2025 Year-End Billboard Japan Charts Unveiled: Mrs. GREEN APPLE Dominates as Snow Man & Creepy Nuts Top Album, Global Lists

Billboard Japan has unveiled its 2025 year-end charts, tracking the period from Nov. 25, 2024, to Nov. 23, 2025.
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Sense of Place: Here's five songs that'll make you fall in love with J-Pop

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 ...
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Ryan Tedder on Revisiting OneRepublic’s Roots With Anime Theme ‘Beautiful Colors’ & His Arm of ‘Japanese Tattoos’

The band's latest is the theme song for season 2 of Kaiju No. 8. By Billboard Japan OneRepublic will release “Beautiful Colors,” the theme song for Season 2 of the anime Kaiju No. 8, on Friday (July ...

INI's ‘Present' Hits No. 1 as RADWIMPS Tributes Dominate Top 10 on Japan Hot 100

INI's "Present" soars to No. 1. on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart dated Nov. 26, halting Kenshi Yonezu's ...