{"id":169550,"date":"2026-06-18T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=169550"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:25:36","slug":"illit-confirms-performances-at-major-japanese-music-festivals-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/illit-confirms-performances-at-major-japanese-music-festivals-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"ILLIT confirms performances at major Japanese music festivals in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ILLIT<\/strong> is preparing for another round of performances in<strong> Japan<\/strong> with scheduled appearances at\u00a0several high-profile music festivals. On June 17, 2026, BELIFT LAB announced that the quintet would appear on Fuji TV&#8217;s live broadcast of the &#8220;<strong>2026 FNS Music Festival Summer<\/strong>&#8221; on July 1. The long-running music special brings together artists who have achieved success in the Japanese market and features performances accompanied by live bands. This invitation marks ILLIT&#8217;s third appearance on the program, following the girl group&#8217;s participation in year-end specials in both 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theillitnews_\/status\/2067026484439712178?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">ILLIT is confirmed to perform at the &#39;2026 FNS Music Festival Summer&#39; on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>They will perform &quot;Almond Chocolate&quot; and join CUTIE STREET for a special collaboration stage of &quot;Can&#39;t We Just Be Cute?&quot; (\u304b\u308f\u3044\u3044\u3060\u3051\u3058\u3083\u3060\u3081\u3067\u3059\u304b?)<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ILLIT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ILLIT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/%EC%95%84%EC%9D%BC%EB%A6%BF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\uc544\uc77c\ub9bf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RkNfFexU3n\">pic.twitter.com\/RkNfFexU3n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ILLIT NEWS (@theillitnews_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theillitnews_\/status\/2067026484439712178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s edition, ILLIT will take part in a special collaboration performance alongside Japanese girl group CUTIE STREET. The two acts plan to perform each other&#8217;s hit songs, giving the public fresh reinterpretations of their tracks and showcasing their chemistry. This international announcement comes shortly after the five-member team released their mini-album &#8220;MAMIHLAPINATAPAI,&#8221; featuring the high-energy dance-pop track &#8220;It&#8217;s Me.&#8221; <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ILLIT-Got-Your-Back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ILLIT-Got-Your-Back.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ILLIT-Got-Your-Back-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ILLIT-Got-Your-Back-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ILLIT-Got-Your-Back-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ILLIT-Got-Your-Back-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ILLIT-Got-Your-Back-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the group&#8217;s Japanese promotions will continue throughout the summer. ILLIT is scheduled to perform at Fuji TV&#8217;s Mezamashi Wangan Festival in Tokyo on August 4, 2026, followed by an appearance at LuckyFes 2026 on August 9 at Hitachi Seaside Park. Finally, the girl band will also release the digital version of their\u00a0second Japanese single, &#8220;I Got Your Back,&#8221; on July 26, with the physical variant coming on July 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILLIT is preparing for another round of performances in Japan with scheduled appearances at\u00a0several high-profile music festivals. On June 17, 2026, BELIFT LAB announced that the quintet would appear on Fuji TV&#8217;s live broadcast of the &#8220;2026 FNS Music Festival Summer&#8221; on July 1. The long-running music special brings together artists who have achieved success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":169572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[3160],"class_list":["post-169550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop","category-news","tag-illit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169575,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169550\/revisions\/169575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}