New Debut: Haihm

No category 2008/10/09 18:11
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haihm, the much anticipated and multi-talented artist has finally debuted. However, everything’s still a little hush-hush for now. For starters, she’s released a teaser trailer to “Maybe We..” on her MySpace page.

All that’s known is haihm’s under the label Music Farm and has put a lot of effort in the production of her video, filming away from home in Tokyo, Japan.

haihm’s teaser to “Maybe We (어쩌면 우린)”:

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Singer-songwriter Mariya Takeuchi topped the album charts this week with her three-disc best collection "Expressions," which sold 305,000 copies. Takeuchi debuted 29 years and 11 months ago, which is a record among female artists for the longest career at the time of a #1 album. Yumi Matsutoya set the previous record seven years ago with a career of 29 years and 5 months.

Besides the British band Oasis at #2, the only new studio album in the top ten was Spontania's "MUSIC" at the #10 spot.

On the singles chart, boy band NEWS celebrated at #1 with their "Happy Birthday," pushing 201,000 copies. Nana Mizuki landed at #2 with her "Trickster," though it was far behind at 57,000 copies. Kiyoshi Hikawa entered the charts at #4, while the Kou Shibasaki and Masaharu Fukuyama collaboration KOH+ landed at #5.

BAReeeeeeeeeeN, the new unit formed from GReeeeeN and BACK-ON, saw their first single reach #7. Aqua Timez was right behind them at #8, and the solo comeback release by ASKA (of CHAGE and ASKA) rounded out the charts at #10.


Raymond Lam has Internet Poll for public voting on Title Song in New Album

Recently releasing his new album Raymond Lam has been doing promotions continously, yesterday he held the "Your Love Singing Session", many fans came to support him. He played games with the fans on Mid Autumn Festival, handed out mooncakes and made paper rabbits. Also he sang songs from his new album and signed autographs for fans. Raymond was a bit nervous, because the songs "Shadow Love Story" 《影子的愛情故事》 and "Love the Sea" 《愛人與海》 he has never performed live before so he's afraid he may forget the lyrics. Raymond smiled and said that if he messes up the lyrics, he'll hand the microphone over to the fans. He said that it has not been decided on what the title song of the album is, later will collect everyone's views on the internet and then make a decision then.

Releasing his second album, Raymond expressed that the pressure is greater, but there is a lot of meaning. He stressed that releasing an album to him is not playing around. Raymond said: "This time the response is quite good because there is a series to go along with it, the timing is right and also I don't need to film series right now, can do more promotions." Raymond also said he plans to give his new album to the Cast of "Moonlight Resonances", but unfortuntately he has not met any of them. Speaking of Mid-Autumn Festival, Raymond has jobs scheduled, hopefully he can return to home before midnight to have mooncakes with family.
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Thelma Aoyama's hit "Soba ni Iru ne" is currently the best-selling song as a full mobile download (chaku-uta) in Japan. That title has now been officially recognized by the Guinness World Records, and Aoyama has been presented with her certificate.

"Soba ni Iru ne" was released in January and had been downloaded to mobile phones 2 million times as of July, when the application was filed with Guinness. The song currently stands at a total of 8.2 million downloads across various formats, including 3.55 million chaku-uta downloads and 2.15 million chaku-uta full downloads. The CD release was the top-selling single for the first half of 2008.