The J-Music Lovers' International Assembly

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At least it sets her apart tbh. Is there any other act in Japan that releases as much as her. Maybe she doesn't release AS much now, but still a lot. I'm sure her overall average # of singles released per year is HIGH.

 

(actually up-up girls (kari) release triple a-sides every month but they are still an indie group so I don't count them)

 

Ayu stopped at 50 in 2010.

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EDIT: Jasmine's upcoming single is titled "HERO". The B-sides are called "Missing" and  "Why -T.O.M. Remix-". Taku Takahashi did "HERO" for Jasmine.

 

Hmm...

 

This is all very Miliyah...

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Of note, since it might be interesting to you, "Missing" is a cover of the Kubota Toshinobu song of the same name.

 

What is with her doing covers as B-sides now? Her last single had a cover of DOUBLE's BED as the B-side.

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I wish people would stop saying that the reason K-Pop groups wouldn't succeed in Japan is because they're not cute. I thought we were over this issue. =/

 

Where is that being said now?

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OMG there's a PV for my favorite song on Toki Asako's new album:

 

 

 

 
It's the excuse every time K-Pop groups in Japan are brought up in some sort of discussion about success/sales/relevancy. "They're failing because they're not Japan's style." "They wouldn't fit Japan because they're not cute enough."
 
Though tonight it was in the Ailee thread.
 
 

http://onehallyu.com/index.php?/topic/8588-so-is-ailee-debuting-in-japan/&do=findComment&comment=499548

I guess this means Che'nelle is a flop according to that logic because she does that style of music. =/

 

I guess...

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ooh this sounds good. I'll look up this person. 

 

Her album is good. It makes me want to sway and drink white wine. If you like this you'd probably like Hitomitoi's new album too. They have the same vibe.

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I wish people would pay attention when they're driving. A car nearly hit me today -_-

 

 

I kind of like this. What's the name of the album?

 

 

I liked Hitomitoi's last album so i'll probably like the new one too. I was waiting till people finish downloading it on JPS to get it. I hate when everybody's stuck on the same percent. 

 

Check your PMs. FTZXR gave it to me and I put it on JPS since he doesn't use it. He wants to share the Hitomitoi joy.

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Apparently the Japanese industry is down because a certain butthurt Sone said so.

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*eyeroll* So nothing new?

 

Even other Sones are saying he's having a meltdown.

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Where is this

 

http://onehallyu.com/index.php?/topic/491-love-girls-is-flopping-hard-the-girls-generation-sales-thread/page-11&do=findComment&comment=505981

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All of them are priceless.

 

 

 

 

 

And I'm sorry, but that certain user and some of you others in here are just so slow in your heads.

 

G-Dragon just held 8 Dome concerts solo and they're gonna do 16 Dome concerts with BIGBANG in the winter. Yet that guy completely refuse to understand that BIGBANG are really popular in Japan, because BIGBANG haven't sold very much on Oricon.

 

Any person with any capacity at all for critical thinking should be able to figure out for himself that Oricon figures, especially for singles, is a very incomplete way to meassure the popularity of an artist in Japan.

 

I was talking about for albums actually seeing as how Big Bang hasn't released a Japanese single in a few years. There are acts who sell more albums than them who don't do those tours. They're literally doing a tour that someone like Namie or TVXQ would do and they're nowhere near their level. This is all YG mediaplay as the person who made the thread announcing the dome tour said. Like I've said a million times, certain things are being overlooked. KPop dome concert tickets are often sold at cut rates on ticket resale sites. The seating configurations aren't maxed out. Koreans often come over for the tours. So in the end you end up having a bunch of Koreans who paid reduced prices sitting in domes that aren't at full capacity. And I'm not the only one saying this.

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sigh...i listened to Sunny Hill's album. I shouldn't have but i couldn't resist checking it out and now i regret it. Anything You Want is the best song on there, and it's only ok.

 

They need Janghyun back.

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You're so gullible.

The mediaplay part is about how they're the first to do a 6-Dome-tour (which is ridiculous because there is no fucking point whatsoever to hold concerts in Seibu Dome instead of just adding more concerts in Tokyo Dome, which is why everyone else in the world is talking about 5-Dome-tours).

 

If your Japanese faves could have done such a big dome tour they would have done so long ago.

 

Some did do it long time ago, like a decade ago. Others can't be bothered to. If you're selling 2 million copies of your album are you really suggesting you can't do a dome tour?

 

And it is mediaplay to think that they are on a level as such to do such a tour.

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I second Next Level. My favorite album from Ayu.

 

Thirded.

 

im prob the only ayu fan who hates next level LOL

 

it was a good album cuz it flowed well but meh

 

Factory hates it too.

