Lol Red is slaying Artpop in Japan and WANEGOD is 3xplat and blocked Applause from hitting #1 on iTunes Japan

I had a little spare time so here's the ranking based on dollars spent per capita :

1-Japan 23.68 $
2-UK 20.41 $
3-Australia 18.35 $
4-Germany 16.97 $
5-France 14.51 $
6-US 14.065 $
7-Canada 12 $
8-South Korea 4.20 $
9-Italy 3.97 $
10-Brazil 1.13 $

If an american spent as much as a japanese, the market would amount to 7.525 billion dollars. If every country and population on earth had the same prices and behaviours as Japan, the music indistry would be worth 169.4 billion dollars.

Applause was #1 on iTunes Japan for a week. You tried.

You forgot France as well.
Global queen

Brazil in 9th.

It never was, but it did get extremely close to being the biggest market back in 2012.

Wow Japan, what happened there?

Mess. Taylor has only sold 260k copies of RED there, and ARTPOP 190k there. The difference isn't high, and Gaga easily sells 20k in a week if she promotes anywhere in Japan.

Or maybe 9,616 ?

It was never the biggest. Do your research.

Yep it was back then util 2011 or 2010 i guess. Then started to free falling.

It was posted on this same thread People don't even read

for a while i thought japan was coming for us wig

Ouch.

It was the top music market at one point or something; there was speculation that it would retake the position but I guess that's not happening!

Their digital revenue is no longer that significant due to label pressures hurting the digital market.

The Germans need to take a seat. We want our position back!

And foreign girls say USA is LOCAL yet it's the biggest market

1. US $4.47 billion (+0,8%) (30% of global trade revenues)


and death at Japan... when singles cost like what less than a dollar for a bundle of songs.

Bye.

Germany has been in the top 5...for an eternity.. biggest economy in europe, most populous country in the EU, soft superpower and world power in music. bye bye UK. eat our dust.

Japanese singles and albums are pretty expensive. Are you talking about South Korea?

Japans decline makes me kinda sad. Japan used to be a flawless music market in the 10s when Japanese pop girls owned the music market and sold millions of copies. Now the music market there is pretty much dead and the only act that sells something is AKB48. They really killed the market