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The album titled 'Virgin Killer' depicts a naked 10-year-old girl with broken glass covering her genitalia. The controversy led to a bump in sales, but it remains to this day one of the most ...
Japanese Breakfast has shared a cover of Yoko Ono‘s “Nobody Sees Me Like You Do,” from the album Season of Glass, in advance of the release of Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono, a tribute album ...
Ahop, a rising K-pop sensation, launched their world tour with an exhilarating mini album release event in Tokyo, captivating ...
Harada sat down with Billboard Japan to chat about her new album and look back on the turning points in her lauded career, while also sharing the music that has recently been inspiring her.
Seventeen sold 457,000 copies of the album in Japan after its release on May 26, the highest number by a foreign act in 2025, according to the band's agency Pledis Entertainment.
It didn't stop there, though. Unsurprisingly, Japan also has a lot of manhole covers that feature characters! It didn't start right away with famous ones, however.
11 Bodacious 80s Album Covers That Are Burned Into Our Brains Despite MTV putting music videos on the map, 80s album covers never suffered. They continued a long tradition of the expressive art ...
Deep Purple's three concerts in Japan in August 1972 — Osaka on Aug. 15 and 16, and Tokyo on Aug. 17 — were whittled down for a seven-song double album for release in that country later that year.
Not many Minnesota musicians have performed in Japan. Dakota Dave Hull might be the first based in the Land of 10,000 Bands to record a live album in Japan. The distinguished guitar picker from ...