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Japan’s Meguro Ren this week returned to screens across the world in Netflix acquisition of “Trillion Game,” a fantasy drama set in the business world, or the get-rich-quick end of it at ...
As more niche markets began to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it led to a significant growth in the industry known as the "Idol Warring Period." 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.
Johnny & Associates (pictured in 2023) is a talent company created by Johnny Kitagawa.. Japanese record producer Johnny Kitagawa, the founder of the talent company Johnny & Associates and an influential figure in the J-pop idol industry, remains highly regarded in Japan after his death in 2019 despite previous allegations of sexual abuse towards the acts managed by his company (though he was ...
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]
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.
The song topped the Japan Hot 100 for 22 non-consecutive weeks, making it the longest-running number-one song in the chart history, and also broke the record for the fastest song to achieve diamond certification, with 500 million streams recorded by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) in 295 days. Globally, "Idol" became the ...
The handshake events held by the idol group AKB48 are well-known and successful in the entertainment industry [2] and in recent years, Taiwanese and Korean artists have also started to follow this trend. [3] [4] In addition, Japanese bookstores also hold handshake events occasionally, between writers and gravure idols, to promote new works.
In 2023–2024, Yoasobi's most successful single to date "Idol" won numeruos industry awards, including Best Animation Video and Song of the Year at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Best Work and Best Anime Song Awards at 5th Reiwa Anisong Awards, Best Anime Song at the 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, Special International Music Award at ...