Arashi Best-Of Tops Taylor Swift for IFPI's Best-Selling Album of 2019

The Coronavirus outbreak might have dampened the spirits of the BTS ARMY looking forward to attending the Map of the Soul tour. But BTS is making complete use of this time to work on some new music. As per the latest international reports, BTS is all set to rule Japan this summer. The Korean pop band released their new album Map of the Soul: 7 earlier this year. If international reports are to believed, the Bangtan Boys are working on a new Japanese album set to release in July this year. 

By Tom Grater

Enigmatic electro duo AmPm's new song, "Prism," will be featured as the opener of the popular anime Fruits Basket season two.

Enigmatic electro duo AmPm's new song, "Prism," will be featured as the opener of the popular anime Fruits Basket season two.The masked Japanese unit's debut track, "Best Part of Us (feat. Michael Kaneko)," released in March 2017, has been streamed over 33 million times to date.

From her euphoric bops to melancholic love songs and heartbreaking odes, Taylor Swift’s music has . Over the past 10 years, Swift has grown up in the public eye all while writing and singing about her most intimate and gutting breakups and massive, fairytale wins.

It’s been nearly three years since Kendrick Lamar’s last solo album, and while there’s still few details about its potential release, one of the rapper’s longtime collaborators recently revealed his own involvement in the recording process. In an interview with Japanese fashion company Neet Tokyo posted on YouTube on Friday, Thundercat said that he’s been in the studio with Kendrick.

Breakout rapper JP THE WAVY -- whose music video for "Cho Wavy De Gomenne" ("Sorry I'm Super Wavy," in English) created a buzz in 2017 -- shared the cover art and track list for his upcoming debut album, LIFE IS WAVY, due April 8.

Breakout rapper JP THE WAVY -- whose music video for "Cho Wavy De Gomenne" ("Sorry I'm Super Wavy," in English) created a buzz in 2017 -- shared the cover art and track list for his upcoming debut album, LIFE IS WAVY, due April 8.

AKB48's 57th single, "Shitsuren, arigato," blasts in at No. 1 on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 16 to 22, with a record-setting 1,414,077 copies sold, making them 2020's first act to sell over a million copies in its first week.

AKB48's 57th single, "Shitsuren, arigato," blasts in at No. 1 on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 16 to 22, with a record-setting 1,414,077 copies sold, making them 2020's first act to sell over a million copies in its first week.The J-pop girl group leads physical sales and rules this week's chart fueled mostly by this metric.

Sisters sticking together.

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello hopped on Instagram Live on Friday afternoon (March 20) from a tropical-looking location for their installment of the Together, At Home: WHO-Global Citizen Solidarity Sessions.

J Balvin is giving everyone in self-isolation a whole bunch of new music to keep them occupied.

J Balvin is back with his latest album, Colores. As the title suggests, nine of the 10 songs are named after a Spanish word for a color. The sole exception is “Arcoíris,” which translates to rainbow in English. For the album art, the Colombia native collaborated with famed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

“The Journalist,” Michihito Fujii’s drama about a young female reporter who investigates a scandal that extends to the highest reaches of Japanese politics, won the Best Picture prize at the 43rd Japan Academy Awards ceremony, held in Tokyo Friday.

J-pop artist KAMIJO is a visual-kei veteran celebrating his 25th anniversary in music in 2020. But he isn't ready to rest on his laurels just yet.