The fourth installment of Billboard Japan’s series exploring the trends & characteristics of MAJ will focus on the Best ...

The second installment of Billboard Japan’s series breaking down the trends of MAJ will focus on entries in the Top Global ...

GLOBAL includes entries from anime and movie soundtracks and easy listening-type music, which can be said to be a feature of the category. Next, there are three songs using Vocaloid software in ...

While she lives in anonymity, Ado isn’t a figment of the imagination. It has been almost five years since the Japanese music artist debuted and released “Usseewa”—the breakthrough hit that ...

There’s Leo/need, a rock band formed by four childhood friends. Their Sekai takes the form of a classroom, and they’re the ...

E very so often at his sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall, Kenshi Yonezu murmured the word "Sugoi." Loosely, it ...

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. discussed the NO FAKES AI-protection act introduced in the U.S. Senate and music ...

"I'm getting tired of recent VOCALOID songs, they all sound boring," the student had said. "Why would they say such a thing?" Roga thought at the time. "If they are bored of the music they hear on ...

Ishihara believes the sound took hold in Japan partly thanks to the country’s song remix and OtoMAD meme culture, and because scene pioneers sampled familiar anime and J-pop hits (the pixelated rush ...

At 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, Zander Small (@zander_smalls), an online content creator with over 773,000 Instagram followers and 763,000 followers on TikTok, purchased 250 tickets for a showing of ...

Japanese superstar Kenshi Yonezu’s sold-out event in Incheon is a prime example of J-pop’s rising popularity in South Korea.