Just NO is selling pretty badly for something that had 6 singles one of which is a 3x Platinum hit if we compare it to _genic that had no singles. The wench isn't the queen of anything.
I hope the Japanese GP gets some taste and makes Hero #1
But that's not a reason to specifically make the material completely inaccessible or restricted in distribution. They may be self contained, but the simple act of having music available in all formats in the west would only serve to strengthen their revenue streams and help establish reliable consumers who might even pay more to import special editions, or who will become a major source of streaming revenue. There's really no reason to treat the outside world like Avex and other labels do.
That's where you have it so wrong, the Japanese music industry is around 90% physical CD sales and Japanese record labels want to keep it that way because it gives them a lot of profit. Japan does things their way, it's actually what makes Japan such an interesting country.
That's where you have it so wrong, the Japanese music industry is around 90% physical CD sales and Japanese record labels want to keep it that way because it gives them a lot of profit. Japan does things their way, it's actually what makes Japan such an interesting country.
If international consumers don't know about an artist's music they're not going to pay to import a CD. Furthermore reports have shown that streaming accessibility is actually more conducive to buying an album after checking it out on streaming, so still no honestly.
Mirei Touyama's (aka Jasmine 2.0 aka Utada 3.0) debut album was worse than both GOLD and First Love which is unfortunate for the j-rnb and the good songs were already released. Jasmine's new feature is coming on August 24. I hope the lead single is coming soon too.
I love it 
