Original title
J-MELO
Released
10/7/2005
Origin country
JP
Genre
Documentary
Production companies
NHK
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
21
Number of episodes
494
J-MELO is a weekly Japanese music television program broadcast by NHK. It is recorded entirely in the English language. It began broadcasting on October 7, 2005. The program is available on NHK's World Service television station, Radio Japan, Digital Educational TV and on its Domestic General Channel.
Studio Guests: TERIYAKI BOYZ, JAMOSA, Stephanie; 1. "WORK THAT featuring PHARRELL and CHRIS BROWN" / TERIYAKI BOYZ; 2. "Zutto" (Forever) / JAMOSA; 3. "Pride～A Part of Me～ feat.SRM" / Stephanie.
Guest: Hakima Inoue (Radio Japan Arabic Announcer); 1. "Prisoner Of Love" / Hikaru Utada; 2. "Fujisawa Looser" / ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION; 3. "Mirai E"(To the Future) / Kiroro; 4. "Awayuki No Hito"(Lover in the Light Snow) / Kenichi Mikawa.
1. "24 carats" / Oreskaband; 2. "Hero" / Safarii; 3. "1" / Yuichi Tamate; 4. "Kawarushi" (We Change) / Akiko Yano; 5. "Forever Song" / Motohiro Hata; 6. "DO tha' DO tha'" / May J.
Guests: Rie fu and LEO IMAI; 1. "Synchronize" / LEO IMAI; 2. "School On The Hill" / LEO IMAI; 3. "Time Traffic" / Rie fu & LEO IMAI; 4. "Romantic" / Rie fu; 5. "Present" / Rie fu.
Guest: Marty Friedman.
Guests: Lan Ohshiro, Kanon + J-MELO meets Nikkei; 1. "Vincent" / Lan Ohshiro; 2. "Lingering Snow" / Kanon.
1. "Do Me More" / Namie Amuro; 2. "Innocent Love" / Kyoko Koizumi; 3. "LOV" / Hiroshi Takano; 4. "Usukudara"(ÜSKÜDARA GÍDERÍKEN) / Sizzle Ohtaka; 5. "can't stop the DISCO" / Ami Suzuki; 6. "Hakanaku Mo Towa No Kanashi"(Fleeting and Everlasting Sorrow) / UVERworld.
Guests: SoulJa and Jin Oki; Exclusive Comments: CHATMONCHY, Aqua Timez; 1. "Musekinin Hero"(Irresponsible Hero) / Kanjani∞; 2. "Last Love Letter" / CHATMONCHY; 3. "Velonica" / Aqua Timez; 4. "Aristocra's Symphony" / Versailles; 5. "ONE TIME feat. Issei and Jin Oki" / SoulJa.
Guests: RANKIN TAXI; Exclusive Comment: Terry Ito (Top TV Director); 1. "Mental Slavery" / RANKIN TAXI; 2. "Sayonara, Suki Ni Natta Hito" (Goodbye, Girlfriend) / RANKIN TAXI; 3. "Dare Ni Mo Mienai, Nioi Mo Nai" (No Face, No Smell) / RANKIN TAXI; 4. "Jamaica Jijo" (Jamaica Situation) / RANKIN TAXI; 5. "Hitokakera No Chocolate" (One Piece of Chocolate) / RANKIN TAXI; 6. "Ike-ike Chindochu" (Go Go My Way) / RANKIN TAXI; 7. "HELP" / RANKIN TAXI; 8. "Amishatsu Damashii" (Amishatsu Soul) / RANKIN TAXI; 9. "Yorokobi No Uta" (Song of Joy) / RANKIN TAXI.
1. "Sukiyaki"/ HidaJimbo; 2. "Shinin' Like A Diamond feat. Sphere of Influence & May J."/ ZEEBRA; 3. "HOME" / Shanti.
1. "GOOD BYE MY SCHOOL DAYS" / DREAMS COME TRUE; 2. "Eisa" / JERO; 3. "Kudo Desu" (Hollow Me) / Yurayura Teikoku; 4. "20-CRY-" / Miliyah Kato; 5. "Atsukunare" (Show Some Passion) / Demon Kogure; 6. "Darui" (Drowsy) / EGO-WRAPPIN' AND THE GOSSIP OF JAXX.
Guest: Sean Lennon; 1. "DEAD MEAT" / Sean Lennon; 2. "Listen" / Sean Lennon; 3. "You Feel Right" / IF BY YES; 4. "Smoke & Mirrors" / Sean Lennon; 5. "The Magic" / Sean Lennon.
1. "HEKIREKI" (Thunderclap) / LAST ALLIANCE; 2. "WAO!" / UNICORN; 3. "Yuki No Hikari" (Snow Light) / Miho Fukuhara; 4. "Afrodisia" / quasimode; 5. "Kokoro Odoru" (The Spirit Dances) / nobodyknows+; 6. "Maboroshi" (Illusion) / Joe Inoue.
Guests: Kyoji Yamamoto, BENI; Exclusive Comment: Siro Sano(Actor); 1. "Fallen Angel"/ BOWWOW; 2. "Mou Ni Do To" (Never Again) / BENI; 3. "Kiss Kiss Kiss" / BEN.
Guest: Yukihiro Takahashi; 1. "Unmei Kyodotai" (Common Destiny) / Dragon Ash; 2. "JUVES" / Diggy-MO'; 3. "Moshi Kimi to... with Kimaguren" (If With You...) / May J.; 4. "anywhere" / pupa; 5. "The Words" / Yukihiro Takahashi.
1. "Nidome No Kanojo" (Second-Time Girlfriend) / SID; 2. "Eien" (Eternity) / BoA; 3. "Oshakashama" / RADWIMPS; 4. "Sailing free" / Olivia; 5. "Tooi Machi" (Faraway Town) / Yoko Nagayama; 6. "RESCUE" / KAT-TUN.
★Backstage Pass Part1: Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Shigeo Genda; ★Backstage Pass Part2: UNIT ASIA; ★J-MELO Interview: VAMPS; ★Studio Live: Clench & Blistah.
1. “Sora To Ito" (Sky and Thread) / MUCC; 2. “CATCH THE RAINBOW" / MISIA; 3. “Rokyoku Ichidai" / Kiyoshi Hikawa; 4. “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" / Joe Hisaishi; 5. “Hikari" (Light) / GING NANG BOYZ; 6. “Sands of Time" / Monday Michiru.
Guests: MiChi, Sweet Vacation, Mai Fukui; 1. “Kiss Kiss xxx"/ MiChi; 2. “Sayonara My Days" (Goodbye My Days) / Sweet Vacation; 3. “Can Can" / Mai Fukui.
★Featured May Releases; ★Viewer Recommendations: Over Load / Mika Nakashima, Come Back To Me / Utada; ★Kaleidoscope(Recommendations from Music Journalist Masakazu Kitanaka): Eitetsu Hayashi; ★International Tour and Event Roundup.
1. "sparkle" / Ayumi Hamasaki; 2. "Shiawase Ni Naro" (Let's Be Happy) / mihimaru GT; 3. "Share The World" / Tohoshinki; 4. "snIpe" / KOTOKO; 5. "AROMA" / AN CAFE; 6. "Koi No ABO" (A.B.O. of Love) / NEWS.
J-MELO Interview: THE BOOM; Exclusive Comments:Toshiya(DIR EN GREY), Ken Yokoyama(CRAZY KEN BAND); 1. "Towel" / CRAZY KEN BAND; 2. "BEAUTIFUL" / MEG; 3. "THE FATAL BELIEVER" / DIR EN GREY; 4. "Yume Kara Samete" (Waking from a Dream) / THE BOOM.
Guests: MONKEY MAJIK; Exclusive Comment: Mickie Yoshino; 1. "fly" / MONKEY MAJIK; 2. "Monkey Magic" / GODIEGO; 3. "Aobajo Koiuta" (Aoba Castle Love Song) / Muneyuki Sato; 4. "Aishiteru" (I Love You) / MONKEY MAJIK.
★ Featured June Releases: "Summer Clouds, Summer Rain" / Miyuki Hatakeyama; ★ Viewer Recommendations: "It's all Love" / Kumi Koda×misono; ★ Kaleidoscope (Recommendations from Music Journalist Masakazu Kitanaka): "Parachute" / Shugo Tokumaru; ★ Tribute to Kiyoshiro Imawano: "Ameagari No Yozora Ni" (In the Night Sky after the Rain) / Kiyoshiro Imawano.
1. "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl from Ipanema) / Lisa Ono; 2. "Só Danço Samba"(I Only Dance Samba) /Lisa Ono; 3. "Ye Lai Xiang" (The Evening Primrose) / Lisa Ono; 4. "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) / Lisa Ono; 5. "Nani Wai Ale Ale" / Lisa Ono; 6. "Goody Goody" / Lisa Ono; 7. "Águas de Março" (Waters of March) / Lisa Ono.
1. "I.V." / X JAPAN; 2. "One Room Disco" / Perfume; 3. "Rain is Fallin'" / w-inds.; 4. "Smile" / jammin' Zeb; 5. "My Best Of My Life" / Superfly; 6. "Kaede" (Maple) / Spitz.
1. Second movement of "Winter" from "The Four Seasons" Composer: Antonio Vivaldi / Ryu Goto; 2. "Beautiful Rosmarin" Composer: Fritz Kreisler / Ryu Goto; 3. "Introduction and Variations on Paisiello's ‘Nel cor più non mi sento', Op. 38" Composer: Niccolò Paganini / Ryu Goto.
J-MELO Interview: UA; 1."Tsuki Ga Kieteiku" (The Moon is Disappearing) / UA; 2."Ougon No Midori"(Golden Green) / UA; 3."FIREWORKS" / EXILE; 4."You –Anata Ga Soba Ni Iru Shiawase-" (Happy to Have You with Me) / HOME MADE Kazoku.
Exclusive Comments: Masafumi Goto (ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION), BREAD & BUTTER, HOME GROWN; 1. "Fujisawa Loser" / ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION; 2. "Stay with Me feat. SUPER CRISS
Artists: Kosuke Atari, Arisa Tsuji (from "Paphooo!"), May J., Shanti.
Artists: Ryota Komatsu and Taeko Onuki, Marty Friedman.
Backstage Pass: Hello Kitty at Sanrio Puroland; Special Reports: Japan Expo 2009 + Anime Expo 2009; Exclusive Comment: Morning Musume。.
1. “BQE" / Hiromi Uehara; 2. “Sicilian Blue" / Hiromi Uehara; 3. “Choux à la crème" / Hiromi Uehara; 4. “Place to be" / Hiromi Uehara.
★ Featured This Summer Releases: “Slow Down" / Prague; ★ Viewer Recommendations: “THE INVISIBLE WALL" / the GazettE, “Koibito-yo"(Oh Lover) / Mayumi Itsuwa; ★ Kaleidoscope (Recommendations from Music Journalist Masakazu Kitanaka): “Kage-no Nai Hito"(Person without a Shadow) / ASA-CHANG & Junray; ★ School Festival Live Music Acts: “Aitai"(I Want to See You) / Miliyah Kato.
Artists: Ryota Komatsu and Taeko Onuki, Marty Friedman; 1. "Garden feat. DJ KAORI, Diggy-MO', Clench & Blistah" / May J.; 2. "ONE TIME feat. Issei and Jin Oki" / SoulJa.
Guests: Tomohiro Yahiro and Gladston Galliza, Nobuyuki Tsujii, abingdon boys school; 1. "IDAS E IDAS" / Tomohiro Yahiro and Gladston Galliza; 2. "Kimi no Uta" (Your Song) / abingdon boys school; 3. "Berceuse Op. 57" (composer: Chopin) / Nobuyuki Tsujii.
Guest: Ken Yokoyama; Backstage Pass: coba (Accordionist); 1. "Girlfriend" / CRAZY KEN BAND; 2. "Hirugao" (Bindweed) / CRAZY KEN BAND.
1. "Everything" / ARASHI; 2. "It's all too much" / YUI; 3. "BUMP BUMP! Feat. VERBAL (m-flo)" / BoA; 4. "Cold Edge" / 9mm Parabellum Bullet; 5. "Minna Sora no Shita" (Everyone Under the Sun) / ayaka.
Guests: Dew, JAY'ED, Emiri Miyamoto; 1. "Kimi-e ～forever friend" (For you) / Dew; 2. "Everybody" / JAY'ED; 3. "Ho-Ren～Tenchijin Kiko" / Emiri Miyamoto.
Guests: Tomoyo Harada, Younha, Sizzle Ohtaka; 1. "FINE" / Tomoyo Harada; 2. "Sukinanda" (I Love You) / Younha; 3. "Usukudara" (ÜSKÜDARA GÍDERÍKEN)" / Sizzle Ohtaka.
1. "Paraiso" / SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS; 2. "Fuller Love" / SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS; 3. "Pop Korn" / SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS; 4. "Summer Goddess" / SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS.
★ Featured Autumn Releases; ★ Viewer Recommendations; ★ Kaleidoscope (Recommendations from Music Journalist Masakazu Kitanaka): "Appliqué of Tulip" / Nobuyasu Okabayashi; ★ Tribute to Kazuhiko Kato: "Big-Bang, Bang!" / Sadistic Mica Band.
Guest: ISSEI NORO INSPIRITS; 1. SUNNY CRUISE / ISSEI NORO INSPIRITS; 2. SUNSET GLOW / ISSEI NORO INSPIRITS; 3. EMBRACE THE MOON / ISSEI NORO INSPIRITS; 4. RIGHT HERE / ISSEI NORO INSPIRITS.
J-MELO Music Discovery; Yoko Ono Music Discoverers: LEO IMAI, JAY'ED, Ai Takekawa; Exclusive Comment: sodagreen.
Guest: Akira Jimbo; 1. “Rhapsody in Blue" / Akira Jimbo; 2. “Medley" / Akira Jimbo; 3. “Jimbomba" / Akira Jimbo; 4. “Improvisation for J-MELO" / Akira Jimbo.
J-MELO Music Discovery: Sports Nippon, abingdon boys school, Aoyama Gakuin; University Music Discoverer: LEO IMAI; Guests: AGA-SHIO, Planet Spirita; 1. “Rhapsody" / AGA-SHIO; 2. “Mandolin Concerto" / Planet Spirita; 3. “From Dusk Till Dawn" / abingdon boys school; 4. “I AM YOUR SINGER" / Southern All Stars.
Exclusive Comment: Kazufumi Miyazawa; 1. "Aoku, Shiroku, Aoku, Kagayaku Taiyo" (The Sun Shining Blue, White, and Blue) / DIAMANTES and Claudia Oshiro; 2. "Endo no Hana" (Pea Blossoms) / Claudia Oshiro and Alberto Shiroma; 3. "Gekka Bijin" (Dutchman's Pipe) / Claudia Oshiro and DIAMANTES; 4. "Taiyo no Matsuri" (Festival of the Sun) / DIAMANTES; 5. "Shima Uta" / DIAMANTES and Claudia Oshiro.
Guest: KARIYUSHI 58; Exclusive Comment: BEGIN.
1. “Amagi Goe"(Over the Amagi Pass) / Marty Friedman; 2. “Vincent" / Lan Ohshiro; 3. “Mandolin Concerto" / Planet Spirita; 4. “Fall in Love" / Aoyama Thelma × SOL from BIGBANG; 5. “GLORIA" / YUI; 6. “Closing Time" / Shanti.
J-MELO Music Discoveries; Earthquake Memorial Concert (Conductor: Yutaka Sado); NHK All-Japan School Music Competition (Koriyama Daini Junior High School ); Music Discoverers: JAY'ED, Ai Takekawa; Guest: His Excellency Demon Kakka.
Special Advisor: Dave Spector; Exclusive Comments: the GazettE, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Hirozumi Yoshioka (Nikkei Entertainment! Editor in Chief).
Guest: Kaori Muraji; Special Advisor: Dave Spector; Supervisors: Daichi Hayakawa, Scott Murphy, Kotaro Iizawa.
Artists: May J., JAY'ED, LEO IMAI, Ai Takekawa, SweetVacation.
Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Special Comment: Kazufumi Miyazawa; 1. “LUCKY☆STAR" / Ai Otsuka; 2. “Dekikkonai Wo Yaranakucha" (You've Got to Do What You Can't Possibly Do) / Sambomaster; 3. “Muteki Na Ai" (Invincible Love) / JYONGRI; 4. “Sakurae" / Yuzu; 5. “Hitomi No Screen" (The Screen in Our Eyes) / Hey! Say! JUMP.
Music Discoverers: LEO IMAI, JAY'ED; 1. “Atarashii YES" (New Yes) / Salyu; 2. “Toki No Nagare Ni Mi Wo Makase" (I Only Care About You) / Hideaki Tokunaga; 3. “Ikiru" (Live) / Maïa Barouh; 4. “dream" / Emiri Miyamoto (recommended by editor-in-chief of“The Televison" magazine); 5. “L.O.V.E." / HOME MADE Kazoku.
1. “Niji Iro No Sakana" (Rainbow Fish) / MONKEY MAJIK; 2. “Change" / MONKEY MAJIK & Yoshida Brothers; 3. “Aishiteru" (I Love You) / MONKEY MAJIK; 4. “Open Happiness" / MONKEY MAJIK; 5. “SAKURA " (Cherry Blossoms) / MONKEY MAJIK.
1. “Kamereyon” / ORESKABAND; 2. “PAPAYA” / ORESKABAND; 3. “Pinocchio” / ORESKABAND; 4. “Jitensha ” (Bicycle) / ORESKABAND; 5. “Dance Number 802” / ORESKABAND; 6. “Super☆Duper” / ORESKABAND.
J-MELO Artists: KOKIA, MiChi, EMI MARIA; 1. "sleep" / SID; 2. "The woman" / KOKIA; 3. "All about the Girls" / MiChi; 4. "Show Me Your Love" / EMI MARIA.
MUSIC MAGAZINE; J-MELO Artists: Yosuke Yamashita, Shikao Suga; Exclusive Comment: Terry Ito; Music Discoverers: LEO IMAI, JAY'ED; 1. "Sayonara Home Run" / Shikao Suga; 2. "Fushizen Na Girl" (Unnatural Girls) / Perfume (recommended by the editor-in-chief of MUSIC MAGAZINE); 3. "LAW'S" / KIYOHARU (recommended by Terry Ito); 4. "Triple Cats" / Yosuke Yamashita.
Guests: Park Yong Ha, Younha; Exclusive Message: Fantastic Plastic Machine; 1. “Koe Wo Kikasete” (Let Me Hear Your Voice) / BIGBANG; 2. “ONE LOVE ～Egao de Afureru Yoni～” (Making Everyone Smile) / Park Yong Ha; 3. “Without you feat. MONKEY MAJIK” / Fantastic Plastic Machine; 4. “Suki Nanda” (I Love You） / Youhna.
Special Commentator: Dave Spector; J-MELO Music Discoveries; Surprise visit to viewer in United States: All Nippon Airways; 1. “Shunkan Sentimental” (Instant Sentimental) / SCANDAL; 2. “Going!” / KAT-TUN; 3. “Microphone” / ayumi hamasaki; 4. “Shiny Sky” / May J.
