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Real Sound think that BABYMETAL are the world's most successful Japanese group in 2016


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Real Sound Japan published an article dedicated to 5 artists that colored their 2016, BABYMETAL is featured in this article along with Hikaru Utada, Gen Hoshino, Radwimps and Arashi. Below the segment of the article translated dedicated to BABYMETAL's 2016.

 

Real Sound about BABYMETAL on "Playback to 5 efforts that colored 2016"
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Real Sound Japan article about 5 artists that collored the 2016 featuring Hikaru Utada, Gen Hoshino, Radwimps, Arashi and BABYMETAL

 

"BABYMETAL appeared at the Fuji Rock Festival in July 2016 and succeeded at Tokyo Dome performances in September. BABYMETAL is contemporary entertainment, making full use of the magnificent story nature and performance capabilities of the three members centering on the divercity of heavy metal and beautiful style, it's safe to say that they have reached one of their highest with "Metal Resistance". Its quality won worldwide appreciation as matter of course, it was big news when they served as opening act for the Red Hot Chili Peppers in December at The O2 Arena in London. In addition Chad joined BABYMETAL's live, covering Judas Priest' songs! Also was decided to support Metallica's performance in South Korea, and Guns N' Roses Japanese Tour. In 2016, the world's most successful Japanese group are undoubtedly those girls."

 

 

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Article by: Real Sound Japan

Translation by: Maik Gianino

 

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From an international perspective, but their impact on the domestic front was nothing compared to the others.

yep. I remember in april 2016 they released karate around the same time as keyakizaka's silent majority, the views back then were kind of similar. but, karate could only manage to gain 25 million views now while silent majority view count has reached 40 million, despite only available in japan.

but from a fan of both perspective I would say babymetal is superior in terms of talent or more like suzuka is superior than most of them idols lol

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agreed (even if others made more money)

 

Yes, I think so too. They made more of an impact outside Japan than in, but had significantly less promo in Japan than others who made more money. Remember that they were not even in Japan when they released Metal Resistance and made very few appearances on TV there yet were able to sell out Tokyo Dome for two nights in a row - a feat I was doubtful they could pull off when Tokyo Dome, day 2, was announced.

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agreed (even if others made more money)

 

From an international perspective, but their impact on the domestic front was nothing compared to the others.

 

I think it's kind of impossible to do direct comparisons both in money made and in "impact" between a lot of these acts since their focus and goals are way different and subsequently so is the way they make money and "impact".

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I think it's kind of impossible to do direct comparisons both in money made and in "impact" between a lot of these acts since their focus and goals are way different and subsequently so is the way they make money and "impact".

 

I disagree. Gen, RADWIMPS, and Utada for instance have more public appeal, while Arashi relies more on a very large fanbase.

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Uh... It sounds like you agree, actually? :P

 

Not really. I mean, you could say AKB48 had a big impact last year due to their sales, but everyone knows how even more fanbase-driven they are and how many gimmicks they have compared to Arashi, so they're not seen as impactful anymore.

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Not really. I mean, you could say AKB48 had a big impact last year due to their sales, but everyone knows how even more fanbase-driven they are and how many gimmicks they have compared to Arashi, so they're not seen as impactful anymore.

 

This was exactly my point though, that you can't just directly compare sales figures or concert attendance figures or whatever to prove "impact"(or even how much money they make).

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