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With less than a month and a half remaining until the next annual New Year's Eve broadcast, the official website for Nhk's Kohaku Uta Gassen today unveiled the 41 artists who will form the long-running music show's 75th lineup. The accompanying number below indicates each artist's total selections for the program. Ten artists, three on Red Team (consisting of female artists) and seven on White Team (consisting of male artists), will be making their first appearance this year. Red Team aiko (15) Aimyon (6) Illit (Debut) Sayuri Ishikawa (47) Iruka (2) Hy (3) Fuyumi Sakamoto (36) Sakurazaka46 (4) Ringo Sheena (9) Superfly (8) Mariko Takahashi (6) tuki. (Debut) Yoshimi Tendo (28) Twice (5) Nogizaka46 (10) Me:i (Debut) Misia (9) Kaori Mizumori (22) Ryokuoushoku Shakai (3) Le Sserafim (3) White Team Omoinotake (Debut) Creepy Nuts (Debut) Glay (4) Hiromi Go (37) Kocchi no Kento (Debut) The Alfee (2) JO1 (3) Junretsu (7) Da-iCE (Debut) Tomorrow X Together (Debut) Number_i (Debut) Leon Niihama (Debut) Vaundy (2) Be:first (3) Masaharu Fukuyama (17) Fujii Kaze (3) Gen Hoshino (10) Mrs. Green Apple...

Artist Fujii Kaze shares his self-affirmational new single ‘Workin’ Hard’. ‘Workin’ Hard’ is the official TV broadcast theme song of 2023 Fiba Basketball World Cup in Japan. Ever since “Shinunoga E-Wa” from Fujii Kaze’s 1st album Help Ever Hurt Never went viral in Thailand in July 2022, the popularity of the song spread globally. Approximately one year from the phenomenon, Fujii Kaze’s new single has arrived.

To be inspired, Fujii Kaze went to watch the game of B-League, which is a professional men’s basketball league in Japan, and Japan’s national team games in preparation to write this song.

Fujii Kaze stayed in Los Angeles to create a demo to reflect the excitement of basketball games and emotion of the game in the music. After returning to Japan, continued to brush up the music and went back to Los Angeles to record the song while he was preparing for...