Classic J-Pop PV’s

I love modern J-pop/rock but over the past 6 months I’ve also started to listen to classic Japanese music from the late 80′s and the 90′s and I’ve got to say there’s a lot of brilliant songs that was released during that time so I give to you 5 of those songs I think warrant your attention. If they manage to interest you then why not seek out some more.

1. Lindberg – Believe In Love

2. Wink – Ai Ga Tomaranai (this’ll be familiar to many as it’s a cover of Kylie Minogue’s Turn It Into Love done Japanese style. Puffy Amiyumi have also covered this song.)

3. Onyanko Club – Kaiin Bango no Uta. Without this idol group there’d be no Morning Musume or AKB48. In fact it was Akimoto the current producer of AKB48 that came up with the concept of Onyanko Club so we have a lot to thank this man.

4. Pink Sapphire – Dakishimetai

5. Yumi Matsutoya – Hello My Friend

Meetan – Has A Miracle Occurred?

Judging from reports coming out of Japan it looks very likely that Meetan has passed her challenge of finally reaching 10k within a month with her debut solo single. Last time I reported that she had sold 7200 copies and that it needed a miracle of sorts for her to sell 2800 in 4 days.

On Saturday it seems her single jumped up to no.13 on the Oricon Daily Charts which in itself is a remarkable turnaround plus she had her final hug event which was a marathon session. She might have cheated on this though by getting some of her friends in AKB48 to help her out. It’s said that Acchan and Mariko turned up to support her and they might have gently persuaded the wotas there to buy a few more copies of Meetan’s single. Apparently during Saturday’s Team K concert Meetan was all smiles – another sign that she’s succeeded.

Those that hope the result will be announced on this week’s edition of AKBingo will be disappointed to know that they don’t intend to do that until the following week’s show (11/26/08). I have to admit that I never thought she’d achieve 10k after the 2nd week but well done to her. I’m glad she’s done it and after all the humiliation over the past few weeks she deserves to stay in the group.