Thanks to her duet song Nagging, in which she sang along with 2AM’s Seulong, followed by her Good Day, IU has found much popularity and the young singer has been a hot trend in Korea. More »

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From Rekuru: Akanishi Jin’s American mini-album “TEST DRIVE featuring Jason Derulo” has sold 109,000 copies, procuring its place in the top spot on Oricon’s 12/19 weekly album ranking. More »

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Singer Utada Hikaru is currently on hiatus but she still didn’t forget to thank her fans via Twitter on her 13th year anniversary of her debut. She wrote, “Yesterday was the 13th anniversary of my debut! Even though I have been on hiatus for a year already, I received a lot of congratulations, thank you so much “(`(エ)´)ﾉ彡☆ !!” More »

From Rekuru: YUI recently released her album, “HOW CRAZY YOUR LOVE” on November 2nd and it has already hit #1 on the Oricon album ranking chart for the week. This makes YUI’s 5th consecutive album to debut at #1! More »

From Rekuru: With Japan being the second largest music producer behind the United States, the Japanese music market has a variety of artists to listen to. In the Jpop scene there are huge and popular groups like AKB48 or ARASHI. While big and popular groups have alot of talent to offer, like a variety of singing pitches and personalities, solo artists tend to get overshadowed, but these five Jpop female solo artists have managed to break through and become well known in the Jpop scene: More »

Run for your lives! Are you one of those crazily obsessed KPOP fans who had originally started off as a JPOP fan? I am guilty of that myself. What is it that makes KPOP so fascinating? Why drop one for the other? JPOP had dominated Asia for the longest of time, but not with the current Hallyu Wave growing and expanding (and exploding particularly this year) outside of Korea. Does this mean the death of JPOP? More »

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From Rekuru: Yet another famous celebrity singer has a message pertaining to the effects of the recent earthquake disaster in Japan. Japanese pop singer sensation Utada Hikaru updated her blog, mentioning that after the earthquake had taken place, she donated 400ml of her blood to the blood bank and made an ¥80,000,000 ($983,888 USD) donation to the Red Cross organization in Japan. She urged others to help also and donate to Red Cross and saying it is specifically for the Japan relief. More »

Congratulations to user parkhaeri for correctly guessing the previous Voice Snippets game with Utada Hikaru. Voice Snippets is a blog game in which you listen to a voice snippet and post your guess of who the voice belongs to. The first person to guess correctly will receive 100 EXP points. More »

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From Rekuru: If you are a Youtube subscriber of Apple Girl Kim Yeo Hee, then you would’ve noticed that she uploaded a new video on December 22nd on her personal account. Singing a cover for Utada Hikaru’s “First Love,” check out how she did below! More »

Japanese music phenom Utada Hikaru is giving it one last go before going on a hiatus from her music activities and taking some time to take care of other matters in her life. On December 8th, Utada will be holding her Wild Life concert at the Yokohama Arena in Japan. Can’t make it? No problem, because the concert will be streaming LIVE on the internet! More »

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With a lot of artists in Asian entertainment, sometimes we cannot keep track of who is releasing what and when. Here’s a quick breakdown of the most anticipated releases in this week. The title of each release links to you to YesAsia for more information or for preorder, because YesAsia is of course the best and most convenient place to order Asian entertainment online. More »

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After building a lot of anticipation, popular idol ballad group 2AM came back with a full-length album “Saint o’Clock.” Their album was full of amazing songs that are catchy to listen to and showed how much they grew as singers. One of the tracks is called “With or Without You.” Coincidentally, internationally famous band U2 also has a song with the same title. You be the judge and let me know which one you like better! More »

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As Amazon.co.jp (that’s the Japanese branch of Amazon) nears its tenth anniversary of service, an impressive 111 artists/bands and authors have been chosen by the company to be forever immortalized in the “Artist and Author Hall of Fame.” Although the list predominantly features Japanese artists and authors, both DBSK and BoA have managed to secure spots in the hall of fame. Korea represent! More »

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After the full-length version of Utada Hikaru’s “Goodbye Happiness” was released roughly a week ago, fans have been excited for what Utada is going to be bringing to the table next. Well, it looks like Utada is giving fans some more to be excited about with her recent revealing of the official promotional video for “Goodbye Happiness!” More »

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After having released the track list for her upcoming single compilation album, Japanese singer Utada Hikaru has revealed one of the new songs that will be included on the album! The song, called “Goodbye Happiness,” was played on a Japanese radio station, and a kind listener ripped the song for all of us to hear! More »

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Utada Hikaru is on a roll right now! The famous JPOP singer recently announced the release of “Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2” and upcoming hiatus that will come afterwards. On top of that, her cover of “Hymne a l’amour” has topped the iTunes chart! She has a lot of things to juggle right now. However, she is not stopping just yet. She is planning on holding a two-day concert series in Yokohama Arena, titled “WILD LIFE.” More »

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… probably not, but an interesting report by a Japanese tabloid magazine has recently reported that the actress Fukada Kyoko and the singer Utada Hikaru are indeed “seeing each other.” What that means is totally up to you, though. Keep reading for the juicy details! More »

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Even before going on a hiatus from music, Utada Hikaru still seems to be doing quite well for herself. The top-selling Japanese female soloist recently released a specially arranged cover song, originally by French artist Edith Piaf, for a Pepsi promotional campaign. The song, entitled “Hymne a l’amour ~Ai no Anthem~.” More »

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Hey, Utada Hikaru fans! Did you enjoy the Pepsi commercial in which Utada was singing in French? If you did, then today’s your lucky day, because the full version of the song has recently been released! More »

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Japanese music diva Utada Hikaru revealed earlier this summer that she would sadly be taking a hiatus from the music industry for awhile. Before leaving, however, Utada announced the upcoming release of a compilation album just for the fans! Details of the album have recently been revealed! More »

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