New Female Pop Singles: Superfly, Angela Aki and Crystal Kay

Superfly will release her first double A-side single on July 29th. Koisuru hitomi wa utsukushii/Yasashii kimochi de, her eighth single so far, will feature four tracks: Koisuru hitomi wa utsukushii, used as the CM song for "Canon IXY DIGITAL", Yasashii kimochi de, used as the theme song for Fuji TV's "Mezamashi TV", a live version of Skip Beat, originally released by Kuwata Band, recorded during her performance at NHK Hall on November 9th, 2008, and lastly Late For The Sky.

Crystal Kay will release a new double A-side single on August 12th in order to celebrate her 10th anniversary. After Love -First Boyfriend- feat.KANAME(CHEMISTRY)/Girlfriend feat.BoA, as the title suggests, will feature collaborations of KANAME from CHEMISTRY and BoA, plus both songs' instrumental counterparts and also a third track titled Deaeta kiseki.

Both title-tracks will also be used as tie-ins: After Love -First Boyfriend- feat.KANAME(CHEMISTRY) will be used as the CM song of "ITOEN TULLY'S COFFE" from July 3rd, while Girlfriend feat.BoA will be used as the image song for the Japanese edition of the movie "He's Just Not That Into You", set to be released on theaters in August 1st.

Angela Aki announced the release of a new single for September 16th, the successor of her hit single Tegami ~haikei juugo no kimi e~, which came out a year ago. Though there are not many details available, Ai no kisetsu is currently being used as the theme song for NHK's morning novel "Tsubasa" and, as of July 4th, it will start to be used everyday when trains depart from the Honkawagoe Station, in Saitama.

The single will also be followed by the release of a new live DVD including footage from her concerts held at Nippon Budokan and Osaka-jo Hall last year. Other details on this release are expected to be released at a later date.