J-MELO on January 17 is not the first time Joe Inoue appears in this show. However, at that time he does not take the role as guess anymore. Now he works for J-MELO in a new position.
Beside Joe Inoue, we have May J. as the MC (as usual), three music discoverers (Leo I mai, JAY'ED, Ai Takekawa) and one supervisor (Scott Murphy) along with Joe Inoue. They are team.
That is the reason why this episode named "Team J-MELO Special" and you must know that our Joe is the newest one among them.

The funny part in this, well, only talk part between Joe and May J. is... Japanese. Is this because of his title "Japan Star Search Supervisor"?
Joe Inoue also plays the short version of his "Kaze no Gotoku", the same one in his first appearance here.

J-Melo: Club J-MELO v.24 Taiban (NHK World)
girugämesh x Joe Inoue

Links to pre-order Inoue Joe the SECOND album have already existed on some online buying sites such as cdjapan or yesasia though there is no official announcement on his site up to now.

Joe hasn't decided the name for his 2nd album yet. Then, cdjapan calls it "UNTITLED" while yesasia leaves "Title To Be Determined" (^o^). This album comes with 2 version: First Press Limited / Album+DVD Edition (KSCL-1640) and Normal / Regular Album Edition (KSCL-1642).

It will release on 6th October, including intro theme of anime series "Yorinuki Gintama-san" (Kaze no Gotoku) and the new song ties in NHK's show "Minna no Uta" named 「ハロハログッバイ」 (Halo Halo Goodbye).

To the end of this entry, .♥ Kingdom of Joe ♥. brings to you an extra news about the 2nd song in the single 「風のごとく」 (Kaze no Gotoku). 世界のかけら (Sekai no Kakera) was decided to be the ending theme of NHK-FM's "Music Line" (every Monday through Friday, from 21:10 to 22:45). Don't miss it if you can catch this radio wave in your country :).

Update the official announcement for the release of our majesty:

The official CD cover of  Inoue Joe's 5th single 「風 のごとく」 (Kaze no Gotoku) has published recently. Though pre-order links to this CD appeared very early in cdjapan or HMV, YesAsia is the first site and the only one up to now proclaims Kaze no Gotoku's cover. It's here:

To promote for this single, as usual, Inoue Joe official site changed its look. Some of his newest images can be seen there or you can download them right in our blog.

Artist: Inoue JOE (井上ジョー)

This show will tell you exactly how humorous JOE is !!!

The clip starts with a short introduction of J-Melo. Joe's image in this part is familiar with all of us. Do you remember JOE's room in his 1st e.p, in the show Utatane, his blog and further...?

J-Melo talk starts after that. JOE Inoue is the 1st introducing artist among their 4 (the rest is: Naoto Inti Raymi, Okamoto's, Baby M). May J is the hostess as usual. (JOE's so sexy~~!!) Within this part of the show, JOE answers some questions about his music. What is the reason leads he choose Japanese music entertainment? Why did he have this style of "One Man Band"? What is his favorite instrument?...

Kaze no Gotoku PV comes right after this talk. Though it's not the full version, it still can make you melt with no doubt ;). Nothing more will be described here.

And at the end of the show, May J has a request for all 4 artists: "Write down their dreams and show it up". Lol, with Inoue JOE, it's... PARTY HARD!!

Have you listened to "It's Joe Time vol. 10"? Its been updated yesterday! Listen to it here yo! And be quick, it'll be removed 2 weeks later (I think XD).

Have you seen Joe's blog? Yesh, he changed his header yesterday!

JOE'S BLOG - Joe Inoue Official Blog

(click for a larger preview, or just go to his blog)
I prefer the previous one. XD (Do you by any chance have the screenshot of it? I apparently forgot to take one =.=)

SO! I cropped the header out of his blog~ If interested, feel free to snag.

(click for actual size)

Aaaaand. Of course, with my very, VERY limited Photoshop skills, I tried to make a similar looking header just like his, to share with Joe fans out there! ♥
If you look carefully, the one I made is actually a bit darker (for the lighter Joe part) and the 4 lighter Joe's are slightly higher. Unless you want a TOTAL SIMILAR header, feel free to request and I shall work on it ;) I dared not make a total similar one as I'm afraid copyright rules are applied to the header LOL. I'm pathetic yesh I know XD
As usual, feel free to snag, but a comment is HIGHLY APPRECIATED~! Heeee~

Please click on image to lead you to my blog to get the actual piece of work I made XD

Disclaimers are on my "that" post. XD

Inoue Joe's official site already announced for the release of his newest single more than a year since the last one 「GO★」 on 22/7/2009. The announcement was posted on 6/7/2010 said that Inoue JOE's new single will be on sale from 4th August (Wednesday).

This single named 「Kaze no Gotoku」 includes 5 tracks of 3 new songs.

Single： 風のごとく 「Kaze no Gotoku」
Catalog no. KSCL-1622
Price：￥1,223 (tax in)

Tracklist:
1. 風のごとく (Kaze no Gotoku) / Like the wind
2. 世界のかけら (Sekai no Kakera) / Broken Pieces of the World
3. BALLERINA
-additional tracks-
4. 風のごとく　-銀魂 オープニング ver.- (Kaze no Gotoku -TV size ver.-)
5. 風のごとく　-“ケリオキ”ver.-　(KARAOKE)


Like "CLOSER" of the same artist and many other singles in the same kind, this "Kaze no Gotoku" has the karaoke version of the main song because it was chosen to be the 2nd opening song of anime series "Yorinuki Gintama-san".