Ok there seems to be an explosion of "Official threads" popping out....however I would just like to point out for the importance of making singular threads for any news regarding any asia artist. Not all people are willing or will pay attention to be checking every 1000 page "official thread" to look for some news, even if they're actually fans of that artist. If you indeed love the artist you're going to post the info about, making a new thread like "Sowelu's new single to be released at ??.??.??" will actually promote and catch moreppl's attention than dropping that info on page 32 of "Sowelu's official thread" [Just an hypothetical example, since there's no official Sowelu thread so far]. What I'm trying to do to encourage ppl to post things like news that are very important in single threads, instead of using that as a way to give volume to the "official threads".
I, myself, won't bother on checking every single "official thread" every day to try to draw out some important news over a bunch of irrelevant things. I was actually hardly aware Koda kumi was going to release a single called Flower (even though the release dates threas are actually a really good idea imo) because there was not a separate thread talking about her next release. I was surprised when I saw the single for download
This in no way is a staff message, it's just my single opinion, I think it would be cooler if things turned out how it used to be in the past, the old way, which seemed cooler and more attractive in my opinion. The official threads would be used to comment on pictures or discussion and thoughts about the new releases, but announcements of new releases would better be on separate threads. In my opinion, it wouldn't really spoil the spirit of such threads.