New Boy Band JO1's Debut Single, 'Infinity,' Rules Japan Hot 100

Nogizaka46's 25th single, "Shiawase no hogoshoku," shoots to No. 1 on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 23 to 29, selling over a million copies in its first week following last week's chart-topper by AKB48.

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

Japan's back number shared more live footage from last year's No Magic Tour, dropping a video of their performance of "Ameto Bokuno Hanashi" following the videos for "Dai Fuseikai" and "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" released last week.

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.

The Tokyo officially has a new start date after being due to the pandemic."The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will be celebrated from 23 July to 8 August 2021," the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Monday, March 30.

Update 3/30/20: We know now when the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics will take place, after the event was delayed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the government of Japan, and affiliated organizations announced that the Summer Games will take place from July 23, 2021, until August 8, 2021. The Paralympic Games will follow from August 24, 2021, until September 5, 2021.

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan have officially been postponed until July 2021 and new dates have been revealed.

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.

Japanese rock band CHAI have shared a music video for their new song “NO MORE CAKE.” The visual, directed by Hideto Hotta, finds the quartet smearing their faces with colorful frosting, paint, and cake batter. Check out the full clip below, and scroll down for the single art, designed by CHAI bassist and lyricist YUUKI.

J-pop singer-songwriter Leo Ieiri is releasing her first EP, a short-but-sweet collection of covers of well-known songs by other Japanese acts, spanning from the 1970s to the 2000s.The 25-year-old artist chose what songs to cover from more than 10,000 requests sent in from fans. "I really appreciated so many people sending in suggestions for what songs they wanted me to sing," she shared.

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.

Official HIGE DANdism's "I LOVE…" returns to No. 1 on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 9 to 15, scoring its third week at the top spot by dominating four metrics of the chart's measurement: streaming, downloads, video views, and look-ups.

Everything about Chanmina can be described with one word: “unique.”Well, there are a few more words.

Japanese melodic punk band WANIMA was one of the first major-label J-pop groups directly affected by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country, when one of the first reported cases was a fan who had attended its early February concert in Fukuoka.

Japan's Nogizaka46 continues its string of releases with a new music video for "Anastasia," the girl group's new song featuring its second-generation members.The nine second-generation members were scheduled to perform its Yoyogi 1st Gymnasium concert on Friday (March 6), but had to cancel due to coronavirus concerns and live-streamed via SHOWROOM instead.The "Anastasia" music video was premiered during the live-stream.