Billboard Japan & Luminate’s ‘NOW PLAYING JAPAN Vol. 6’ Focuses on Overseas Perspectives on the Japanese Market, How to Leverage Metadata

Billboard Japan and Luminate's "NOW PLAYING JAPAN" conference in Tokyo spotlighted J-pop, metadata and overseas perspectives ...
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KATSEYE Producer Taka Perry Interview: Career From Sydney to Tokyo

The 28-year-old producer spoke about his career and creative process in this interview with Billboard Japan.
Music Week

'Japanese independent music is reaching more people than ever': Merlin marks first decade in Japan

Charlie Lexton, CEO of Merlin, said: "Japan has always been a highly significant market for independent music, and ...
NPR

Sense of Place: Here's five songs that'll make you fall in love with J-Pop

No exploration of Japanese music would be complete without a dive into the world of J-Pop. Short for Japanese popular music, J-Pop is hard to define. It encompasses a wide breadth of genres and ...

To my past self who looked down on 'Japanese music as a rip-off of Western music.' A story about how knowing the 'roots and blends' of music completely changed m…

"Isn't Japanese pop music just a follower of Western music in the end?"Embarrassingly, I used to genuinely think so.The chord ...
Billboard

Japan Is Finally Catching On to User-Generated Content, and There’s Money to Be Made

After years of trying to protect physical sales, local record companies are increasingly embracing digital formats with streaming's growth. By Richard Smirke When video-blogger Martina Sazunic moved ...
Hypebot

Why some Japanese Artists are hard to find on Spotify

Japan’s enormous local music market means that the more the Japanese music industry embraces streaming, the bigger Japanese music artists will get worldwide. by Miran Miyano from Chartmetric Japan ...
Forbes

Qobuz Rolls Out Its Hi-Res Music Streaming Service To Japan

Qobuz music streaming service is being rolled out in Japan, a market ripe for expansion. Hi-Res music streaming service Qobuz has announced its entry into the Japanese streaming market. Qobuzwas ...
Forbes

Japanese Supergroup YAO Is Feeling Lucky With Debut Single ‘777’

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Laura Sirikul is a L.A.-based reporter covering film/TV and music. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

AI, Are You Wrong? ~Thinking About the Ingredients of Japanese-Style Music Part 1~

Hello! This is Andante!I have been experimenting with various things while creating Japanese-style music recently, and I have ...
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Japanese pianist, Korean producer marry in music-engineering union

Japanese star pianist Sumino Hayato, 31 years old, and South Korean singer-songwriter and music producer Hwang Nieun, 35 ...