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The term was originally used to describe an offshoot of the emerging Western-influenced "new music" of the 1970s and '80s. "City pop" referred to the likes of Sugar Babe [ ja ] and Eiichi Ohtaki , artists who scrubbed out the Japanese influences of their predecessors and introduced the sounds of jazz and R&B—genres said to have an "urban ...
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Album Artist Released Sales First Love: Hikaru Utada: 10 March 1999: 7,672,120 B'z The Best "Pleasure" B'z: 20 May 1998: 5,136,000 Review: Glay: 1 October 1997
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively 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. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music.
Rebecca (レベッカ, Rebekka) was a Japanese rock band that had a great deal of success throughout the 1980s, fronted by singer Nokko. [1] The band's 1985 album Rebecca IV ~maybe tomorrow~ [] sold one million copies in the year, surpassing Yuming, the first truly commercially successful rock album in Japan. [2]
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]
This is a list of J-pop artists and groups. Originally an evolution of jazz, and coined New Music, the style went on to become known as City Pop, music with an urban theme. Later called Japan-made Pop, the term was shortened to J-pop and now encompasses a wide range of musical styles and genres.