YOASOBI's new song, "Stage Stand", which will be the NHK Sports Theme 2024, will be aired for the first time tomorrow on NHK General "The 108th Japan Athletics Championships - Paris Olympic Preliminary Rounds"!

YOASOBI, a "unit that turns novels into music," released its debut song "Running Into the Night" in November 2019, which immediately garnered attention immediately after its release and swept to No. 1 on various distribution charts in Japan, and is currently streaming a cumulative total of 1.1 billion views for the first time ever. Released in April 2023, "Idol", the opening theme song for the TV anime "[Suishinoko]", topped the Billboard JAPAN Hot 100 for 21 consecutive weeks, and has been the top song on the Billboard JAPAN Hot 100 for 21 consecutive weeks, It also broke Billboard JAPAN's record for the most consecutive weeks at the top of the charts, and also topped the U.S. Billboard Global Chart "Global Excl. U.S.", Apple Music "Top 100: Global", and YouTube music charts Top 100 songs Global, and continued to set records for the first time in J-POP history. In October of the same year, they released their third EP, "THE BOOK 3," which chronicled their activities for about a year and a half. In April 2024, they performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one of the world's largest festivals. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2024. In August, the band will perform at "Lollapalooza," an international festival that originated in Chicago and is now expanding to Europe, South America, and other regions. In August, the band will perform at "Lollapalooza," an international festival that originated in Chicago and is now expanding to Europe and South America, as well as solo performances in New York City and Boston. In Japan, they will celebrate their 5th anniversary in October, and are scheduled to hold their first dome concert in the fall of 2024.

The music for "NHK Sports Theme 2024," which YOASOBI will be in charge of, has been completed and its title has been decided as "Stand on the Stage. The song will be aired for the first time tomorrow, June 28 (Fri.) at 7:30 p.m. during the "Japan Athletics Championships" broadcast. For the creation of the song, three manga artists active in Shueisha's "Shonen Jump+" magazine, Taizan5, Yuki Kirishima, and Nuchishita Haruno, were asked to create a sports-themed work. Jun Esaka wrote a novel based on the manga, and the music was created as the original novel. The song, "NHK Sports Theme 2024," is an uplifting guitar rock tune that was written with the image of the struggles faced by athletes and the excitement in their hearts. The song is not limited to athletes, but it is a song that will push you to take a step forward with courage.

NHK plans to use the video in its broadcasts of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics starting in July, as well as in various sports broadcasts in the current fiscal year.