Kumi Koda Updates

Since I last did an entry on Japanese singer and songwriter Kumi Koda, she has been pretty busy.
On March 25th, she released two albums, Out Works & Collaboration Best ( her fourth best-of album) and Koda Kumi Driving Hit's (her first Remix album) .
On February 3, 2010, Kumi released another best of album, Best: Third Universe and released her eighth studio album, Universe, which were packaged together.
Within a week, Best: Third Universe/Universe became number one on the Oricon weekly charts.

Besides the albums, she has also released four singles, "It's All Love!", "3 Splash", "Alive/Physical Thing" and "Can We Go Back", a cover of a bonus track on Kelly Clarkson's 2009 album All I Ever Wanted.

On August 7th, Kumi will be doing some shows on the Avex touring festival, a-nation.

And at the MTV World Stage Video Music Awards, Kumi was nominated in the Best Pop Video category
The show will be held on May 29 at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo.

Kumi Koda Updates, posted to http://beautifulasianwomen.blogspot.com/ on May 2nd, 2010

Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Koda and Ai Otsuka

J Pop idols Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Koda and Ai Otsuka all had to cancel concerts last month because of the threat of Swine Flu.
Avex, the industry leading record label and management company decided to err on the side of safety to protect the public.
The concerts were expected to pull in at least an estimated 48,000 fans.
Rescheduled dates for the six shows in the Kansai (Western Japan) region have yet to be announced.