BENI, yuna ito @ TOKYO MUSIC CIRCLE today, they performed Mariah Carey's Hero together at the end of the show.
http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000053518

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5141/apo2r.jpg

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6256/54686531.jpg

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her album still on the top 10...i think BENI is rising popularity through her latest album

My two favorite people performed together!

I think you are right seeing how here last albums never charted like this or entered the Top 5. BENI is on her way to selling 100k. Hopefully a new single, one after KIRA KIRA (my favorite BTW) will prove to be as successful.

As I said in Yuna's thread, it's awesome to see Beni and her together. :D

^ exactly. :yes i love them both <3333.

Omg. What a great duet that is! Hehe, both people who are a bit underrated. =] Well, now they can show how they shine =D

Does anyone have downloads for BENI's discography? Just her BENI stuff.

this is my first post in beni's thread. i bought her album out of curiosity and i absolutely love it. her voice is *o*...soothing

Beni has graduated from Sophia University.

Congratulations! Aoyama Thelma also goes to that school along with Crystal Kay. I'd so love to be there, going to school with Jpop artists, wow...

Oh yeah and did you guys know that Beni co-hosts a show called "Tokyo Kawaii TV"? Link: http://www.nhk.or.jp/kawaii/ <-- I love her hair here.

Congrats on your graduation, Beni! :D

Oh my gosh congrats to BENI!

whoa, congrats beni! i'm proud of her! :heart

on a random note, i was listeing to here alone on her BENI album for the first time, and it's so cool! total love :yes.

^here alone is my fav song from her...

^ My favorite song of her's too, LOL :D

I've only listened to her music since the move to Universal so is her Avex stuff more or less the same? She looked really different before.

Avex stuff its different, its great stuff so I cant understand why she didnt sell back then..

on Veoh I uploaded all her Avex videos some years ago =) Just search "AlessiaTateno" user or her videos directly

KIRA☆KIRA☆ is finally up at a couple of shops
http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitema...DS_SORT_CD=101
http://www.shinseido.co.jp/cgi-bin/W...l?r=UPCH-89065

limited single, only on sale through 12.29

temp. tracklist
　

up at CD Japan now
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=UPCH-89065

Boring tracklist. One or Two B-sides would have been nicer.

does anyone have the mp3 for time after time? i want to hear it so bad, i would ask in the request section but its prob going to be lost -__- i listen to her bitter and sweet album 24/7 no lie. im loving her music and voice more and more ^o^

^ is that a cover??

Yes it's a cover and here you go =)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jrnzmqt0mgu

http://i36.tinypic.com/2ik8bqu.jpg
cover

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4929/amcd.jpg

awesomeness thank you so much Alessia Tateno! *bows* ^ the cover for kira kira is soo pretty

It's the same concept of BITTER & SWEET, but cheaper x.x BENI obviously doesn't care about this release.

She looks pretty in the promo pic! :D

wow, cover is gorgeous

oh thank you! :shughug

she looks so pretty ;)

and "サイン" 2010.01.20
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=UPCH-80160
http://www.universal-music.co.jp/beni/

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/6378/ie239845.jpg
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4347/38755825.jpg

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5926/ie23986.jpg

finally something new...i'm ready

New single! I'm loving the promo images for SIGN, her single covers were always so boring but beautiful (and the only reason they were was because Beni is gorgeous). I hope this does well considering Bitter&Sweet did better than expected.

Well isn't it like the same concept of Ayu's Loveppears to Appears? A re-cut single with a similar cover to the album.

^ Yeah, a lot of re-cut singles have similar covers to the album. :yes

I really like these promo pics! :)

Gon' luv u

BENI, please learn proper English. I know you're "Gangsta" and all and you want that "Street Slang". But please, Just say Gonna Love You!. I hate you BENI, I do right now.

BUT YAY NEW RELEASE =D I love the cover <3

I'm excited for the new single, only a month and it's out!

