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Music portal; Japan portal; 1970s portal; Topics specifically related to the decade 1970s in the music of Japan, i.e. in the years 1970 to 1979. 1920s; 1930s; 1940s ...
June 1970 2 (LP) 8 Best Hit Album: Pink Lady: Victor December 1977 1 (LP) 9 Saturday Night Fever: Soundtrack Polydor February 1978 1 (LP) 10 10 "Numbers" Carat: Southern All Stars: Victor April 1979 2 (LP/CT) 11 Nishoku no Koma: Yōsui Inoue Polydor October 1974 1 (LP/CT) 12 Yumekuyō: Masashi Sada: Warner/Pioneer: April 1979 1 (LP/CT) 13 Adoro ...
Folk rock band Happy End in the early 1970s are credited as the first to sing rock music in the Japanese language. Punk rock bands Boøwy and The Blue Hearts and hard rock/heavy metal groups X Japan and B'z led Japanese rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s by achieving major mainstream success. [1]
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.
In the mid-1970s, Hosono founded the band Tin Pan Alley, which fused southern R&B, northern soul and jazz fusion with Hawaiian and Okinawan tropical flourishes. In the view of Fact Mag ' s Mikey I.Q. Jones, this led to the style of music that would be dubbed "city pop". [7] The genre became closely tied to the tech boom in Japan during the ...
This list tries to include all artists/bands from all genres originating from Japan. This list does not include artists/bands who perform in Japanese but are of different origin. Contents:
The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1970.
The following is a list of notable Japanese rock bands and artists. For an extended list of J-Pop artists, see List of J-pop artists. 0-9. The 5.6.7.8's;