This week’s Japanese Song of the Week is Chotto Matte Kudasai! by S/mileage, which has debuted at number 6 on the Japanese J-Pop Oricon charts.
S/mileage (スマイレージ,) is a Japanese girl group under the Hello! Project umbrella. The group made their major label debut In 2010, and won the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist in 2010.
This song is the group's 9th single and is very cute, upbeat and happy.
Watch the music video for the single Chotto Matte Kudasai! by S/mileage
This week’s Japanese Song of the Week is Busu ni Naranai Tetsugaku by Hello! Project Mobekimasu, which has debuted at number 4 on the Japanese J-Pop Oricon chart.
This is Hello! Project Mobekimasu’s Debut Single, and was released on November 16, 2011, in 7 Editions Regular & Limited A~F.
The group is a collection of the Hello! Project groups and includes Morning Musume (Mo), Berryz Koubou (be), C-ute (ki) Mano Erina (ma) and S/mileage (su) to form “Mobekimasu”.
The title of the song “Busu ni Naranai Tetsugaku” means “A Philosophy of Not Becoming Ugly”. The song is very cute and energetic.
This week’s Song of the Week is Kono Chikyu no Heiwa wo Honki de Negatterundayo! by Morning Musume which has debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Jpop Oricon chart.
Morning Musume (モーニング娘) also called Momusu (モー娘) for short is a Japanese idol girl group managed and produced by Tsunku. The groups name basically means Morning Girls and they are part of the Hello! Project stable. The group has gone through many line-up changes since first formed in 1997. It seems that every year there are new graduations from the group and new auditions bring in new members that it can be hard keeping track of the line-up. The current line-up includes 9 members and this single is the groups 47th single.