J-MELO Artists: GAIA CUATRO; J-MELO Music Discoveries; Kazufumi Miyazawa, Tetsuhiro Daiku, Kokugakuin University; Music Discoverers: JAY'ED, Ai Takekawa; 1. “DEVIL SIDE” / VAMPS; 2. “Mizuho” / GAIA CUATRO; 3. “Oyaji No Ichiban Nagai Hi” (Dad’s Longest Day) / Masashi Sada.
J-MELO Artists: SoulJa; Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Supervisors: Kotaro Iizawa, Yoshitaka Mori, Daichi Hayakawa; 1. "Our Songs" / Buono!; 2. "FLASH" / Crystal Kay; 3. "Goody Goody" / SweetVacation; 4. "Hanasanaide Yo feat. Aoyama Thelma " / SoulJa.
1. "Early Spring" / Sadao Watanabe Group; 2. "What's Now" / Sadao Watanabe Group; 3. "Call Me" / Sadao Watanabe Group; 4. "Not Quite A Samba" / Sadao Watanabe Group.
J-MELO Artists: Joe Inoue, Naoto Inti Raymi, OKAMOTO'S, Baby M; Music Discovery: Kumiko; Music Discoverer: LEO IMAI; 1. “Kaze No Gotoku” (Like the Wind) / Joe Inoue; 2. “Takaramono” (Treasure) / Naoto Inti Raymi; 3. “Run Run Run” / OKAMOTO’S; 4. “Kimi To” (With You) / Baby M; 5. “INORI” (Prayers) / Kumiko.
J-MELO Artists: SHANTI, Kimaguren, LM.C; Exclusive Comment: Morning Musume。; Special Commentator: Dave Spector; 1. “Seishun Collection” (Youth Collection) / Morning Musume。 ; 2. “GHOST † HEART” / LM.C; 3. “Yuyake” (Sunset) / SHANTI; 4. “Remember” / Kimaguren.
Collaboration with "Seiyu Grand Prix" and Nippon Broadcasting System's "Mu-comi Plus" radio show; Music Discovery: Yui Makino; Exclusive Comment: Aki Toyosaki; Music Discoverer: JAY'ED; 1. “Mysterion” / Nana Mizuki; 2. “My ANSWER” / SEAMO; 3. “Fuwafuwa♪” / Yui Makino; 4. “Boku Wo Sagashite”(Look for Me) / Aki Toyosaki.
Music Discovery: Shanghai Expo; Singer Search Supervisors: Daichi Hayakawa, Scott Murphy; Special Commentator: Dave Spector.
Exclusive Comments: Morning Musume。, REITA (the GazettE), AGA-SHIO; Music Discoverer: Ai Takekawa.
Exclusive Comments: pupa, Mai Fukui; Music Discoverer: Ai Takekawa.
J-MELO Artists: SCANDAL; Exclusive Comment: Norimasa Fujisawa; Music Discoveries: Pacific Music Festival, NHK WONDER LAND; Music Discoverers: LEO IMAI, Scott Murphy; 1. “Namida No Regret” (Tearful Regret) / SCANDAL; 2. “Kimi Ni Aitai” (I Want to See You) / Norimasa Fujisawa; 3. “Take Me To The Carnival” / sonodaband.
1. “Crepuscule With Nellie” / Junko Onishi; 2. “Just One Of Those Things” / Junko Onishi Trio; 3. “The Threepenny Opera” / Junko Onishi Trio.
Music Discovery + J-MELO Overseas Report Highlights; Billboard Japan Album Chart for January to June 2010; Guest: JYONGRI; Special Commentator: Dave Spector; 1. Without You ／ JYONGRI.
1. “Is This Love?” / BONNIE PINK; 2. “Naminami” / BONNIE PINK; 3. “Kite” / BONNIE PINK.
Music Discovery: Angela Aki; Music Discoverer: JAY'ED; 1. “Hoshi No Love Letter”(Starry Love Letter) / THE BOOM; 2. “Chuo Sen”(Chuo Line) / THE BOOM; 3. “Aoi Yuhi”(Blue Sunset)) / THE BOOM feat. YUU (from GO!GO!7188); 4. “Every Woman's Song” / Angela Aki.
Music Discovery: TOKYO BOOT UP!; Music Discoverer: LEO IMAI; 1. “Kamisama No Hoseki De Dekita Shima”(An Island Made of God’s Jewels) / THE BOOM; 2. “Shimauta”(Island Song) / THE BOOM; 3. “Kaze Ni Naritai”(I Want to Be the Wind)) / THE BOOM with May J.
J-MELO Artists: KG, JAMOSA; Exclusive Comments: Katsuhisa Hattori, jammin'Zeb; Music Discovery: Hakone Dream Festival 21; Music Discoverer: Ai Takekawa; 1. “Donna Ni Hanarete Mo Duet with AZU” (However Far We're Apart) / KG; 2. “The Answer” / Daichi Miura; 3. “Minor Swing” / MASARA; 4. “BOND ~Kizuna~ feat. Wakadanna” / JAMOSA.
J-MELO Artists: Kylee; Exclusive Comment: Hirozumi Yoshioka (Nikkei Entertainment! Editor-in-Chief), Watari Roka Hashiri Tai; 1. “Ichiban Kirei Na Watashi Wo” (The Most Beautiful Me) / Mika Nakashima; 2. “Hitomi No Screen” (The Screen in Our Eyes) / Hey! Say! JUMP; 3. “Gyu!” / Watari Roka Hashiri Tai; 4. “Everlasting” / Kylee; 5. “Almost Human” / KIMONOS.
Guest: HOME MADE KAZOKU; Music Discoverer: Ai Takekawa; 1. “No Rain No Rainbow” / HOME MADE KAZOKU; 2. “Love Song” / sambomaster; 3. “Nukumori” (Warmth) / HOME MADE KAZOKU.
J-MELO Artists: Crystal Kay, Jin Oki; Supervisors: Kazumi Watanabe, Joe Inoue, Morning Musume。, Kotaro Iizawa, Scott Murphy; Special Commentator: Dave Spector; 1. “Mata Kimi Ni Koi Shiteru” (Falling in Love with You Again) / Fuyumi Sakamoto; 2. “Journey” / Crystal Kay; 3. “Gurimama” / Jin Oki.
Music Discoveries: NHK Culture Festival; Tokyo International Music Market; Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU); Music Discoverer: JAY'ED.
Artists: BEGIN, MAY'S; 1. “Koi Wo Shiteta -Say Goodbye-” (We Were Lovers) / MAY'S×May J.; 2. “WONDERLAND” / MAY'S; 3. “Dejitaran” (Really Not Enough) / BEGIN; 4. “Pamaya Yunta” (Hairdresser Song) / BEGIN; 5. “Shimanchunu Takara” (Islanders’ Treasure) / BEGIN.
Artists: AGA-SHIO, May J.; 1. “shufflin' city” / AGA-SHIO; 2. “rhapsody” / AGA-SHIO; 3. “Kimi No Tonari Ni” (By Your Side) / May J.; 4. “Ano Hi Ga Aru Kara” (Because We Have That Day) / May J..
Guest: JYONGRI; Exclusive Message: Toshinobu Kubota, VAMPS; Music Discoveries: WEDNESDAY J-POP, Shibu-maga-Z; NHK Year-End Overseas Charity Drive; 1. “MEMORIES” / VAMPS; 2. “Kimi No Tonari Ni” (By Your Side) / May J.; 3. “Love Rain –Koi No Ame-“ / Toshinobu Kubota; 4. “Unchanging Love –Kimi Ga Ireba-“ / JYONGRI.
Exclusive Messages: SCANDAL, Kylee; Supervisors: Morning Musume。; Special Commentator: Dave Spector; 1. "Shunkan Sentimental" (Instant Sentimental) / SCANDAL; 2. "Hatenai Sora" (Endless Sky) / ARASHI.
LEO IMAI, JAY'ED, Ai Takekawa, Scott Murphy, JOE INOUE; 1. "Soundtrack To Murder" / KIMONOS; 2. "PRAY" / JAY'ED; 3. "Toi Michi No Saki De" (At the End of a Long Journey) / Ai Takekawa; 4. "Yume Wo Akiramenaide" (Don’t Give Up On Your Dream) / Scott Murphy; 5. "Kaze No Gotoku" (Like the Wind) / JOE INOUE.
Yosuke Yamashita, Makoto Ozone and Satoru Shionoya, Jin Oki and SoulJa, Kaori Muraji and Soichi Muraji, Kazumi Watanabe Special Band, RANKIN TAXI, Sean Lennon, Lisa Ono, Ryu Goto, SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS, ISSEI NORO INSPIRITS, Akira Jimbo, DIAMANTES and Claudia Oshiro, MONKEY MAJIK, ORESKABAND, Junko Onishi, BONNIE PINK, THE BOOM, Sadao Watanabe, Hiromi Uehara.
J-MELO Artists: Mai, Tee, Fire Lily; Music Discovery: HIFANA; Music Discoverer: LEO IMAI; 1. “Haru No Yuki”(Spring Snow) / Hideaki Tokunaga; 2. “Eien No Chi E”(To the Land of Eternity) / Mai; 3. “Denwa De Dakishimete” (Hug Me by Phone) / Tee; 4. “Eternal Story” / Fire Lily; 5. “Matsuri HANABEAM” / HIFANA.
Team J-MELO Traveler: Kazumi Watanabe; J-MELO Artist: AK; Exclusive Comments: Yoko Ono, Mike Mainieri, Danny Krivit (DJ), Victoria Goldenberg (Music Writer); Artists: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Toshinobu Kubota, Hiromi Uehara, DJ KAORI, Terumasa Hino, ZAZEN BOYS, BOOM BOOM SATELLITES, PUFFY, L'Image.
1. "Chain Reaction" / SHANTI; 2. "Love Matters" / SHANTI; 3. "How Insensitive" / SHANTI; 4. "Slow Ballad" / SHANTI.
We'll be announcing the most-requested artist and highest-emailing country or territory based on e-mails from viewers throughout 2010. We'll also have awards for the best vocal performance by a viewer, the best video by a viewer, and the best photo by a viewer. Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Supervisors: Scott Murphy, Morning Musume。, Kotaro Iizawa Exclusive Comments: AKB48, Zeebra.
Guest: Miya (MUCC); Exclusive Message: Alice Nine; Music Discoverer: JOE INOUE; Artists: L'Arc-en-Ciel, SCANDAL, the GazettE, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Chatmonchy,MONKEY MAJIK, ONE OK ROCK, Sambomaster, Stereopony, SuG, Mao Abe; 1. "GEMINI -0- eternal” / Alice Nine; 2. "Oz” / MUCC.
1. "destiny" / girugamesh; 2. "Mienai Kyori" (Invisible Distance) / girugamesh; 3. "Kaze No Gotoku" (Like the Wind) / JOE INOUE; 4. "CLOSER" / JOE INOUE.
Guests: MAY'S, Sambomaster; Exclusive Comments: SCANDAL, Zeebra, Alice Nine, Yui Makino, T.M.Revolution; Team J-MELO Artist: Kazumi Watanabe; Team J-MELO Comments: Scott Murphy, LEO IMAI, Ai Takekawa, JAY'ED, Joe Inoue; 1. "Brave Heart" / MAY'S; 2. "Kibo No Michi" (Road of Hope) / Sambomaster; 3. "Kimi No Tonari Ni" (By Your Side) / May J. and Kazumi Watanabe.
Team J-MELO Traveler: JAY'ED; J-MELO Artist: alan, JunJun (former Morning Musume。member) , Ayane; Artists:EXILE, AKB48, LUNA SEA, ayumi hamasaki, ARASHI, GLAY, Kumi Koda, KAT-TUN, L'Arc-en-Ciel.
Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Team J-MELO Travelers: May J., Scott Murphy; J-MELO Artists: SuG, Yoko Noge, Akiko Yano, Skoop On Somebody; Artists: YUI, the GazettE, L'Arc-en-Ciel, EXILE, Arashi.
Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Artists: KAT-TUN, the GazettE, Gackt, SOUL FLOWER UNION, RYUKYUDISKO, THE BOOM, UPLIFT SPICE, Buono!, Kalafina, PUFFY AMIYUMI, LM.C, HALCALI, Perfume, ayumi hamasaki, Ikimonogakari.
Artists: Kazumi Watanabe, Minami Kizuki, Erena Terakubo, Morning Musume。; 1. "Zutto Zutto" (Forever and Ever) / Minami Kizuki; 2. "Aitsumugi" (Weaving Love Together) / Minami Kizuki; 3. "Tim Tam Time" / Erena Terakubo; 4. "Impressions" / Kazumi Watanabe.
Artists: Kazumi Watanabe, Minami Kizuki, Erena Terakubo, Morning Musume。; 1."Kimi No Tonari Ni" (By Your Side) / May J.; 2. "ONE MORE KISS" / May J.; 3. Medley: "Mr. Moonlight", "Seishun Collection" (Youth Collection), "Nanchatte Renai" (Fake Love) / Morning Musume。; 4. "Majidesuka Ska!" / Morning Musume。; 5. "I WISH" / Minami Kizuki, Erena Terakubo, May J., and Morning Musume。.
1. ROCK ME ／ BOWWOW; 2. SILVER LIGHTNING ／ BOWWOW; 3. STILL ／ BOWWOW; 4. GET ON OUR TRAIN ／ BOWWOW; 5. THEME OF BOWWOW ／ BOWWOW.
Guest: FLiP; Exclusive Comments: Kana Nishino, the GazettE; Music Discoverer: JAY'ED; Singer Search Supervisors: Morning Musume。; Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Artists: Arashi, EXILE, YUI, UVERworld, MAXIMUM THE HORMONE, the GazettE.
Music Discovery: Hiromi Uehara; Exclusive Comments: fade, Yuya Matsushita, AKB48, MAY'S Music Discoverer: Ai Takekawa; Japan Star Search Supervisor: Joe Inoue.
Music Discoverers: LEO IMAI, JAY'ED, Ai Takekawa; 1. "Terminal" ／ JAY'ED; 2. "Futari" (Two People) ／ STUDIO APARTMENT × JAY'ED × May J.
Guests: ☆Taku Takahashi and FPM (Tomoyuki Tanaka).
Guests: Versailles; Exclusive Comments: L'Arc-en-Ciel, Atsuko Maeda, Momoiro Clover Z; Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Supervisors: Morning Musume。, Scott Murphy.
Guest: GACKT; Music Discovery: eastern youth; Exclusive Comments: w-inds., Takashi Yamaguchi (Sambomaster); Music Discoverer: LEO IMAI; J-MELO Charity Song Project Producer: ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo); Artists: AAA, Alice, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, JERO, Shinya Tada, Shoko Nakagawa, TAMURAPAN, the pillows, Tomomi Itano, Ganbaro Nippon! Ai Wa Katsu Singers, Sunplaza Nakano Kun & Mukaiya Club, Team Amuse!!; 1. "Episode.0" / GACKT; 2. "Kireida" ( You're Beautiful) / w-inds.; 3. "Dokkoi Ikiteru Machi No Naka" (Living Strong in the City) / eastern youth; 4. "I love you & I need you Fukushima" / Inawashirokozu.
Guests: Erena Terakubo, MAY'S; Exclusive Message: Miho Fukuhara.
Exclusive Messages: Base Ball Bear, PUFFY, Shonen Knife; J-MELO Ending Theme Comment: Yui Makino; Supervisor: Kotaro Iizawa; Special Commentator: Dave Spector.
Music Discoveries: Toshinobu Kubota, Taiko in Rikuzentakata with Shuichi Hidano; Exclusive Comment: STRAIGHTENER; Supervisor: Kazumi Watanabe; Music Discoverers: JAY'ED, Ai Takekawa.
Collaborations with NHK WONDERLAND, Nippon Broadcasting System's "Mu-comi Plus" radio show; Guests: Haruko Momoi, Yui Makino, S/mileage; Exclusive Messages: DiVa, Morning Musume。; Artists: Buono!, SCANDAL; 1. "Cry" / DiVA; 2. "Only you" / Morning Musume。; 3. "Uchouten Love" (Ecstatic Love) / S/mileage; 4. "Mirai No Hitomi Wo Hiraku Toki" (When We Open Our Eyes in the Future) / Yui Makino.
Artists: OKAMOTO'S, sonodaband, Alice Nine, KODOMO BAND; 1. "Koi Wo Shiyouyo" (Let's Fall in Love!) / OKAMOTO'S; 2. "Run Run Run" / OKAMOTO'S; 3. "Waratte Waratte" (Smile! Smile!) / OKAMOTO'S; 4. "Yokubou Wo Sakebe!!!!" (Shout What You Want) / OKAMOTO'S; 5. "Detatoko Shoubu" (Leave It to Chance) / sonodaband; 6. "Hashire, Hashire" (Run! Run!) / sonodaband; 7. "Catch The Rainbow!" / sonodaband.
Artists: OKAMOTO'S, sonodaband, Alice Nine, KODOMO BAND; 1. "Senkou" (Flash) / Alice Nine; 2. "RAINBOW" / Alice Nine; 3. "Tokyo Dynamite" / KODOMO BAND; 4. "Summertime Blues" / KODOMO BAND; 5. "Mammoth No Uta" (Mammoth Song) / KODOMO BAND.
1. "Caravan"; 2. "Here, There and Everywhere"; 3. "ZIG ZAG ZONE"; 4. "Summertime"; 5. "Superstition".
Music Discovery: 11th Japanese Popular Song Contest ; Exclusive Comment: Hirozumi Yoshioka (Nikkei Entertainment! Editor-in-Chief); Guests: Choshinsei, DOMINO; Artists: Kana Nishino, Mika Nakashima, KAT-TUN, NEWS, Namie Amuro, Kanjani Eight, GACKT, Kinki Kids, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Girls' Generation, TOHOSHINKI, Ryuichi Sakamoto, FPM, May'n, ARASHI, YUI; 1. "Lotus" / ARASHI; 2. "GO GiRL" / DOMINO; 3. "Kimi Dake Wa Hanasanai" (I Won't Let You Go) / Supernova.
J-MELO Charity Song “The Lifelines”; Exclusive Messages: ☆Taku Takahashi(m-flo), Maynard Plant (blanc. / MONKEY MAJIK), WISE Team J-MELO in Europe: Ai Takahashi (Morning Musume。); Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume。; Artists: AKB48, AAA, flumpool, The_AIU, Masaaki Sakai and CRAZY KEN BAND, MAY'S, T-ARA, Ryota Komatsu, YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz, Morning Musume。; 1. "The Lifelines" / The Lifelines (☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo), Maynard Plant (blanc. / MONKEY MAJIK), WISE, May J.); 2. "Kono Chikyu No Heiwa Wo Honki De Negatterundayo!" (We Really Want a Peaceful World) / Morning Musume。.
1. AGONY; 2. Hyena; 3. BEFORE I DECAY; 4. VORTEX; 5. Filth in the beauty.
Guest: Satoru Shionoya; Special Guest Performance: Harmony Breeze Jazz Orchestra (Fuchu City No. 4 Elementary School); Exclusive Comment: Yujin Naito (Editor in Chief, "JAZZ LIFE"); Team J-MELO: Kazumi Watanabe; 1. "J GROOVE" / Kazumi Watanabe and Satoru Shionoya.
