Japan’s best-selling rock band B’z are to release the follow-up to their multi-million selling first greatest hits album, after an interval of seven years. “Pleasure II” will go on sale on November 30. In terms of worldwide sales, B’z are just 7 million albums behind Elvis Presley. Their previous hits album “Pleasure” sold 5.9 million, itself a Japanese record, so this new release could see them topple even The King himself.
As the silly awards season continues, the latest winners are…enka singer Hikawa Kiyoshi (28) and pop diva Hamasaki Ayumi (26) are this year’s Best Jeanists. Ayu was selected for the fifth time and so goes into the jeanist Hall of Fame, where she joins SMAP stars Kimura Takuya and Kusanagi Tsuyoshi.