As you may have noticed, I didn't post last week's artists. I really wasn't able to get on the computer for enough time to write about them, so I just skipped to this "Teh Newz" in order to calmly start this new week. Sorry if I made anyone sad lol ^^''

           

    In South Korea, many new songs are being released at the same time, making it difficult for me to choose one to talk about. But since I HAD to do it, I carefully chose C.N Blue's new song "Intuition". As the title track of their first full-album "First Step", this song continues the band's usual feeling along with a music video that presents a new bad boy image. An expected, yet great song!

    Unfortunately, the "new" Japanese release isn't so new. Due to the quakes, most March songs were postponed, leaving just some older ones (from the beginning of the month) to put here... But that's not a problem: Shion Tsuji came back with "Ai ga Hoshii yo" on March 9. Used as the opening theme for the second broadcasting of "Soul Eater", this song is really nice and I hope it puts Tsuji back to work XD

    This week's Japanese artist is best known for her songs that got tie-ins with animes. After some time without releasing anything new, she's back for another single this month and that's why I chose to talk about this young singer: Shion Tsuji!

    However, Tsuji got her big chance in 2009 with a tie-in for Bleach. "Sky Chord (Otona ni Naru Kimi e)" was released as the anime's ending theme, selling three times more than her debut single.

    With the successful song, other good opportunities were presented to the singer. She released two more singles that year: one for the "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0" anime, entitled "M/elody", and a film insert song called "Hoshii Mono". Both had moderate sales.

 

 "M/elody"s promotional video

 

 "Hoshii Mono"s promotional video

    In May 2010, Shion Tsuji released her first full album "Catch!". The promoted track, "Hello Goodbye", had been previously distributed as a radio single. A video was shot for the song and the album reached the #31 spot in the Oricon charts.

 

"Hello Goodbye"s promotional video   

   

    After the album, the girl spent a long time without releasing anything new. It was just in 2011 that a new single was announced for March 9. Entitled "Ai ga Hoshii yo", the new production will hopefully bring Tsuji back to the music scene.

    With a style similar to YUI's, Shion Tsuji captured my heart with the soothing vocals and relaxing guitar. She still has a long way to go, but I'm sure that the talent is there! Please support her if you liked the videos~ ^^

    Hello, soshite Goodbye~ *-*