Artists: AGA-SHIO, HidaJimbo, Ryota Komatsu and Taeko Onuki, Jin Oki and SoulJa, Kaori Muraji and Soichi Muraji, THE BOOM, MAY'S, ☆Taku Takahashi and FPM, Zeebra, ORESKABAND, Hiromi Uehara, Lisa Ono, Shonen Knife, Morning Musume。, Erena Terakubo, sonodaband, Ryu Goto, Terumasa Hino, Sadao Watanabe, RANKIN TAXI, BEGIN, Alice Nine, girugamesh, MONKEY MAJIK, Marty Friedman, KODOMO BAND, BOWWOW; 1. "Crossroads" / Kazumi Watanabe and Char; 2. "Kite" / BONNIE PINK; 3. "BEFORE I DECAY" / the GazettE.
Team J-MELO in LA: Joe Inoue; Exclusive Message: Far East Movement; J-MELO Ending Theme Comment: MAY'S and Hiromitsu Agatsuma; ☆ 2011 Nisei Week, Japan Star Seach, and more; Artists: B'z, VAMPS, Miku Hatsune, Sheena Ringo, DIR EN GREY, Morning Musume。; 1. "Laser Beam" / Perfume; 2. "Like a G6 (featuring Cataracs and Dev)" / Far East Movement; 3. "Koyoi Tsuki No Shita De(Under the Moon Tonight) feat. Hiromistu Agatsuma" / MAY'S.
Team J-MELO in LA: Joe Inoue; Guests: Kylee, Orianthi; Exclusive Message: JAY'ED, TJS (Japanese radio station in LA), US Karaoke Red and White Song Festival, and more; Artists: YUI, Superfly, ISSA×SoulJa＋ROLA, THE BAWDIES, Mana Ashida, SuG, MONKEY MAJIK, Wakadanna, MADEMOISELLE YULIA, Miho Fukuhara, Kazuma Miura; 1. "Eien Wa Tada No 1 Byo Kara (Eternity Begins with a Single Second) " / JAY'ED×JUJU; 2. "BRAND NEW WAVE feat. Orianthi" / Kylee; 3. "CLOSER" / Joe Inoue.
Guests: Shuichi Hidano, Hikami Daiko (taiko team from Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture) Music Discovery: Music Jacket Gallery 2011; Team J-MELO: Ai Takekawa; ☆J-MELO Manga Band Project; 1. “The Lifelines” / The Lifelines {☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo), Maynard Plant (blanc. / MONKEY MAJIK), WISE, and May J.}; 2. “Tanabata Matsuri Bayashi (Tanabata Festival Music)” / Hikami Daiko and Shuichi Hidano.
Music Discovery: TIMM (Tokyo International Music Market); Exclusive Message: Suzuka Asaoka (NOLIFE, France); Artists: DECO*27, Minami Kizuki, SEAMO, Nami Takaki, MEGARYU, Yuuka Nanri, HANGRY&ANGRY-f, Momoiro Clover Z; 1. “6.000.000.000 No Tengoku” (Heaven for Six Billion) / THE BEATNIKS; 2. “NO WAY OUT” / THE BEATNIKS; 3. “Chotto Tsurainda”(A Bit Brokenhearted) / THE BEATNIKS; 4. “Minority Parade” / UPLIFT SPICE.
Music Discovery: Masayuki Suzuki; Artists: SKE48, SPHERE, Shota Shimizu, Berryz Kobo×℃-ute, ARASHI, ON / OFF, Masao Sen, Perfume, RAKE, 10-FEET; 1. “Go and Go” / THE BEATNIKS; 2. “Didn’t Want To Have To Do It” / THE BEATNIKS; 3. “Around The Bends” / THE BEATNIKS; 4. “Last Train To Exitown” / THE BEATNIKS; 5. “Garasu Goshi Ni Kieta Natsu” (The Summer that Disappeared beyond the Window) / Masayuki Suzuki.
Guest: Tomomi Nishimoto; Guest Discoverer: Haruko Momoi; Exclusive Message: the GazettE; Team J-MELO: Kazufumi Miyazawa, JAY'ED; Artists: KAN, Versailles Philharmonic Quintet, YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz, Claudia Oshiro, Alberto Shiroma, Lucy Nagamine, Eric Fukusaki, Jake Shimabukuro, Marcia; 1. "BEFORE I DECAY" / the GazettE; 2. Polovtsian Dances and Chorus from the Opera “Prince Igor”, Composer: Alexander Borodin, Conductor: Tomomi Nishimoto; 3. "Shinkanucha" / Kazufumi Miyazawa + DIAMANTES + Shinkanucha.
Manga Band Producer: Marty Friedman; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Kazumi Watanabe, Scott Murphy, Joe Inoue, Ai Takekawa, and Morning Musume。 9th-generation members Kanon Suzuki, Riho Sayashi, Mizuki Fukumura, and Erina Ikuta; Artists: Jin Akanishi, exist†trace, Kodo, YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz, L'Arc-en-Ciel, RHYMESTER, ℃-ute, Noriyuki Makihara; 1. "Haru Yo Koi (Hurry Up, Spring!)" / Yumi Matsutoya.
Guest: Shuichi Hidano; 1. "HARMONY (Wa)" / Hikami Daiko; 2. "Kakyo" / Hikami Daiko; 3. "Yudan" / Hikami Daiko; 4. "Tanabata Matsuri Bayashi" / Hikami Daiko and Shuichi Hidano.
Guests: L'Arc-en-Ciel; Artists: Idoling!!!, TOTAL FAT, Crystal Kay, aobozu, Sayuri Sugawara, Alice Nine, Zeebra, moumoon, Kyarypamyupamyu, KinKi Kids, Namie Amuro; 1. "Driver's High" / L'Arc-en-Ciel; 2. "GOOD LUCK MY WAY" / L'Arc-en-Ciel; 3. "CHASE" / L'Arc-en-Ciel; 4. "Yozora No Yuki" (Snow in the Night Sky) / May J.
Special Commentator: Dave Spector.
Team J-MELO: Risa Niigaki and Ayumi Ishida (Morning Musume。); Exclusive Message: Alice Nine, GACKT, Zeebra, SCANDAL, T.M.Revolution, Maynard Plant (blanc. / MONKEY MAJIK), Saori Yuki; 1. "The Lifelines" / The Lifelines [☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo), Maynard Plant (blanc. / MONKEY MAJIK), WISE, and May J.]; 2. "Kimi No Tonari Ni" (By Your Side) / May J.; 3. "ARIGATO to the world" / coba and the People of Yamamoto Town.
1. "THE END OF THE DAY"; 2. "LAST KISS"; 3. "YOU ARE THE REASON"; 4. "Mata Koko De Aimasho" (Let's Meet Here Again).
Exclusive Messages: Kana Uemura, Yuya Matsushita, UVERworld; Team J-MELO: JAY'ED; Artists: Kaori Kobayashi, LG Yankees, m-flo, Nogizaka 46, STUDIO APARTMENT; 1. "Message" / Kana Uemura; 2. "Kimi E No Love Song" (A Love Song to You) / Yuya Matsushita.
Exclusive Messages: AI, GACKT; Artists: Berryz Kobo, Namie Amuro, Toshinobu Kubota, the GazettE, KUMI KODA; J-MELO New Band Project with LUNA (Ai Takekawa); Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue, Kylee, Morning Musume。; 1. "INDEPENDENT WOMAN" / AI; 2. "Mata Koko De Aimasho" (Let's Meet Here Again) / YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz.
1. "Tsukiakari No Michishirube" (Moonlight Signpost) / STEREOPONY; 2. "stand by me" / STEREOPONY; 3. "Gajumaru Beat" (Banyan Beat) / HY; 4. "AM11:00" / HY; 5. "Watashi No Hero" (My Hero) / HY.
1. "Kimi Wa Jitensha Watashi Wa Densha De Kitaku" (You Cycle Home, and I Take the Train) / ℃-ute; 2. "Kiss Me Aishiteru" (Kiss Me, I Love You) / ℃-ute; 3. "Sekai Ichi Happy Na Onnanoko" (The Happiest Girl in the World) / ℃-ute; 4. "Kare To Issho Ni Omise Ga Shitai" (I Want to Open a Shop with Him) / Morning Musume。; 5. "Renai Hunter" (Love Hunter) / Morning Musume。; 6. "Pyoko Pyoko Ultra" / Morning Musume。; 7. "Kono Chikyu No Heiwa Wo Honki De Negatterundayo!" (We Really Want a Peaceful World) / Morning Musume。 and ℃-ute; 8. "Dance De Bakoon!"(Dance Explosion) / Morning Musume。 and ℃-ute.
Special Commentator: Dave Spector; Artists: Perfume; Your Photos: Takamasa Sakurai; Team J-MELO: Kazufumi Miyazawa, Kylee, SHANTI, Morning Musume。; 1. "Fushigi Na Sekai Kara No Shotaijo" (An Invitation from the World of Wonder) / Kra; 2. "Wild at Heart" / ARASHI; 3. "Yoake No Scat" (Scat in the Dark) / Saori Yuki; 4. "CANDY" / SHANTI.
Guests: Acid Black Cherry, DEAD END; Exclusive Comments: L'Arc-en-Ciel, Atsushi Shikano; Artists: SuG, ViViD, ONE OK ROCK, SID, FLOW, HAPPY END, EIKICHI YAZAWA, Char, LOUDNESS, Shonen Knife, B'z, RC SUCESSESION, BOØWY, X JAPAN; 1. "Yume Oni Uta" (Dream Demon Song) / DEAD END; 2. "REMEMBER THE URGE" / the GazettE; 3. "Yes" / Acid Black Cherry.
Guests: Momoiro Clover Z, SuG, CreepHyp, Hisanori Yoshida (Nippon Broadcasting System announcer); Guest Discoverers: Maiko Katagiri (MAY'S), Hiromitsu Agatsuma; Team J-MELO: Kazumi Watanabe, Joe Inoue, Kylee; 1. "Moretsu Uchu Kokyokyoku Dai-Nana Gakusho ‘Mugen No Ai'" (Red-Hot Cosmic Symphony, Seventh Movement: "Infinite Love") / Momoiro Clover Z; 2. "FEEL" / Kylee; 3. "Passy Home" / Kazumi Watanabe.
Exclusive Comment: Mao Abe; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, ☆Taku Takahashi, Takamasa Sakurai; Artists: ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERAYION, Ikimonogakari, Tomomi Itano, LM.C, the GazettE, Kalafina, Sexy Zone, fairies, BENI, Ms. OOJA, YUI, Wakadanna; 1. "CHASE" / L'Arc-en-Ciel; 2."Delicious Na Kinyobi" (Delicious Friday) / Crystal Kay; 3. "Kanda Gawa" (Kanda River) / Kaguya Hime; 4. "Sekai Wa Mada Kimi Wo Shiranai" (The World Doesn't Know You Yet) / Mao Abe.
Guests: kyarypamyupamyu, DJ YUMMY, Maburai (winners of the 15th Nekketsu Oyaji Battle); Japan Dance Music Adventure: Kagura (in Akitakata City, Hiroshima Prefecture); Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi, Kylee, Takamasa Sakurai, Morning Musume。(Riho Sayashi, Mizuki Fukumura, Erina Ikuta, Haruka Kudo); Artists: Namie Amuro, EXILE, DiVA, w-inds., Perfume, banvox, el poco maro, Norihito Ogawa, REMO-CON, HIDEO KOBAYASHI; 1. "CANDY CANDY" / kyarypamyupamyu; 2. "Waido Bushi" / Maburai.
Exclusive Message: Jun Matsumoto (ARASHI); Artists: YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz, SEIKIMA-Ⅱ, Morning Musume。, Kaya, AKB48, Nami Tamaki; 1. "Inori-Namida No Kido'" (Prayers – The Tracks of Tears)/ Mr. Children; 2. "VENOMOUS SPIDER WEB" / the GazettE; 3. "Green a. live" / YUI; 4. "Your Eyes" / ARASHI.
Guest: Zeebra; Exclusive Comment: Katsuhiro Shiiba (Editor-in Chif, De☆View); Artist: GAKU-MC, RIP SLYME, DABO, HOME MADE Kazoku, ET-KING, KREVA, Negicco, LinQ, Hime Kyun Fruit Can; Team J-MELO: Yoshitaka Mouri (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts), Joe Inoue; 1. "Cypher1" / SIMON, KOJOE, ISH-ONE, OHLI-DAY from ICE DYNASTY, Y's, Mr,BEATS a.k.a. DJ CELORY; 2. "Cypher2" / DAG FORCE, KGE THE SHADOWMEN, VITO from SQUASH SQUAD, LOOTA from SQUASH SQUAD, AKLO, DJ KEN-BO; 3. "Mr. Miyagi" / Zeebra, DJ YOSSY (Dancers: MASAKI, GOTO, GEORGE, YU-KI); 4. "Tatoeba No Monster" (An Example of a Monster) / Hime Kyun Fruit Can.
Guest: BONNIE PINK; Exclusive Comments: Yuzo Kayama, Berryz Kobo×℃-ute; Your Photos: Hiroto and Tora (Alice Nine); Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Mizuki Fukumura, Erina Ikuta, and Haruka Kudo (Morning Musume。); Artists: SEKAI NO OWARI, Watarirouka Hashiritai 7, Shigeru Matsuzaki, MEG, JUJU, Fukumimi, EXILE, KAT-TUN, Momoiro Clover Z, MAY'S, BES, Hemenway, BLUE BIRD BEACH, Kylee; 1. "Cho Happy Song" (Super-Happy Song) / Berryz Kobo x ℃-ute; 2. "Subete E" (To Everything) / Alice Nine; 3. "Kimi To Itsu Made Mo" (With You Forever) / Yuzo Kayama; 4. "Machi No Namae" (The Name of the Town) / BONNIE PINK.
1. "Dokudanjo Beauty -R.I.P.-" (Monopoly Beauty -R.I.P.-); 2. "ROMANCE"; 3. "Hamushi No Yo Ni" (Like a Winged Insect); 4. "Django!!!"; 5. "Elise No Tame Ni" (For Elise).
1. "Howling Magic" / SuG; 2. "Gimme x Gimme" / SuG; 3. "Fukanzen Beautyfool Days" (Imperfect Beautyfool Days) / SuG; 4. "THE RED CARPET DAY" / Versailles; 5. "ROSE" / Versailles.
Guest: Dempagumi. inc; Artists: SCANDAL, Perfume, Kyarypamyupamyu, Hey! Say! JUMP, SuG, Atsuko Maeda, ANTIC CAFÉ, URBANGARDE J-MELO x Tokyo No. 1 Kawaii Radio (Takamasa Sakurai, Sumire Uesaka); Team J-MELO: Kylee; Sayumi Michishige (Morning Musume。); 1. "Kimi Wa Boku Da" (You Are Me) / Atsuko Maeda; 2. "Kira Kira Tune" (Sparkling Tune) / Dempa Gumi. inc; 3. "One • Two • Three" / Morning Musume。.
Guest: Ayano Uema; Exclusive Comments: BEGIN; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Kimutaka No Amawari; Team J-MELO: Kazufumi Miyazawa; Ayumi Ishida and Haruka Kudo (Morning Musume。); 1. "Shimanchunu Takara" (Islanders' Treasure) / BEGIN; 2. "Tinsagu Nu Hana" (Balsam Flowers) / Ayano Uema; 3. "Shinkanucha" / Kazufumi Miyazawa.
Japan Dance Music Adventure: Gujo Odori, Yosakoi; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi; Kylee; Reina Tanaka, Erina Ikuta, and Riho Sayashi (Morning Musume。); Guests: AKLO, HABANERO POSSE.
Guests: VAMPS; Exclusive Comment: Yuko Oshima (AKB48), Yasuaki Shimizu; Team J-MELO: Kazumi Watanabe; 1. "ANGEL TRIP" / VAMPS; 2. "Gingham Check" / AKB48; 3. "ReVIVE –Fukko No Kane-” (The Revival Bell) / Kazumi Watanabe and Yasuaki Shimizu.
1. "Kiss Kiss Kiss" / BENI; 2. "Ti Amo" / BENI; 3. "Superman" / Crystal Kay; 4. "Forever" / Crystal Kay; 5. "You've Got A Friend" / BENI and Crystal Kay with Satoru Shionoya.
Guests: Kimaguren; Exclusive Comments: Momoiro Clover Z; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Artists: abingdon boys school, Namie Amuro, SKE48, KANJANI EIGHT, SCANDAL, S/mileage, Mika Nakashima, Yuya Matsushita, miwa, Lily.μ, ryo (supercell) feat. Hatsune Miku, UNiTE, ONE OK ROCK; 1. "In The Spotligjht" (TOKYO) / Namie Amuro; 2. "Otome Senso (Girl War)" / Momoiro Cliver Z; 3. "Kizudarake No Laula” (Wounded Laura) / Hideki Saijo; 4. "LIFE" / Kimaguren.
Guests: the GazettE; J-MELO in San Francisco: J-Pop Summit 2012; Team J-MELO: Kylee.
Super-Con (Super Convention); Japan Dance Music Adventure: Samba (Oizumi Carnival 2012); Exclusive Comments: Lisa Ono, A (Ace); Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue, Kylee; 1. “Shangri-la” / A (Ace); 2. “Ipanema No Musume” (The Girl from Ipanema) / Lisa Ono.
J-MELO Fan Meeting in Sao Paulo; The 15th Japan Festival 2012; Anime Friends 2012; Guests: Ricardo Cruz, Shoichi Shimada (songwriter); Exclusive Comments: AN CAFE; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue; Ayumi Ishida, Mizuki Fukumura, and Haruna Iikubo (Morning Musume。); Artists: JAM Project, Hiroshi Itsuki, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sadao Watanabe, BEGIN; 1. “amazing blue” / AN CAFE; 2. “RESCUE FIRE” / JAM Project; 3. “WAKUTEKA Take a chance” / Morning Musume。.
Jak-Japan Matsuri 2012, Japan Festival in Jakarta; J-MELO Fan Meeting in Jakarta; Guests: AiU RATNA, JKT48; Exclusive Comments: Golden Bomber, the GazettE; Artists: ONE OK ROCK, kyarypamyupamyu, L'Arc-en-Ciel, KAT-TUN, SCANDAL, EXILE; 1. "Memeshikute" (Effeminate) / Golden Bomber; 2. "SLUDGY CULT" / the GazettE; 3. "BOW & ARROWS" / EXILE; 4. "Heavy Rotation" / JKT48.
1. "the sun"; 2. "sari"; 3. "Namida Ga Afureru" (Tears Overflow); 4. "EMILY".
Tokyo International Music Market; Japan Dance Music Adventure: tofubeats (DJ from Osaka), Ushibuka Haiya Bushi (Amakusa City); Guest: Shoko Nakagawa; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi, Haruna Iikubo, Erina Ikuta, Mizuki Fukumura (Morning Musume｡); Artists: Telepathy, Marina Kawano, Seira Sakuragi, Natsuko Aso, Dempagumi. inc, Hiroco Ponissi, Sally Miura, Prague, Schroeder-Headz, THE BOHEMIANS, TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE, D☆DATE, Alice Juban, WORLD ORDER; 1. "Suisei (Mercury) feat. Onomatope Daijin" / tofubeats; 2. "Uchu de Propose" (Propose in Space) / Shoko Nakagawa.
