Music Station; Nishino Kana

Music Station

Watched Music Station with my family yesterday.

Music Station is a Japanese television music program which airs every Friday, running for around an hour. 

Music Station webpage (unfortunately not in english though):
Music station

This week there was a special performance by Nishino Kana and her new album is being released.

from generasia

from generasia

Don't know if it's official, but her facebook page?
nishinokanaofficial

You can also see it on her facebook page, but around the release of her album she been featured on the cover/specials/interview in various magazines (Popteen included!)
Which kind of made me want to buy a lot of the magazines, though it would be a waste of money to just buy them all because of the few pages that features her.

The song that she performed seems to have been really popular, one of my friends sang it both the first and the second time we went to Karaoke.
I really liked the song from the first time i heard it and it have become my favorite Nishino Kana song ever since, i think it's a ballad (if i'm not wrong) it's really catchy and has a nice melody~

Check it out!
西野カナ　『会いたくて 会いたくて(short ver.)』

On a preview Music Station show (Last week maybe?) she performed her new song "namida iro" (tear color?)

You can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic15-0lSigQ

The show features new hits, but there are sometimes old hits featured too.
There something on the show called, i think it was "Birth year songs" where they for example show past shows/performances and music rankings from the fx. year 1990 or so.

They also have random people kids, students, passerby's on the street, old ladies...etc. react to songs before they are shown n you'll be like wondering "eh... what song are they talking about?" and then they'd be like BANG it was this song and we be like "ohhh~ i remember that song from my childhood!".
Well, i didn't know much about Japanese music before coming here other than what was about: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (the PONPONPON graze), i think i had heard about one ARASHI song or so, a friend showed me an AKB48 song(didn't have the best first impression of them since the song was something with a lot of girls doing pillow fight or so in their underwear?), then i remember that i had heard some from NEWS and Yamapi (Tomohisa Yamashita) and that was about it(oh, and whatever Opening or Endning of whatever Japanese cartoons i had seem, or from movie soundtracks).

But coming here talking with friends and sometimes watching i discovered that there's some really nice music over here, or rather, that i really like quite a lot of the music that's being produced over here. and i somehow now feel that I've been missing out on a lot, since i mostly grew up with V-Pop and K-Pop through my family and occasionally listened to the western music around me.    

But i have and will still watch Music Station from time to time! :D
I'll try to post some of the songs that had caught my attention. 
If i can remember it's name or artist, that is :P.