| 12.31.06 Mr.Children New Album "HOME" and 2007 National Tour Including 14 Songs 2007.3.14 Release TFCC-86221 3,059 yen (tax included) First press: Documentary DVD (probably on the making of the album) The tour will also be having its own website and additionally the official website has a new layout. Source: Mr.Children Official Webstie 12.29.06 Yahoo! Japan will be streaming clips of both FAKE and Dororo on January 1st, 2007! Source: Yahoo Japan! 12.28.06 
12.26.06 1-3-2007 27:10-28:10 THK 1-4-2007 25:55-26:55 TSK 1-5-2007 24:40-25:40 ATV AP BANG! Tokyo environmental conference TOKYO CREATORS MEETING on March 16th, 17th and 18th of 2007 at STUDIO COAST Sakurai will of course be attending this conference 12.25.06 
12.20.06 Artists who people want to see live at Christmas eve 1. The Gospellers 2. B'z 3. Ayumi Hamasaki 4. Mr.Children 5. Ken Hirai 6. DREAMS COME TRUE 7. MISIA 8. CHEMISTRY 9. PORNO GRAFFITTI 10. SMAP Source: ORICON (poll 1) | ORICON (poll 2) 12.16.06 
12.07.06 Love songs (by male artists) that males sympathize with 01 - Mr.Children - Kimi ga suki 02 - Ozaki Yutaka - I LOVE YOU 03 - Mr.Children - Dakishimetai 04 - Hirai Ken - Hitomi wo tojite 05 - Shonan no Kaze - Junrenka Cool Male artist 01 - Fukuyama Masaharu 02 - Inaba Koushi [ B'z ] 03 - hyde [ L'arc~en~ciel ] 04 - Sakurai Kazutoshi [ Mr.Children ] 05 - Gackt 06 - Kimura Takuya [ SMAP ] 07 - Okano Akihito [ Porno graffitti ] 08 - Okada Junichi [ V6 ] 09 - Hirai Ken 10 - Domoto Koichi [ Kinki Kids ] Cool PV's by male artists : 01 - L'arc~en~ciel 02 - Mr.Children 03 - B'z Sources: ORICON (poll 1) | ORICON (poll 2) 12.06.06 「COLORFUL」 Mr.Children 2007/2/28 01. Never Land 02. フェイク (FAKE) 03. 通り雨 04. 春風の声 05. Steady 06. 箒星 (houkiboshi) 07. In Fact 08. 螺旋階段 09. ひびき (hibiki) 10. your endless love 11. しるし (shirushi) 12. 彩り Source: Livedoor 11.30.06 
"Which song do you want to listen to this winter?" 01 - Remioromen - Konayuki 02 - BUMP OF CHICKEN - Snow Smile 03 - Mr.Children - Shirushi 04 - Nakashima Mika - Yuki no Hana 05 - ayaka - mikazuki 06 - Yamashita Tatsuro - Christmas Eve 07 - BoA - Winter Love 08 - Kuwata Keisuke - Shiroi Koibitotachi 09 - Glay - Winter, again 10 - Porno Graffitti - Winding Road Source: ORICON 11.26.06 11.20.06 New Single 「FAKE」 2006.11.15 Release LIMITED TO 400,000 COPIES 01. FAKE (To be used as the theme song for the movie どろろ (Dororo), which will hit theaters on January 27th, 2007) TFCC-89199 ￥500(Tax incl.) Performed by Mr.Children All tracks written by Kazutoshi Sakurai Produced by Takeshi Kobayashi & Mr.Children Source: Mr.Children Official Website It says that Shirushi has a huge lead compared to the 2nd rank and is pretty certain to earn the weekly top position. Shirushi has stormed their debut week, gaining a HUGE lead over all other artists releasing the same week, and thus they have moved up in the drama-tie in chart. The most Drama tie-ins that debuted at No.1 : 01 - B'z - 11 02 - Kinki Kids - 10 03 - Mr.Children - 10 Consecutive No.1 hits [ overall ranking ] : 01 - B'z : 38 02 - Matsuda Seiko : 25 03 - Mr.Children : 25 04 - Kinki Kids 23 Source: ORICON 11.13.06 01 - aiko 02 - Nakajima Miyuki 03 - Mr.Children 04 - DREAMS COME TRUE 05 - Matsutoya Yumi ~Break-Up Song Ranking~ 01 - Mr.Children - Over 02 - Porno Graffitti - Saudaaji 03 - PRINCESS PRINCESS - M 04 - Makihara Noriyuki - Mou Koi nante shinai 05 - SMAP - Orenji 06 - Utada Hikaru - First Love 07 - Takeuchi Mariya - Genki wo dashite 08 - Of Course (Oda Kazumasa) - Sayonara 09 - B'z - Mou ichidou Kiss shitakatta 10 - Nakajima Miyuki - Wakare Uta 10 - Southern All Stars - TSUNAMI Source: ORICON Magazine Appearances: 11/15発売 WHAT's IN? 11/15発売 CDでーた TV Appearances: 10月13日(金) 「Music Station」 11月06日(月) 「HEY HEY HEY」 11月10日(金) 「Music Fighter」 11月15日(水) 「Sakigake」 11月17日(金) 「Music Station」 11月18日(土) 「CDTV」 11月23日(木) 「Utaban」 10.14.06 