1. "Hijosen Toppa" (Breaking through a Cordon); 2. "Tasogare Wo Asobu Neko" (Cat Playing in the Twilight); 3. "Lupin the Third"; 4. "SKA ME CRAZY"; 5. "SKAN CAN"; 6. "DOWN BEAT STOMP".
Guests: MUCC; Exclusive Comments: 7!!; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Sayumi Michishige, Reina Tanaka, Mizuki Fukumura, Haruna Iikubo and Ayumi Ishida (Morning Musume｡); Artists: AKB48, ayumi hamasaki, CLIFF EDGE, DOES, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Kis-My-Fyt2, Momoiro Clover Z, Nami Tamaki, Negoto, SCREW, Yun*chi; 1. "Sweet Drive" / 7!!; 2. "MOTHER" / MUCC; 3. "MONKEY MAGIC" / GODIEGO; 4. "TSUBASA " / May J.
Guests: coba (accordionist), Kenji Sakai (composer); J-MELO Singer Search; Team J-MELO: Ai Takahashi and Risa Niigaki (former leaders of Morning Musume｡); 1. "ARIGATO to the world" / coba and the People of Yamamoto Town; 2. "Green in Blue" / Kenji Sakai.
J-MELO Fan Meeting in Paris; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Flamenco; Guests: Jin Oki (flamenco guitarist), Suzuka Asaoka (NOLIFE) Exclusive Comment: Airi Suzuki (℃-ute); Team J-MELO: Ai Takahashi and Risa Niigaki (former leaders of Morning Musume｡), Sayumi Michishige,Haruna Iikubo and Ayumi Ishida (Morning Musume｡); Artists: the GazettE, Arashi, Puffy AmiYumi, Yui Makino, AKB48, SEIKIMAⅡ, Golden Bomber, Flow, Momoiro Clover Z, MAN WITH A MISSION, Arashi, Morning Musume｡; 1. "Ibitsu" / the GazettE; 2. "Respeto y orgullo"(Farruca) / Jin Oki.
Guests: Takanori Nishikawa (T.M.Revolution, abingdon boys school), Shingo Maeyama (singer of Amami island folk songs); Maiko's Minyo Trail: Shimauta (Amami Oshima Island); Exclusive Comment: Kyoko; Team J-MELO: Maiko Katagiri (MAY'S); Artists: abingdon boys school, Sexy Zone, 9nine, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, Fairies, MONKEY MAJIK and Kazumasa Oda, AKB48; 1. "FLAGS" / T.M.Revolution; 2. "Down Town Christmas (Reprise)" / Kyoko with Motohiro Hata and Yu Sakai; 3. "Diamond" / MAY'S.
1. "VICTORY"; 2. "Vanguard"; 3. "Rescue Fire"; 4. "SKILL".
Guests: D-YAMA, DJ WILDPARTY, DJ Niche, Anime Oen Project; Exclusive Comments: Nana Mizuki, Haruka Shimazaki (AKB48); Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi, Kylee; 1. "Eien Pressure" (Eternal Pressure) / AKB48; 2. "Lovely Fruit" / Nana Mizuki.
1. "Koyoi Tsuki No Shita De featuring Hiromitsu Agatsuma" / MAY'S; 2. "Only Star" / The Rough-T; 3. "Mr. Miyagi" / Zeebra; 4. "The Lifelines" / The Lifelines; 5. "The Apprentice" / MONKEY MAJIK.
Guests: Milky Bunny, AMIAYA, Yun*chi, Minosuke Nishikawa; Artists: Kana Nishino, kyarypamyupamyu, Leo Ieiri, Momoiro Clover Z, SCANDAL, sphere; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Nihon Buyo; Team J-MELO: Mizuki Fukumura, Haruka Kudo and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡); 1. "Ne Kamatte?" (Hey, Talk to Me!) / Milky Bunny; 2. "PLAY THAT MUSIC" / AMIAYA; 3. "Reverb*" / Yun*chi; 4. "Help me!!" / Morning Musume｡.
Guests: Daniel Powter, MAY'S, RYO the SKYWALKER; Exclusive message: Toshinobu Kubota; 1. "Sing for you" / May J. × MAY'S; 2. "Ano Hi Ga Aru Kara feat. RYO the SKYWALKER" (Because We Have That Day) / May J.; 3. "Back To Your Heart feat. Daniel Powter" / May J.; 4. "Kimi No Tonari Ni" (By Your Side) / May J.
J-Music Creators: Shinichi Osawa; Exclusive Comments: GLAY, TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi, Kylee; Artists: TOMOYASU HOTEI, ONE OK ROCK, Fujifabric, SCREW, THE BAWDIES, Sawao Yamanaka, KAZUYA YOSHII, OKAMOTO’S, Dempagumi.inc, Yuki Kashiwagi, Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku, °C-ute, SKE48, LinQ, Namie Amuro, MINMI, Nami Tamaki, WAKADANNA, MEG; 1. "Unmeiron" (Fatalism) / GLAY; 2. "Yakusoku" (Promise) / TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE; 3. "SINGAPORE MADNESS" / Shinichi Osawa and Paul Chambers; 4. "Daisuki Na No Ni" (Even Though I Love You) / Kylee.
Exclusive comments: Minami Takahashi and Mayu Watanabe (AKB48), HIMEKYUN FRUIT CAN, the GazettE; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Takamasa Sakurai, Sayumi Michishige, Haruna Iikubo and Mizuki Fukumura, (Morning Musume｡); Artists: GACKT, SCANDAL, Hey! Say! JUMP, KAT-TUN, AKB48, Alice Nine, L'Arc-en-Ciel, ARASHI; 1. "So long!" / AKB48.
Guests: the GazettE; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; 1. "DERANGEMENT"; 2. "VORTEX"; 3. "Kage Fumi" (Shadow Tag); 4. "REQUIRED MALFUNCTION"; 5. "Filth in the beauty".
1. "Ai San San" (Love Brilliant); 2. "Mothra No Uta" (Mothra's Song); 3. "Mo'Bop".
Guests: MONKEY MAJIK; Exclusive Comments: Takashi Yamaguchi (Sambomaster), Yuzo Kayama,Zeebra, Takanori Nishikawa, MUCC, Hikamidaiko; Japan Dance Music Adventure: TOHOKU GOLDEN ANGELS (TOHOKU RAKUTEN GOLDEN EAGLES cheerleaders); Team J-MELO: Mizuki Fukumura and Ayumi Ishida, (Morning Musume。); 1. "Anata No Koto Shika Kangaerarenai" (I Can't Think of Anything But You) / Sambomaster; 2. "The Apprentice" / MONKEY MAJIK.
Guests: FLOW; Exclusive Comments: Sakanaction, Shou (Alice Nine); Joe Inoue's Japanese Lesson; Japan Star Search; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector,Joe Inoue; Artists: Arashi, EXILE, FPM, HKT48, Keisuke Kuwata, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Momoiro Clover Z, S/mileage, SID, the telephones; 1. "HERO -Kibo No Uta-" (Song of Hope) / FLOW; 2. "Yoru No Odoriko" (Nighttime Dancing Girl) / Sakanaction; 3. "LOVER" / m-flo.
Kawaii Kon 2013; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Hula; Exclusive Comments: Berryz Kobo, IRUMA RIOKA; Japan Festival 2013 in Myanmar; Team J-MELO: Sayumi Michishige (Leader of Morning Musume｡); Artists: BEGIN, Dai Hirai, JERO, L'Arc-en-Ciel, NEMU, Sheena Ringo, T.M.Revolution, UVERworld; 1. "Ki･Su･U･Ma･I -KISS YOUR MIND-" / Kis-My-Ft2; 2. "Asian Celebration" / Berryz Kobo.
Guests: Jake Shimabukuro, Charan-Po-Rantan; South by Southwest; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue; Artists: Kao=S, Chihiro Yamazaki + ROUTE14band, Jake stone garage, JOSY, PIRATES CANOE; 1. "Island Fever Blues" / Jake Shimabukuro; 2. "Hula Girl" / Jake Shimabukuro; 3. "Akaka Falls" / Jake Shimabukuro.
Guests: Kameleo, LinQ, SHISHIDO KAVKA; Maiko's Minyo Trail: Tubalama and Asadoya Yunta (Okinawa); Team J-MELO: Maiko Katagiri (MAY'S); 1. "Kiken Na Futari" (Dangerous Couple) / SHISHIDO KAVKA; 2. "Chime Ga Owareba" (When the Bell Stops) / LinQ; 3. "Kimi To Now" (With You Now) / Kameleo.
Guests: NICO Touches the Walls; Exclusive Comments: VAMPS; Joe Inoue's Japanese Lesson; We Love Japan: Kawaii Photos!; J-MELO Singer Search; Japan Star Search; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Joe Inoue; Mizuki Fukumura, Ayumi Ishida, Masaki Sato, and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡); Artists: Dempagumi. inc, E-girls, EXILE ATSUSHI & Nobuyuki Tsuji, KANJANI∞, Kazuyoshi Saito, KINOCO HOTEL, Miloyah Kato × Shota Shimizu, NAOTO INTIRAYMI, Sumire Uesaka, Tomomi Kasai, Yun*chi; 1. "SEX BLOOD ROCK N' ROLL" / VAMPS 2. "Brainstorming" / Morning Musume｡; 3. "Natsu No Dai Sankakkei" (Summer Triangle) / NICO Touches the Walls.
1. "Holy Forest"; 2. "Love the warz"; 3. "Sleeping Beauty"; 4. "RPG".
1. "Satisfaction"; 2. "Taiyo Scandalous" (Scandalous Sun); 3. "Doll"; 4. "Awanai Tsumori No, Genki De Ne" (I Don't Plan on Seeing You Again; Take Care, OK?); 5. "LOVE SURVIVE".
1. "RAINBOWS"; 2. "Daybreak"; 3. "Affection"; 4. "Heart of Gold"; 5. "the beautiful name".
Guest: HYADAIN; Exclusive Comments: Dempagumi.inc, HIMEKYUN FRUIT CAN, Alice Nine; Joe Inoue's Japanese Lesson; J-MELO Singer Search; Japan Star Search; Artists: AKB48, Dragon Ash, Erina Mano, Haruna Luna, Ikimonogakari, KAT-TUN, Momoiro Clover Z, Motohiro Hata, SHEENA RINGO, Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku, T.M.Revolution × Nana Mizuki, Toshinobu Kubota; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, ☆Taku Takahashi, Takamasa Sakurai; 1. "Nanairo" (Seven Colors) / Ryuichi Kawamura; 2. "Samba De Toriko!!!" / HYADAIN; 3. "Buzzword" / HIMEKYUN FRUIT CAN.
Exclusive Comments: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Perfume; Artists: AN CAFE, Chiemi Eri, DIR EN GREY, girugamesh, KAT-TUN, LM.C, LUNA SEA, Momoiro Clover Z, MUCC, SCREW, Sheena Ringo, the GazettE; 1. "Invader Invader" / Kyary Pamyu Pamyu; 2. "Usukudar'a Gideriken" / Sizzle Ohtaka; 3. "Magic of Love" / Perfume.
Exclusive Comments: SCANDAL; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Belly dance; Team J-MELO: Kazumi Watanabe; Kylee; Erina Ikuta and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡); 1. "Awanai Tsumori No, Genki De Ne" (I Don't Plan on Seeing You Again; Take Care, OK?) / SCANDAL; 2. "Kyo Kara Ashita E" (From Today to Tomorrow) / Mozart Academy.
Guest: LEO IMAI; Exclusive Comments: MONKEY MAJIK, Yun*chi; Joe Inoue's Japanese Lesson; J-MELO Singer Search; Japan Star Search; Artists: Akai Koen, ARASHI, Ayano Uema, BABYMETAL, BENI, Hey! Say! JUMP, Kana Nishino, KEMURI, Mai Kuraki, NMB48, Perfume, RYO the SKYWALKER, TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA, VAMPS; 1. "Sayonara Crawl" (Goodbye Crawl) / AKB48; 2. "Omen Man" / LEO IMAI; 3. "story" / MONKEY MAJIK.
Guests: SID, flumpool, Valerie; Exclusive Comment: May'n; Music Matters 2013; J-MELO Fan Meeting in Singapore; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue; Artists: AKB48, BABYMETAL, EXILE, FLOW, Kalafina, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, LM.C, MAN WITH A MISSION, Ichiro Mizuki, Morning Musume｡, MUCC, Kazumasa Oda, ONE OK ROCK, Perfume, SCANDAL, Sea*A, TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE; 1. "Run Real Run" / May'n'; 2. "Endless Game" / ARASHI.
Guest: Eir Aoi; Collaboration with Nippon Broadcasting System's "Mu-comi Plus" radio show (with DJs Hisanori Yoshida and Azusa Tadokoro); Exclusive comment: T.M. Revolution; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Ainu traditional dance; Maiko's Minyo Trail: Kokiriko Bushi (Toyama); Team J-MELO: MAY'S; Masaki Sato and Kanon Suzuki (Morning Musume｡); Joe Inoue; Yoshitaka Mouri; 1. "Preserved Roses" / T.M.Revolution × Nana Mizuki; 2. "Cobalt Sky" / Eir Aoi.
Guests: Ryota Komatsu, MAY'S, Toyoaki Fukushi; 1. "Wonder" / Hiromitsu Agatsuma; 2. "Tsugaru Yosare Bushi" / Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Toyoaki Fukushi, and Akimi Fukushi; 3. "TMW~Tsugaru Meets Waltz" / Hiromitsu Agatsuma and Ryota Komatsu; 4. "Koyoi Tsuki No Shita De feat. Hiromitsu Agatsuma" (Under The Moon Tonight) / Hiromitsu Agatsuma and MAY'S; 5. "Tsugaru Jongara Bushi" / Hiromitsu Agatsuma.
Guests: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, LoVendoЯ, Yun*chi, TEMPURA KIDZ; J-POP SUMMIT Festival 2013 (San Francisco, USA); NHK WONDERLAND (Akihabara, Tokyo); Otodama (Zushi, Kanagawa); Japan Dance Music Adventure: Awa odori (Tokushima); Team J-MELO: Kylee; Haruna Iikubo & Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡); 1. "Happy Natsuyasumi" (Happy Summer Vacation) / TEMPURA KIDZ; 2. "Waon* with IroKokoro Project" / Yun*chi.
Guest: miwa; Exclusive comments: Kana Nishino; AZU; Rino Sashihara (HKT48); Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Artists: Acid Black Cherry, Flower, The Gospellers, Kameleo, KREVA, LUNA SEA, Mika Nakashima, SCANDAL, Southern All Stars, V6, Zeebra; 1. "Faraway" / miwa; 2. "Namida Iro" (The Color of Tears) / Kana Nishino; 3. "Circles of Life" / AZU; 4. "Koisuru Fortune Cookie" (The Fall-in-Love Fortune Cookie) / AKB48.
J-MELO Fan Meeting in Manila; Exclusive comments: the GazettE; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue; Mizuki Fukumura and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡); Artists: UVERworld, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, NICO Touches the Walls, NEWS, Hey! Say! JUMP; 1. "FADELESS" / the GazettE; 2. "Wagamama Kinomama Ai No Joke" (Selfish. Capricious. A Joke of Love.) / Morning Musume｡; 3. "PIKO PIKO ROCK" / TENGUBOY.
Japan Expo (Paris, France); Exclusive comments: NIGHTMARE, ONE OK ROCK, ℃-ute; Team J-MELO: Kylee, Takamasa Sakurai; Artists: angela, Dempagumi.inc, THE HEANA CAT, Kao=s, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, May'n, URBANGARDE; 1. "the WORLD" / NIGHTMARE; 2. "Deeper Deeper" / ONE OK ROCK.
HYPER JAPAN 2013 (London, UK): Yun*chi; Guest: ANNE (singer and Japan fan); Exclusive comments: Alice Nine, Momoiro Clover Z; Team J-MELO: Kylee; Artists: ayumi hamasaki, Base Ball Bear, the GazettE, KODA KUMI, Morning Musume｡; 1. "shooting star" / Alice Nine; 2. "Neo STARGATE" / Momoiro Clover Z; 3. "Waon* with IroKokoro Project" / Yun*chi.
Guests: Daishin Kashimoto (violinist), Kenji Sakai (composer); Exclusive comment: Tsunku♂; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Kiso Odori (Nagano); Joe Inoue's Japanese Lesson; Team J-MELO: Maiko Katagiri (MAY'S), Joe Inoue, Ai Takahashi (former leader of Morning Musume｡), Haruna Iikubo and Mizuki Fukumura (Morning Musume｡); 1. Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23, 3rd Movement (Allegro Molto), Composer: Ludwin van Beethoven, Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Piano: Konstantin Lifschitz; 2. "Whiteout" / NHK Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Tatsuya Shimono, Composer: Kenji Sakai.
Guests: VAMPS in conversation with Shou (Alice Nine); Exclusive comments: NMB48, TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; 1. "DEVIL SIDE" / VAMPS; 2. "Kamonegix" / NMB48; 3. "Get The Star" / TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE.
1. "Kubi No Sa De" (Por una cabeza); 2. "Buenos Aires No Fuyu" (Invierno Porteño); 3. Medley: "Gusukobudori No Denki" (The Life of Gusko Budori) and "Kaze No Uta" (Song of the Wind); 4. "Fuga To Shinpi" (Fuga y Misterio); 5. "Allegro Tangabile".
1. "Boku Ga Ichiban Hoshikatta Mono" (The Thing I Wanted Most) / JAY'ED; 2. "Hanamizuki" (Dogwood) / May J.; 3. Medley: "Ue Wo Muite Aruko" (Sukiyaki) and "Tsubasa" (Wings) / Kazumi Watanabe Special Band; 4. "Ame No Furanai Hoshi Dewa Aisenaidaro?" (We Surely Couldn't Love On A Planet with No Rain) / Kousuke Atari and Ai Takahashi.
Special interview: YOSHIKI; Exclusive comments: BENI, Momoiro Clover Z, Perfume, SCANDAL, SHOU (Alice Nine), T.M.Revolution, Yuko Oshima and Haruna Kojima (AKB48), VAMPS, Zeebra; Artists: THE BEATNIKS, BEGIN, BONNIE PINK, THE BOOM, BOWWOW, BUCK-TICK, coba, ℃-ute, End Of The World, the GazettE, girugamesh, Hikami Daiko, Hiromi Uehara, JAM Project, Kaori Muraji and Soichi Muraji, Kiyoharu, KODOMO BAND, Mai Takematsu, MONKEY MAJIK, SHEENA & THE ROKKETS, Shonen Knife, ☆Taku Takahashi and FPM, Terumasa Hino, Yosuke Yamashita, X JAPAN; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡.
1. "Ai No Gundan" (Army of Love); 2. "What is LOVE?"; 3. "One Two Three"; 4. "Brainstorming"; 5. "Wagamama Kinomama Ai No Joke" (Selfish. Capricious. A Joke of Love.).
Guests: the GazettE; Exclusive comments: ℃-ute; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue; 1. "Waon* with IroKokoro Project" / Yun*chi; 2. "INSIDE BEAST" / the GazettE.
