Category archives: Japan

Sony Music Japan is building ‘the largest virtual talent development and management project in history’

MBW explores Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)’s virtual talent ambitions…
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Ingrooves expands into Japan, names industry veteran Ryukatsu Son as Managing Director for market

Exec joins from Amazon Japan, where he was Head of Licensing, Digital Music
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Japanese Music Sales Dragging, But It Could Be Good News

While the US is well established as the largest music market in the world, number two, Japan, is perhaps less well known. Recently, the island nation’s music sales have seen a bit of slowdown, however. Still, this may not be a bad thing for the music industry overall. _________________________ Guest…

Industry revenues in Japan, world’s second biggest recorded music market, didn’t grow in H1 2019

Audio subscription revenues made up 12.4% of Japan’s total recorded music revenues in H1 2019; physical audio formats contributed 53.3%.
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The Orchard Launches In Japan, Opens Tokyo Office

Sony’s independent music distribution and artist and label services company The Orchard is expanding into Japan, the second-largest music market in the world. The fully-staffed base of operations in Japan will be led by Yuuki Kaneko, The Orchard’s vice president, Japan, who previously worked on the music team at Amazon…

Merlin Names Former Spotify, Apple Music Exec As Japan GM

Talk about knowing where all the bodies are buried… Indie global music rights agency Merlin has named Akira Nomoto as General Manager, Merlin Japan, the world’s second largest music market. For the last six years, Nomoto served Spotify as Head of Artist & Label Marketing and then Director of Licensing…