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LastFM group Japanese chart:

 

Artists

1. Namie Amuro 16

2. Perfume 14

3. Koda Kumi 12

4. AKB48 12

5. Utada Hikaru 11

6. Ayumi Hamasaki 9

7. Morning Musume 9

8. Sakanaction 8

9. Jasmine 6

10. m-flo 5

 

Songs

1. Perfume - Handy Man 7

2. Perfume - Magic Of Love 7

3. Namie Amuro - Copy That 5

4. Tomomi Itano - 1% 5

5. Perfume - Spring Of Life 5

6. Sakanaction - Music 4

7. Namie Amuro - Contrail 4

8. Namie Amuro - Fast Car 4

9. Namie Amuro - Wild 4

10. AKB48 - Uza 4

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Just dropping by to post a picture as a "thank you for all the support" to NaNaNa and some others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What does this have to do with me? I'd rather see SNSD than AKB48 myself.

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Thanks! I like these, so I'll listen to the whole album later. :D

 

 

No, that's not it. He's trying to say that K-Pop is more popular than J-Pop because SNSD and 2NE1 got more cheers at a Singapore concert where the only Japanese guests were AI, Thelma Aoyama, Mai Kuraki, and the less popular members of AKB.

 

Anyway. -_- Have you listen to AAA's Eighth Wonder yet? It's good.

 

I haven't. Did you see this mess:

 

2013 Half Year Rankings

 

 

1 411,800 ã¦ã£ãºã‚“ã¨ã£ãŸã‚“ã§ï¼ LOL 13/2/27

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- this album was released with 3 different DVD versions + huge amount of event tickets in a theater edition.

If this album was released like how SNSD release their albums, it would have sold less than 100,000 copies.

 

 

2 365,021 ファンキーモンキーベイビーズ　ＬＡＳＴ　ＢＥＳＴ DRM 13/3/27

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- this is a compilation album, not a studio album (FMB can sell decent numbers of studio albums though, see #12) (this album was released as the group disbanded)

 

3 313,493 ＥＸＩＬＥ　ＢＥＳＴ　ＨＩＴＳ　ï¼ï¼¬ï¼¯ï¼¶ï¼¥ã€€ï¼³ï¼©ï¼¤ï¼¥/ï¼³ï¼¯ï¼µï¼¬ã€€ï¼³ï¼©ï¼¤ï¼¥ï¼ RZN 12/12/5

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- this is a compilation album, not a new studio album (EXILE can sell huge numbers of studio albums though)

 

4 292,623 ＴＩＭＥ AVT 13/3/6

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- this album was released with 2 different DVD versions (+CD only version) + the special fanclub editions and events which required people to buy all versions.

If this album was released like how SNSD release their albums, it would for sure have sold less than 150,000 copies.

 

 

5 262,933 ＭＩＲＡＣＬＥ RZN 13/1/1

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- these sales are actually "legit" without gimmicks. This is actually music that is so popular that it sells 260,000 copies.

 

6 260,324 Ｇï½ï½ï½„ã„ããœï¼ AVT 13/3/27

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- jpop boygroup going all out with their different editions etc. If this album was released like how SNSD release their albums, it would only have sold about 100,000 copies.

 

 

7 256,822 ãƒãƒ©ãƒ¼ä¸¼ ES 12/12/19

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- this is a compilation album, not a new studio album (Ikimono-gakari can sell huge numbers of studio albums though)

 

8 223,192 ５ＴＨ　ＤＩＭＥＮＳＩＯＮ K 13/4/10

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- this album was released in one 2xCD version and one CD+DVD version to make people buy 2 copies.

If this album was released like how SNSD release their albums, it would have sold about 130-140,000 copies.

 

 

9 221,978 テイク﹒ミー﹒ホーム SJI 12/11/14

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- this is One Direction's album so these sales are pretty legit without gimmicks. But it's priced as Western albums. SNSD's albums cost like 2 times as much.

 

10 203,950 鬆任谷由実　４ï¼å‘¨å¹´è¨˜å¿µãƒ™ã‚¹ãƒˆã‚¢ãƒ«ãƒãƒ ã€€æ—¥æœ¬ã®æˆ€ã¨ã€ãƒ¦ãƒ¼ãƒŸãƒ³ã¨ã€‚ TO 12/11/20

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- this is a compilation album, not a studio album

 

11 195,969 äººç”ŸÃ—ä»†ï¼ ASI 13/3/6

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- I think these sales are "legit" without gimmicks (this is a j-rock band). This is actually music that is so popular that it sells almost 200,000 copies.

 

12 163,289 ファンキーモンキーベイビーズ５ DRM 12/12/26

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- I think these sales are "legit" without gimmicks. This is actually music that is so popular that it sells 160,000 copies.