Guest: Tsunku♂; Exclusive comments: Jurina Matsui, Emika Kamieda, and Rina Hirata (AKB48); Perfume; Kyary Pamyu Pamyu; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, ☆Taku Takahashi; 1. "What is LOVE?" / Morning Musume｡; 2. "Suzukake No Ki No Michi De 'Kimi No Hohoemi Wo Yume Ni Miru' To Itteshimattara Bokutachi No Kankei Wa Do Kawatteshimaunoka Bokunarini Nannichika Kangaeta Uedeno Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron No Yona Mono" (Something like the slightly embarrassing conclusion I reached after spending several days thinking in my own way about how our relationship would end up changing if, on a road with plane trees, I said: 'I see your smile in my dreams') / AKB48; 3. "1mm" / Perfume; 4. "Mottai Night Land" / Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
Guests: Kaname Kawabata, moumoon, Hironobu Kageyama; Exclusive comments: SKE48, girugamesh; Tokyo International Music Market; Japan Pop Culture Carnival 2013 in Matsudo; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue, Takamasa Sakurai; Artists: Acid Black Cherry, androp, Base Ball Bear, THE BAWDIES, Buffalo Daughter, Cream, Dempagumi.inc, Dragon Ash, FRUITY, GLAY, JAM METAL Project with SU-METAL, Kamen Joshi, Minami Kizuki x JOYZ, Kanako Ito, KUROYUME, LUNA SEA, THE MAN, Yui Matsushita, Takahiro Mizushima, Little Glee Monster, LoVendoЯ, OKAMOTO'S, THE POSSIBOOOOO, sunmyu, So'Fly, SPYAIR, UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, Up Up Girls (Kakko kari), UPLIFT SPICE, URBANGARDE x Sumire Uesaka, Yuko Suzuka with Wagakki Band, Mayu Wakisaka; 1. "Love is Everywhere" / moumoon; 2. "STARSHIP" / Kaname Kawabata; 3. "Sansei Kawaii!" (Thumbs-up Kawaii!) / SKE48.
Artists: Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Alice Nine, Kousuke Atari and Ai Takahashi, Berryz Kobo, End Of The World, FLOW, JAM Project, JAY'ED, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Ryota Komatsu, miwa, MONKEY MAJIK, NICO Touches the Walls, SCANDAL, SID, Tsunku♂, Kazumi Watanabe x Marty Friedman, Tatsuro Yamashita, Yun*chi; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Joe Inoue, Sayumi Michishige (leader of Morning Musume｡); 1. "Filth in the Beauty" / the GazettE; 2. "What is LOVE?" / Morning Musume｡.
Exclusive comment: Tetsuya Karasumaru (BARKS Editor-in-Chief); Artists: AKB48, ARASHI, ayumi hamasaki, coba, Eir Aoi, EXILE, the GazettE, gesu no kiwami otome, Golden Bomber, Hey! Say! JUMP, Juice=Juice, Kameleo, KANJANI∞, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, NMB48, Perfume, RADWIMPS, S/mileage, SKE48, Suzu, TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA, Yuzu, VAMPS; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'14; 1. "Killer Ball" / gesu no kiwami otome; 2. "Ride With Me" / Hey! Say! JUMP; 3. "Sayonara Crawl" / AKB48.
Exclusive comments: Haruna Luna, LM.C, TarO&JirO; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; ☆TakuTakahashi; SHOU (Alice Nine); Mizuki Fukumura, Riho Sayashi, and Kanon Suzuki (Morning Musume｡'14); 1. "snowdrop" / Haruna Luna; 2. "My Favorite Monster" / LM.C; 3. "Snake Bite – Silent Siren" / TarO&JirO.
Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Takamasa Sakurai; ☆Taku Takahashi; SHOU (Alice Nine); Mizuki Fukumura, Riho Sayashi, and Kanon Suzuki (Morning Musume｡'14).
Guests: Tomomi Kasai; Tomoyuki Tanaka (FPM); Exclusive comments: GUMI; Marty Friedman; Atsushi Shikano (publisher of music magazine MUSICA); Artists: AKB48, Namie Amuro, Ayane, The fin., Masaharu Fukuyama, HAPPY, Idoling!!!, Leo Ieiri, SHISHIDO KAVKA, KERAKERA, Taro Kobayashi, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Momoiro Clover Z, NAOTO INTI RAYMI, NIGHTMARE, sakanaction, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, SEKAI NO OWARI, Shota Shimizu, Taylor Swift, Tegomass, Yun*chi; 1. "Kietai Kurai" (I Want to Disappear) / Tomomi Kasai; 2. "Memeshikute" (Effeminate) / Golden Bomber; 3. "Umi To Hanataba" (The Ocean and a Bouquet) / KINOKOTEIKOKU; 4. "I WAS IN LOVE" / Tomoyuki Tanaka (FPM).
Guests: Fudanjuku; Exclusive comments: LinQ; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Mizuki Fukumura, Haruka Kudo, and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡'14); 1. "Colorful Days" / LinQ; 2. "Bittersweet" / ARASHI; 3. "Chenmen Paradise" (Cross-Dressing Paradise) / Fudanjuku; 4. "Egao No Kimi Wa Taiyo Sa" (You're Like Sunshine with Your Smile) / Morning Musume｡'14.
1. "Ai Ai Ai Ni Utarete Bye Bye Bye" (Love Love Love-Struck Bye Bye Bye); 2. "DAYS"; 3. "CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA"; 4. "GO!!!".
Exclusive comments: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Tomoo Inoue (B.L.T. Editor-in-Chief); Artists: AKB48, Cocco, fade, GEM, Hiromitsu Agatsuma, KAMIJO, KANA-BOON, MAY'S, Me N Ma Girls, Rei Yasuda, Starmarie, T.M.Revolution, Team Syachihoko, TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue; 1. "Yume No Hajima Ring Ring" (The Ring Ring at the Start of a Dream) / Kyary Pamyu Pamyu; 2. "Girls Rule" / Nogizaka46; 3. "The Lifelines" / The Lifelines.
Guests: Jupiter, D=OUT, DIV; Exclusive comment: SHOU (Alice Nine); Artists: ANTIC CAFE, DIR EN GREY, the GazettE, MEJIBRAY, NIGHTMARE, SCREW, SID, SuG, ViViD; 1. "ZERO ONE" / DIV; 2. "MUSIC NIPPON" / D=OUT; 3. "LAST MOMENT" / Jupiter; 4. "SHINING" / Alice Nine.
Special reports at MIT and Columbia University; Guests: Miss Monday; Ian Condry (Associate Professor, MIT); Guest Discoverer: Zeebra; J-Music Creator: Akiko Yano; Artists: AKB48, Alice Nine, Chihiro Yamazaki + ROUTE14 band, Crystal Kay, the GazettE, Kao=S, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, L'Image, m-flo + Yoohei Kawakami, NICO Touches the Walls, SCANDAL; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Joe Inoue, Kazumi Watanabe, Kylee, Morning Musume｡'14, Scott Murphy; 1. "Tobashiteikuyo" (I'm Gonna Go at Full Speed) / Akiko Yano.
Special session at Berklee College of Music; Guest: Erena Terakubo; Guest Discoverer: Zeebra; Artists: Cornelius, DJ KAST ONE, DJ LEAD, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Monkey Majik + Yoshida Brothers, Tiger Okoshi, ONE OK ROCK, Makoto Ozone, Puffy AmiYumi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chihiro Yamanaka, Sadao Watanabe, X JAPAN; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; 1. "Fly Me To The Moon" / Erena Terakubo and Zeebra; 2. "MOVE" / Hiromi Uehara and the Trio Project featuring Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips; 3. "XXX -English version-" / L'Arc-en-Ciel; 4. "Mr. Miyagi" / Zeebra.
J-MELO Live Performances; J-MELO around the World; J-MELO Singer Search Award Winners; J-MELO Artist Autographs; Exclusive comments: SCANDAL; Yoichi Watanabe (photographer); Soun Takeda (calligrapher); Artists: Acid Black Cherry, Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Alice Nine, THE BEATNIKS, BEGIN, BONNIE PINK, BOWWOW, BUCK-TICK, coba, ℃-ute, End Of The World, Hikami Daiko, dj KENTARO, Marty Friedman, the GazettE, GODIEGO, Ryu Goto, HidaJimbo, Terumasa Hino, HOME MADE KAZOKU, JAM Project, Kiyoharu, KOKIA, Ryota Komatsu and Taeko Onuki, MAY'S, MONKEY MAJIK, Morning Musume｡'14, Lisa Ono, ORQUESTA DE LA LUZ, Kaori and Soichi Muraji, Yutaka Sado, SCANDAL, ShibusaShirazu, ☆Taku Takahashi and FPM (Tomoyuki Tanaka), Hiromi Uehara, Kazumi Watanabe and Char, Zeebra; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue, JAY'ED, Kylee, Scott Murphy, Risa Niigaki, Dave Spector, Ai Takahashi, Ai Takekawa, Kazumi Watanabe.
Guests: DJ misoshiru & MC gohan, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, Rina Katahira; Editor's Choice: Takuya Oyama (Natalie editor-in-chief); Artists: BABYMETAL, Bis, BUMP OF CHICKEN, ℃-ute, Chris Hart, GEZAN, JAY'ED, Juice=Juice, Kameleo, KERAKERA, Kis-My-Ft2, Kota Shinzato, Konomi Mori, Kuroyume, Rihwa, Shinsei-Kamattechan, SKY-HI, Sumire Uesaka, Ziyoou-vachi; 1. "Hikari No Signal" (Light Signal) / Kis-My-Ft2; 2. "Kasabuta To Bakugekiki" (Scabs and Bombers) / GEZAN; 3. "1, 2, 3 De Jump" (One, Two, Three, Jump) / GOOD MORNING AMERICA; 4. "Oh JANE" / Rina Katahira; 5. "Shortcake" / DJ misoshiru & MC gohan.
Exclusive comments: SID, MAN WITH A MISSION; Artists: Alice Nine, Dempagumi.inc, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, L'Arc-en-Ciel, May'n, MUCC, ONE OK ROCK, SCANDAL; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Haruna Iikubo, Mizuki Fukumura and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡'14); 1. "hug" / SID; 2. "evils fall" / MAN WITH A MISSION; 3. "Toki Wo Koe Sora Wo Koe" (Beyond the time and space) / Morning Musume｡'14.
Visual-Kei Committee; Editor's Choice: Osamu Takahashi (MUSIC MAGAZINE editor-in-chief); Billboard hit analysis: Commentary: Seiji Isozaki (Billboard Japan); Exclusive comments: Momoiro Clover Z, Mayu Watanabe (AKB48); Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue, SHOU (Alice Nine); Artists: AKB48, ARASHI, DIV, Gesu No Kiwami Otome, Kana Hanazawa, Ken Hirai, Linda Sansei, LOVELY DOLL, LoVendoЯ, Masaharu Fukuyama, moumoon, Rihwa, SCANDAL, Seiko Oomori, SEKAI NO OWARI, TEE, TESLA doesn't know how to cry, TM NETWORK, tofubeats; 1. "Labrador Retriever" / AKB48; 2. "Naitemo Iindayo" (It's OK to Cry) / Momoiro Clover Z; 3. "Koisuru Wakusei" (LOVE PLANET) / Kana Hanazawa.
Guests: Isao Tomita, Halko Momoi; Artists: Ayane, Eir Aoi, Kalafina, Kanako Ito, Hatsune Miku; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; 1. "LOVE. EXE" / Halko Momoi; 2. "Chumon No Oi Ryoriten" (The Restaurant of Many Orders) from "Symphony Ihatov" Composer: Isao Tomita; 3. "Kansho Architecture" (Sentiment Architecture) / GUMI.
Guests: Morning Musume｡'14; Exclusive comments: Tsunku♂; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector.
Guests: SCANDAL; Exclusive comments: Silent Siren; Yoichi Watanabe (photographer); Artists: Akai Koen, Cyntia, exist†trace, LoVendoЯ, NEGOTO; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Joe Inoue; 1. "Your song" / SCANDAL; 2. "Lucky Girl" / Silent Siren.
Guests: Tetsuya Komuro, Hiromi Uehara; Exclusive comments: KIMAGUREN; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; 1. "EDM TOKYO 2014 feat. KOJI TAMAKI" / Tetsuya Komuro; 2. "ALIVE" / HIROMI THE TRIO PROJECT featuring Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips; 3. "Saigo No Natsu" (The Last Summer) / KIMAGUREN.
Guest: Nana Mizuki; Exclusive comments: NAOTO INTI RAYMI; Artists: Karen Aoki, ARASHI, KAMIJO, Kaname Kawabata, LUNA SEA, Mika Nakashima × Miliyah Kato, Rei Yasuda, Rihwa, Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku, Spitz, Suiyobi No Campanella, WEAVER, URBANGARDE; Team J-MELO: Alice Nine, Dave Spector; 1. "The World is ours!" / NAOTO INTI RAYMI; 2. "Appassionato" / Nana Mizuki; 3. "Marie Antoinette" / Suiyobi No Campanella.
1. Medley: "modulation-1" and "Lonely Woman” / OTOMO YOSHIHIDE NEW JAZZ TRIO+; 2. "Core Anode" / Core Anode; 3. "Sono Machi No Kodomo" (The Town's Children) / Otomo Yoshihide Sound Tracks.
J-MELO×MTV 81; Guest: Jun Tamukai (video director); Exclusive comment: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu; Editor's Choice: Koji Dejima ("bounce" editor-in-chief); Team J-MELO: Riho Sayashi and Kanon Suzuki (Morning Musume｡'14); Artists: banvox, E-girls, Gotch, HAPPY, KREVA, MAY'S, mishmash*Miki Orihara, MONKEY MAJIK + Yoshida Brothers, NEU, NICO Touches the Walls, Nogizaka 46, Passepied, SIMI LAB, Straightener, Shiori Tomita; 1. "Kira Kira Killer" / Kyary Pamyu Pamyu; 2. "Tokyo City Underground" / Passepied; 3. "Let It Go – Ari No Mama De" / May J.
Japan Expo 2014; Guest: Nami Tamaki; Visual-Kei Committee: Yuma Koshino (fashion designer); Exclusive comments: Hisanori Yoshida (Nippon Broadcasting System announcer), Suzuka Asaoka (NOLIFE producer and presenter), Yoshitaka Mouri (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts), Yun*chi; Artists: BABYMETAL, Berryz Kobo×℃-ute, Kalafina, Daisuke Inoue, Hiroko Moriguchi, moumoon, Shoko Nakagawa, T.M.Revolution, UPLIFT SPICE, YOSHIKI, Wagakki Band; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, SHOU (Alice Nine); 1. "Gimme Choco!!" (Gimme chocolate!!) / BABYMETAL; 2. "Arashi No Naka De Kagayaite" (Shine in the Storm) / Nami Tamaki.
Guests: ℃-ute; Exclusive comments: FLOW, Perfume; Joe's Japanese Lesson; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Joe Inoue; Artists: DOES, Ikimonogakari, NICO Touches the Walls, Shonan No Kaze; 1. "Cling Cling" / Perfume; 2. "GO!!!" / FLOW; 3. "The Power" / ℃-ute.
Guests: ITO KANAKO, Daisuke Kawakami, SCANDAL; Exclusive comments: w-inds.; Editor's Choice: Ryosuke Kamba (Reporter, The Asahi Shimbun); Girls' World with Morning Musume｡'14: Bunka Fashion College; Artists: ANARCHY, DIV, Motohiro Hata, Ken Hirai, KODA KUMI, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Yui Makino, Mika Nakashima, NIRGILIS, ONE OK ROCK, REV. from DVL, samezame, TEE & AI, tofubeats, YUI; Team J-MELO: Mizuki Fukumura and Haruna Iikubo (Morning Musume｡'14); 1. "Make you mine" / w-inds.; 2. "Disco No Kamisama feat. Takashi Fujii" (God of the Disco) / tofubeats; 3. "Your song" / SCANDAL.
Guests: Yuma Koshino, Aoi Yamazaki, Umekichi; Exclusive comment: Minami Kizuki; Visual-Kei Committee; Girls' World with Morning Musume｡'14; Artists: ASAKUSA JINTA, DIAURA, LoVendoЯ, Wagakki Band, YUI; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; SHOU (Alice Nine); Kanon Suzuki and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡'14); 1. "Scramble" / Aoi Yamazaki; 2. "Shigeku Au No Wa" (Meeting So Often) / Umekichi.
Guest: Yukihiro Takahashi; Exclusive comments: Mayu Watanabe (AKB48), VAMPS; Editor's Choice: Kazunori Okubo (TV Guide editor); Artists: Charan-Po-Rantan, color code, Hey! Say ! JUMP, JUJU, KANA-BOON, LinQ, Matenrou Opera, MORPHINE TOKYO, Negoto, PASSPO☆, Seiko Oomori, Southern All Stars, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yu Sakai; 1. "Kokoro no Placard" (The Placard of My Heart) / AKB48; 2. "Looking For Words" / Yukihiro Takahashi with In Phase; 3. "Ryokiteki Na Kiss Wo Watashi Ni Shite" (Give Me a Psychotic Kiss) / gesu no kiwami otome; 4. "Get Away" / VAMPS.
Anime Festival Asia Indonesia 2014; Gelar Jepang: University of Indonesia; Guest: Bisma (SM*SH); Guest discoverer: Yun*chi; Exclusive comments: JKT48, T.M.Revolution; Artists: Eir Aoi, EXILE, FLOW, Goose house, Hachioji P, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Luna Haruna, Momoiro Clover Z, Tegomass; 1. "Papan Penanda Isi Hati - Message on a Placard" / JKT48; 2. "INVOKE" / T.M.Revolution; 3. "Waon*" (Indonesian Version) / Yun*chi.
Guest: Hiroyuki Ito (President, Crypton Future Media); THE BIG PARADE 2014; Girls' World with Morning Musume｡'14: Bunka Fashion College; Artists: Angelo, Char, Cocco, CROSSFAITH, Gackt, Hachioji P, Kana Hanazawa, HATSUNE MIKU, HKT48, Tomoyasu Hotei, Scott Murphy, Sexy Zone, Shanti, Sheena, Isao Tomita, Kazumi Watanabe, X21, Zeebra, 40mP; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; ☆Taku Takahashi; Sayumi Michishige, Mizuki Fukumura and Haruna Iikubo (Morning Musume｡'14); 1. "Honto No Koi" (True Love) / May J.
1. "One・Two・Three"; 2. "TIKI BUN"; 3. "What is LOVE?"; 4. "Happy Daisakusen" (Operation Happy).
JAPAN NIGHT at TIMM (TOKYO INTERNATIONAL MUSIC MARKET); MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON FESTIVAL 2014; Exclusive comments: [Alexandros], SAKANACTION, VAMPS; Artists: AKB48, Namie Amuro, Czecho No Republic, Dempagumi.inc, King Cream Soda, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Ling toshite shigure, Salley, Silent Siren, SUPER☆GiRLS, Nami Tamaki, TarO&JirO, TEMPURA KIDZ, Tokyo Performance Doll, Yun*chi; Team J-MELO: Sayumi Michishige (leader of Morning Musume｡'14); 1. "Zero-G" / ARASHI.
J-MELO Party in LA; HATSUNE MIKU EXPO 2014; La Salle High School; Occidental College; UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles); Artists: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Mr. Children, Morning Musume｡, Perfume, Spitz; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo), Ai Takahashi (former leader of Morning Musume｡); 1. "FLY" / m-flo + Yoohei Kawakami.
