Life Listens: New music from Cigarettes After Intercourse, Phoenix, King & Prince, Roy Wang and Rriley

King & Prince’s newest launch has soared to the highest of Billboard Japan’s Scorching 100 and Japan’s Oricon charts for whole single gross sales, promoting greater than 792,000 copies in its first week of launch – their greatest debut week numbers.

The sturdy gross sales might have been fuelled by the quintet’s surprising announcement in early November that Sho Hirano, Yuta Jinguji and Yuta Kishi will depart the J-pop group on Could 22, leaving Ren Nagase and Kaito Takahashi as remaining members.

This bombshell from arguably probably the most profitable act proper now in Japan’s prime male idol company Johnny & Associates has led to fervent hypothesis and conspiracy theories.

Of the 2 singles, Tsukiyomi is the extra attention-grabbing one which exhibits how versatile King & Prince will be, which makes the information of their shake-up that extra poignant.

Incorporating refreshing Latin music influences, the up-tempo dance quantity is mysterious and horny, with sufficient of a classy hip-hop aptitude that the blokes have beforehand favoured in releases equivalent to Nanana (2021). It additionally permits them to showcase their excellent dance expertise with yet one more highly effective show of choreography that flaunts their maturity and sensuality.

Whereas it stays to be seen what King & Prince will do as a duo, the five-man iteration shall be missed. – Jan Lee

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