 

13 161,211 アンオーソドックス﹒ジュークボックス WMJ 12/12/12

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- this is Bruno Mars' album so these sales are pretty legit without gimmicks. But it's priced as Western albums. SNSD's albums cost like 3 times as much.

 

14 160,478 〔（ï½ï½Žã€€ï½‰ï½ï½‰ï½”ï½ï½”ｉï½ï½Žï¼‰ã€€ï½‚ｌï½ï½ï½„　ï½ï½’ï½ï½Žï½‡ï½…〕 TF 12/11/28

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- this is the album Mr Children released last year, same week as SNSD. It's sold almost 800,000 copies so far and these sales are "legit", but Mr. Children are absolute legends in Japanese music.

 

15 158,438 ｓï½ï½‹ï½ï½Žï½ï½ƒï½”ｉï½ï½Ž V 13/3/13

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- I think these sales are "legit" without gimmicks (this is a j-rock band). This is actually music that is so popular that it sells 160,000 copies.

 

 

 

http://www.oricon.co...21/index03.html

 

 

 

 

I know that some of you here just insist on thinking that GG2 only selling a bit over 200,000 is somehow a huge flop because you simple refuse to try to understand what the sales of other acts actually look like.

 

But truth is that over the last 6 months, there has only been one new album released (the one by Sandaime J Soul Brothers) which actually is more popular/appreciated than SNSD's GG2.

 

 

Obviously, there has kind of been a lack of big studio album releases in these 6 months though. Mr. Children, B'z, Arashi, Namie Amuro, EXILE, Nishino Kana, Ikimono-gakari, AKB48, Perfume and Superfly = 10 Japanese acts that probably would sell over 200,000 copies "legitly" if they release a new studio album.

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I don't pay attention to gossip outlets (be it magazines, TV, or whatever) so this might seem like a dumb question...but should TMZ be taken seriously? I guess they played Namie's Big Boys Cry on their show or whatever today and they were making fun of her and the Japanese language (because of the whole TLC thing).

 

 

Gonna be honest...I don't really want to read all that. :( I'll take your word for it.

 

 

???

 

TMZ is gossip website. They employ a lot of paparazzi. The people on that show are idiots.

 

But no one has mentioned Duty yet? 

 

Second favorite probably.

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It only took one second of this guy speaking for me to want to turn this off.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, okay. But I still need to start it soon. There's a lot. @__@ I think most LDH groups were featured, so good luck to them~

 

 

What happened when you discovered these for the first time?

 

 

 

 

 

They still scare me ;~;

 

 

 

 

Wow, that was messy.

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Remember when Hikki was called the Japanese Britney Spears?

 

Ughh, everyone's been called the Japanese Britney Spears. The one I actually get is Kuu.

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Hoshino Gen is going on hiatus again.

 

On June 24th, it was announced that singer/actor Hoshino Gen will be going on hiatus again for treatment. 

 

Hoshino went on hiatus last December after receiving surgery for subarachnoid hemorrhage. He returned to work in late-February and had been working energetically. 

 

According to the announcement, after his periodical medical examination last week, it was found that the area he had surgery "was not in perfect condition". While he is currently carrying out normal daily activities, "follow-up and new measures are required". As such, he will be refraining from his activities for the time being to devote himself to treatment for preventive measure. 

 

Hoshino was scheduled to attend a talk event for his starring movie, 'Hakoiri Musuko no Koi' (currently in theaters) on June 24th, but had to cancel his attendance. According to a person in charge of the film, they "received a message [on that day] that he would be absent due to poor health and will rest for some time."

 

In addition, Hoshino has canceled his concert on June 29th at Billboard Live TOKYO. He has also postponed his concert on July 19th at Nippon Budokan. More details will be revealed through his official website. 

 

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Damn May J. just sold 46k of her cover album!

 

Ohh Lord, that's her biggest opening week and it's already her second best selling release. I expect a sequel.

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Kuu might be trashy, but she isn't trash! 

 

 

It really depends on which of the many manifestations of Britney we're comparing them to.

 

I don't think Britney ever had a phase with the artistry or Ayu or Hikki.

 

locked and moved. 

 

My poor, brave thread.

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MiChi's new digital single is out. It's decent.

 

I like the B-sides on Miliyah's new single a lot. I posted my fave of the 2 on my Tumblr: http://sayonarababy.tumblr.com/post/53921379560/kato-milliyah-turn-me-on-i-think-i-may-actually

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Or Namie, for that matter.

 

 

I kinda like Kuronuma Hideyuki's instant fantasy.

 

I just dl'ed it but haven't listened to it. How is it?