Guest Discoverer: RYO the SKYWALKER; Artists: aiko, Ayaka, ENTHRALLS, I Was Born, Inshoha, Johnnys' WEST, KANA-BOON, Kanjani Eight, Kobukuro, NMB48, Kotaro Oshio, Shota Shimizu, Yoshimi Tendo; 1. "BEAM" / Inshoha; 2. "EJ☆Coaster" / Kanjani Eight; 3. "Natsu Dorobo" (Summer Stealer) / RYO the SKYWALKER.
Guest: MIKIKO (choreographer); New Song Project Guest: Minami Kizuki; Exclusive comments: SCANDAL; Artists: BABYMETAL, Charan Po Rantan, FLOWER FLOWER, Ken Hirai, JAY'ED, Kis-My-Ft2, LiSA, N'shukugawaboys, Perfume, STARMARIE, Sumire, Zeebra; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue, Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡'14, Ai Takahashi, ☆Taku Takahashi, Yun*chi; 1. "Image" / SCANDAL; 2. "Inori Uta -Totoganashi-" (Prayer Song) / Minami Kizuki.
Guests: GEM, Suiyobi No Campanella, Suzu; Exclusive comments: SEKAI NO OWARI; DJ's Choice: DJ KATSUNORI (FM NORTH WAVE, Sapporo); Artists: Da-iCE, E-girls, FOLKS, Kodai Sato, Kuroki Nagisa, Kuso Iinkai, KYUSONEKOKAMI, RAM WIRE, w-inds; 1. "Dragon Night" / SEKAI NO OWARI; 2. "LOVE TO YOU -by CUPS-" / Suzu; 3. "Star Shine Story" / GEM; 4. "Momotaro" / Suiyobi No Campanella; 5. "Fuyu No Himawari" (Winter Sunflower) / FOLKS.
Anime Festival Asia 2014; National University of Singapore; Girls' World with Morning Musume｡'15 Portrait Project; Guests: FLOW, Minami Kizuki; Artists: Aoi Eir, CREAM, FLOWER FLOWER, GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, ayumi hamasaki, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, LiSA, May'n, MY FIRST STORY, NAOTO INTI RAYMI, ONE OK ROCK, Perfume, Wagakki Band; Team J-MELO: Mizuki Fukumura, Kanon Suzuki and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡'15)'; 1. "GO!!!" / FLOW; 2. "Inori Uta –Totoganashi-" (Prayer Song) / Minami Kizuki.
Award for Highest-emailing Country or Territory; Award for Most-Requested Act; Award for Best Singer Search Video; Your Photos Award; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; ☆Taku Takahashi; Yoichi Watanabe (photographer); Erina Ikuta, Ayumi Ishida and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume｡'15).
1. "Yoake No Ryuseigun" (Meteor Shower at Dawn); 2. "Shunkan Sentimental" (Instant Sentimental); 3. "Image"; 4. "Your song".
1. "Starrrrrrr"; 2. "Kick & Spin"; 3. "Run Away"; 4. "Adventure".
Guest: Jean-Ken Johnny (MAN WITH A MISSION); Guest Discoverer: Minami Kizuki; Exclusive comments: Momoiro Clover Z; Morning Musume｡'15 Portrait Project; Singer Search; Artists: AKB48, B'z, back number, Berryz Kobo, Dempagumi.inc, fhána, Koki Hanamizakura, KAT-TUN, Leo Ieiri, moumoon, Rihwa; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Yoichi Watanabe (photographer); Mizuki Fukumura, Haruna Iikubo and Kanon Suzuki (Morning Musume｡'15); 1. "Seven Deadly Sins" / MAN WITH A MISSION; 2. "Yume No Ukiyo Ni Saitemina" (Flourish in this Fleeting Dream World!) / Momoiro Clover Z vs KISS.
New Song Project; Guest: Hanako Ono; Exclusive comments: MONKEY MAJIK; DJ's Choice: Shinpei Goto (Date fm, Sendai); Team J-MELO: Maiko Katagiri (MAY'S); Artists: coba, Hikami Daiko, Ikumi Kumagai, Nihonjin, Pandalion, Kazumi Watanabe and Yasuaki Shimizu; 1. "The Lifelines" / The Lifelines; 2. "You Are Not Alone" / MONKEY MAJIK; 3. "Radio DJ" / Nihonjin.
Japan Expo in Thailand 2015; J-CHANNEL (Japanese radio station in Thailand); Chulalongkorn University; Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology; Coming Next 2015; Guest Discoverer: Rina Katahira; Exclusive comment: tofubeats; Team J-MELO: Joe Inoue; Artists: AKB48, ARASHI, Barikyun!!, Czecho No Republic, D=OUT, Gacharic Spin, the GazettE, HAPPY, KAT-TUN, Yuya Matsushita, miwa, Momoiro Clover Z, Nogizaka46, Seiko Oomori & The Pink Tokarev, La PomPon, MACO, RADWIMPS, SID, Southern All Stars, TESLA doesn't know how to cry; 1. "Onna No Ko Wa Nakanai" (Girls Don't Cry) / Rina Katahira; 2. "Sakura" (Cherry Blossoms) / ARASHI; 3. "Wishes come true -Sakihokoru Hana Tachi Ni-" (For Flowers in Full Bloom) / May J.
Guests: MUCC, VAMPS; Editor's Choice: Atsushi Shikano (publisher of music magazine MUSICA); Team J-MELO: SCANDAL; Artists: ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Awesome City Club, Base Ball Bear, exist†trace, the GazettE, KANA-BOON, MAN WITH A MISSION, Negoto, NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST, ONE OK ROCK, Shiggy Jr., Yogee New Waves; 1. "ZERO" / VAMPS; 2. "ENDER ENDER" / MUCC.
Guests: chay, Sonoko Inoue, Rina Sumioka; Artists: BABYMETAL, ONE OK ROCK, Yosuke Yamashita; Team J-MELO: Mai Takematsu, Morning Musume｡'15, SCANDAL; 1. " Yasashiku Naretara" (If I Could be Gentler) / Rina Sumioka; 2. "Akai Muffler" (Red Muffler) / Sonoko Inoue; 3. "Twinkle Days" / chay; 4. "Seishunkozo Ga Naiteiru"(The Kid is Crying) / Morning Musume｡'15.
Guest: Salyu; Favorites with Young Women (Japanese); Commentary: Yukako Yoshida (DropMusic); Artists: Charisma.com, Da-iCE, DIAURA, the GazettE, HKT48, Kobukuro, I Don't Like Mondays., Masaharu Fukuyama, Kana Nishino, J Soul Brothers Ⅲ, Perfume, RHYMESTER, RIP SLYME, Saku, SEKAI NO OWARI, WhiteFlame feat. HATSUNE MIKU, Yuzu; Team J-MELO: Kouki Hanamizakura; Morning Musume｡'14, Yoichi Watanabe (photographer); 1. "Ai Ni Yukeru" (I Can Come to You) /Salyu; 2. "Dragon Night"/SEKAI NO OWARI.
Hoso 90 Sai (celebration of the 90th anniversary of broadcasting in Japan); HANEDA INTERNATIONAL ANIME MUSIC FESTIVAL; J-Music Creators: Nobuo Uematsu (game music composer); Guests: DJ misoshiru & MC gohan; Kohamajima Bachan Gasshodan (Kohamajima Island Grandma Chorus); Guest Discoverer: Ruki-chan; Exclusive comments: BABYMETAL; Team J-MELO: Kouki Hanamizakura, ☆Taku Takahashi; 1. "Roast Beaf feat. ZEN-LA-ROCK" / DJ Misoshiru To MC Gohan; 2. "Zanarkand" From FINAL FANTASY Ⅹ (2001) / Nobuo Uematsu; 3. "Ijime, Dame, Zettai" (No More Bullying) / BABYMETAL; 4. "Come on and Dance Kohamajima" / Kikuo Tsuchida and Kohamajima Bachan Gasshodan; 5. "I Love Tokyo" / Kouki Hanamizakura.
Guest: tofubeats; J-Music Creators: Yutaka Kimura (art director and designer); Exclusive comments: GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE; DJ's Choice: Kozo Nishimukai (FM Okinawa); Artists: AKB48, ARASHI, DAOKO, E-girls, Kaela Kimura, KANA-BOON, Kiiyamashoten, Keisuke Kuwata, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, MACO, miwa, Yui Makino, Ponytail ribbons, RHYMESTER, Sango, Sheena Ringo, Twin Cross, SPITZ, Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai, WILL XPERIMENT, Yun*chi; Team J-MELO: Riho Sayashi and Haruna Ogata (Morning Musume｡'15); 1. "Evergreen" / GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE; 2. "Sora To Tempura To Umi No Nioi" (The Smells of the Sky, Tempura, and the Ocean) / Kiiyamashoten; 3. "window" / tofubeats.
Guests: LinQ, Rev.from DVL, Mariya Nishiuchi; Editor's Choice: Daisuke Kogo (editor-in-chief, Fukuoka city information magazine); Artists: ayumi hamasaki, Kiyoshi Hikawa, Hiromi Go, HKT48, Leo Ieiri, Makura Izumi, Kai Band, KAN, Sheena & The Rokkets, Tonchi Pickles, Yota Towatari; Team J-MELO: Erina Ikuta (Morning Musume｡'15); 1. "Kimi Ga Ite Boku Ga Ita" (There Were You and Me) / Rev.from DVL; 2. "Fufu Genka" (Marital Quarrel) / Tonchi Pickles; 3. "Arigato Forever" (Thank You Forever…) / Mariya Nishiuchi; 4. "Hare Hare ☆Parade" (Super Happy Parade) / LinQ.
Guests: Eir Aoi, FLOW, Kalafina; J-Music Creators: Shawn Chin (Executive Festival Director, Anime Festival Asia); Artists: angela, L'Arc-en-Ciel, LiSA, Luna Haruna, T.M.Revolution; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, ☆Taku Takahashi; 1. "GO!!!" / FLOW; 2. "Lapis Lazuli" / Eir Aoi; 3. "to the beginning" / Kalafina.
Special collaboration: Nippon Broadcasting System's "Mu-comi Plus" radio show (with DJs Hisanori Yoshida and Azusa Tadokoro); Guest: LiSA; J-Music Creators: Shunji Inoue (president of music publishing company Lantis); Artists: Anri, bamboo (milktub), Minori Chihara, GRANRODEO, JAM Project, Hiroshi Kitadani, Minami Kuribayashi, LAZY, NICO Touches the Walls, OLDCODEX, SIAM SHADE, T.M.Revolution, Yoko Takahashi, Kirari Tsukishima starring Koharu Kusumi (Morning Musume｡), UNISON SQUARE GARDEN; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; Joe Inoue; Mizuki Fukumura and Haruna Iikubo (Morning Musume｡'15); 1. "Rally Go Round" / LiSA; 2. "MUSIC S.T.A.R.T!!" / μ's.
1. "Hamabe No Uta" (Song of the Seashore) Composer: Tamezo Narita; 2. "Milky Shade" Composer: Kazumi Watanabe; 3. "Le Fou" Composer: SUGIZO; 4. "Thousand Knives" Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
1. "Kimi Wa Jitensha Watashi Wa Densha De Kitaku" (You Cycle Home, and I Take the Train) / ℃-ute; 2. "Kiss Me Aishiteru" (Kiss Me, I Love You) / ℃-ute; 3. "Sekai Ichi Happy Na Onnanoko" (The Happiest Girl in the World) / ℃-ute; 4. "Kare To Issho Ni Omise Ga Shitai" (I Want to Open a Shop with Him) / Morning Musume｡; 5. "Renai Hunter" (Love Hunter) / Morning Musume｡; 6. "Pyoko Pyoko Ultra" / Morning Musume｡; 7. "Kono Chikyu No Heiwa Wo Honki De Negatterundayo!" (We Really Want a Peaceful World) / Morning Musume｡ and ℃-ute; 8. "Dance De Bakoon!" (Dance Explosion) / Morning Musume｡ and ℃-ute.
Guests: Naoto Inti Raymi, Ruki; Artists: Risa Aizawa (Dempagumi.inc), BENI, BONNIE PINK, FPM (Tomoyuki Tanaka), the GazettE, Hikami Daiko, Minami Kizuki, MONKEY MAJIK, Orquesta De La Luz, Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Goto, Shibusashirazu Orchestra, Shuichi Hidano, VAMPS; Team J-MELO: Ai Takahashi; Dave Spector; ☆Taku Takahashi; Yoichi Watanabe (photographer); Miki Nonaka, Haruna Iikubo, and Sakura Oda (Morning Musume '15); 1. "Itsuka Kitto" (Surely Someday) / Naoto Inti Raymi.
Guests: Color Pointe, w-inds., Yuki Kajiura; Exclusive comments: Kalafina; Artists: Aldious, Gesu No Kiwami Otome, Ai Kawashima, NMB48, RYO the SKYWALKER, Sandaime J Soul Brothers from EXILE TRIBE, SEKAI NO OWARI, Shiggy Jr., Shonan No Kaze, Superfly, Sumire Uesaka, YKIKI BEAT, Yuzu, Whiteberry; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, SCANDAL, ☆Taku Takahashi, Koki Hanamizakura, Yoshitaka Mouri (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts); 1."In Love With The Music" / w-inds.; 2."Stamp!" / SCANDAL.
HYPER JAPAN Festival 2015 (London, UK); Japan Expo 2015 (Paris, France); DJ's Choice: Antoine Marion (Japan FM, France); Guests: Azumi Inoue, BABYMETAL, BACK-ON, coldrain, the GazettE, ONE OK ROCK, SPYAIR; Team J-MELO; 1. "Lapis Lazuli" / Eir Aoi; 2. "Otsukare Summer!" / Dempagumi.inc; 3. "FIRESTARTER" / SPYAIR; 4. "Oh my wish!" / Morning Musume｡'15.
TOUCH Summer 2015 (Vietnam); NHK WONDERLAND 2015 (Akihabara, Japan); Guest: RADWIMPS; Exclusive comment: Rino Sashihara (HKT48); Artists: A9, AKB48, ARASHI, Country Girls, EXILE, Masaharu Fukuyama, Ikimonogakari, KAT-TUN, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Sayuri, Sheena Ringo, tofubeats, WHITE ASH; Team J-MELO: Minami Kizuki, Morning Musume｡'15; 1. "Halloween Night" / AKB48; 2. "Jikkyo Chukei"(Live Coverage) / RADWIMPS; 3. "Sukatto My Heart"(Refresh My Heart) / Morning Musume｡'15.
Artists: AKAMARUDASH☆, ALICEINALICE, Amatsuki, AMIAYA, ASAKO BAGUS, asobius, BAND-MAID, Bitter & Sweet, Chu-Z, Chu's day., CittY, color-code, Color Pointe, DATS, La Dill, emu, Erica, Especia, fhána, Girls Rock Band Revolution, Gekijo★METALicche, hello-aozora-train, Helsinki Lambda Club, I Don't Like Mondays., TAKESHI IMORIYA & MANABU HIRAMATSU, KAO=S, Kaleido Knight, Chiaki Kominami, koresawa, LOVELY DOLL, Maika Leboutet, Mardelas, Mayuko, nananon, nishi-ken, odol, PELICAN FANCLUB, Rie a.k.a. Suzaku, Ryoma Quartet, THE SxPLAY, SPiCYSOL, SpininGReen, TEMPURA KIDZ, TONEAYU, TRUSTRICK, Yuuka Ueno, USOTSUKI, WILL XPERIMENT; 1."Sparkle" / May J.
Waku Waku +NYC; Singer Search; Guests: Team Syachihoko; Exclusive comments: VAMPS; Artists: CreepHyp, Crystal Kay feat. Namie Amuro, GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, Kana Nishino, Little Glee Monster, Motohiro Hata, 9mm Pareballum Bullet, SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]: Aimer, SEKAI NO OWARI, SMAP; Team J-MELO: FLOW, SCANDAL, ☆Taku Takahashi, Yun*chi; 1."BASYAUMA ROCK"(Carriage Horse Rock) / Team Syachihoko; 2."Lucky Girl*" / Yun*chi; 3."World Symphony" / FLOW.
Fan Meeting Highlights; New Song Project Retrospective; Exclusive Messages: AKB48, the GazettE, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, SEKAI NO OWARI, Terumasa Hino, VAMPS; Artists: Yui Makino, The Lifelines, The Rough T, coba and the people of Yamamoto Town, Zeebra, MONKEY MAJIK, GUMI, tofubeats; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡'15 (Mizuki Fukumura, Sakura Oda, and Miki Nonaka), JAY'ED, Scott Murphy, MAY'S, Kazumi Watanabe and Yasuaki Shimizu, Kylee, Alice Nine, Yun*chi, SCANDAL, Minami Kizuki, FLOW, Mai Takematsu (J-MELO's first presenter), Shanti (third-generation presenter).
Live Acts Selection; Japan Dance Music Adventure Highlights; Exclusive Messages: GACKT, Nana Mizuki, Marty Friedman, Momoiro Clover Z, Otomo Yoshihide, Perfume; Artists: [Alexandros] , THE BEATNIKS , BENI and Crystal Kay , BONNIE PINK , THE BOOM , dj KENTARO , Hikami Daiko , JAM Project , Minami Kizuki, Erena Terakubo, May J., and Morning Musume｡, Ryota Komatsu and Taeko Onuki , Makoto Ozone and Satoru Shionoya , MONKEY MAJIK, Kaori Muraji and Soichi Muraji , Lisa Ono, Orquesta de La Luz , SEKAI NO OWARI, ☆Taku Takahashi and FPM , Hiromi Uehara , YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡'15 (Mizuki Fukumura, Ayumi Ishida, and Haruka Kudo).
AFA Indonesia 2015; JAPAN NIGHT in JAKARTA; "Music Japan TV" from WAKUWAKU JAPAN; J-MELO Breakthrough Artist Showcase 2015; Featured Releases; Guests: LiSA, VAMPS, [Alexandros], TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA, Hinanchu (Silent Siren); Artists: A.B.C-Z, AKB48, D=OUT, KEYTALK, MAN WITH A MISSION, Seiko Matsuda, Mika Nakashima, Nogizaka46, Sakurako Ohara, ONE OK ROCK, petit milady, Sakanaction; Team J-MELO: FLOW; SCANDAL; Haruna Iikubo and Masaki Sato (Morning Musume｡'15).
Guests: May'n, Hiroshi Takano; Guest Discoverer: Nana Takashima (Tokyo Performance Doll); Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2015; J-Standards; Campus Buzz: Kyoto Seika University; DJ's Choice: Shunsuke Ochiai and Geylan Riad (J-WAVE, Tokyo); Editor's Choice: Naoko Takashima (Billboard JAPAN editor); SCANDAL's Questions Vol. 4, Part 1; J-Standards; Featured Releases; Team J-MELO: Kouki Hanamizakura, SCANDAL.
Guests: AAA, ℃-ute; Girls' World: Tsurukawa Second Junior High School Choral Club; SCANDAL's Questions Vol. 4, Part 2: Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi; SCANDAL; Haruna Ogata and Miki Nonaka (Morning Musume｡'15).
