I have been quite bored of a lot of K-pop music for the past few years, so I've been revisiting older Japanese music music that I liked from back in the day: Utada, BoA, Hamasaki, X Japan, Morning Mususme, Kyary, UVERworld, etc. it made me a bit nostalgic, so I have a playlist of all of those acts, but they're not so active anymore and obviously 15-25 years later there are new artists and groups making names for themselves.
For K-pop, I usually keep track of soloist and group, nugu to superstar, releases with Kpopping:
https://kpopping.com/database/categories
I've been listening to the J-MELO archives to catch up, but it's a big mishmash from over the years:
Is there anything similar to Kpopping for J-pop these days? Any relatively simple way to listen to J-pop (probably not after Avex botched Sooyoung's release), or is it just YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music and pray for titles that we can copy and paste since titles and groups will be in katakana and kanji? Who are the notable artists and releases from the last ten years to now that I should be trying out to get a feel for modern J-pop?
Any help would be appreciated.
And if someone wants to give reccs, below are some (don't want to list all) artists and groups that I've enjoyed multiple songs from:
Angela Aki
Anna Tsuchiya
Aqua Timez
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Babymetal
Back-On
BananaLemon
BoA
can/goo
Eir Aoi
Flow
High and Mighty Color
Hikaru Utada
HYDE
Ikimonogakari
Konomi Suzuki
Kumi Koda
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
L'Arc-en-Ciel
May J
Mika Nakashima
Morning Musume (specifically around the early to mid 2010s with Sakura Oda, Erina Ikuta, and Sayumi Michishige was when I first got to know the group)
Nanase Aikawa
Orange Range
Reol
Scandal
Shoko Nakagawa
Sora Amamiya
Spyair
T. M. Revolution
UVERworld
Vamps
Yui