Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-29512888-20190911210957/@comment-3338841-20190912154113

OneEmoticon wrote: I think the reason J-Pop songs don't seem to impress outsiders a lot is due to its flavor, as well as possible lack of exposure aside from internet. Although they have a high-class standard in their products including music, Japan has a notorious copyright law or something, as well as their infamous tendencies for not exporting or promoting a lot of their products, many of them were songs and video games. K-Pop, on the other hand, exploited this and release a lot of tracks to other countries, grabbing even more attention. J-Pop songs are cool, but people who are not aware would associate Japanese music to hardcore anime intros and soft anime outros (Kyrary Pamyu Pamyu is an interesting exception). Even AKB48, a very popular girl group in Japan, is unknown to the rest of the world where BLACKPINK, BTS, 2NE1 (even if they already disband) and TWICE is almost in every corner in the Internet. This can also reflect in our game, Just Dance, which has 10 K-Pop songs in the franchise and a whooping 85 Japanese songs, but only 8 songs were part of the main series with the rest remain exclusive to Wii, Wii 2, Wii U, and Yokai Dance. Very few has done well internationally due to Japan's copyrights: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, AKB48 (definitely got a bit more known cuz of their song in Wreck It Ralph), Pink Lady, Babymetal and Puffy AmiYumi (mainly due to them singing the Teen Titans theme song and having their own cartoon)