What is &Team up to? 30 May 2026

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Blaze the Way Tour

&Team are now well into their fourth tour, Blaze the Way. After dates in Kanagawa and Kagawa, they're now in Aichi for a couple of stops. Highlights so far are Fuma's hair extensions, the first performances of Rush, and never-ending renditions of Chincha Okashii! Next stops are Fukuoka, Taipei and Hyogo (where the author of this newsletter is going to see them!). And then the boys are off to Seoul, Hong Kong, Bankok, Chiba and Singapore, with the newly announced encore performances in Saitama in September.

GRandSLAM!

The newest &Team variety show continues the chaos of Go One, with sports-themed episodes. Members get additional points for comedy, which means even more ridiculousness than usual. The first episodes have covered kickball - a version of baseball played by kicking a football - and bubble football. The next episode involves them playing pool. In suits...

Watch the intro episode on YouTube.

Billboard 200

With the release of We on Fire, &Team made it onto the Billboard charts this week, coming in at #52! This is their first appearance on the charts, and a huge achievement for them!

Follow Rei

Taki and Harua appeared on the YouTube variety show Follow Rei with IVE's Rei.

KCON date night

Nicholas is heading on a date with fellow Taiwanese idol Chue Iliyu for Mnet in advance of this year's KCON. Sadly the show is only available on the Mnet Plus app, but you can watch the trailer on Twitter .

B.League Awards

As ambassadors for the Japanese professional basketball team, Fuma, K, Nicholas and Jo attended the league's award show with Nicholas showed off his multilingual skills by interviewing players in multiple languages. You can see a couple of photos from the event on KStyle News (we'll look out for more official ones!).

Upcoming schedules

It's mostly more tour stops coming up, although they'll be performing at day two of Weverse Con on 7 June and at Global Citizen Live on 18 June. There will also be the usual radio and TV appearances, including J-Wave &Team Pop, Nicholas and Taki on The Breakthrough Files.

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