Award for Highest-emailing Country or Territory; Award for Most-Requested Act; Award for Best Singer Search Video; Breakthrough Artist Showcase Award; Your Photos Award; Exclusive message: LiSA; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector; ☆Taku Takahashi; Kouki Hanamizakura; Yoichi Watanabe (photographer); Haruna Iikubo, Haruka Kudo, and Haruna Ogata (Morning Musume｡'16).
Guests: DOHATSUTEN, A.F.R.O; DJ's Choice: Kiyonori Mori (AIR-G', Sapporo); Team J-MELO: Masaki Sato (Morning Musume｡'16); Artists: BAKER SHOP BOOGIE, NOISEMAKER, S.P.C..
Exclusive Messages: E-girls, Momoiro Clover Z; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Terasaki Haneko Odori (Ishinomaki, Miyagi); "One and Only" Singing and Dancing Contest; Featured Releases; Team J-MELO: FLOW, Morning Musume｡'16 (Ayumi Ishida and Sakura Oda); Artists: ARASHI, girugamesh, Hiromi Uehara, HITORIE, KAT-TUN, KOBUSHI FACTORY (MAGNOLIA FACTORY), MAN WITH A MISSION, Motohiro Hata, MYTH & ROID, Shiori Niiyama.
Guests: Amatsuki, BAND-MAID, fhána; Exclusive comments: Little Glee Monster; Editor's Choice: Yuji Maeda (SHOWROOM CEO); Artists: Shouta Aoi; BUS MASTER; DEEP GIRL; Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas; OLDCODEX; SHISHAMO; TEENAGE KISSERS.
SCANDAL's Questions (Part 5); Featured Releases; Guest: Tetsuro Oda; Exclusive message: BABYMETAL; Team J-MELO: SCANDAL, Morning Musume｡'16.
Guests: Tetsuya Komuro, LiSA; Exclusive message: Rena Matsui and Charan-Po-Rantan; DJ's Choice; Featured Releases; Artists: AISHA, Namie Amuro, globe, Hanae, Hello Sleepwalkers, HyperJuice, J Soul Brothers III from EXILE TRIBE, Kis-My-Ft2, Naoto Inti Raymi, Shota Shimizu, TeddyLoid, TM NETWORK, UNiTE; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi, Morning Musume｡'16.
SXSW Japan Nite; Campus Buzz; J-Standards; "One and Only" Singing and Dancing Contest; Guests: YOSHIKI, Silent Siren, Rei; Artists: Yosui Inoue, D=OUT, Ryoko Moriyama, Takuro Yoshida; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi, Kouki Hanamizakura, Morning Musume｡'16 (Mizuki Fukumura, Sakura Oda, Haruna Ogata).
Guest: NMB48; DJ's Choice: Shota Shimono (FM OSAKA); Campus Buzz: Kindai University; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Kawachi Ondo (Yao, Osaka); Artists: aiko, AYAKA, DREAMS COME TRUE, ET-KING, flumpool, Johnny's WEST, KINDAI GIRLS, LOUDNESS, Mitsuko Nakamura, Ouyang Fei Fei, Shota Shimizu, Shout it Out, Senri and Mari Unabara, Tsunku♂, X4; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'16 (Erina Ikuta and Haruna Ogata).
Guest: Sascha (Radio DJ); Artists: AKB48, [Alexandros], Arashi, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Awesome City Club, BABYMETAL, Daichi Miura, FLOW, the GazettE, KAT-TUN, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Morning Musume｡'15, Perfume, SCANDAL, Saburo Kitajima, Sexy Zone, Sound Horizon, Suiyobi No Campanella, ONE OK ROCK, VAMPS.
J-Music Creators guest: T.M.Revolution; Exclusive message: Dempagumi.inc; Campus Buzz: Keio University; Featured Releases; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'16 (Mizuki Fukumura and Haruna Iikubo).
J-Music Creators guest: Hideki Saijo; Guest: MANAMINORISA; DJ's Choice: Shigeki Okubo (hiroshima-fm); Artists: Ayumin, Breeze Sea, FLARE, Miyuu Fujisaki, Yuichi Fujisawa, Irohaniriyan, Lilnil, Kazumi Nikaido, Perfume, Rinrin, SPL∞ASH, TEE, Eikichi Yazawa, Takuro Yoshida; Team J-MELO: Kouki Hanamizakura.
Guests: Amatsuki, BAND-MAID, Tokyo Performance Domo; SCANDAL's Questions Volume 5, Part 1: MCM London Comic Con; Artists: Aimer, Namie Amuro, Sakurako Ohara, back number, THE HOOPERS, LAMP IN TERREN, MAG!C☆PRINCE, Yohske Yamamoto feat. Nami Tamaki; Team J-MELO: SCANDAL.
Exclusive messages: AKB48 (Yuki Kashiwagi, Mayu Watanabe, and Mion Mukaichi), Kyary Pamyu Pamyu; Editors' Choice: Taro Kubo (MUSIC MAGAZINE); SCANDAL's Questions Volume 5, Part 2: Artists: Faint☆Star, HKT48, JKT48, HITOMI KAJI, RINA KATAHIRA, Keyakizaka 46, Machi Akari, Negicco, NGT48, NMB48, Nogizaka 46, SKE48; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'16 (Erina Ikuta and Ayumi Ishida), SCANDAL.
J-Music Creators Guest: Tomoyasu Hotei; Exclusive Message: Versailles Philharmonic Quintet; Editor's Choice: Joe Yokomizo (Rolling Stone Japan); Artists: BRAHMAN, DIAURA, Draft King, FLOW, MAN WITH A MISSION, MIYAVI, ONE OK ROCK, ROTH BART BARON, ROVO, VAMPS.
Exclusive Messages: UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, Tom Smith (JPU Records CEO); DJ's Choice: Teppei Uematsu (Fm yokohama 84.7); Campus Buzz: Meiji University; Artists: A.B.C-Z, AISHA, BABYMETAL, BAND-MAID, BOOM BOOM SATELLITES, CHAN-MIKA, EXILE, Masaharu Fukuyama, the GazettE, HR, KEMURI, Keisuke Kuwata, lol, MAO from SID, miwa, Qomolangma Tomato, Suchmos, WagakkiBand.
Guest: Sumire Uesaka; Exclusive Messages: BEGIN, Crossfaith; Campus Buzz: Sophia University; Editors' Choice: Naoko Takashima (Billboard JAPAN); Featured Releases; Artists: AKB48, Amatsuki, Namie Amuro, back number, Johnny's WEST, KYUSONEKOKAMI, Nogizaka46, ONE OK ROCK, Ryoma Quartet, Sandaime J Soul Brothers from EXILE TRIBE, Spitz, Superfly, TEAM SYACHIHOKO, Tight-Z, wacci, Wagakki Band.
Exclusive comment: the GazettE; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡'16, SCANDAL.
Guests: Marty Friedman, Tetsuya Komuro, Tsunku♂; Exclusive comments: Eir Aoi, Makoto Ozone, VAMPS; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector.
Guests: Moso Calibration, Tokyo Performance Doll, Tokyo Performance Domo; Artists: AKB48.
Guests: Silent Siren, Tokyo Performance Doll, Tokyo Performance Domo, WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA, WORLD ORDER; Exclusive comment: LiSA.
Guests: GARNiDELiA, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Tokyo Performance Doll, Tokyo Performance Domo, YANAKIKU; Artists: BABYMETAL, HATSUNE MIKU, L'Arc-en-Ciel, MAN WITH A MISSION, Morning Musume｡'16, Perfume, Shonen Knife, X JAPAN.
Guests: DAOKO, livetune+; Anime Festival Asia Indonesia 2016; Featured Releases; Artists: AAA, ARASHI, BATTEN SHOW JO TAI, BUMP OF CHICKEN, Country Girls, Crystal Kay, FlowBack, miwa, MUCC, Utada Hikaru; Team J-MELO: FLOW, Morning Musume｡'16.
Guests: ASH DA HERO, THE ORAL CIGARETTES, RIZE, VAMPS.
Guests: Tokyo Performance Domo; Cosplay Mania (Manila); SCANDAL's Questions Vol. 6; DJ's Choice: DJ Mickey Huang in Taipei; Singer Search; Team J-MELO: FLOW, Morning Musume｡'16, SCANDAL.
Tokyo International Music Market (TIMM); PARTY ZOO; Campus Buzz: Seinan Gakuin University (Fukuoka); DJ's Choice: TOGGY (KBC Radio); "Have Dreams!" Singing Contest; Artists: A9, BAND-MAID, BAROQUE, GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, GLIM SPANKY, Gen Hoshino, KAI BAND, Kaientai, Ken (from L'Arc-en-Ciel), Tetsuya Komuro × Tsunku♂ feat. May J., GUN kondo, Made in Asia, MUCC, Nakasu No Yamadasan, Ami Nakazono, Rei, Sheena Ringo, TULIP, Young Juvenile Youth, WHITE ASH.
The Sixth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival; Guests: BEGIN, DIAMANTES, Kariyushi 58, RYUKYUDISKO.
The Sixth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival; Campus Buzz: Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts; Guests: BEGIN, DIAMANTES, Kariyushi 58, RYUKYUDISKO.
Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2016; MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON FESTIVAL 2016 in TOKYO; Campus Buzz: Kansai University; Guests: Dempagumi.inc, HOME MADE KAZOKU, Tokyo Performance Domo; Artists: AIMYON, BLUE ENCOUNT, GIRLFRIEND, Hey! Say! JUMP, JAM Project, JUJU, Keisuke Kuwata, May'n, MAY'S, Daichi Miura, Momoiro Clover Z, Yosuke Onuma, T.M.Revolution, Alisa Takigawa, Wake Up, Girls!; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'16 (Haruna Ogata and Maria Makino).
Awards: Highest-emailing Country or Territory, Most-Requested Artist, Breakthrough Artist Showcase: Team J-MELO: Dave Spector.
Awards: Best Singer Search Video, Your Photos Award, "One and Only" Award; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡'17 (Mizuki Fukumura, Haruna Iikubo and Sakura Oda), Yoichi Watanabe.
J-Music Creators: Daito Manabe (media artist) DJ's Choice: Reo Tsuchiya (FM NACK5); Idol Globalization Committee; Exclusive comment: WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA; Artists: Anly, BAND JA NAIMON!, boku no lyric no bouyomi, CHARAN-PO-RANTAN, Misaki Iwasa, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Daichi Miura, ONE OK ROCK, Perfume, SKY-HI, TSURU, UNiTE, Kayoko Yoshizawa; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Miki Nonaka and Akane Haga), SCANDAL.
Guests: MUCC; J-Music Creators: Toru Takemitsu; Campus Buzz: Tomioka Dance Club (Tomioka Senior High School); Exclusive comments: Akira Nomoto (Spotify JAPAN), Maki Takemitsu (producer); Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Ayumi Ishida and Haruka Kudo), SCANDAL.
Artists: A.F.R.O, Terumasa Hino and dj honda, KINDAI GIRLS, Tetsuya Komuro, Moso Calibration, THE ORAL CIGARETTES, RIZE, TFC55, Tokyo Performance Domo, Tsunku♂, VAMPS, WagakkiBand; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡'17, Yoichi Watanabe (photographer).
Guest: LiSA; Editor's Choice: Ryo Majima (LisAni! editor-in-chief), Ryuichi Sumikawa (LisAni! editor); Artists: Anly, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, DALI, Kohei Dojima, fhána, FLOW, Dean Fujioka, Motohiro Hata, Ikimonogakari, Joe Inoue, JAM Project, Hiroshi Kitadani, Ketsumeishi, L'Arc-en-Ciel, RADWIMPS, SCANDAL, TrySail.
Guests: FlowBack, Kanoerana, TSUBAKI FACTORY (CAMELLIA FACTORY); Exclusive comments: flumpool; Campus Buzz: University of London; Artists: AKB48, ARASHI, BUTAOTOME, Yoshiko Hanzaki, Mizuki Hayama, J Soul Brothers Ⅲ from EXILE TRIBE, Keyakizaka46, Yasutaka Nakata, Sayuri, The Super Ball, VAMPS, Ami Wajima, w-inds., X JAPAN, Yabai T-Shirts yasan, Keisuke Yamauchi.
National Cherry Blossom Festival; SXSW (South by Southwest); Guests: CHAI; Artists: BABYMETAL, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Daichi Miura, ONE OK ROCK, SEKAI NO OWARI, SHISHAMO, TeddyLoid, VAMPS, WagakkiBand, YOSHIKI.
J-Music Creators: Shuichi Hidano; Coming Next 2017; Campus Buzz: Musashi University; Exclusive Comments: HOTEI, NGT48; Singer Search; Featured Releases; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Haruna Iikubo and Haruna Ogata).
Guest: Sascha (Radio DJ); DJ's Choice: Reina Nagata (ZIP-FM, Nagoya); Artists: ARASHI, banvox, Sakura Fujiwara, the GazettE, GLIM SPANKY, Hysteric Panic, Nakasu No Yamadasan, Emi Noda, NOISEMAKER, ONE OK ROCK, Ponytail ribbons, Potali, REKISHI, Seiho, SPYAIR, TREKKIE TRAX, Zenbu Kimi no Seida., X4; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo).
J-Music Creators: Yuzo Kayama, Hideki Matsutake; Guest: Emiri Miyamoto.
Guests: boku no lyric no bouyomi, Zeebra; My Ultimate Playlist: DJ Shikishima; Summer Festival Recommendations: Tomonori Shiba (music journalist); Featured Releases; Artists: AKB48, Namie Amuro, Band Ja Naimon!, Beagle Crew, Beverly, Cornelius, The Flipper's Guitar, GReeeeN, JAY'ED, Jinmenusagi, Kaela Kimura, Lick-G, MONDO GROSSO, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, Kumiko Ohsugi, Kenji Ozawa, PIKOTARO, RADWIMPS, Ryuichi Sakamoto, sora tob sakana, T-Pablow, The Takosan, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Uchikubigokumon-Doukoukai, WANIMA; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Haruna Iikubo and Maria Makino).
Guest: Nana Takashima (Tokyo Performance Doll); Campus Buzz: Meiji University; DJ's Choice: NU-ART FM Audio & Radio Club (Nihon University); Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Haruna Iikubo and Kaede Kaga).
Cleaning Idol Group Kumamoto CLEAR'S, Tokyo Performance Doll, Tokyo Performance Domo.
Guests: BLUE ENCOUNT, Tokyo Performance Doll, Aki Yashiro; DJ's Choice: Kana Bunya (FM Kumamoto); Campus Buzz: Mashiki Junior High School (Kumamoto).
Guests: Kota and Tomasong; DJ's Choice: Yuki Takeshita (Shonan Beach FM); Campus Buzz: Kamakura Women's University Junior and Senior High School; Artists: Yuzo Kayama, Kai Petite, Yosuke Onuma, SHANTI, Shonan no Kaze, Suchmos and more; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Sakura Oda, Kaede Kaga, and Reina Yokoyama).
Guest: DEAN FUJIOKA; J-Music Creators: starRo; Featured Releases; Artists: Akasick, Amatsuki, Namie Amuro, back number, BAND-MAID, B'z, Shogo Hamada, Hey! Say! JUMP, Kohmi Hirose, Gen Hoshino, Kami-sama, I have noticed, Keyakizaka46, Minami Kizuki, Kome Kome Club, LOVE PSYCHEDELICO, LUNA SEA, Mr.Children, ONE OK ROCK, RADWIMPS, SEKAI NO OWARI, SKE48, ULFULS.
ANIME EXPO 2017 (Los Angeles, USA); Guests: Minori Chihara, GARNiDELiA, Kalafina; My Ultimate Playlist: Greg Hignight (Tune in Tokyo); Artists: A9, BiSH, BULLET TRAIN, DJ Domo, Every Little Thing, LiSA, Mamoru Miyano, Daichi Miura, Momoiro Clover Z, Nogizaka46, Perfume,SHISHAMO, SID, Yun*chi; Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo).
Guests: Suzuka Asaoka (NOLIFE), fhána, GLIM SPANKY, May'n, Takayuki Suzuki (EnterTech Accelerator); C3AFA Jakarta 2017; Featured Releases; Singer Search.
Exclusive Comments: the GazettE, Mrs. GREEN APPLE; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Maria Makino, Haruna Ogata, Miki Nonaka, and Akane Haga); And much more.
Guests: NEGOTO.
Guests: AKB48 (Anna Iriyama and Rena Kato), JAGUAR; DJ's Choice: Yuki Haruhara (bayfm78); Campus Buzz: Chiba Girls' High School; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Sakura Oda and Miki Nonaka); And much more
Guests: X4; Exclusive Comments: coldrain; Editor's Choice: Takafumi Mimori (JAZZ JAPAN editor-in-chief); DJ's Choice: Shiho Nanba (NHK-FM); Artists: Aimer, Namie Amuro, ASH DA HERO, CRCK/LCKS, Czecho No Republic × SKY-HI, fox capture plan, Yutaka Kijima, Akihisa Kondo, Ai Kuwabara, Morning Musume｡'17, Nogizaka46, Yabai T-Shirts yasan, Kayoko Yoshizawa, w-inds., 22/7.
Guests: Kenichi Makimura (music producer), Maki Nomiya; My Ultimate Playlist; Fumi Uno (TOWER RECORDS); Team J-MELO: ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo).
Guests: OKAMOTO'S (Sho Okamoto and Hama_Okamoto), Yusuke Wajima (Associate Professor of Musicology, Osaka University); J-Music Creators: Kunihiko Murai (composer and producer), Chumei Watanabe (anisong composer); DJ's Choice: Justin Miller (DJ Dandy).
Guests: THE BEATNIKS, The Floor, SILENT SIREN; 14th TOKYO INTERNATIONAL MUSIC MARKET; No Maps (Sapporo).
Mabuioto music festival (Okinawa); Guests: Anly, coba; J-Music Creators: Sadao China; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Maiko and Geiko (Kyoto); Editor's Choice: Kazumasa Hagino (editor in chief, Piratsukakoyomi, Okinawa); Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'17 (Miki Nonaka, Kaede Kaga, and Reina Yokoyama).
Guests: Naruyoshi Kikuchi, Moso Calibration, Konomi Suzuki; C3AFA Singapore 2017; My Ultimate Playlist: Fukuryu (music concierge).
Guests: NGT48 (Marina Nishigata, Ayaka Tano, and Maho Yamaguchi), SIN ISOMER, TORIENA; Featured Releases; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'18 (Haruna Iikubo, Miki Nonaka, and Reina Yokoyama).
Highest E-mailing Country or Territory; Most Requested Act; Best Singer Search Video; Best Singer Search Original Song; Your Photos Award; Team J-MELO: Dave Spector, Morning Musume｡'18 (Haruna Iikubo, Miki Nonaka, and Reina Yokoyama), Yoichi Watanabe (photographer).
Guests: FLOW, Shuichi Hidano Super TAIKO Session, Momoiro Clover Z, ROCK A JAPONICA.
Guests: Shuichi Hidano Super TAIKO Session, Momoiro Clover Z.
