The director of Avex Entertainment believes that if an artist like BTS was born in Japan, J-POP can conquer overseas markets

[A Hamster Named Loneliness]

well first they would need to get with the times and actually make their music accessible internationally instead of just domestically. Before 2010 I was able to listen to various Japanese artists on Youtube but then after Japan started tightening restrictions it's gotten inaccessible. A vast majority of the Japanese music industry is still region-locked and you can't view many artists' music videos unless you live in Japan or a country that isn't blocked by Japan's restrictions. There are a lot of artists where you have to know Japanese in order to comb through Japanese music sites to find their music. There are Japanese music lyric sites that don't even allow you to copy the lyrics in order to paste them into Google translate to find out the meaning of the lyrics. Arashi is Johnny's Entertainment's most successful and most popular group and yet they weren't allowed to have social media accounts until sometime last year. 

Edited March 11, 2021 by A Hamster Named Loneliness

[A Hamster Named Loneliness]

11 hours ago, Mami3chan said:

I don't care about competing in International market I like jpop the way it is.

but yeah what I dislike the most about Japanese music and entertainment in general is the unbelievable amount of restrictions they have a lot of stuff is just Japan exclusive like bruh do you not want my money? I mean forget youtube it's so hard to even financially support your Japanese faves 

Yeah so I never said anything about Jpop competing in the international market. My entire post was about how the Japanese music industry needs to make their music more accessible to international LISTENERS instead of making international fans have to jump through hoops to access some artists' music. Up until late 2019 FLOWER's music wasn't available on the US Apple Music and even then the discography that's available on Apple Music isn't their entire discography, it's just the songs from after Kyoka and Chiharu left the group. 

Edited March 13, 2021 by A Hamster Named Loneliness