To find out, Billboard JAPAN sat down with Joe Hadley – Spotify's Global Head of Music Partnerships & Audience – during his visit to Japan in May for the inaugural MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2025, the ...

Spotify’s Joe Hadley on Why Japanese Music’s Global Moment Is Just Beginning & How MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN Sets the Stage. Billboard Japan caught up with Hadley, Spotify's Global Head of Music ...

Spotify came late to the party as Apple Music, Line and local service Rakuten have already been supplying Japanese music aficionados with tunes for quite some time now.

Noriko Ashizawa of Spotify Japan on the Past & Future of the Music Industry: Billboard Japan Women in Music Interview. Ashizawa spoke about working to support up-and-coming artists as Spotify's ...

As evidence of this, PR Times has announced which Japanese songs and artists performed the best on Spotify both within Japan and abroad. For 2024, the same song was at the top of both lists, truly ...

“Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” by the hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts is the most-streamed song in Japan and the most streamed by a Japanese artist internationally, according to Spotify’s 2024 rankings.

Music in eight different languages generated more than $100 million last year, Spotify said: English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Korean and Italian. In 2017, it was only ...