INI's "Present" soars to No. 1. on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart dated Nov. 26, halting Kenshi Yonezu's ...

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 ...

Universal Music Japan's president & CEO has been included in Billboard's Global Power Players list for five straight years.

It’s early December, which means one thing – it’s time for everyone’s respective music streaming platforms to expose their listening habits for the past year! Spotify, which gets annual buzz for its ...

It was the year that saw Taylor Swift and Beyoncé launch world stomping tours, Olivia Rodrigo spill her “GUTS” and Jason Aldean ride a wave of culture war controversy in the country genre. But ...

New Jeans added another significant record in Japan. According to the Japan Record Association on the 27th, the song 'Ditto' ...

AKB48, one of Japan’s most popular girl groups, has released a new single written in part by artificial intelligence after it won the fan vote in a televised contest. The single, titled “Omoide Scroll ...

The exhibition uses sheet music covers to reveal a radically changing society during the first half of the 20th century It’s still just April, so there will surely be exhibitions this year that sound ...

Japan’s first female Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is a metalhead. She grew up listening to tracks from iconic bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, and Riot, and even played keyboard ...