Universal Music Japan Appoints Spotify Exec to Lead Digital

Sony Corp.'s music operations continued to grow in the company's fiscal third quarter but due to an extraordinary gain reported in the year-earlier period, those operations showed a decline in operating profit.For the three-month period ended Dec.

J-pop rapper and singer SKY-HI shared the lyric video for his latest single, "Don't Worry Baby Be Happy," featuring Thai hitmaker Stamp.The video uses live footage from SKY-HI's Round A Ground 2019 concert from December, where the two stars premiered the song before a packed crowd."Don't Worry Baby Be Happy" is a stylish mid-tempo number contrasting SKY-HI's emphatic rapping skills with Stamp's mellow yet robust voice.

Two new Johnny's boy bands' debut singles dominated the top two positions on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Jan. 20 to 26, with SixTONES' "Imitation Rain" coming out on top at No.

Japan's Wagakki Band will perform a one-night-only special show titled the "Premium Symphonic Night Vol.2" on Feb.

The Japanese box office leaped by 17% in 2019 to set a record $2.4 billion score, according to figures announced Tuesday by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, locally known as Eirin. The previous high was the $2.2 billion recorded in 2016.

The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910, the highest attendance since 1971.Despite a slowly shrinking population and the rise of streaming platforms, astrong lineup of films, rising wages for the young, low unemployment and a rise in leisure timedue to government work reforms all helped drive the record box office numbers.Hollywood's share rose slightly to 45.6 percent, its

In this week’s special NATPE: Miami International TV Newswire, Variety looks at the AVoD revolution through a new deal between Tubi and Mexico’s Azteca, ITV and Kew Media sell big across the Americas and two high-profile HBO Latin America series join Hulu Japan’s Latin American showcase.

The Tokyo Olympics, to be held from July 24 to Aug. 9, and Paralympics, scheduled for Aug. 25 to Sept. 9, are affecting Japan’s big summer events. Everything from fireworks displays to music festivals have chosen to shift dates or even cancel altogether.

Amazon Music now has more than 55 million customers globally across all its streaming offerings, while subscriptions to its premium Amazon Music Unlimited service grew by more than 50 percent over 2019. 

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Netflix has acquired exclusive streaming rights to the full film catalog from beloved Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli for everywhere in the world outside North America and Japan.The landmark deal, unveiled Monday through French distribution partner Wild Bunch International, represents the first time that all 21 Ghibli films — including Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, among others — will be made available via streaming on a worldwide

By Nancy Tartaglione

The iconic animated features of Japan’s Studio Ghibli will be available on Netflix from February. The move is a further change of position for the studio which has repeatedly resisted the idea that its beloved cartoons would be released on digital platforms.

There's a certain amount of pride Norwegians have about their exports, whether cultural or otherwise. Today, 27-year-old songwriter, producer and artist Peder Losnegård, otherwise known as Lido, is extolling the virtues of seafood. Specifically of the raw variety.

Universal Music Japan announced today that Ichiro Tamaki has been named as Corporate Executive responsible for Digital Strategy, data analytics and platform partnerships, effective February 15.