“with MUSIC” 2-hour special featured artists and songs released! GLAY’s first performance

■GLAY’s special live performance with 6 gorgeous songs! B’z Takahiro Matsumoto, who has been friends with him for many years, also appears on the VTR.

“With MUSIC”, which will be broadcast from 7pm on October 12th, will be a 2-hour special. The participating artists and songs have been announced.

■Performing artists/singing songs*Artist name in alphabetical order
Aqua Timez “Rainbow” “Hitomizuku”
new school leaders
KATSEYE “Touch”
GLAY “Survival” “Winter, again” “Spring Lover” “Goodbye is Easy” “BRIGHTEN UP”
Daisuke Shima “Male Medal”
Hinatazaka46 “Absolute Sixth Sense”
LE SSERAFIM “CRAZY”
OneRepublic “Nobody”

The first performance of “with MUSIC” by Japan’s leading rock band GLAY, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary since its debut, has been decided. We will deliver a special live performance of 6 gorgeous songs.

“Winter, again” is a rock medley of the classic song “Temptation,” which topped the Oricon annual single ranking in 1998, and “Survival,” which was released in 1999. “Winter, again” was JR SKISKI’s campaign song and won the Japan Record Award. and performed a ballad medley of “Haru wo Aishitehito” released in 1996. They will also perform “Sayonara wa Yasashii”, a new song released in 2024, written and composed by member TAKURO, with the theme of GLAY’s hometown of Hokkaido, and their latest song “BRIGHTEN UP”.

Also, pay attention to the talk with MC Yudo Matsushita. This will be the first time in 10 years that all four members will appear on NTV. In addition to inviting 150 GLAY fans to the studio to look back on the 30th anniversary of their debut, B’z Takahiro Matsumoto, who has been friends with GLAY for many years, will appear on the VTR. The surprising relationship between two of Japan’s leading rock bands is revealed.

The new school leaders have a total of over 15 million followers on SNS, won the “New Words/Buzzwords Award 2023”, and are supported by a wide range of generations. The girls, who performed at Coachella Festival 2024, one of America’s largest outdoor music festivals held in April, and are active in Japan and the world, taught the two MCs their performances that are popular overseas.

LE SSERAFIM, who has been attracting a lot of attention all over the world as their album released in February has recorded three consecutive million-selling albums in Korea and entered the US Billboard’s main song chart “Hot 100”, has been decided to perform. They will be performing their latest song “CRAZY” from Lotte World Aquarium, one of the largest aquariums in South Korea, located in Seoul, South Korea.

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OneRepublic, a global pop band from America, will perform. In 2022, they performed the insert song for the global blockbuster movie “Top Gun Maverick,” which became a hot topic.This time, they will perform “Nobody,” which they wrote as the ending theme for the Japanese anime “Kaiju No. 8.” .

Hinatazaka46, which successfully held Hinata Festival in Miyazaki Prefecture in September and is scheduled to perform at Tokyo Dome in December, has released 12 works since their debut, with fourth-generation members Yoko Shogenji and Kaho Fujishima serving as double centers. They performed their latest song “Zettai 6th Sense” which has been ranked number one on the Oricon charts.

Aqua Timez, a five-member rock band, disbanded at the end of 2018. It was announced this summer that they would be reuniting for their 20th anniversary since their debut, and it became a big topic of conversation.They released their hit song “Niji,” which became the theme song for the third series of the drama “Gokusen,” and their latest song, “Hitoshizuku.” perform.

Daisuke Shima, who made his acting debut in 1981, won the Male Newcomer Award at the 15th Japan Record Sales Awards and performed his hit song “Otoko no Oshō” which was the theme song for the Nippon Television drama “Kyou Kara Ore wa!!” ” is shown.

KATSEYE is the first global girl group formed using K-POP training methods. The six girls from various cultural backgrounds were selected from 120,000 applicants and will perform their second single “Touch,” which has become a hot topic on social media.

Cody Critcheloe

Program information

Nippon Television『with MUSIC』
10/12 (Sat) 19:00-20:54
MC: Yumiko Udo
Artist navigator: Kohei Matsushita
Performing artists (in alphabetical order): Aqua Timez New School Leaders KATSEYE GLAY Daisuke Shima Hinatazaka46 LE SSERAFIM OneRepublic

Program site
https://www.ntv.co.jp/withmusic/