■EXILE TAKAHIRO, Nogizaka46 Shiori Kubo & Yuki Yoda, INI Takumi Ozaki & Daimu Takatsuka & Kyosuke Fujimaki discuss their favorite winter songs!
On December 7th, Nippon Television’s “with MUSIC” will air a two-hour special with the theme of “Winter Masterpieces” starting at 7 p.m. The participating artists and songs have been announced.
■Performing artists/singing songs*Artist name in alphabetical order
INI “WMDA (Where My Drums At)”
EXILE TAKAHIRO “Lovers Again”
Kis-My-Ft2 “Curtain call”
King & Prince “WOW” “Ai Katamari”
Crystal Kay “All I Want for Christmas is You” “Shiroi Koibitotachi”
JY Park’s “Easy Lover” “Christmas Eve”
Nogizaka46 “Pedestrian Bridge”
May J. “All I Want for Christmas is You” “My Lover is Santa Claus”
Green-yellow society “one thing a fool remembers”
The program will announce a ranking of the best winter songs sung at karaoke over the 25 years from 2000 to 2024 under the theme of “Top 50 Songs Most Sung in Winter.”
EXILE TAKAHIRO, Nogizaka46’s Shiori Kubo and Yuki Yoda, INI’s Takumi Ozaki, Daimu Takatsuka, and Kyosuke Fujimaki discuss their favorite winter songs.
■Christmas song project delivered from Yomiuriland’s gorgeous illuminations!
Crystal Kay and May J. sang Christmas songs from Yomiuriland’s gorgeous 60th anniversary special illuminations. Crystal Kay x May J. will perform a special collaboration on the classic Christmas song “All I Want for Christmas is You”, Crystal Kay will perform Keisuke Kuwata’s famous song “Shiroi Koibitotachi”, May J. will perform Yumi Matsutoya’s “Koibito” will give a solo performance of “Santa Claus”.
JY Park, the founder of the agency to which TWICE and Stray Kids belong, and the creator of NiziU and NEXZ, performs for the first time on “with MUSIC”.
They will sing their latest song “Easy Lover” and Tatsuro Yamashita’s “Christmas Eve”, which will be performed for the first time on Japanese TV.
EXILE TAKAHIRO, who is also performing for the first time in “with MUSIC,” performed the “EXILE RESPECT” version of EXILE’s hit song “Lovers Again,” which is representative of love ballads.
Kis-My-Ft2 performed their latest song “Curtain call,” while Midoriya Society performed their latest song “Baka no Hitotsumomomo,” which is the theme song for a movie starring Minami Hamabe and Eiji Akaso.
King & Prince will deliver their latest song “WOW” produced in collaboration with Daichi Miura and KinKi Kids’ hit love song “Ai Katamari” released in 2001.
INI performed their latest song “WMDA (Where My Drums At)”. Furthermore, the group’s main vocalists Takumi Ozaki, Daimu Takatsuka, and Kyosuke Fujimaki will perform Yuri’s hit song “Betelgeuse” for the first time on TV.
In addition, Nogizaka46 will perform their latest song “Pedestrian Bridge”, with 4th generation member Sakura Endo as the center.
Program information
Nippon Television“with MUSIC” 2 hour special
12/07 (Sat) 19:00-20:54
MC: Yumiko Udo
Artist navigator: Kohei Matsushita
Performing artists (in alphabetical order): INI, EXILE TAKAHIRO, Kis-My-Ft2
King & Prince, Crystal Kay, JY Park, Nogizaka46, May J., Green Yellow Society
“with MUSIC” program site
https://www.ntv.co.jp/withmusic/