NEWS!!

TVXQ, Super Junior, CSJH The Grace, Kangta, Jang Riin and other SM artists will all perform for SM Town's Seoul Summer Concert.

Investing in Korea's largest video preparation, the whole place will be filled with screens showing the stage.A bigger scale is that this music festival used up more than 400 LEDs (light) while other concerts for other singers only require around 150.
Using V-DOSC as their sound system, audiences will be able to hear the best music no matter where they are.
Plus, they've also prepared more than 100 dry ice and 30 over spotlights.SM Town Seoul Summer Concert will begin on 23rd June in Pusan, 30th June and 1st july in Seoul and 7th July as their last stop.
Kangta and TVXQ will fly back to Korea from China and Japan respectively for this concert while it'll be the first time for CSJH, Super Junior and Jang Riin to show up in such big concert.
SM's summer album will consists songs from all 5 groups and it'll also be the first time for them to perform together on stage.The first batch of pre-order for Pusan and Seoul has already been sold-out while the second batch will begin on 29th.

Translation credit : Amanda@cyxion.net, KIM JUNFU @ TVXQ-INTER
Source : Baidu
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SS501 Japanese Single Release Date

Hello everyone. This is DSP Ent.I'm very glad to be able to often present to everyone SS501's recent news in Japan.
It's news about them trying their best efforts to prepare right?Even if you're separated as far as it can by.
To SS501, every TripleS member who always protects is the most important.If this sentence was not said, everyone already knew right?
Today's news is something that makes one very happy.
On August 1st, SS501 has already decided to release their first Japanese single.The single this time includes 1 ordinary version and 5 special versions made up of a total of 6 kinds, they will be on sale at the same time.
Regarding the speciality of the single types, I will explain as follows:The original version recorded all of the members singing together for 3 songs.In it there will be member's individual pictures and group pictures.In addition, limited copies will record 2 songs in the ordinary version, and 1 members' individual solo song, for a total of 3 songs.
In it, the member's pictures will be based on the recording solo singer.
This is the members' first time attempting solo songs, I invite everyone to give a huge amount of enthusiasm and anticipation.
(You) can get a feel of the songs the members himself normally wants to sing or the style of the song he likes.
The single will be released at the beginning of August, following it will be the start of a large number of activities.
In the future, I will continue to give everyone even more good news.

Credits: DSP + (Chinese translation)wiluf@www.5dcastle.cn + DoubleS501.com + (English translation)heart2heart@Quainte501.com
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SS501 Hiatus

SS501 announced that they will confine themselves for 5 months. Though SS501 is currently staying in Japan, they will not be exposing themselves to the press/public during this period.
SS501's company DSP Entertainment says "SS501's recent activities are taken charge by the planning company in Japan, not DSP. Understand from the Japan planning company, as part of their promotion planning, they will refrain SS501 from making contact with the public through interviews, press appearances & etc before they come back with an album. You will be able to see SS501's image when they release their single around Aug/Sep".
Following SS501's Japan Planning Company's strategy, needless to say, it is planned that they will contrain their press appearance and interviews locally (Korea) as well. Even though SS501 is quite well-recognised in Japan, but in order to debute as a newcomer in the Japanese scene, they are taking step by step preparation for it.
From DSP side, they said, "We plan to release two SS501 japanese single. Because of that, it is necessary for them to learn Japanese. SS501 has come to learn Japanese from the begining of their debute, but in order to make themselves being understood perfectly, they strived to study more Japanese. They will refrain from making contact with the outside (public), and in order to enter to the Japanese scene, they will devote all their engergies on their debute.
In the upcoming 5 months, SS501 will devote themselves in the activities in Japan. For a period of time, they will not have time for Korea, but throwing in all their attention on their activities in Japan. SS501 left for Japan on 29-Apr in order to do the activities in Japan.

Credits : SS601.com + 한국아이닷컴 + xiaochu @ Quainte501 .com
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金曲慶功演唱 怕得主喝掛

金曲獎頒獎典禮翌日，首創慶功演唱會「當我們同在金曲」，除安排獲獎歌手上台演唱，今年發片無緣角逐獎項的歌手包括S.H.E、陳奕迅、黃立行、飛輪海、阿沁、黃義達等都在邀請名單之列，相較頒獎典禮星光不減反增，主持人侯佩岑挑戰體力、耐力，將與天心接棒主持。
「當我們同在金曲」演唱會於金曲獎翌日17日下午2時於小巨蛋開唱，長達90分鐘的演唱會，將邀請歌迷一起同歡，提到這項創舉，製作人侯文燕坦言，本來他們是計畫在頒獎典禮之後舉行演唱會，但新聞局擔心活動時間延長至凌晨2時觀眾恐有安全上的顧慮，改由翌日下午舉行。
由於金曲獎得獎名單當晚才公布，得獎者無法先行做彩排，加上張韶涵、蔡依林頒獎典禮隔天就要飛到國外工作，演唱會演出名單一直到金曲獎當天晚上才能做確定，侯文燕笑說：「其實就算得獎名單出爐也不能確定，因為可能得獎者在慶功宴喝掛了到不了演唱會。」也因此，演唱會考驗著主持人侯佩岑、天心的應變能力，侯佩岑連續主持兩場活動辛苦不在話下，但因為短時間內實在找不出比她更適合的人選，身為東風模範生，她也只好扛下演唱會的主持重任。
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TANK穩坐金曲票選季軍寶座

