Selected songs from the week of 29/9~5/10/2009:
"SWEET DREAMS" by VAMPS "Candy Girl" by Mika Nakashima "Smiley" by Mika Nakashima "Shuukanshuutou" by Hilcryme "Cold Edge" by 9mm Parabellum Bullet "Brilliant Stars" by Ryuichi Kawamura "Furimukanaide" by Kome Kome CLUB "Ano Hi no Yakusoku" by Sayuri Sugawara My favourite out of this bunch is Hilcryme's! I got curious of this lot when I see the way they keep returning to the top 10. They have somewhat a fusion between ORANGE RANGE and GReeeeN and I love it! XD And this makes for a good ballad as well!
Kawamura Ryuichi's Brilliant Stars is also growing on me. It sounds like the stuff LUNA SEA used to put out for dorama themes. And to Kanjani8 fans who like stuff from KJ2 like Big Sky Blues and Daidassou ~The Great Escape~, I think you guys might like Nakashima Mika's songs! By the way, Cold Edge from the 9mm Parabellum Bullet rockers is not bad too!
Drama8 slot on NHK (for my own reference)...
Average rating:
Battery (Nakayama Yuma, Takada Sho, Morimoto Shintaro) - 7.9% (peak: 9.6%)
otome no Punch (Yamasaki Shizuyo, Kurotani Tomoka, Iwasa Mayuko, Kyo Nobuo) - 8.7% (peak: 10.2%)
Cat Street (Tanimura Mitsuki, Katsuji Ryo) - 5.9% (peak: 7.0%)
Nanase Futatabi (Renbutsu Misako, Shioya Shun) - 5.9% (peak: 9.1%) also happened to be my favourite dorama in this timeslot so far!
Q.E.D. (Nakamura Aoi, Takahashi Ai) - 5.1% (peak: 7.1%)
Ghost Friends (Fukuda Saki, Nishijima Takahiro) - 3.6% (peak: 4.4%)
Futatsu no Spica (Sakuraba Nanami, Nakamura Yuichi) - 3.2% (peak: 3.5%)
ROMES (Ohkura Tadayoshi, Yasuda Shota, Kuninaka Ryoko) 6.0% (1st episode)
So far, Otome no Punch, Battery and Nanase Futatabi were the more successful ones in this timeslot. Otome no Punch even managed a 10.2% of peak rating which is kinda big! Even Battery did decently, which kinda explain Yuma's rising popularity. I hope ROMES can get a peak rating around 8-10% at one point, but staying around 6% is probably not bad, I guess?
Kanjani8 will be on Shounen Club Premium 15 November to perform. Yay! I bet they're going to perform Kyuu Jou Show!! & Hitotsu no Uta! XD I can't wait for the start of Kyuu Jou Show!! promos! :)