K-pop continues winning streak in Japan

K-pop child band SHINee executes atJapan’s Tokyo Dome in February Courtesy of SM Entertainment

By Dong Sun- hwa

The appeal of K-pop is revealing no indicators of winding down in Japan, with the style exceeding Western pop on a significant songs graph in the bordering Asian nation.

Nikkei, a Japanese everyday paper, reported Sunday that in 2023, no Western pop track got a place on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 graph– a vital sign of music appeal in Japan that integrates physical sales and streaming information.

Western pop just represented a simple 0.3 percent, dragging K-pop which occupied roughly 20 percent. This notes a considerable improvement from 2008 when Western pop held a 29.8 percent share.

On the various other hand, K-pop has actually been accelerating its existence progressively in Japan considering that it initially slipped by pop tunes on the abovementioned graph in 2018. In that year, K-pop consisted of 14.2 …