創作歌手TANK近來人氣極旺，在金曲獎歌迷票選部分，從眾家人氣歌手中脫穎而出，擠上季軍，而在新加坡更被知名保養藥廠相中，成為痘痘藥代言人，TANK都很意外，直呼：「沒想到有人會找我代言保養品耶！」
自金曲獎歌迷票選開放投票以來，男歌手的王座一直是小豬和五月天之爭，雙方歌迷還為此在網路上開戰，不過新生代的TANK趁前兩名打得火熱之際，出人意料之外地默默坐穩季軍寶座，甩開其他當紅天王。
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藤本美貴因緋聞退出「早安少女組」 高橋愛接任隊長

「早安少女組。」藤本美貴退團！才剛於5月6日接下隊長一職的藤本美貴，上月底被八卦雜誌「FRIDAY」拍到和搞笑組合「品川庄司」的庄司智春交往，在與經紀公司商談後決定退團，藤本美貴表示發生此事已經沒資格做隊長，接下來會繼續以個人與「GAM」成員身份進行演藝活動。
藤本美貴是在上月底被「FRIDAY」雜誌爆料和庄司智春的「岩盤浴約會」，當時就有媒體猜測可能會比照矢口真里模式退團，結果沒想到在事發一週後就閃電宣佈此消息。藤本美貴所屬的經紀公司在1日下午發出聲明稿，宣佈正式退出早安少女組，她表示因為破壞了團體的規則，在責任感驅使下決定離開，也因此藤本美貴創下最短期早安少女組隊長紀錄。
早安家族今年壞事不斷，繼加護亞依二度抽菸、過希美閃電結婚後，才剛接任第五代隊長的藤本美貴又被爆料戀情，導致退團命運，讓原本想在今年十週年重振雌風的「早安少女組。」再度蒙上一層陰影，而高橋愛則會接任隊長一職，副隊長是新垣里沙。
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ZARD坂井泉水告別式 樂迷淚送：「謝謝妳！」

因為失足不慎過世的日本女歌手ZARD坂井泉水，30日在東京町田市舉辦告別式，除了約20位親友到場，由於所有儀式都不開放，媒體和樂迷均只能在外頭等待，在靈車要駛向火葬場的時候，現場有人忍不住哭喊：「泉水，謝謝妳」，目送這位日本音樂史上佔有重要地位的歌姬！
ZARD坂井泉水的告別式在30日早上11點舉行，雙親特別挑選出道16年來覺得最「耀眼」的正面照片。坂井泉水的母親抱著遺照、父親則手捧牌位，當白色棺木被親屬抬上靈車要駛往火葬場時，在外守候多時的樂迷也紛紛開始大哭，而特地從廣島趕來的女性樂迷難過的表示ZARD的音樂總是鼓勵著她，約30名樂迷放下手邊工作來到會場，就為送坂井泉水人生的最後一程。
雖然已經離開人世，有超過5千位樂迷在這幾天紛紛前往ZARD於東京和大阪的經紀公司獻花，表示對坂井泉水的敬意與謝意，其所屬的唱片公司則預定在6月27日舉辦音樂追思會，而ZARD的音樂作品也陸續出現缺貨的現象，去年發行的雙CD精選輯更重回公信榜第三名，許多樂迷都再拿出她的作品重新聆聽，懷念這位曾給與無數人勇氣的歌姬，更希望坂井泉水可以在永遠的安眠。
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「KAT-TUN」6月分開玩？ 日媒盛傳：12月停止活動

好不容易又湊回六人的傑尼斯超人氣團體KAT-TUN可能在今年玩完！？日本最新一期的「BUBKA」報導，KAT-TUN在6月全國巡迴演唱會結束後，很有可能會打散成三組，而KAT-TUN最快會在12月宣布停止活動。
龜梨和也和中丸雄一為「K&Y」、田中聖、田口淳之介、上田龍也則是「T2U」，至於剛歸隊的赤西仁則有可能單飛或是明年春天與山下智久共組「AY」，目標則是進軍韓國市場，報導指出KAT-TUN解散的最大原因應該是成員長久不合所引起，尤其龜梨和也與赤西仁更是水火不容。
該雜誌訪問到相關人士，透露傑尼斯接下來將會全力投入這三組新團的運作，至於KAT-TUN則有可能最快在12月、最慢明年4月宣布停止活動，如果此事真的發生，到時受傷最重的又是眾粉絲的心了。
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男女嘻哈組合「大和美姬丸」苦盡甘來 精選輯奪冠

堪稱日本近兩年最強的嘻哈雙人組「大和美姬丸」，5月初在日本發行首張精選輯「美姬丸全精選+新歌」拿下生涯首次冠軍，一償兩人出道四年來的宿願，成為日本新世代年輕男女的嘻哈新指標。
數年前曾以單曲「回家歌」小紅的大和美姬丸，當時因為這首作品取樣自拉威爾「波麗露」而受注目，當時被選為日本國中小學的放學歌曲，還特別挑選一千所學校，錄製一千種版本，本來想申請金氏世界紀錄的他們並沒有受到回應，讓女主唱hiroko難過了好一陣子。
在苦撐三年後終於靠搭配染髮劑廣告的「心情HIGH翻天」一曲再度翻紅，mihimaruGT也乘熱推出首張精選「美姬丸全精選+新歌」，除了拿下公信榜冠軍，大和美姬丸也將從6月起展開全國巡迴演唱會，還以豬年取了標題「豬突猛進」，台灣環球唱片會在本週五(6月1日)推出「美姬丸全精選+新歌」，想嘗試新世代嘻哈的樂迷們可以試試看。

Source: YAHOO TAIWAN