who are the Jpop idols?

Question

I loveee super junior,shinee,big bang,infinite etc, but I want to know about japenese groups/singers who makes similar style songs like kpop,,, who are the suju/shinee of japanese pop?

please no rock plzz =]

Answer 1

Aha, I'm a Jpop fan :D I love Kpop, but I'm more into Jpop.



Well..The best selling girlband is AKB48. There's 48 of them...O-O In about 2000 it was Morning Musume. Morning Musume are still ranked at Japans 7th top artist of all time, although they don't sell much anymore. They're been going tfor 14 years, but they change members(not all at once, they add members and sometimes member graduate)



Other girl groups are:



Perfume

Berryz Koubou

C-ute

S/mileage

Buono!

Mano Erina

Kikkawa Yuu

Ayumi Hamasaki - She sells Millions

Hikaru Utada - She's Japans best selling artist at only 23. She's currently on Haitus because she said she wants to 'live life normally' :( Awww Hikki!

YUI

Scandal

Tokyo girls' style

Momoiro clover



As for Boybands, Arashi is the best selling. Arashi and AKB48 dominated the top 10 best selling singles of 2010. Other bands like Kat-un, Hey! Say JUMP are also popular.



Kpop is very different to Jpop. Kpop is really simmilar to American music. Jpop is like wow. Sometimes the cuteness can kill you =[ They're not 'sexy' they're 'sekushiii!' Which is how they say it in japan XD



Morning Musume's new single =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPGgHeBcMyg&feature=related



AKB can be very very sexual...not sooo much here though. Skip to 2mins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXtaahxjls

Answer 2

I will give you a good advice, so read closely: if you want to get into j-pop, don't do it looking for groups or music similar to k-pop because they don't exist. Get into j-pop knowing it's something different to the pop you're used to. I wish someone would have told me this, because at that time I couldn't appreciate music that I love now because I was looking for "similar to k-pop or american music" songs.



With that being said, my favorite j-pop group is NewS ^^

http://pann.nate.com/video/212515479

Arashi is also super popular.. I don't like them fully, but they have some awesome songs I can't help but liking xD for example this one:

http://pann.nate.com/video/212639779

you'll get used to the sound j-pop has, and then you'll become addicted ^^ so I recommend Arashi, maybe you'll like them. Oh, Arashi have been out for more than 10 years! it's very common in j-pop for groups to last that much, they're all in their 30s now.



Other thing you should know is that some MVs, variety shows and performances and stuff are not in youtube as in japan they are more strict with copyright. But you will very likely find it on dailymotion, or search "the title of the song+pv" on the videos section on google.

Answer 3

while you're a good dancer, starting to be a dance artist in Japan or Korea could be a much better thank you to fulfillment in tutor enterprise than starting to be an idol. 2 issues required of you as an idol are to sing and to have interaction with different abilities on as many type shows as obtainable, which you would be able to no longer do by utilising rote. you're able to could desire to talk the language. there are various gai-tare, who're effectual in eastern tutor enterprise. a lot of them are American. one ingredient they have in concern-unfastened is they talk eastern, fluently sufficient that they could quip back on stay television. that's obtainable to make it interior the eastern entertainment industry without speaking eastern, yet which would be as a severe singer or a dancer. At that element, you does no longer be a bubblegum idol. So in case you look on the bigger image, you at the instant are not inquiring for the impossible. you haven't any longer have been given good possibilities for the very specific purpose you seek for.

Answer 4

http://www.japanesesong.org



Japanesesong.org offer our visitors lots of Japanese music information, include Japanese music artists' introduction, free Japanese songs which could be listened online and downloaded, music artists' latest news. Our fans also could find some Japanese music top charts and music artists' pictures. By the way, japanesesong.org will publish some news and articles about Japan to help more people getting know this country.

Answer 5

I don't listen to much Jpop but I do like this one band NewS

Answer 6

Japan best. Jpop best. Kpop stupid. Korean Stupid. Korea Stupid. Korean short and ugly. and Stupid. Dont listen Kpop, Jpop and Japan better. Korean people starve and poor. They hungry and wish they live in Japan.

Answer 7

Why is this in the Korea section?

Answer 8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qazEhYX5Qkk