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Aimer
is a Japanese pop singer and lyricist signed to SACRA MUSIC and managed by agehasprings. Her name comes from the verb "Aimer" in French, which means "to love". Aimer uses the name aimerrhythm for lyrics credits. Debuted in 2011, she has released six studio albums, all of which made it into the top 20 of the Oricon Albums Chart, with fourth album ''Daydream'' being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. Her 2021 song "Zankyosanka" became her first song to reach the top of the Japan Hot 100 chart, selling 87,649 downloads in its first week. It also charted at number 37 on the ''Billboard'' Global 200, marking her first appearance on the chart. Early life Aimer's father was a bassist in a band, so music surrounded her from a very young age. She started piano study in elementary school and admired the music of Ringo Sheena and Hikaru Utada. In junior high school, the music of Avril Lavigne inspired her to take up guitar and began writing lyrics in English. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daydream (Aimer Album)
''daydream'' is the fourth studio album released by Aimer. It was released in three versions: a limited CD+Blu-ray (Type-A), a limited CD+DVD edition (Type-B), and a regular CD only edition. The song "Falling Alone" was used as the lead track and was previously released as her 10th digital single as advance of the album The album charted #2 daily rank for first week. It charted so far 34 weeks and sold more than 78,000 copies. The album was certified Gold by Recording Industry Association of Japan in March 2017 for shipment of 100,000 copies. Track listing Credits Adapted from Booklet. Production *Aimer – producer (tracks 1, 10, 11) *Colin Brittain – programming, recording engineer, mixing engineer (tracks 1, 10, 11) *Dick Beetham – mastering engineer (track 6) *Fumiaki Unehara – assistant recording engineer (track 12) *Hideki Kodera – recording engineer (track 5) *Hideki Morioka – director, organizer (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 13) *Hiroshi Hiranuma – recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Sawano
is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, and Music Producer best known for his work on many anime series, video games, Japanese television drama, television dramas, and movies. His works include the Soundtrack, musical scores for ''Attack on Titan (TV series), Attack on Titan'', ''The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series), The Seven Deadly Sins'', ''Blue Exorcist'', ''Guilty Crown'', ''Kill la Kill'', ''Seraph of the End'', and ''Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn''. In addition to his role on the soundtrack, he also composes opening and ending theme songs for several series. Overall, he has already provided the music for over 100 visual media works. Sawano was nominated for the Newtype Anime Awards 11 times, winning 4 of the nominations. He has also won the Tokyo Anime Award three times, as well as two recent prizes at the Anime Trending Awards. He was represented by Legendoor between 2006 and 2017, and is currently represented by VV-ALKLINE. In 2014, he started a vocal proje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takahiro Moriuchi
, known professionally as Taka, is a Japanese singer and musician who is the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band One Ok Rock. Moriuchi is the band's main lyricist and composer. In 2017, ''Kerrang!'' magazine placed him at number 27 on their list of the "50 Greatest Rockstars in the World". He was also listed by ''Rock Sound'' magazine as one of "50 Most Influential Figures in Rock". Prior to One Ok Rock, he was in the boyband News throughout 2003 until he left the group and the agency. He performs in English and Japanese. Personal life Taka was born on April 17, 1988, the eldest son of famous Japanese singers Masako Mori and Shinichi Mori. He has two younger brothers named Tomohiro Moriuchi who works on TV Tokyo, and Hiroki Moriuchi who is the lead singer of the band My First Story. He attended Keio Elementary School and graduated in March 2001, then continued his studies at Keio Middle School in April 2001. He joined soccer club in his first year of middle school. In April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toru Kitajima
, better known as TK, is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence as lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Ling tosite Sigure, which formed in 2002. In 2011, he started to release solo material as . Biography TK started his solo career with a limited DVD titled ''Film A Moment''. Released in 2011, the DVD features a photobook and a movie shot on 8mm film that acts as a music video for the three tracks on the disc. TK's first album, ''Flowering'', was released on June 27, 2012 and featured alternate versions of "Film A Moment" and "White Silence" (both being originally featured on the DVD release ''Film A Moment'') along with seven new tracks and an additional hidden track titled "Sound_am326." The limited press version featured a live studio session (DVD) of selected tracks from the album directed by P.B. Anderson. Musicians such as BOBO from Miyavi Crew, and Hidekazu Hinata from Nothing's Carved in Stone featured on the album. Kitajim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Festival Asia
C3AFA, also known as Anime Festival Asia (AFA), is a series of anime conventions held in the Southeast Asian region, with a core annual convention held in Singapore. The main convention is traditionally held over a weekend in late November to early December. It was held at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre from 2008 to 2011, but was moved to the Singapore Expo MAX Pavilion in 2012 due to renovation works at Suntec Convention Centre that year. The convention returned to Suntec Convention Centre in 2013 and is being held there till now. Satellite conventions were also held at the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; at the Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran, Jakarta, Indonesia; at the Royal Paragon Hall, Bangkok, Thailand; and at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition, Tangerang, Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. Alongside the main conventions, AFA also holds periodic business conferences focusing on the anime and manga industry. The firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yojiro Noda
, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. Noda is the lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the Japanese rock band Radwimps and also began a solo project, Illion, in 2012. Life and career Early life, Radwimps Noda was born in Tokyo, Japan, to a businessman father and piano teacher mother. From the ages of six to ten, Noda lived overseas in the United States. He first became interested in the guitar in junior high school, after hearing Oasis. He tried to learn how to play the chords with a guitar his family owned. While studying his first year of high school at Tōin Gakuen in Yokohama, he joined a band in 2001. He joined after being asked by a friend to be the band's vocalist. The band was named Radwimps, and Noda became the band's vocalist, guitarist, and sole songwriter. They released their debut independent album, ''Radwimps'', in 2003, and the band made their major debut under Toshiba EMI in 2005. In 2006, the band became widely popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genki Rockets
is a virtual band created by video game developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and record producer Kenji Tamai. Rachel Rhodes portrayed the band's frontwoman, a fictional 17-year-old girl named Lumi who was the first human born in outer space on the International Space Station on September 11, 2019. Biography 2006-2008: Genki Rockets I: Heavenly Star The two producers behind Genki Rockets are renowned digital media creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi of Q Entertainment, and Kenji Tamai, a renowned music producer and CEO of Agehasprings Corporation, who has produced other musicians and acts such as Yuki, Yuna Ito, Base Ball Bear, and TRF. Mizuguchi co-produced and wrote the lyrics for the first song, "Heavenly Star", and directed the music video, which debuted in the video game ''Lumines II'' and was later used in the Wii game '' No More Heroes''. An AAC version of the song began selling on the iTunes Store in December 2006 and was eventually accompanied by several different remixes from various ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galileo Galilei (band)
is a Japanese indie rock band from Wakkanai, Hokkaido. Galileo Galilei was formed in 2007 by singer and guitarist Yūki Ozaki, guitarist Sōhei Funaya, bassist Hitoshi Sakō, and drummer Kazuki Ozaki. Galileo Galilei signed to SME Records with guitarist and backing vocalist Fumito Iwai joining the band in 2009 and keyboard player Kazumasa Noguchi joining in 2011. Galileo Galilei released the albums ''Parade'' in 2011 and ''Portal'' in 2012 which reached #5 and #10 respectively on the Japanese music charts. Iwai and Noguchi left Galileo Galilei in 2012 and later formed the group Folks in 2013. Galileo Galilei released their final album ''Sea and The Darkness'' in January 2016 and announced their breakup after their final tour in April 2016. In 2018, members of Galileo Galilei along with a support guitarist DAIKI formed a new band called Bird Bear Hare and Fish. The film '' Kanseitou'', directed by Takahiro Miki, is based on the Galileo Galilei song of the same name. The son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoko Kanno
is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime series, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She has written scores for '' Cowboy Bebop'' and its live-action adaptation, ''Darker than Black'', ''Macross Plus'', ''Turn A Gundam'', ''The Vision of Escaflowne'', '' Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'', ''Wolf's Rain'', ''Kids on the Slope,'' ''Genesis of Aquarion'' and ''Terror in Resonance'', and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracksMeow on the Bridgeis her private office. Biography Early life Yoko Kanno was born March 18, 1963, in Sendai. Her earliest experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid '90s producing and licensing music for animated series such as ''Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, Tofu Records. Releases of So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacra Music
Sacra Music (stylized as SACRA MUSIC) is a Japanese record label subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The record label was established on April 1, 2017, specializing in anison music. On September 25, 2021, SACRA MUSIC started an official YouTube channel with the mascot character VTuber A , or , is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics. Real-time motion capture software or technology are often—but not always—used to capture movement. The digital trend originated in Japan in the mid- ... "SACRA Rokuban-cho" voiced by Sally Amaki. This character is responsible for sharing the latest news of SACRA MUSIC. Currently Attached Artists Formerly Attached Artists References External links * * Sony Music Entertainment Japan Sony subsidiaries Japanese record labels Record labels established in 2017 {{Japan-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hot 100 Number-one Singles Of 2021 (Japan)
The following is a list of weekly number-one singles on the '' Billboard'' Japan Hot 100 chart in 2021. Chart history See also * List of ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums number ones of 2021 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hot 100 Number-One Singles of 2021 2021 in Japanese music Japan Hot 100 Lists of number-one songs in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
