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TWS’ ‘SODA SODA’ Tops Japan Hot 100 as Aimyon’s ‘Ai Wo Tsutaetaidatoka’ Returns After Nearly Four Years
TWS’ “SODA SODA” has reached number one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, becoming the K-pop group’s second chart-topper in Japan after its debut single “Hajimemashite”. The result reflects strong early sales and radio performance for the title track from the group’s second Japanese single, while Aimyon’s older song “Ai Wo Tsutaetaidatoka” has returned to…
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Sara Ito Talks Believing in Herself and Living as a Dancer in L.A.: Billboard Japan Women In Music Interview
Sara Ito, a Japanese dancer based in Los Angeles, discusses how moving to the United States at 16 helped her trust her own artistic identity. In Billboard Japan’s Women in Music series, she says dance gave her purpose during a difficult upbringing and remains the way she expresses emotions rather than suppressing them. Born in…
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Dan Dakich torches Fever coach Stephanie White for her pre-game remarks: “Dumbest coach I’ve ever seen”
OutKick commentator Dan Dakich criticised Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White over remarks she made before Tuesday’s game against the New York Liberty, calling her response inadequate and using insulting language. The dispute centres on White’s handling of an earlier incident involving Fever player Sophie Cunningham and Chicago Sky player DiJonai Carrington, and has prompted wider…
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Has the U.S. lost its dominance to China?
Beijing may be benefiting from the war in Iran and Trump’s tariffs and has an edge in the competition for tech supremacy. The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos discusses his story “The Future, Made in China.”
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Ranking the ten best college football coaches in the country ahead of the 2026 season
The supplied extract identifies the article as a pre-season ranking of the ten best college football coaches for 2026, but it does not include the rankings or accompanying analysis. – It frames the assessment against changes including NIL payments and the transfer portal. – The extract says these changes have widened the distribution of talent…
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Amazon Will Soon Be Out Of The MMO Business Entirely
Amazon Game Studios looks to be getting out of the MMO business entirely, handing Western operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark back to their respective developers. In two blog posts, Amazon Game Studios outlined its plans to transition both games to their South Korean creators in the coming months. For Throne and Liberty,…
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As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
Three leading AI researchers—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng—argued at the Ai4 conference that AI should remain broadly accessible despite mounting safety concerns around open-weight models. They warned that allowing a small number of major technology companies to control advanced AI could limit innovation, shape industry rules in their favour and restrict public access…
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Patrick Ness to adapt Korean fantasy novel for Disney
Disney Live Action has appointed Patrick Ness to adapt Miye Lee’s Korean fantasy novels, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, into a live-action film planned as the first instalment of a trilogy. The project brings a successful Korean publishing property to Disney’s slate and places an established novelist and screenwriter at the centre of its development.…
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O’Sullivan suffers another setback with China Open exit
Ronnie O’Sullivan’s difficult start to the snooker season continued as he lost 6-4 to Thailand’s Noppon Saengkham in the second round of the China Open. The defeat matters because the seven-time world champion, a two-time winner of the event, has now suffered another early exit after also falling in the second round of last month’s…
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Amazon are getting out of the MMO game, handing control of Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to developers, but it won’t all be smooth for players
Amazon Games is transferring operation of Lost Ark’s Western servers to its developer Smilegate in early 2027, while Throne and Liberty will pass to FirstSpark Games by the end of 2026. Both games are expected to remain online, but the changes will disrupt some players, particularly Lost Ark users whose subscriptions and portions of their…