When it comes to making strides, this decade was all about Asian pop acts making them in the world of Asian pop music. Aside from sheer talent and devoted fan bases, the biggest driving force and probably the reason why you know about these Asian pop stars is because of well, the Internet. While I didn’t make it on my own list of Top Asian Pop Acts of the Decade, I’m sure you’ll agree wholeheartedly with my choices. And maybe we’ll see me around for the next decade. (Or not.) More »

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Who is best suited to sing a theme song for the Japanese release of a movie based on Disney’s popular fairy icon, Tinkerbell? None other than Ayumi Hamasaki of course! More »

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Uber popular Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki has thought about the future and bought a plot of burial land for herself and her family in Tokyo Central’s Minami Aoyama. More »

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According to a survey conducted by a Japanese video and music chain website, Tsutaya, Namie Amuro was voted as the #1 fashion icon for 2009. More »

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Rimmel, a popular London-based make up brand, has choosen Ayumi Hamasaki to be their very first character image for Asia. More »

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And no I don’t mean on the streets. Well maybe I do. TVXQ has been setting records all over from the Guiness Book of World Records to Avex’s websites. It was recently announced that TVXQ is Avex’s most viewed artist website out of all the other artists including EXHILE, Ayumi Hamasaki and BoA.

Not surprising to be honest. TVXQ is the most popular boy band out of Asia so did we really see this not coming?

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It’s almost April! No! Time flies by when you’re having fun and we’ve done a lot of fun stuff on Ningin this year. If you haven’t been around this week, Ningin caught up with not only Epik High and also Se7en and the Wonder Girls.

Remember! This Saturday is the Krazy! Cosplay party in NYC. Be sure to attend and win some awesome prizes from your favorite anime sources.

Enjoi. More »

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Since Mai focused on a male-centric version of the best celebrity valentines, I decided to take the XX chromosomes route. While everyone has their own opinion of the perfect Valentine, this list will vary from the cute sweet to the sexy sultry.

Enjoy! More »

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Happy early Valentines’ day everyone! Despite being a day early, I’m delivering my top 10 favorite love songs. While some of them are a bit emo, they’re still really good songs.

Hope you guys enjoy your (fake) holiday. Remember! There’s still White Day and Black Day to follow.

Enjoi. More »

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Hope you guys have already made plans for V-day, because it’s just around the corner!

And after that comes March which meaning Apop overload! It seems that a handful of Apop artists are releasing their new albums in March (Utada, BoA, Epik High and Se7en). For whatever reason they may all be releasing their albums in the same month, I’m looking forward to each and every one of them!

As always, enjoi! More »

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Here’s a weekly music round up for the year.

While the single may be a hit, it’s not always that the music video is. In fact, it’s hard to find a song and MV that go well together. Loads of MVs were released this year by new and old artists but only a handful of them were actually memorable.

Listed below are the MVs from 2008 that have stand out the most to me (in no particular order). More »

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For Asian artists, 2008 seems to be the year of comebacks, newcomers, and tenth anniversaries. Here I’ve created a list ranking my top ten songs of 2008. More »

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This year has proven to be successful for many artists. Not only have they sold millions of records, but their singles have become chart toppers and award winners. As such, I have compiled a list of the most prominent artists of the 2008 year. Some have just debuted, some have made impressive comebacks but all have achieved something great. More »

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Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I actually went out to eat dim sum. It was really new experience as I’ve never ate dim sum this way. It was basically a mobile buffet.

Anyways, here’s this week’s round up. Enjoy. More »

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Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki is in Shanghai for six days for a concert and a music video shoot. When Ayumi arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport this past Sunday, bitch was greeted by more than a hundred of her fans. They pushed and shoved just to catch a glimpse of their idol. One fan was lucky enough to get the diva’s autograph, and probably her diamond ring too.  See, Ayumi claimed that she lost her diamond ring at the airport and is now urging anyone who happened to have picked it up contact her via email. Good luck, Ayumi. The ring is probably sitting pretty in the black market of Timbuktu now.  Better yet, go on eBay China and see if it’s listed for sale. Try to haggle with the seller on the “Buy it Now” price. It’s the Chinese. You should bargain for everything before you seal the deal.

Since Ayumi’s chances of recovering that ring are almost none, my advice to her is to forget about it and spend a tiny fraction of her annual earnings to buy a new one. Like the U.S’ economy, Asia’s economy is sucking ass big time so I am all for her buying some high ticket items to help revive it.

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Hello everybody! I’m Erik, a new blogger here! Introductions have never been my thing, so I’ll make this short. I live in New England, in Connecticut. I’ve been into Asian media for quite a few years and I’ve come across only a few people who were familiar with Asian entertainment until just recently. I feel like it’s getting a bit more recognition in other parts of the world, and hopefully by being a part of this site I can take part in it, no matter how big or small! I started out with Japanese music, where I liked the typical popular artists such as Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru, Namie Amuro, and Olivia Lufkin, etc, but that was it. I began to venture into other types of Asian media such as dramas and other forms of entertainment, my obsession as of late being K-pop, with groups and singers like The Wonder Girls, Brown Eyed Girls, Lee Hyori, SHINee, and others. More »

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So you’re an hardcore Anime fan… you collect the shows freshly from fansubbers anyway you can. You go out of your way to set your dvdr and tape your favorites, that are released in English dub. Oh! but whats this catchy J-pop song or J-rock song that you find yourself singing uncontrollably. You don’t understand the Japanese words but search for romanjithe lyrics anyway, than on top of that you’ll try your best karaoke pronunciation as perfectly as possible. You find yourself doing this more than once and now you ipod is mostly artists like Koda Kumi, Orange Range, Asian Kung Fu Generation, Tommy Heavenly6, L’arc~en~Ceil and Ayumi Hamasaki. Well! Congratulations you are now officially part of the theme song phenomenon. Don’t worry you are not alone, there are countless others that are just like you and use Animeas a likes to find new music. Just think the whole country of Japan has these infectious Anime themes as beloved radio tunes that top the charts. These opening and ending credit companions have reached the number one spot countless times. Even Europe has taken these Anime themes and have remixed them techno style and rerecorded them in thier own languages. If you ever go to France, Germany, Italy or Spain you will see what I mean. More »

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