The well-renowned Boa Kwon (21), aka BoA, has a new album, The Face which has hit number 1 in Japan.

This is Boa’s 6th album to reach the top spot on Oricon’s Weekly Charts since her debut in 2001. However, if you include her Best of Soul album released in 2005, that’s a record of 7 number 1 albums. That is more than any other Japanese artist. BoA’s album, The Face sold 111,000 copies in a week, which made her a little short from claiming the top spot just yet.

BoA is from South Korea, but also appeals to the Japanese market.

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She may have long ago established herself as one of the most successful divas in the pop music industry, but Janet Jackson still admits that growing up the youngest sister of Michael Jackson was hard.

The last of the nine children, Janet Jackson was only a toddler when her five elder brothers started recording number one hit singles as The Jackson 5. That gave her a lot to live up to when she made her debut album in 1982.

After all that and the somewhat failure from her previous few albums, it still hasn’t gotten 41-year-old Janet Jackson down, yet. Read the rest of this entry »