Guests: AKB48; Exclusive comments: GARNiDELiA; Artists: Ayaka & Daichi Miura, BABYMETAL, BAND-MAID, Crossfaith, FLOW×GRANRODEO, GARNiDELiA, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroshi Itsuki & Fuyumi Sakamoto, KEYTALK, KinKi Kids, ONE OK ROCK, Hana Sekitori, WagakkiBand; JAPAN EXPO THAILAND 2018; JROCK NEWS; SCANDAL's Questions; Featured Releases.
Guests: MONKEY MAJIK; Exclusive Comments: ANTENA; DJ's Choice: Rokkatei Yuka (NHK FM, Sendai); Japan Dance Music Adventure: Suzume Odori (sparrow dance) (Tohoku University); Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'18 (Ayumi Ishida and Kaede Kaga).
Guests: MONKEY MAJIK.
Guests: Minami Kizuki, m-flo; Nihongo Fiesta 2018; J-MELO Singer Search; J-MELO Song and Dance Expo; Featured Request Songs.
Guests: BOYS AND MEN, JUNRETSU; J-Music Creators: Kazuaki Seki (music video director); My Ultimate Playlist: Nick Prior (Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh); Artists: cosMo@bousouP, POLYSICS, Tenniscoats; Featured Request Songs.
Guests: BAND-MAID, Beverly, SKY-HI, Kayoko Yoshizawa.
Guests: BAND-MAID, SKY-HI.
J-Music Creators: Toshinobu Kubota; Exclusive Comments: DENKI GROOVE; Japan Dance Music Adventure: Samba; DJ's Choice: Bakabon Onizuka (K-mix (Shizuoka FM)); Shizuoka People's Top Shizuoka People; Team J-MELO: Morning Musume｡'18 (Miki Nonaka and Akane Haga), Yoichi Watanabe (photographer).
Guests: DJ Misosiru & MC Gohan, TeddyLoid.
Guests: ANGERME, yahyel; DJ's Choice: Antoine (Japan FM, France); My Ultimate Playlist: Toru Ohata (music sommelier); Featured Releases; Team J-MELO: Tomonori Shiba (music journalist).
Guests: fhána; Exclusive comments: Akinori Fumihara (nana music), Akira Nomoto (Spotify JAPAN), Takayuki Suzuki (EnterTech Accelerator); Team J-MELO: Tomonori Shiba (music journalist).
Guests: LOVEBITES, sora tob sakana; Cool Summer Music Festivals; DJ's Choice: Satoshi Naito (FM GUNMA); Team J-MELO: Tomonori Shiba (music journalist).
Guest: VICKEBLANKA; Exclusive Comments: Little Glee Monster; J-Music Creators: Masakatsu Takagi; Team J-MELO: Tomonori Shiba (music journalist).
Guests: KEYTALK, Atsushi Shikano (publisher of music magazine MUSICA); DJ's Choice: Tomoaki Okura (Shimokita FM).
Exclusive Message: TOMOYASU HOTEI; Me Time: Takashi Tanaka (SUNNY DAY SERVICE); SCANDAL's Questions Vol. 7.
Guests: Ryota Komatsu, Lisa Ono; Exclusive Messages: HELLO PRO ALL STARS.
Guests: Hiromitsu Agatsuma, PassCode; Exclusive Messages: Yuzo Kayama, 04 Limited Sazabys.
Guest: Kosetsu Minami; Special Guests: Students from Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.
Guest: Masafumi Akikawa; Special Guests: Foreign students at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University; Director's Choice: J:COM Oita Cable Telecom.
Guests: BOYS AND MEN, GLIM SPANKY, Jin Oki.
Guests: BEGIN.
"Me Time" guest: Rimi Natsukawa on Yonaguni Island; Studio Guest: Rei; The 12th J-MELO Awards; Featured Releases.
Guests: Gacharic Spin, Leo Ieiri, Yoshida Brothers.
Studio Guest: Polkadot Stingray; Special Message: Ayaka Hirahara; "Me Time" Guest: Masanori Sera.
Studio Guests: Dai Hirai, Noriyuki Makihara; Interview Guest: DJ KOO.
Interview Guest: KREVA; Exclusive Message: STU48; Studio Guest: AK-69; Performance Guest: NormCore.
Guests: Makoto Ayukawa (Sheena & the Rokkets), Perfume, SCANDAL.
Guests: MINT mate box, Tomonori Shiba (music journalist).
Guests: Tiina Kariina; Akane Takayanagi and Honoka Aikawa (SKE48).
Guests: Yuki and Yusuke (Bullet Train).
Miyazaki International Street Music Festival 2019; Guests: Keiji Kuroki (EXILE), Motohiro Hata, Yoshikazu Mera.
Guests: Momoiro Clover Z, RIRI, RYUCHELL.
Guests: Bullet Train and SHISHAMO.
Guests: SILENT SIREN, SUKIMASWITCH, yabai T-shirts yasan.
Guests: Takashi Nakagawa (SOUL FLOWER UNION); Kozak Maeda (GaGaGa SP).
The TV drama theme from Myanmar "MOSHIMO" is spotlighted. Duetting are Ayaka Hirahara, who wrote it, and Win Morisaki, who also appears in the drama.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, seven-member all-male group JOHNNY'S WEST are coming to chat and perform. They'll be performing 4 songs in the J-MELO studio.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! In the spotlight this week are Crystal Kay and singer-songwriter Yoshizawa Kayoko. They'll both be in the J-MELO studio to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, female idol group LAST IDOL and prolific anime singer Suzuki Konomi are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! Two acts are coming to chat and perform. One is the idol group HKT48. The other is MARiA. She's the vocalist in the duo GARNiDELiA, who've sung lots of anime songs.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, six-member idol group ZOC are in the J-MELO studio to perform three songs including their new release.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, three-piece all-female rock band SHISHAMO and Osaka-based idol group NMB48 are in the J-MELO studio to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, Niigata-based idol group NGT48 and singer-songwriter Chris Hart (back on the music scene after a two-year hiatus) are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, 10-member idol group ANGERME and Sashihara Rino-produced 12-member idol group Not Equal ME are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, New York-based keyboard player BIGYUKI and 11-member boy band JO1 are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, ever-evolving singer Hikawa Kiyoshi and Momoiro Clover Z member Takagi Reni are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, super-talented singer Kaizo Ryota and the 4 Nagoya-based entertainers of MATSURI nine. are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, Nagoya-based idol group SKE48 and four-piece all-female band SCANDAL (now celebrating their 15th anniversary) are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week are five-piece dance-and-vocal group Bullet Train and a duo called NAKANEKANA, who are blowing up on social media thanks to their videos.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week are rock band SalsaGumtape, who've been playing for over 25 years, and four-piece group PassCode. Both acts are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week are GARNiDELiA (a duo who work in fields as diverse as Anisongs and fashion) and Suzukisuzuki (2 brothers whose online videos are a big hit).
Join May J. for Japanese music! Punk-rock band NEW ROTE'KA are coming to play 3 songs ahead of their first show at the Budokan (after 38 years together). Plus: artists to look out for in 2022.
We have two guests on the show today. The first guest is BiS, a female group that was formed in 2010. The group has attracted many fans with their off-the-wall and extreme performances, like a live concert that lasted 24 hours, or running a 200-kilometer relay race over two days. Our other guest is Kaya, who just made her debut on a major record label in January. She has a beautiful pure clear voice that's been called a "holy voice." She's competed in many singing contests and has earned praise since she was little. Enjoy their special interviews and live studio performances.
Today, we bring you a special live performance by Crazy Ken Band. The group of 11 members is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The band's style that covers a wide spectrum of music genres attracts fans of various age groups. The band's leader and vocalist, Yokoyama Ken, is also known as a brilliant melody maker, providing songs to many famous artists in Japan. Please enjoy their exclusive interviews and live studio performances.
We feature two groups that are getting lots of attention this year through anime and social media. The first group appears on the internationally popular "Love Live!" school idol project series. They're called Liella!. The other group, ONE N' ONLY is a six-piece dance-and-vocal group. Their style of music is not J-pop or K-pop. It's a unique style called JK-pop. Please enjoy their exclusive interviews and live studio performances.
We have two guests on the show. Appearing first is a singer-songwriter, Miyazawa Kazufumi. One of his signature songs, Shima Uta ("Island Song,") was a huge hit selling more than one and a half million copies. With also cover versions made abroad, the song has been sung all over the world. Our second guest is Takeuchi Anna, an up-and-coming singer-songwriter who has been performing internationally, making an appearance in one of the biggest music festivals in the United States. Please enjoy their exclusive interviews and live studio performances.
Today is a special show featuring one of the top pop idol groups in Japan - "Morning Musume.'22." "Morning Musume." was originally formed in 1997 through a TV audition show, and they now perform as "Morning Musume.'22." They keep evolving, as members graduate, or in other words leave the group, and new members join in. And now they celebrate their 25th anniversary. Please enjoy their exclusive interviews and live studio performances.
In today's show, we feature Higuchi Ai, a talented singer-songwriter. She made her major label debut in 2016. She is known for her dramatic lyrics that reflect a unique perspective. And this year, her song "Akuma no Ko," or "Child of Evil," became the closing theme on the latest series of the TV anime "Shingeki no Kyojin," or "Attack on Titan." Please enjoy our exclusive interview with Higuchi Ai and her live studio performances.
We have two guests with us on the show. Our first guest is Moriguchi Hiroko. The singer made her debut with the theme song for the TV anime series "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam" in 1985. And today, she will be singing the theme song for the latest Gundam movie, which was released this June. And for our second guest, we have fhána, a group which is known for singing many anime songs. Today, they will be performing a song from their latest album that was released this April. Please enjoy their exclusive interviews and live studio performances.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week: Atari Kousuke (a singer from the Natural World Heritage island of Amami Oshima) and Fudanjuku (a 7-piece female idol group who dress as men).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: 2 groups creating a big buzz. Tokyo Rikisha are 4 real-life rickshaw men. NEMOPHILA are an all-girl band with a hard sound and an international career.
Join May J. for Japanese music! Two acts are coming to chat and perform. Omoinotake are a piano-based three-piece band with a growing fanbase. Not Equal ME are an idol group with a just-released fourth single.
We have two guests with us on the show today. First up is Kawaguchi Kyogo. He is a singer-songwriter who delights people with a singing voice that seems to wrap them in a warm embrace. His signature song "Sakura" has been covered by artists in Japan and abroad. And our second guest is Miyamoto Karin. She is a former member of an idol group called juice=juice. She left the group and went solo in 2020. She has a richly expressive singing voice. She started touring as a solo artist even while she was still with the group.
We have two guests with us on the show. First up is hana*hana. This year marks the 22nd anniversary of the major-label recording debut of this female duo. Their debut song "Ah Yokatta" is still loved by people across a wide age range. And our second guest is JUNNA. Currently a university student, she's a singer who is well known in the anime song world. She made her debut on a major label five years ago at the age of 15. She is now attracting attention for her powerful singing.
We have two guests with us on the show today. First up is FANTASTICS from EXILE TRIBE. They are a dance-and-vocal group, originally formed in 2016. Last year, they gained attention after covering "Choo Choo TRAIN," a dance number that's very popular in Japan. And our second guest is BRIDEAR. They are a five-piece, all-female heavy-metal band. They're getting lots of attention overseas, expanding the international fanbase for the Japanese metal sound known as J-metal.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week are the pop duo TWEEDEES and the singer ASAKA, who's in the spotlight for singing the opening theme to the anime "Laid-back Camp Season 2."
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week: digital rock duo OxT and singer (and voice actor) Hayami Saori. Both acts work on anime, and they’ll both be in the J-MELO studio to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: six-piece a cappella group Nagie Lane, who blend city pop and dance music; and rock singer Nakajima Takui, who writes songs for Hello! Project idol groups.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, wasuta (a four-member idol group requested by viewers outside Japan) and heavy metal band LOVEBITES will be in the J-MELO studio to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week, STU48 (a Setouchi-based idol group formed six years ago) and YABIxYABI (a two-piece band with addictive lyrics and music) are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week, Mashiko Tatsuro (a singer-songwriter who made his songwriting debut 21 years ago) and EBiDAN (a collective of young artists) are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, Terashima Yufu (a solo idol since 2013) and five-piece metal band GALNERYUS are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week, Masa Takumi is performing two pieces from an album that won a Grammy this year. Plus, we'll meet MANOA, a newcomer who just made her major-label debut.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week: Mayumura Chiaki (an idol who sings with her guitar and self-made backing tracks) and Tielle (a singer getting attention for anime and drama themes).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: three-piece band ASTERISM, who are creating a buzz with metal covers of anisongs; and solo singer KIM SUNGJE, who's also in South Korean boy band SUPERNOVA.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: seven-piece boy band THE SUPER FRUIT, who win fans on social media; and three-piece rock band LEGO BIG MORL, who made a second major-label debut last year.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: dance-vocal group MAZZEL, who had over six million views for a music video before their debut; and idol group ukka, who made their major-label debut in 2022.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: bassist-vocalist Ishikawa Kurena (a rising jazz star discovered by renowned pianist Ozone Makoto); and a performance by May J. of our closing theme, "Perch."
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week, Osaka-based three-piece rock band THE 50KAITENZ (together for 19 years) and soulful-voiced singer-songwriter Murakami Keisuke are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: FRUITS ZIPPER (an idol group with 800 million social media video views) and Gakugeidai Junes (a dance-vocal group who move between two and three dimensions).
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, artist and voice actress Aida Rikako and internationally popular rock band NINGEN ISU are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, hockrockb (a hot young rock band) and Tokyo Rikisha (a group who also share Japanese culture as rickshaw pullers) are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: 5-piece rock band Psycho le Cému (together for 24 years) and super-expressive ex-Juice=Juice idol Miyamoto Karin. Both acts are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: meme tokyo. (a six-member girl group who made their major-label debut in 2021) and Kizuki Minami (a hugely talented singer from the island of Amami Oshima).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: young rock band WENDY (together since 2020) and virtual creator natuecoco (popular for social media livestreams). Both acts are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! On the show this week: Qujila Yoluno Machi (a band that creates fantasies) and virtuoso freestyle pianist Keichan. Both acts are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: all at once (a vocal duo who create lots of anime songs) and Coda Mahiru (a singer-songwriter, model and actor). They're both coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week: Okayu (a singer-songwriter with cover albums including city pop and anisongs) and TSUKEMEN (an internationally active three-piece ensemble).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week, FIVE NEW OLD (a four-piece rock band from Kobe) and sajou no hana (an act getting lots of attention for anime theme songs) are coming to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week, FES☆TIVE (a 6-piece idol group who perform mainly in Asia) and LE VELVETS (a 4-piece vocal group with baritone and tenor voices) are coming to chat and sing.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: enka singer Nagayama Yoko, who debuted as a pop idol 40 years ago; and MYTH & ROID, who work on themes for internationally successful games and anime shows.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: idol group SKE48, who are marking their 15th anniversary; and Tomioka Ai, who's a university student and a singer-songwriter with an international fanbase.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Murasaki (members: Chisa, who's a voice actor in the "Umamusume: Pretty Derby" franchise, and songwriter Ramseeni); and 7-member idol group Fragrant Drive.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: 8-piece dance-and-vocal group ICEx, who've marked a year together in the EBiDAN music collective; and Philippine-born singer REIKO, who debuted last October.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Kishita Kohshi (a guy with great piano skills and a soulful voice) and BAND JA NAIMON! MAXX NAKAYOSHI (a six-piece idol group with a ninja-themed new single).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: seven-piece idol group CANDY TUNE, who have a big, young fanbase on social media; and Inaba Manaka, who left Juice=Juice in 2022 to launch a solo career.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week: Kyoto-based four-piece rock band mol-74; and Momoiro Clover Z member Tamai Shiori, who launched a parallel solo career in January last year.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: TAKANE NO NADESHIKO (a 10-member idol group making a buzz on social media) and Hayashibe Satoshi (a singer who has fans across a wide age range).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: four-piece heavy-metal band HAGANE, who've rebooted with new members; and four-piece idol group Momoiro Clover Z, who've worked on many songs for anime hits.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week: SARD UNDERGROUND (a tribute band who play songs by legendary J-pop group ZARD); and Lienel (a six-member dance-and-vocal group who debuted last year).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Suzuki Konomi (a great singer who has sung lots of anime songs) and Yui Nishio (a singer-songwriter whose everyday-life lyrics appeal mainly to young women).
Join May J. for Japanese music! On the show this week: Niihama Leon (a singer who brings his powerful voice to Showa-era pop) and KiSS KiSS (a super-kawaii female idol group who debuted last year).
Join May J. for great Japanese music! In the studio this week: singer-songwriter and guitar star Rei; and singer-songwriter Ieiri Leo, who brings a unique sensibility and a great voice to her music.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: BRIDEAR (a five-piece all-female heavy metal band with a growing fanbase in Europe) and Matsuura Kodai (a singer with an astonishingly versatile voice).
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week: WONK (a four-piece band with a soulful sound that goes beyond genres) and Sato Masaki (a Morning Musume.'21 alum who's a great singer and dancer).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Haku. (an Osaka-based four-piece band praised for their unique lyrics and sound) and XinU (a smoky-voiced singer with a sound that blends diverse elements).
Experience the cutting edge of Japanese entertainment as we turn the spotlight on virtual artists. This week, the first virtual singer to play the Budokan: KAF.
Experience the cutting edge of Japanese entertainment as we turn the spotlight on virtual artists. This week, a virtual-reality idol group who aim to be the best in the world: enogu.
Join May J. for Japanese music! In the studio this week are three-piece rock band Kaneyorimasaru, who blew up on social media; and former MYTH & ROID vocalist Maeshima Mayu, who now works on anisongs.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: seven-piece idol group SWEET STEADY (a sister group to FRUITS ZIPPER); and singer-songwriter Ito Kashitaro, whose online videos led to a major-label debut.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: East of Eden (a five-piece all-female heavy metal band fronted by a violinist) and edhiii boi (an up-and-coming rapper with a strong teenage following).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Furui Riho (a singer-songwriter with gospel roots) and shallm (a band project from vocalist, lyricist, and composer lia).
Join May J. for great Japanese music! Three former members of the pioneering J-fusion band CASIOPEA now play as the Katsushika Trio. This week, they're in the J-MELO studio to chat and perform.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week, three energetic idol groups: 12-member group ≠ME, Hello! Project group Angerme, and Cho Tokimeki ♡ Sendenbu, who just released a new single.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: cocolashika (a guitarless trio getting lots of attention for their city-pop sound) and Utagokoro Rie (a singer whose J-pop covers led to a major-label debut).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Hamaura Ayano (a former Hello! Project artist who moved into acting and is now a solo singer) and BUDDiiS (a dance-and-vocal group with 10 unique members).
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: singer-songwriter Kitamura Fuki, whose work ranges from piano-and-vocals to DJ sets; and 12-member Dreamers Union Choir, who bring powerful vocal harmonies.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week, two singer-songwriters: ex-Vocaloid producer Kamiyama Yoh, whose fanbase extends to China; and noa, who crafts music, lyrics, arrangements, and art.
Join May J. for great Japanese music! This week: cool R&B-rooted J-pop from girl duo Natsudaidai; and EDM-influenced rock from THE SIXTH LIE. Both acts are in the J-MELO studio to chat and perform.
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: singer Miyakawa Airi, who's popular for her natural charm; and Atarayo, a three-piece band whose young fans love their emotional lyrics, vocals, and sound.
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