YAY! omg :shimmy

excited too@ I really like the covers very much! I luv simple covers :)

FOR EVERYONE, SIGN PV WAS ALREADY OUT AND I downloaded it in HQ via LJ :)

it's very x-masy aaaaand winter-ish

dl link!!! please credit @jdownload@LJ

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9LGPOYXQ

^ :thud THANK YOU! :luv2

The torrent's also out on jpopsuki too. I can't wait to watch! Apparently it samples "Haru yo koi" which is an 80s pop classic, and Ayu also covered it for a special live.

it's beautiful! and beni looked beautiful as well :heart

*poke head in

I saw BENI's Kiss Kiss Kiss PV a few days ago when I was in the hotel room when I was in Macau

the song's pretty good & she's so pretty X_____X

I'm downloading her Bitter & Sweet album right now , any album tracks I should keep a lookout for ?

"ずっと二人で" (Zutto Futari de)
"恋焦がれて" (Koi Kagarete)
"KIRA KIRA"
"Beautiful World"
"もう二度と・・・" (Mou Nido to...)

Those are my favorite songs on the album and you should listen to the intro.

edit: I forgot "抱きしめて feat. 童子-T" (Dakishimete feat. Dohzi-T)

thanks for the recommendations , Mishelle

so I guess BENI's more towards the slow R&B side ? I'm not very sure because I'm not really familiar with her material yet so I only can assume this after hearing Kiss Kiss Kiss

hopefully I'm wrong on that

She has upbeat R&B songs like "KIRA KIRA", "Anything Goes!!" and "stardust". I prefer he slow R&B songs though.

I Know Beni Since Her Last Album With Avex "GEM" She Has A Talent And Beauty

And i think Her universal Works Is so Much better :weep i like Most of tracks in album

I adore the whole album karen, but kolongi highlighted all the awesome songs :yes. I recommend those as well.

Beautiful World <333

thanks for the recommendation guys

I will listen to her Universal Music's singles 1st & then the album

I like what I'm hearing so far :yes & dammit she's so hot

no wonder she's supposedly going out with someone that I know xD :laugh

I loved stardust for its simplicity. And she should pull an Ayu/Kuu and make that intro into a full song, because I listen to it a lot!

Sign is pretty good & BENI was so pretty in the PV X____X

the song's a grower & the melody's really nice

^ Yeah :yes I need to watch all of her PVs now. Does anyone have a full list of all of her PVs?

PV list
 

安良城紅 (Beni Arashiro)

Cherish
Harmony
Here alone
How Are U?
Infinite...
Luna
Miracle
光の数だけグラマラス
恋文

BENI

Kiss Kiss Kiss
The Boy Is Mine feat.Tynisha Keli
ずっと二人で
もう二度と…
サイン
恋焦がれて

You forgot KIRA KIRA and superstar! =D

BENI wrote and composed "サイン" (Sign)

http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/works/20239637.html

And look at this beautiful picture of BENI

http://i47.tinypic.com/wsmrz7.jpg

thanks Mishelle

uwa she's so pretty there X___X . No wonder she's supposedly going out with someone that I know :innocent

anyway was a PV made for KIRA KIRA since it was a recut single & all

Also did she wrote/composed anything prior to Sign as well ?

Yes a PV was made for KIRA KIRA.



She wrote some songs when she was with Avex and composed one. But when she switched to Universal she wrote and composed more songs.

http://www.uta-net.com/user/ichiran....ct=4&Cselect=1

She is quite a model =D Even if she stops singing, she could continue easily as a model, advertising products and such.

Thanks zemus and Kaiou! :shimmy

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but Sign samples Yuming's "Haru yo koi", which even Ayu covered.

