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Gen (album)
''Gen'' is the sixth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Gen Hoshino is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and writer. Career Music From its formation in 2000 until its disbandment in 2015, Hoshino led the instrumental band Sakerock, where he played marimba and guitar. They released over ten albums. .... The album was released by Speedstar Records on May 14, 2025. It is Hoshino's first studio album in almost seven years following '' Pop Virus'' (2018). Track listing Charts Weekly charts Monthly charts Certifications Release history References External links * on Hoshino's official website 2025 albums 2020s Japanese-language albums Gen Hoshino albums Speedstar Records albums {{Japan-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gen Hoshino
is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and writer. Career Music From its formation in 2000 until its disbandment in 2015, Hoshino led the instrumental band Sakerock, where he played marimba and guitar. They released over ten albums. As a solo artist, he debuted with his first album '' Baka no Uta'' on June 23, 2010. His first physical single, " Kudaranai no Naka ni" was released on March 2, 2011, and peaked at number 17 on the Oricon Singles Chart. The subsequent singles – "Film", "Yume no Soto e", "Shiranai" (2012), and " Gag" (2013) – all charted in the top 10. His second album, ''Episode'', released on September 28, 2011, peaked at number five. Hoshino's third album, ''Stranger'', followed on May 1, 2013. It peaked at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Since 2011, Hoshino has co-hosted the Ustream program with Ichirō Yamaguchi of Sakanaction. In 2014, the program officially chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Young-ji
Lee Young-ji (; born September 10, 2002) is a South Korean rapper. She is the winner of '' High School Rapper 3'' and '' Show Me the Money 11'' as well as the host of the web talk show ''Not Much Prepared''. She released her first extended play '' 16 Fantasy'' on June 21, 2024. Early life Born and raised in Sinjeong-dong, Yangcheon District, Seoul, South Korea, Lee lived with her grandmother and mother for a long time after her father left home. Other ventures Endorsements In March 2025, Lee was selected as an advertising model for Binggrae's unsweetened banana-flavored milk. In April, Lee became the global ambassador of Dermo Cosmetics brand Dr.G. Philanthropy On August 11, 2022, Lee donated million (c. $7,000) to help those affected by the 2022 South Korea floods through the Hope Bridge Korea Disaster Relief Association. In March 2025, Lee donated million through the Korean Red Cross to help with recovery efforts from wildfires A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blu-ray
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-definition video ( HDTV 720p and 1080p). The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as feature films and for the physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The name refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs, resulting in an increased capacity. The polycarbonate disc is in diameter and thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional (or "pre-BDXL") Blu-ray discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual-layer discs (50GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs (10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Entertainment
is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Entertainment operates the RCA Records, RCA Victor label. History *April 1972: is spun off as a subsidiary of JVC. *September 30, 1982: JVC Musical Industries, Inc. is founded in the U.S. *February 1984: The sales and marketing department of JVC is spun off as . *January 1990: JVC Musical Industries announces its first video game release will be ''Boulder Dash (video game), Boulder Dash''. *October 30, 1991: JVC Musical Industries Europe, Ltd. is founded. *April 1993: Nihon AVC and Victor Musical Industries merge and the name is changed to . *October 1, 1996: Victor Interactive Software takes over video game-related activities after Pack-In-Video is merged with Victor Entertainment. *May 1, 1997: JVC Musical Industries is renamed to JVC Music, Inc. *May 14, 1997: J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Japan
''Billboard Japan'' is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine '' Billboard''. It is operated by the Japanese Osaka-based company Hanshin Contents Link (a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway), holding an exclusive licence from ''Billboard''s parent company to the Billboard brand name in Japan,"Hanshin Contents Link, the operator of Billboard Japan": and manages, among others, the website www.billboard-japan.com and several "Billboard Live"-branded music clubs located in the country. In February 2008, Hanshin Contents Link, under licence from ''Billboard'', launched the ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 music chart. As of 2025, the list of charts compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' also included an albums chart named ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, physical-sales-only-based charts Top Singles Sales and Top Albums Sales, download-only-based charts Download Songs and Download Albums, an animation music chart named Hot Animation, and a chart for foreign songs named Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka-jō Hall
