off Vocal

04. More Super Love Off Vocal

Limited Edition Blu-ray

・「ドラマティック」Music Video

IVVY Winks At Fans With New Video

Ahead of the release of their newest single, boy group IVVY dropped a teaser for their upcoming single “WINK”, set to drop March 25. “WINK” will be released in two editions total including a standard CD-only edition and a limited edition which will come with a bonus Blu-ray. On the limited edition CD there will be a bonus three year anniversary version of the group’s song “Alice”. You can check out “WINK” in the video below along with pre-order links and the full track listing.

Standard Edition

Limited Edition

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IVVY [WINK]

1. WINK

2. ALICE

3. PAIN

4. ALICE (Ikemen Revolution 3rd ANNIVERSARY) Limited Edition Only

All Eyes Are On milet's Debut Album!

Up-and-coming Japanese vocalist milet announced her long-awaited debut album eyes, which is set to drop May 13! eyes comes hot on the trail of milet’s fifth EP Prover/Tell me which came out February 19. The album will feature the main tracks from her previous EPs: inside you, Wonderland, us, You&I/Drown, and her latest Prover/Tell me, along with new material, for a total of 18 tracks. Toru, from the hit rock band ONE OK ROCK, produced two of the tracks, “us” and “inside you”. He is a featured artist in “Somebody” and “The Love We’ve Made” as well.

eyes will come in three marvelous editions: CD + Blu-ray limited edition Type A, CD + DVD limited edition Type B, and a CD-only regular edition. The CD + Blu-ray limited edition Type A will feature milet’s music video collection and footage from her first live tour! The CD + DVD limited edition Type B will only feature her music video collection. If you order early, CD Japan has a first press bonus poster which will come with a copy of her album! Check out the pre-order links and a tentative track listing and trailer for eyes below!

milet/eyes

CD+Blu-ray Limited edition

CD+DVD Limited edition

CD-only regular edition

Track listing:

CD

01. Again and Again (eyes mix)
02. Parachute
03. 航海前夜 (Koukai Zenya)
04. Somebody
05. inside you
06. Drown
07. You & I
08. タイトル未定（新録曲）(TBA)
09. タイトル未定（新録曲）(TBA)
10. Dome
11. Tell me
12. Wonderland
13. us
14. Prover
15. タイトル未定（新録曲） (TBA)
16. タイトル未定（新録曲）(TBA)
17. Fire Arrow
18. The Love We've Made

Type A Blu-ray / Type BB DVD

Music Video Collection (Type A and Type B)

milet first live "eye"（Type A only）
・航海前夜
・Undone
・Waterfall
・us
・Runway
・Imaginary Love
・Fire Arrow
・Drown
・inside you
・Parachute
・Fine Line
・Wonderland
・I Gotta Go
・You & I
・Rewrite
・us -acoustic ver.-
・Diving Board

Tuneback Tuesday for the Third Week of March

Let’s turn back the hands of time as we look back at the songs that impacted the Japanese music industry on the Oricon Weekly Chart. This week we dive into the third week of March for both 2010 and 2015 where Johnny’s boy group ARASHI and dominating mega-idol group AKB48 reigned supreme with “Troublemaker” and “Green Flash” respectively. But what made these songs just so great?

Starting off the decade, Johnny’s boy group ARASHI released their twenty-ninth single “Troublemaker”. Set to be the theme song of member Sho Sakurai’s then upcoming comical-lawyer-drama 特上カバチ!! (Tokujou Kabachi!!), the single kicked off what was then to be known as the peak of their popularity. The single was written by H. Suzuki, composed by Masashi Ohtsuki, and played to the group’s uplifting style with a high energy composition that had fans jumping out of their seats and dancing. “Troublemaker” debuted at number-one on the daily charts selling close to 232,000 copies and debuted on the weekly charts selling over 540,000 copies. Reaching that sales mark made Arashi the second group to have single sales exceed over 500,000 for two consecutive years and had ended to become the third best-selling single of 2010. 

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“Green Flash” was mega-idol group AKB48’s thirty-ninth single and was written by like all song by the 48 system at this time by Yasushi Akimoto, composed by Carlos K. Yuki Kashiwagi, as well as Haruna Kojima were the center performers for this song and was Kashiwagi’s first time being center albeit being in a double center format. “Green Flash” had stood apart from other 48 system’s style of songs by holding a medium-tempo composition, with member Minami Takahashi and Sayaka Yamamoto rapping throughout the song. While on paper this gamble might of failed, but against all odds initially sold over 860,000 copies on it’s first day and sold over 1 million copies in the first week. The single became the 20th consecutive million-selling single, making AKB48 the first group to achieve such a feat. It is also the twenty-sixth consecutive Oricon chart topping single breaking Ayumi Hamasaki’s record of twenty-five.

Awich Promotes New Album With Brainwashing!

Japanese female rapper and Indie Corner veteran Awich dropped her latest music video for her song “Sen’nou (Brainwashing) feat. DOGMA & CHINZA DOPENESS”. The track is featured on Kujyaku, Awich’s second full-length album, which was released January 11. It features the previously released songs “NEBUTA”, “Kami Hikouki (Paper Airlplane)”, “Gangsta”, “Open It Up”, and more, totaling to 20 tracks! “Sen’nou (Brainwashing)” is a heavily hip-hop track featuring two indie rappers, DOGMA and CHINZA DOPENESS, and it was produced by Chaki Zulu who has played a role in many of Awich’s songs.

Check out the promotional video for “Sen’nou (Brainingwashing)” and don’t forget to grab your copy of Kujyaku on CDJapan if you haven’t yet!

Warning - The below promotional video and the album itself contain explicit lyrics.

Awich - Kujyaku CD-only

Track listing:

1. Love Me Up

2. 洗脳 ft. DOGMA & 鎮座DOPENESS

3. NWO

4. NEBUTA ft. kZm: AL ver.

5. Open It Up

6. Poison ft. NENE

7. Bloodshot ft. JP THE WAVY

8. Interlude 1 (Island Girls)

9. 紙飛行機

10. 4:44

11. Lose Control

12. What You Want ft. IO

13. Interlude 2 (Good Man)

14. First Light

15. Gangsta

16. Interlude 3 (Remember?)

17. Pressure

18. Interlude 4 (No Pressure)

19. DEIGO ft. OZworld

20. Arigato