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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Mrs. GREEN APPLE Tops Billboard Japan’s 2025 Mid-Year Hot 100, Hot Albums & Artist 100 Charts

Mrs. GREEN APPLE dominates Billboard Japan’s mid-year domestic charts for 2025, rounding up the weeks from Nov. 25, 2024 through May 25, 2025. On the Japan Hot 100 song chart, the three-man band’s ...

Universal Music Japan's Naoshi Fujikura on Mrs. GREEN APPLE & Fujii Kaze Winning Big, Challenges of Exporting Japanese Music: Interview

Universal Music Japan's president & CEO has been included in Billboard's Global Power Players list for five straight years.
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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 ...

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 ...
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Review: Music Awards Japan, the Japanese Grammy's Launch with Unprecedented Scale and Spirit

MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN: The inaugural edition of MAJ hailed as the “Japanese Grammy Awards”—marked a groundbreaking moment in the nation’s music history. Jointly launched by five major Japanese music ...
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X Japan’s ‘La Venus’ in Contention for Best Original Song Oscar

Could there be an X Japan appearance at the Oscars? The first hurdle is out of the way as the band's song "La Venus" has made the list of songs to be considered for the Oscar for Best Original Song.