The original:


Ayu's cover:


Beni's SIGN PV:

That's why they also credit her as the composer.

http://www.uta-net.com/user/phplib/view_0.php?ID=88588

Yeah it was mentioned a few pages ago :P

I think it was a good choice. Not only was that a really popular song, it matches the season well, and the new version turned out very well

can ANYONE UPLOAD KIRA KIRA pv? :)

I love both Haru yo Koi and SIGN :D

I don't like Sign, and I'm sad that I don't ( :P ). I think it has a lot to do with the fact that it samples Yuming's, and that being such an amazing, epic song, it's easy to over compare. But the cover and the promotional images are the best she's ever done ( :yes ).

You are exiled from the Beni thread~!

Just kidding =D I don't blame you, that happens a lot when artists sample. I felt that way a bit with Ayu's missunderstood album because a lot of the melodies were samples or covers. I hope in time you grow to like Sign though, and hopefully the b-side will be really good!!!

Aw, :grumpy :laugh

from moussy catalogue 2010! please credit me if repost elsewhere
http://f.imagehost.org/t/0736/img_43.jpg

^ Oo, I like :yes.


Oh and, I asked this in the downloads but no one answered. Can someone make an MP4 of her new Sign PV? I really want it in my iPOD:D.

wow, thank you ayu_ready?

uwa I just realised that Sign will be out next week *__*

her singles generally do not perform as well as her albums isn't it ? D:

BENI in new Happie nuts february 2010, please credit me if repost
http://f.imagehost.org/t/0872/072.jpg

LOL Happie nuts what a weird name for a magazine -_-

I thought ar is ar :laugh xD (sorry if you know singlish you will know what I said so xD)

anyway BENI looks really pretty there

hey Happie nust is gyaru mag, so nothing strange. do you like name JELLY moar? haha

anyway, it's a great mag!!!

Uwah, BENI is so beautiful <3

has Sign leaked out already ? o.o

it will be released this Wed right ?

I hope something has been already uploaded on JPS/KMC

Nope, not yet @_@

sign leaked, i dont really like the song.. its alright but it bores me.
gon luv u is amazing!!!! really amazing :)

Sign debuted at #29 today X_____X

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/more/3/

does her singles usually chart very badly ? o.o

^that's so low...i think she did better with her previous releases

Oh no BENI :(. That's okay, I loved the entire single :heart The KIRA KIRA remix is really good <3

I'm surprised it didn't debut higher. But, only 1 of the singles from Bitter & Sweet reached the top 20 (and barely), the rest were really low, so this actually isn't that bad. I hope there are a lot of downloads for it...=] does anyone know where you can check the download sales for songs in Japan?

this's the 1st time I heard a BENI single in full & it's really nice/solid :heart

3.10 single is listed now
http://www.95music.com/productDoc.jsp?id=72940
the title track, produced by daisuke imai again, will be the ending theme for HEY HEY HEY and is said to have a large scale CM tie-up to be announced later.

ALSO "Bitter&Sweet RELEASE TOUR FINAL(仮) DVD [UPCH-20189]"
will be out 3.10 :heart:

http://www.hotexpress.co.jp/news/100120_beni/
BENI×MURUA event

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/7199/amdvd.jpg

woah, so pretty ^

wow...live DVD..can't wait

OMG LIVE DVD :heart

she's so sweet! :)

thanks for the info

uwa new single & DVD , I can't wait *________*

she looks so :luv2 in those pics <3

so how is it sign single sales? any info?

not very good leh

but at least it wouldn't tanked horribly like what happened to KIRA☆KIRA☆ :dead2

I'm thinking BENI is only going to one of those artists who are able to sell well digitally and with their albums. Which isn't a bad thing.

"Sign"'s first week sales

50　1,596　BENI

ah that's too low X_____X

then again she's not strong when comes to selling singles to begin with T_T

wow?! that's so low

Oh she made into the top 50 in the end.. That's quite sad, the single is hot and I even bought it :/

^ I agree :yes.

I don't know if any of you saw this but I posted a a thread in the request section asking for some of her old singles...basically her Harmony single all the way to her Cherish single...

fan-net lists a new album to be released on March 10. Apparently, it's a live album.

oh i dont like live albums, i hear it only once and then dont care about it -.-