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NEWS

Japanese male idol group
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NEWS

Summary

NEWS is a male idol group[1]. NEWS draws 1,909 Wikipedia views per month (male_idol_group category, ranking #10 of 21).[2]

Key Facts

  • NEWS's instance of is recorded as male idol group[3].
  • NEWS's genre is pop music[4].
  • NEWS's record label is recorded as Smile-Up[5].
  • NEWS's discography is recorded as NEWS discography[6].
  • NEWS's Commons category is recorded as NEWS (band)[7].
  • NEWS's country of origin is recorded as Japan[8].
  • NEWS comprises Shigeaki Katō[9].
  • NEWS comprises Keiichiro Koyama[10].
  • NEWS comprises Takahisa Masuda[11].
  • January 1, 2003 marks the founding of NEWS[12].
  • NEWS's location of formation is recorded as Tokyo[13].
  • NEWS's official website is recorded as https://starto.jp/s/p/artist/12[14].
  • NEWS's official website is recorded as https://www.elov-label.jp/s/je/artist/J0005[15].
  • NEWS's topic's main category is recorded as Category:NEWS (band)[16].
  • NEWS's topic has template is recorded as Template:NEWS (band)[17].
  • NEWS's represented by is recorded as Smile-Up[18].
  • NEWS's represented by is recorded as Starto Entertainment[19].
  • NEWS's different from is recorded as NEWS[20].
  • NEWS's start of work period is recorded as 2003[21].
  • NEWS's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'NEWS'}[22].
  • NEWS's member category is recorded as Category:News (band) members[23].
  • NEWS's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+70680'}[24].
  • NEWS's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+67162'}[25].
  • NEWS's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+66800'}[26].
  • NEWS's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+73700'}[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[28]

  • Country: JP[29]

  • Began / founded: 2003-09[30]

  • Genre(s): j-pop[31]

  • Community tags: boy band, j-pop[32]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 53187856-5b14-4b58-9c81-c5ea843b6c7a[33]

Why It Matters

NEWS draws 1,909 Wikipedia views per month (male_idol_group category, ranking #10 of 21).[2] NEWS has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] NEWS is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Related Entities

Japan

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . blogvsgadgets.xyz. blogvsgadgets.xyz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . gadgets.blogvsgadgets.xyz. gadgets.blogvsgadgets.xyz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . blogvsgadgets.xyz. blogvsgadgets.xyz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). NEWS. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/news-q374160
MLA “NEWS.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/news-q374160.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_news-q374160_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{NEWS}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/news-q374160}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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