{"id":12519,"date":"2017-08-25T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:07:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:07:45","slug":"japan-second-biggest-music-market-world-time-took-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2017\/08\/25\/japan-second-biggest-music-market-world-time-took-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MUSIC. Japan is the second biggest music market in the world, it&#039;s time we took notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zombie-chang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12520\" src=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zombie-chang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Earlier this month,\u00a0it was reported that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doublej.net.au\/news\/features\/how-to-fix-australia-s-chart-problem-start-buying-australian-music\">there were no Australian artists in the local top 20 singles chart<\/a>.\u00a0 In the same week, 70 percent of the US Billboard Chart was populated by American artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Now, compare that to Japan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlas.com\/charts\/4kLzhuajg\">the second biggest music market in the world<\/a>, where 98 percent of all singles, and 76 percent of all albums, are sold are by Japanese artists. In an environment where physical sales are dwindling, Japan still has more record stores than any other country in the world, three times as many as the US.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">Don\u2019t be fooled into thinking it\u2019s all about J-Pop, you only need to look listen to those in easy reach to understand there\u2019s something special going on. We\u2019re lucky that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doublej.net.au\/programs\/something-more\/a-chat-with-Japanese-producerCornelius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cornelius<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Shonen Knife<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>DJ Krush<\/strong>\u00a0all managed to extend their reach across the waters, along with their predecessors like\u00a0<strong>Acid Mothers Temple<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Boredoms<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Yellow Magic Orchestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\">This week\u2019s Fat Planet on Double J is a <strong>Japanese Special<\/strong>, celebrating a few of those vanguards, but also shines the light on a new breed of Japanese artists that are worthy of our attention, including <strong>Zombie Chang<\/strong> (pictured). <a href=\"http:\/\/doublej.net.au\/news\/features\/japan-is-the-second-biggest-music-market-in-the-world-its-time-we-took-notice\">Hit the Double J website for more background<\/a> along with videos from <strong>Noiseconcrete vs 3CHI5<\/strong> and <strong>Ogre You Asshole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month,\u00a0it was reported that\u00a0there were no Australian artists in the local top 20 singles chart.\u00a0 In the same week, 70 percent of the US Billboard Chart was populated by American artists. Now, compare that to Japan,\u00a0the second biggest music market in the world, where 98 percent of all singles, and 76 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,453],"tags":[470,944,1174,1182,1610,1573],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","category-writing","tag-3chi5","tag-japan","tag-noiseconcrete","tag-ogre-you-asshole","tag-stuartbuchanan-blog","tag-zombie-chang","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15294,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/15294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}