After two singles and several collaborations, Mochida Kaori will be releasing her debut album. Currently untitled, the album will be out August 12 and will come in the CD-only format and a limited edition CD+DVD version. The CD-only version will come housed in special packaging as the first-press bonus while the CD+DVD version will come with a currently unknown first-press extra. The album will include the singles Ame no WALTZ, Shizuka Na Yoru, weather, the Ame no WALTZ B-side Drop and the Ohata Yuuichi and Harada Ikuko collaboration TAOfor a total of twelve tracks. TAO is the theme song to the movie Onna no Ko Monogatari.


Mochida Kaori's official website

Five months and a half months after the release of Rule/Sparkle, Hamasaki Ayumi is to release her forty-sixth single. Titled Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~, the single will be out August 12 and will come in the CD-only format and a CD+DVD version. Read More »

Eight and a half months after the release of Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi, UVERworld will be releasing their thirteenth single. Titled GO-ON, the single will be out August 5 and will come in the CD-only format and a limited edition CD+DVD version.

UVERworld's official website

Three and a half years after the release of PRHYTHM, angela are to release their sixth album. Titled Land Ho!, the album will be out September 9 and will come in the CD-only format and a limited edition CD+DVD version. Both versions will come with a currently unknown first-press extra. The album will include the singles Beautiful fighter, My story, Yakusoku, Spiral and Link as well as the new songs Beginning and Hikari, Sagasenakutomo.

angela's official website

A year and a half after the release of LOCKS, GARNET CROW will be releasing their seventh album. Titled STAY ~Yoake no Soul~, the album will be out September 9 and will contain the singles Yume no Hitotsu, Hyakunen no Kodoku, Doing all right and Hana wa Saite Tada Yurete.

GARNET CROW's official website

Three months after the release of Doing all right, GARNET CROW will be releasing their thirtieth single. Titled Hana wa Saite Tada Yurete, the single will be out August 19 and will come in the CD-only format and a limited edition CD+DVD version. Read More »

Just over three months after the release of THE MONSTER ~Someday~, EXILE will be releasing their thirty-first single. Titled THE HURRICANE ~FIREWORKS~, the single will be out July 22 and will come in the CD-only format and a CD+DVD version. Both versions will come with a first-press extra of a cardboard slipcase. The single will include a new version of THE NEXT DOOR featuring FLO-RIDA and a live version of WON'T BE LONG. The DVD will include PV's for both FIREWORKS and the B-side Yasashii Hikari. This'll be the second single from EXILE since merging with J SOUL BROTHERS into the current fourteen-member group. Read More »

Just under five and a half months after the release of Ai no Kotoba, Aiuchi Rina will be releasing her thirtieth single. Titled STORY/SUMMER LIGHT, the single will be out July 22 and will come in the CD-only format and two different limited edition CD+DVD versions. The DVD of Version A will contain the PV for STORY while the DVD of Version B will contain the PV for SUMMER LIGHT. The CD-only version will come with the bonus track marble. STORY is currently being used in the quiz show Dai 29-kai Koukousei Quiz. Read More »

Nine months after the release of Path of Independence, Hirahara Ayaka will be releasing her sixth album. The album will be out September 2 and will include the singles Shin Sekai and her latest, currently untitled, single.

Hirahara Ayaka's official website

Three months after the release of Shin Sekai, Hirahara Ayaka will be releasing her nineteenth single. The single will be out August 26.

Hirahara Ayaka's official website