Let’s take a look at the 256 songs that are up for the Song of the Year category, as compared against Billboard Japan's ...

Now the style is having a cult moment in Japan, mainly thanks to Lost Frog, which has published a spree of albums and compilations in the last two years with thousands of downloads ... shimmering ...

Downloads are 7% of MAJ while 4% for BBJ ... indicating the major influence of dance and vocal groups. Hip-hop and Vocaloid account for less than 10%, but these genres have their own categories ...

Hatsune Miku or just Miku started as a simple voice library for the Yamaha Vocaloid voice synthesizer over 10 years ago but became one of the most famous Japanese virtual idols worldwide, capable of ...

A Vocaloid art book compiling all the illustrations from the 2023 and 2024 Niconico Chokaigi exhibitions will come out in late April 2025.

Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “KUSUSHIKI” holds at No. 1 for the second week on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated April 23.

Hatsune Miku is a vocaloid, which is a type of voice synthesizer software that lets users pick a song for Hatsune Miku to sing. Hatsune Miku has achieved worldwide fame, which is presumably why ...

Let's take a look at the 256 songs that are up for the Song of the Year category, as compared against Billboard Japan's all-genre Japan Hot 100. By Billboard Japan The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ...

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