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Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol industries, such as K-pop. Sub-categories of idols include gravure idols, junior idols, net idols, idol voice actors, virtual idols, AV idols, alternative idols, underground idols, Akiba-kei idols ...
The following is a list of the 20 all-time best-selling Japanese idols in Japan as of 2011, according to the Japanese music television program Music Station. [ 1 ] Rank
Japanese female idols, entertainers marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial ...
Like many J-idols, Saori Yamamoto was also featured in a video game/DVD called Gal of the Sparrow 2, which she announced at 2005's Tokyo Game Show. This DVD features other popular J-idols such as Chikako Sakuragi, Rio Natsume, Yuka Watanabe, Akari, Kaede Shimizu, Hitomi Okada and Hatsune Matsushima. This DVD/video game is only for sale in Japan.
Namie Amuro performing at MTV Asia Aid, Bangkok, Thailand, 2005 AKB48 has won several awards in Japanese popular music. Japanese-American singer Ai's single "Story" was the sixth single in history to receive a triple million digital certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan. Aa! AAA; Abe, Mao; Abe, Natsumi; Abe, Ryohai; Abe ...
Pages in category "Japanese idol groups" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 299 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-Eight) is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48 has sold more records than any other female musical act in Japanese history. [2]
The top music artists in Japan include Japanese artists with claims of 15 million or more record sales or with over 2 million subscribers.Japan is the largest physical music market in the world and the second largest overall behind the United States, and the biggest in Asia, according to International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.