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Japan’s ’10 Summer Sonic Festival
Jay-Z, Smashing Pumpkins, the Offspring are all set to play at this year’s Summer Sonic Festival in Japan, which runs from August 8 – 9. This festival usually holds around 50k people per show and has been going on since 2000. Other bands making the trip are the Pixies, Nickelback, Sum 41, Slash, 30 Seconds [...]
Japanese Digital Music Sales
According to the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), the digital music sales trend in Japan shows Internet downloads of music rising while mobile downloads are staying steady when comparing 2008 & 2009. Japan is known for their extremely high rates of mobile downloads. In fact, in 2008, 91% of music downloads were on mobile [...]
Japanese Music Market Production
Overall music production in Japan has fallen 8% in the 1st Quarter of 2009 compared with the same period last year. This translates to an overall production of audio units of 54.8 million. International repertoire production in Japan was also down 18% to 10.88 million units. These numbers show a pretty drastic decrease in the [...]
Japanese Summer Sonic Music Festival
Creative Man Productions out of Japan has just announced some of the bands that will take part in this year’s Summer Sonic Music Festival. The festival takes place over 3 days in 2 different cities – Tokyo and Osaka. Bands perform in one city one day and the other city the next day. The int’l [...]
Delicious Deli
Universal Music in Japan is charting new territory by starting a new label for Japanese artists. The new label will be called Delicious Deli Records and will start operations in January of ’09. The label will originate under Universal International but will really seek to build domestic Japanese artists. Universal has 5 other labels within [...]
Japanese 1Q Music Sales
I am interested in following mobile & pc-based digital music sales in Japan. The market is so extraordinary in that mobile sales make up a larger % of sales than digital sales. Here are some other interesting facts from the first quarter of this year: – an over rise of 6% in digital sales to [...]
Ke-Tai (Mobile in Japanese)
Japan clearly beats every other country when it comes to new and sexy mobile devices. Not only are their phones better designed, the technology is years ahead of most other countries. So as users begin to consume and purchase more of their music on mobile devices, music industry professionals would be wise to visit the [...]
