Mrs. GREEN APPLE dominates Billboard Japan’s mid-year domestic charts for 2025, rounding up the weeks from Nov. 25, 2024 through May 25, 2025. On the Japan Hot 100 song chart, the three-man band’s ...

The Vocaloid song of the year this year is DECO27’s “Monitoring.” On the mid-year list, Hiiragi Magnetite’s “Tetoris” edged out DECO27’s “Monitoring” for the top spot by a slim margin. But momentum ...

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 ...

Billboard Japan released its 2025 year-end charts earlier this month, and on the Global Japan Songs Excl. Japan list ranking songs from Japan being listened to in more than 200 countries and regions, ...

The No. 1 Song of the Year on the Japan Hot 100 is Mrs. GREEN APPLE's "Lilac." By Billboard Japan Billboard Japan has unveiled its 2025 year-end charts, tracking the period from Nov. 25, 2024, to Nov.

MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN: The inaugural edition of MAJ hailed as the “Japanese Grammy Awards”—marked a groundbreaking moment in the nation’s music history. Jointly launched by five major Japanese music ...

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 ...