From high-energy performances to cultural immersion, the two-day LA event highlights the artists and trends driving Japan’s ...

No exploration of Japanese music would be complete without a dive into the world of J-Pop. Short for Japanese popular music, J-Pop is hard to define. It encompasses a wide breadth of genres and ...

The year-end music festival will take place over two nights at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo this weekend.

The Music Bank Global Festival in Japan 2025 will be held this weekend. However, audiences will have to wait a few days to ...

This Billboard Japan interview explores how getting closer to fans overseas shifted their mindset in some ways and left other ...

Billboard Japan’s Women in Music initiative launched in 2022 to celebrate artists, producers and executives who have made significant contributions to music and inspired other women through their work ...

In 2025, life imitates digital art. When a cohort of vintage Japanese pop songs went viral on YouTube throughout the 2010s, city pop and J-pop went from an absolutely underground interest of a select ...

The rookie music group XG drew a huge roar at the KCON LA festival, a gathering of Korean pop music fans, with a cover of I Am the Best, a 2011 hit from the group 2NE1. The seven young women in ...

▲ This composite image of the three entertainment giants is provided by Kakao Entertainment. The South Korean firm, which ...

Oricon’s year-end rankings for 2025 are out! Each year, Oricon—Japan’s largest music statistics site—publishes its annual rankings of the best-selling ...