The highest ranking seasonal number was back number’s “Christmas Song.”
A Billboard Japan Women in Music interview.
With 7 million subscribers, The First Take has featured Harry Styles and Avril Lavigne and helped break new artists on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.
Next Fire is a show on TikTok Live that highlights the rising J-pop artists of the moment, based on Billboard Japan’s TikTok Weekly Top 20 chart.
The group — composed of rock artists Yoshiki, Sugizo, Hyde and Miyavi — is releasing its debut single on Dec. 23.
The trackmaker and singer formed Black Boboi with Utena Kobayashi and Julia Shortreed in 2018.
The boy band has already entered the Japan Hot 100 after getting support from the likes of Bang Si-Hyuk, Scooter Braun, BTS and other HYBE creatives.
The initiative launched this year in the same spirit of Billboard’s annual Women in Music issue that began in 2007.
Last week’s No. 1 song, Kenshi Yonezu’s “KICK BACK,” falls to No. 2.
Plus: The excitement generated by the 2022 FIFA World Cup has fueled King Gnu's "Stardom" into the top 10 this week
