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During the 1970s, Japan had the second largest music market in the world. [5] 1970s Japanese music included kayōkyoku, idols, new music, rock and enka.Musical artists in the 1970s included, in particular, Momoe Yamaguchi, Saori Minami, the Candies, Pink Lady, Hiromi Go, Hideki Saijo, Yuming, Saki Kubota, Judy Ongg and Sachiko Kobayashi.
The genre became closely tied to the tech boom in Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the Japanese technologies which influenced city pop included the Walkman, cars with built-in cassette decks and FM stereos, and various electronic musical instruments such as the Casio CZ-101 and Yamaha CS-80 synthesizers and Roland TR-808 drum
1961 - 1st broadcast of Minna no Uta; 1963 - Sukiyaki reaches number 1 in the USA 1962 - 1st broadcast of Shichiji ni aimashō; 1964 - 1st broadcast of Music Fair; 1967 - Oricon founded; Akiko Nakamura [] released Nijiiro no mizūmi []; [4] Hibari Misora released Makkana Taiyō [5]
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the city pop music genre during the late 1970s and 1980s (not necessarily solely city pop artists). Groups and artists with aliases are listed by the first letter in their name, and individuals are listed by their surname.
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The music of A Distant Cry from Spring (1980), by Masaru Sato, won the 4th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Music (awarded in 1981). [47] Lalabel, the Magical Girl includes songs by Mitsuko Horie . [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Animation: The Best Ten 1980 , a parody of The Best Ten , was released on 20 December.
The music genre kayōkyoku is regarded as a base of another genre "J-pop". [7] In the 1980s, a part of Japanese idol was independent from kayōkyoku and associated with Japanese rock musicians. [6] Late 80s' popular band Onyanko Club was a band of borderline era between "kayōkyoku" and "J-pop". [18]
J-pop (ジェーポップ, jēpoppu) (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as pops (ポップス, poppusu), is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.