there's no way Japan Music Industry is bigger than KPOP/Korean !!

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It's a super huge market, just below USA

They dont need to expand their wings to other countries. Japan has strong buying culture when it comes to music. They are slowly transitioning to streaming but buying physical album culture is still very strong. Japanese groups such as Arashi, Johnny's, EXILE, AKBgroup, Sakamichi46, =Love, Momusu, etc are king and queens in their own country. They have solid and strong sales withough international supports. 1M sales is relatively easy for household names in Japan

NiziU is the example, their Japanese fanbase is very strong and basically GP knows them because of their survival show was aired on prime time show "Sukkiri". Their debut album exceed 350k+ sales. Predebut single reached a lot of amazing milestones.

Japanese artists can held a large-scale nationwide tour with more than 200k attendance. Either Dome tour or Stadium tour. No international promotion. That's why Kpop artists are expanding their wings to Japan.

Japanese music industry is huge and wide. It is a huge market with wide variety range of genre. Jpop is way more diverse than Kpop. There are rock, heavy metal, pop (idol music and disco dance pop), hip hop, enka, theme music, game music, etc. Each genre has its own fanbase and its huge.

Japanese market is very valuable to every artist that promoting Japan. Strong buying culture.

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True, also just want to add something. Idol music is considered just small niche in the jpop music scene. But bcoz most of huge sales come from idol group ppl mistake that jpop only have idol music which is not true at all. 46,48 group and johny idol sell huge amount of physical copy easily 1m every single but jpop not only have idol music. They are very diverse even tho other act not sell much they still have live house. Most other country dont have that anymore. They have live concert, festival, live house every week. The music scene is very lively and small act still can profit from live house even without depending on physical album. Thats why most of their artist have longer lifespan. Coz they can make money doing music their entire live :)

Japan is the second largest market. Just based on recorded music and related revenues, and not taking into account publishing or live music, the US and Japan have been the top two markets for at least the past 15 years. And the top 5 markets have remained unchanged. South Korea moved into the top 10 5 years ago and the top 6 two years ago. (Looks like most recent ranking is 2019). Back in 2004, SK was 28, while China was 20.

1. US

2. Japan

3. UK

4. Germany

5. France

6. South Korea

7. China

8. Canada

9. Australia

10. Brazil

Japan is also still a very physical-driven music industry compared to other markets, although streaming is gaining traction there as well, and CDs are expensive. It's also worth noting the population differences - 40% of that list of top music markets are countries with more than 100 million people: China, US, Brazil and Japan. (Also, the population of Japan is more than twice South Korea.)

Half of kpop groups and musicians would disband without japan. That’s facts. When companies cant promote their acts on korea, where do they go to?

Japan.