The second installment of Billboard ... entries in the Top Global Hit From Japan (GLOBAL) category, one of the awards’ six major categories that recognizes Japanese music popular outside of ...

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Tatsuro Yamashita is a legendary Japanese musician, singer-songwriter ... but her most famous song, Plastic Love (1984), has become a global City Pop anthem. Takeuchi’s effect extends beyond ...

At $2.2 billion, Japan is the world’s second largest music market after ... which helps J-pop songs travel more broadly. The country’s share of the top 10,000 tracks played worldwide grew ...

The March 16 showcase — matsuri ’25: Japanese Music Experience LOS ... But while K-pop songs and albums regularly appear at the top of Billboard’s U.S. charts, J-pop remains a niche.

Meanwhile, Tsunku, one of Japan's top music producers, who goes by just one name, says he is in awe of the success of his pop group of eight young women called, Morning Musume, in Asian cities ...

Miho Nakayama, a Japanese ... to the early J-pop scene in the 1980s and a varied acting career, has died. Big Apple, the agency that represented Nakayama, confirmed the singer’s death on Friday ...

The entries show that a wide range of music from Japan is popular all over the world ... data from China for the selection of songs in the Top Global Hit from Japan category).

The country’s share of the top 10,000 tracks played worldwide ... J-pop has a longer history. Japanese pop music sprouted a century ago, inspired by Western jazz and blues.