Time Goes By , are also given
Marty s modern overhaul to round out the album s track list to cover the full scope of his take on the Japanese music scene.
Friedman put a lot of energy into selecting the right songs to cover for the album, He shared: In Japan, you have to get permission to record and release cover versions, and that can be a very tricky and long process. So, the last thing I wanted to do was to ask permission to do a song, only to wind up not recording it for whatever reason. That would be very impolite. I spent several weeks choosing songs and demoing them to see whether I could create versions that I could get pumped up about, before I even approached any publishers. I came up with a short list of 20 songs, and from this chose about 15 that I knew I could really score with.
Posted : 2021-04-28 11:14
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Combined streaming of the BTS megahit Dynamite has reached more than 300 million in Japan, a music chart tracker in the Asian country showed Wednesday.
The disco-pop track added 6.69 million streams in the latest weekly streaming chart compiled by Oricon between April 19 and 25, hitting 306.53 million streams in total, said Big Hit Music, the K-pop act s agency, citing the Japanese music chart. Dynamite, which achieved the feat in 36 weeks, is the third song to break the 300 million threshold and the first song by an overseas artist to do so, the company added.
Japanese band Official Hige Dandism first broke the milestone with Pretender in its 94th week of release, followed by Japanese music duo Yoasobi s Yoru ni Kakeru that hit the milestone in its 50th week.
Streams of BTS hit ‘Dynamite’ surpass 300 mln in Japan: Oricon April 28, 2021
Combined streaming of the BTS megahit “Dynamite” has reached more than 300 million in Japan, a music chart tracker in the Asian country showed Wednesday.
The disco-pop track added 6.69 million streams in the latest weekly streaming chart compiled by Oricon between April 19 and 25, hitting 306.53 million streams in total, said Big Hit Music, the K-pop act’s agency, citing the Japanese music chart.
“Dynamite,” which achieved the feat in 36 weeks, is the third song to break the 300 million threshold and the first song by an overseas artist to do so, the company added.
Arashi wins Japan s Gold Disc Award
The Japanese pop group Arashi has won this year s Japan Gold Disc Award for the second year in a row.
The group suspended its activities at the end of 2020.
The Recording Industry Association of Japan presents the award to singers, groups and works for their contributions to the music industry s development.
Arashi won Artist of the Year in the Japanese music category for selling more CDs, videos and Internet downloads than all other artists last year. The group won the award for the seventh time.
British rock band Queen was named International Artist of the Year for the third consecutive year.
Tower Records photographed on April 4, 2020 in Shibuya, Japan.
Streaming revenues grew 25% in 2020, according to the Recording Industry Association of Japan, but physical was down 15% leading to a 9% decline overall.
TOKYO Digital music sales in Japan rose 11% in 2020, as the world s second-largest market posted its seventh straight year of digital gains amid sliding physical sales, according to data released this week by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).
Fueled by a 25% uptick in streaming audio revenues, to 50.7 billion yen ($465.9 million), overall digital sales climbed to 78.3 billion yen ($719.2 million) in wholesale value.
By contrast, physical music sales, largely CDs, fell 15% in wholesale-value terms to 129.9 billion yen ($1.2 billion). In unit terms, physical dropped 21% to 105.7 million. Japan is the world s biggest consumer of physical music products.