Voting for the TOP – J-POP GROUPS is now open!!!
On January 31st we will eliminate the 20 least voted nominees!
Voting closes on February 3rd!
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Let’s rank the TOP 40 – J-POP GROUPS, vote for your favorites!
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&TEAM, =LOVE, ≠ME, AAA, AKB48, ARASHI, ATARASHII GAKKO!, BABYMETAL, BANANALEMON, BAND-MAID, BE:FIRST, BISH, DXTEEN, E-GIRLS, EXILE TRIBE, FAKY, FEMM, FREDERIC, HEY! SAY! JUMP, HINATAZAKA46, KAT-TUN, INI, JO1, IS:SUE, ME:I, MAZZEL, MOMOIRO CLOVER Z, MORNING MUSUME, NCT WISH, NIZIU, NUMBER_I, SNOW MAN, NOGIZAKA46, ONE OK ROCK, PERFUME, PHANTOM SIITA, PSYCHIC FEVER, SAKURA GAKUIN, SAKURAZAKA46, SCANDAL, SIXTONES, SMAP, SUCHMOS, TOKIMEKI SENDENBU, W-INDS, XG AND YOASOBI.
On January 31st we will eliminate the 20 least voted nominees!
Voting closes on February 3rd!
YOU CAN VOTE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT!
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On January 31st we will eliminate the 20 least voted nominees!
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J-pop is often stylized in capital letters as J-POP and, in Japan, just as “pop”; is a musical genre that entered Japan’s musical mainstream in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional Japanese music, but significantly in 1960s pop, rock, and bubblegum pop music from artists such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, who influenced the band Happy End to create a fusion between rock and Japanese music in the early 1970s. J-pop was further defined by new wave groups in the late 1970s, particularly the electronic synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra and the pop rock band Southern All Stars.
The origin of modern J-pop is said to be a type of Japanese-language rock inspired by artists such as The Beatles. Unlike the Japanese music genre called kayōkyoku, J-pop uses a special type of pronunciation, which is similar to English. One notable singer to do this is Keisuke Kuwata, who pronounced the Japanese word karada (“body”) as kyerada. Additionally, unlike Western music, the major second (G and A) was generally not used in Japanese music, except in art music, before rock became popular in Japan. When the Group Sounds genre, which was inspired by Western rock became popular, Japanese pop music adopted the second major, which was used in the closing sounds of the songs “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles and (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Although Japanese pop music changed from music based on the Japanese pentatonic scale and distorted tetrachord to more Western music over time, music that took from the traditional Japanese singing style remained popular (such as that of Ringo Shiina).
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The term j-pop emerged in the early 90s to describe these popular songs, and it was around this decade that a great explosion of the genre occurred, with emphasis on names such as the band B’z, which mixed pop and hard rock, and such as soloists Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru.
In addition to bands, groups and soloists, j-pop is also known for anime songs, which are so important in the Japanese industry that they even earned the nickname anison, and virtual idols, such as Hatsune Miku.
And remember to vote for your favorite J-POP group, the nominees are: &TEAM, =LOVE, ≠ME, AAA, AKB48, ARASHI, ATARASHII GAKKO!, BABYMETAL, BANANALEMON, BAND-MAID, BE:FIRST, BISH, DXTEEN, E-GIRLS, EXILE TRIBE, FAKY, FEMM, FREDERIC, HEY! SAY! JUMP, HINATAZAKA46, KAT-TUN, INI, JO1, IS:SUE, ME:I, MAZZEL, MOMOIRO CLOVER Z, MORNING MUSUME, NCT WISH, NIZIU, NUMBER_I, SNOW MAN, NOGIZAKA46, ONE OK ROCK, PERFUME, PHANTOM SIITA, PSYCHIC FEVER, SAKURA GAKUIN, SAKURAZAKA46, SCANDAL, SIXTONES, SMAP, SUCHMOS, TOKIMEKI SENDENBU, W-INDS, XG AND YOASOBI.