is a multi-purpose arena located in the Kyōbashi, Osaka, Kyōbashi area of Osaka, Japan. The hall opened in 1983 and can seat up to 16,000 people. Built on a site area of , part of its form uses stone walls, modeled after those of Osaka Castle and it won the Osaka Urban Scenery Architects Prize Special Award in 1984. The hall may be reached on a short walk from either Osaka Business Park Station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line (Osaka), Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line or Osakajōkōen Station on the West Japan Railway Company, JR Osaka Loop Line. The hall is located in Osaka-jō Park, near Osaka Castle and is across a river from two other smaller concert halls. It is used for some sports, such as judo championships and wrestling matches such as those for the New Japan Pro-Wrestling's annual NJPW Dominion event. The venue has also been used for The New Beginning in Osaka (2020), The New Beginning in Osaka in 2020, New Japan Cup finals in 2020 and 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimi Wa Bara Yori Utsukushī
() is a song by Japanese singer Akira Fuse from his ninth studio album, ''Survival: Ai Aru Kagiri Kimi wa Utsukushī'' (1979). Written by lyricist and composer Mickie Yoshino, it was released through King Records on January 17, 1979, as Fuse's 42nd single. A light pop ballad, its lyrics are about a man who reunites with a woman he says has changed to be more beautiful than a rose. Background and release As a high schooler, after giving a passing audition on a television music program, the Japanese singer Akira Fuse was scouted by Watanabe Productions and made his solo debut in 1975 through King Records with the single "Kimi ni Namida to Hohoemi o", a Japanese version of the Italian " Se piangi, se ridi" (1965). Fuse became a popular singer in Japan, and his single 1975 single "Cyclamen no Kahori" sold over a million copies and won the Grand Prix at the Japan Record Awards. Within the latter half of the 1970s, rival cosmetics companies Shiseido and ran competing advertisemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun (Gen Hoshino Song)
"Sun" () is a song by Japanese musician Gen Hoshino from his fourth studio album, ''Yellow Dancer'' (2015). It was released through Speedstar Records on May 27, 2015, as Hoshino's eighth single overall. Self-produced and written by Hoshino for the television series , it is a lively J-pop song that draws influences from African-American music, African-American genres, such as disco and soul, and is particularly inspired by Michael Jackson. Hoshino wrote its lyrics to not have much meaning, wishing for the song to excite people into having fun by simply listening. Upon release, "Sun" reached No. 2 on Oricon's Japanese Oricon Singles Chart, Singles Chart and took the first spot on several streaming services. It continued to chart through 2017, reaching No. 2 on the ''Billboard Japan'' Billboard Japan Hot 100, Hot 100 in January 2016, and was certified by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for 850,000 sales and 50,000,000 streams. The song's music video, directed by , choreogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakura No Mori
The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in ''Prunus'' subgenus '' Cerasus''. ''Sakura'' usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of ''Prunus serrulata'', not trees grown for their fruit (although these also have blossoms). Cherry blossoms have been described as having a vanilla-like smell, which is mainly attributed to coumarin. Wild species of cherry tree are widely distributed, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. They are common in East Asia, especially in Japan, where they have been cultivated, producing many varieties. Most of the ornamental cherry trees planted in parks and other places for viewing are cultivars developed for ornamental purposes from various wild species. In order to create a cultivar suitable for viewing, a wild species with characteristics suitable for viewing is needed. ''Prunus speciosa'' (Oshima cherry), which is endemic to Japan, produces many large flowers, is fragrant, easily mutates into double flow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Jeffrey Allen Townes (born January 22, 1965), known professionally as DJ Jazzy Jeff (or simply Jazz), is an American DJ and producer. He was one half of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, along with Will Smith. He is credited, along with DJ Spinbad and DJ Cash Money, with popularizing the transformer scratch. Early life and initial career Townes was born on January 22, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raised in the area, Townes developed a reputation and a following as a local school and block party DJ. He was ten years old when he first became interested in being a DJ. He told author Paul Stenning, "At summer time block parties I wouldn't be the one dancing, I sat where the DJ was set up, watching him. Even when I would go to other block parties in other neighborhoods I was still infatuated with the DJ. He was the guy that played music that everyone in the neighborhood loved. You might not have known his face, you might not have known his name but h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
