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Originally posted by Kxvk
1. She'll probably do really well, it's her first album in almost 10 years so there's no doubt it'll be a big event. I mean if she can make headlines for sneezing then...
2.Yeah, from what I've seen on my iTunes store for example they have barely anything J-Pop related. I think it's not on most Western services because they don't really need it. Like they're the 2nd biggest market in the world and they're rather....independent about it?
Sidenote but who's in your avi? I thought it was Cyndi Wang for a good second but I can't make it out.  |
Jane Zhang, Chinese chanteuse!
What frustrates me most about the whole situation with most J-pop not being up for streaming in the US is that it comes off as incredibly greedy and kind of ignorant. It prevents consumers from accessing some artists' material at all. And even if an artist's material is available for digital purchase, there's no guarantee that their discography is complete, or will even be up for more than a few months. I'm legitimately afraid I'll lose access to all my legally purchased Ayu material
again because when
the devil Avex pulls artists' material, it can make it inaccessible even to people who previously purchased it.
And then you see all the K-Pop artists up and doing fine with streaming, capitalizing on the potential of the format, and you just have to wonder what the hell Japanese labels (especially those demons at Avex) think they're doing.
