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mdo7
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Whoa, OK. Good job for them, this is the 1st time something that is not a K-pop act and a Japanese act that has managed to break the Billboard top 10 albums chart.
I don't dispute this and this is correct. The only thing that we've seen so far are K-pop and Korean act, I mean ever since K-pop/Korean act has broke the Billboard charts in various categories, something we've never seen a lot for Japanese act as long as anime had become staple in the US. This is not to snub or attack J-pop/J-music in general. There has been some attempted breakthrough for J-music act despite not breaking the Billboard chart with limited success like for example, I think some of you know who Pink Lady are, one of their song Kiss in the Dark reached #37 on Billboard 100 chart back in 1979. Also, I want to mention Seiko Matsuda, one of her song, The Right Combination (which she performed with Donnie Wahlberg) charted on #54 on Billboard 100 chart back in 1990. So J-musicians had some limited success in the US and on Billboard chart, not even visual kei/J-rock couldn't even do this at their prime. But this is the sad thing to see for J-pop and J-music in general when it comes to limited success in the US compared to their Korean/K-pop counterpart. So I guess it's congratulation to Babymetal, they're the only exception so far to breaking the top 10 despite all the K-pop acts that have been breaking the top 10 on Billboard 200 chart for the last few years. |
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GohanTrunkFans
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Well deserved❤
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Elfensjón
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Billboard Japan chart are not the official music charts in Japan. The official charts are the Oricon Weekly Albums (which only count physical sales, though). In Germany, the album ranked seventh which is quite easy to do so as the German charts are entirely revenue-based. Means, a work can rank higher despite selling less compared to other artists but due to higher revenue.
Neithertheless, quite a deserved success. |
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hkendymon
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Great to hear. Also they are notably the first ever Asian metal or rock act (depending if you define metal as rock) to EVER chart in the US top 10. For my money, they are the best live act in any genre the last couple decades, PERIOD (Asian or otherwise).
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whiskeyii
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Hell yeah, Babymetal!!! I want to attend one of their concerts someday! T^T9
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