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Old 7th June 2019, 02:30 PM
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Old 15th July 2019, 03:27 PM
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Ken & other artistes today performed at the last day of J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION started over the weekend & all 3 dates of the event were held at Yokohama Arena

This year's J-WAVE LIVE is the 20th anniversary since the event was started



Fuji TV NEXT will air some footages of J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION on 19th Sept

https://twitter.com/fujitv_nexco/sta...46755106918401

More photos of Ken & his setlist from today's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

1) Love Love Love
2) Mahoutte Itte Ii Kana?
3) LIFE is...
4) One Love Wonderful World
5) POP STAR
6) Non Fiction

https://www.j-wave.co.jp/special/live2019/report.html

Ooh nice , One Love Wonderful World ! 1 of the rare songs that Ken didn't worked on during the early days of his career be it writing and/or composing
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Fuji TV will broadcast footages of July's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION tomorrow from 6pm to midnight

For Ken's performance , his falls under Day 3 of the event ie. the last 2 hours of the broadcast



https://twitter.com/fujitv_nexco/sta...40466712870913
https://twitter.com/fujitv_nexco/sta...47395141038080
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Old 20th September 2019, 07:48 AM
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Ken has contributed a new song to be used for the upcoming TBS drama 4 Funkan no Marigold

This will be the 18th song that Ken has contributed to be used to promote TV dramas

For now the new song's title is not known

And here's the latest promo picture of Ken



https://twitter.com/KEN_HIRAI_staff/...51879983026177
https://natalie.mu/music/news/348271
https://twitter.com/4mari_tbs/status...90549716340738

Er ok o_O
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Old 22nd September 2019, 06:36 PM
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July's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION of Ken's performance set that was aired via FujiTV NEXT

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av68318463

FujiTV NEXT aired the following songs of from Ken's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION set :

1) LIFE is...
2) One Love Wonderful World
3) POP STAR
4) Non Fiction

The 1st 2 songs Love Love Love & Mahoutte Itte Ii Kana? were cut from the broadcast

I'm real stoked that FujiTV NEXT kept Ken's performances of LIFE is... & One Love Wonderful World intact especially since he rarely perform these 2 songs nowadays

I always have liked One Love Wonderful World and it's very surprising Ken performed it . Not only is it a very old song but it's 1 of the few songs that Ken sung entirely in English

Just like One Love Wonderful World & Non Fiction , only an acoustic guitarist backed Ken up vocally

POP STAR is quite atypical but at least Ken managed to walk around Yokohama Arena a bit instead of being rooted down in his seat x)

And seeing Ken dancing a bit onstage alongside with the POP STAR mascots was quite funny haha

Lastly to see Ken sing acapella in the beginning of Non Fiction , so awesome
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Old 11th October 2019, 08:30 AM
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46th single #302 will be released on 4th Dec & this will be Ken's 1st physical release single since last Nov's half of me

#302 is the title of the song that Ken has contributed to be used to promote the TBS drama 4 Funkan no Marigold

This is the 18th song that Ken has contributed to be used to promote TV dramas

#302 will 1st be released digitally on 25th Oct

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/KenHirai/info/511202

Sweet about time for new Ken material & for now it's not known how many versions #302 will be released in
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Ken will perform #302 tomorrow for the 1st time on MUSIC STATION

A section of MUSIC STATION will feature Ken , on the top 30 songs that fans have requested him to perform during the Request Corner segment of his Ken's Bar concept concerts since he 1st started it back in 1998

And here're the 30 songs in the Request Corner list :

Spoiler:
Aishiteru
Itsuka Hanareru Hi ga Kite mo
Itoshiki Hibi yo
even if
Elegy
Omoi ga Kasanaru Sono Mae ni...
Kikyogaoka
KISS OF LIFE
Kimi no Suki na Tok
Kimi wa Tomodachi
Grotesque
Kokuhaku
Strawberry Sex
Sentimental
Sore Demo Shitai
Todokanaikara
Non Fiction
half of me
Hitomi wo Tojite
Precious Junk
Boku no Kokoro o Tsukutte yo
Boku wa Kimi ni Koi wo Suru
POP STAR
Mahoutte Itte Ii Kana?
Miracles
LIFE is... ~another story~
LAKuEN
LOVE OR LUST
Love Love Love
Ring


https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000172372

Interesting list , even some of Ken's most recently released singles also made the cut aside from the usual suspects

For me I'm surprised Canvas , Missin' you ~It will break my heart~ are not in , same thing goes for Ooki na Furudokei & PAUL

Not a lot like Miracles & doesn't help the song is so long , length wise but I still like it after all these years

I also like style as well but oh well
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Isn't like everyone in Japan a Peanuts/Snoopy-Fan? I still don't get that
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#302 credits

◆#302

Lyrics & Music : Ken Hirai
Sound Produce, Arrangement : Tomi Yo / Masato Ishinari
Acoustic Guitar: Masato Ishinari
Strings:Koichiro Muroya Strings

◆かわいそうだよね 

Lyrics & Music : Ken Hirai
Sound Produce, Arrangement and Piano:Akihisa Matzura

◆トドカナイカラ (Kan Sano Remix) 

Lyrics & Music : Ken Hirai
Remixed by Kan Sano
Kan Sano appears by the courtesy of origami PRODUCTIONS

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/KenHirai/info/511659

Kawaisou da yo ne is a self cover of JUJU which Ken 'gave' the song to her which was included in last year's I album of hers
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The covers are pretty good. What you talking about?!
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I'm shocked they released a full PV online, and it's not region blocked. Is it because it's the theme for the drama?
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I'm shocked they released a full PV online, and it's not region blocked. Is it because it's the theme for the drama?
Not really . Other Sony Japan artistes such as SID , SPYAIR & UVERworld also recently had the region block of their PVs removed too

Which's of course a good thing
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Not really . Other Sony Japan artistes such as SID , SPYAIR & UVERworld also recently had the region block of their PVs removed too

Which's of course a good thing
That’s so interesting, and yeah it’s great they removed it! I haven’t been on Ken’s YouTube channel for a while and the last time I wanted to watch, all his stuff was region blocked so I kind of gave up trying to use YouTube to watch his PVs.
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#302 is Ken's 1st PV not to get region block and hopefully it will not be the last
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#302 is Ken's 1st PV not to get region block and hopefully it will not be the last
Yeah hopefully, that way they can be viewed/shared by more people
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Now we wait for them to eventually remove the region lock for streaming services... God dammit I wanna stream his music on Spotify.
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Early purchase of #302 via different CD stores include different bonus items giveaway

Spoiler:
Sony Music Shop ~ B2 sized poster



Tower Records Japan - both physical CD stores & online ~ stickers



Amazon Japan ~ big jacket cover



Rakuten Books ~ A5 sized clearfile



Others not listed ~ postcard



http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/KenHirai/info/512661
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Ugh he's ageing like fine wine. He gets hotter the older he gets.
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Old 29th November 2019, 12:48 AM
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^oh I’m really excited to see this! I’m a big fan of pairing pop music with orchestra!
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It's interesting that Ken Ken is the rare older Sony Japan artist that still has real career momentum.

Mika Nakashima continues to chart just fine, but she's been stuck in a compilation cycle for years. Miliyah is finally hitting the point where her releases could start missing the top 10. Kana was still selling well, but she had definitely started declining before her exit.

Just interesting how Ken has avoided those troubles.
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