Billboard Japan unveiled its 2026 mid-year charts, tallying the period from Nov. 24, 2025, to May 24, 2026.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN ceremony, the largest music awards in the country, is set to take place in May in Kyoto.

MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2026, Japan's biggest international music awards show, has unveiled its nominees across 63 categories ahead of the June 13 ceremony. MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN (MAJ) is built around the ...

Japanese singers and musicians will finally receive royalties when their works are played as background music in public ...

Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” by the hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts is the most-streamed song in Japan and the most streamed by a Japanese ...

In November 1979, Japanese singer Miki Matsubara, then 19 years old, released her debut single “Mayonaka no Door – Stay With Me” — a song that came to define the city pop genre in Japan. Now, more ...

It’s early December, which means one thing – it’s time for everyone’s respective music streaming platforms to expose their listening habits for the past year! Spotify, which gets annual buzz for its ...

It wasn't too long ago that the Pokémon Go craze put the anime theme song "Gotta Catch 'Em All" back in our heads. But in Japan and Korea, players were listening to very different tunes. American ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hello world! "Uta-Net" (https://www.uta-net.com/global/) is one of the biggest Japanese song lyrics services in Japan, having over 310,000 ...