Source: Music Express - WHAT'S IN 10.06.06 New Single 「Shirushi」 2006.11.15 Release 01. Shirushi (To be used in the Japanese TV drama show 14 sai no haha) 02. hibiki 03. Kurumi - for the Film - koufuku na shokutaku (The Theme Song of the nation-wide Road Show Movie "koufuku na shokutaku" (to be released in 2007)) TFCC-89189 ￥1,200(Tax incl.) Performed by Mr.Children All tracks written by Kazutoshi Sakurai Produced by Takeshi Kobayashi & Mr.Children Source: Mr.Children Official Website 09.29.06 09.23.06 Source: SANSPO 09.23.06 09.17.06 Sources: Shochiku | ORICON | Mr.Children Official website 09.13.06 RESULTS: Oricon asked : "Which artist do you want to see as an actor / actress ?" Artists who already perfomed in a movie or J-drama could not be selected. Females : 01 - aiko 02 - Koda Kumi (had a cameo appearance in "Busu no hitomi ni koishiteru") 03 - Shiina Ringo (acted in the film "film Hyakuiro Megane") 04 - YUKI 05 - BoA 06 - Mochida Kaori (Every Little Thing) 07 - Van Tomiko 08 - Kuraki Mai 09 - Utada Hikaru (she had a cameo appearance in "Hero", though) 10 - Angela Aki Males : 01 - Hirai Ken 02 - Sakurai Kazutoshi (Mr.Children) 03 - Inaba Koushi (B'z) 04 - Kuwata Keisuke (Southern All Stars) 05 - Suga Shikao 06 - Okano Akihito (Porno Graffitti) 07 - T.M. Revolution (he already had a minor role in "Beautiful Life") 08 - Fujiwara Motoo (Bump of Chicken) 09 - Kiyokiba Shunsuke 10 - Moriyama Naotaro (1000 people ( teens, 20s, 30s, 40s) participated in an internet survey by Oricon) Artists who already acted in a movie or J-drama : - Otsuka Ai - hiro - YUI - Nakashima Mika - BONNIE PINK - Fukuyama Masaharu - Gackt - HYDE - Yamazaki Masayoshi - Tortoise Matsumoto - etc. Source: ORICON 08.27.06  1. mirai 2. innocent world 3. hokorobi 4. Sign 5. Owarinaki Tabi 6. Worlds end 7. houkiboshi Oricon asked : This summer, which song did you often listen to even though it's not a summer song ?? The poll was broken down into groups: Overall ---> Junior/High School students -----> University students And then ages on the bottom three  1 - Mr.Children - Houkiboshi 2 - Remioromen - Konayuki 3 - KAT-TUN - Signal 4 - Domoto Koichi - Deep in your heart 5 - SMAP - Dear Woman Sources: The Mujintou Fes.2006 | ORICON Fes. Report | ORICON Poll Report 08.14.06  It has been decided that Mr.Children and the pillows, who have been friends for a long time now, will be doing a collaboration tour together. TOUR SCHEDULE: - 09/26 (Tuesday) Nagoya -09/28 (Thursday) Osaka -10/02 (Monday) Fukuoka -10/04 (Wednesday) Tokyo -10/05 (Thursday) Tokyo -10/09 (Monday) Sendai -10/11 (Tuesday) Sapporo Ticket cost: 5,900 yen (including tax and includes 1 drink) "Strange chameleon" which was performed at ap bank fes '06 by Mr.Children and on the pillows tribute album "SYNCHRONIZED ROCKERS" will be doing a joint concert with friends the pillows. Says Sakurai about the pillows "There was a sense of unity with the band when we played Strange chameleon." "Father&Mother" members will recieve direct mail about the concert and details on purchasing tickets. PIA is only to be used for general ticket sales. Sources: TOY'S FACTORY | PIA | Mr.Children Official website 08.11.06 The Fes will be held on the 26th & 27th at the Shizuoka Prefecture and Hamanako garden park. The Fes will see 120,000 people come through the event in 2 days. [twice the amount of Ap bank fes]. Other special guests will be Kayama Yuzo, Dragon Ash, and GLAY. Other artists performing are: 8/26 + 8/27 : Southern All Stars Fukuyama Masaharu BEGIN Porno Graffitti wyolica FLOW Full Of Harmony Freeway hai hai Bahashishi POSCOIZM Hoka 26th: Kayama yuzo Dragon Ash 27th: Mr.Children GLAY TV airings: The August 27th performances of Mujintou Fes.2006 will be aired LIVE on WOWOW at 2:00 pm On September 29th WOWOW will air both the 26th and 27th performances starting at 6:00 pm -- 7/14 21:00 -- 7/16 18:00 -- 7/17 12:00 -- 7/25 12:00 -- 7/29 15:00 <-- Back to main news page |