Since the Covid-19 pandemic, music from Japanese animations is booming on Spotify and at gigs and club nights – especially ...

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 is optimistic about their presence in Japan. "We expect Spotify and music streaming in general to have a positive impact on the industry and also music fans, who’ll have instant access ...

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 ...

It is official. Spotify has finally launched in Japan, sounding the starting gun on its race to secure customers in the world’s second largest music market. I think that the Swedish company will ...

Afters years of waiting, Spotify has finally launched its music streaming service in Japan. We reported earlier this month that the launch would happen before September is out, and the company ...

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 ...

This launch in Japan, the planet’s second largest music market based on sales, has been a long time coming for Spotify, which recently passed 40 million paying customers.

Spotify had supported lyrics on the desktop since early last year, but the feature was recently disabled as the service ended its partnership with Musixmatch. Apple Music added lyrics support with ...

Tamaki joins UMJ from Spotify, where he has served as General Manager & President, Spotify Japan since 2016, leading their music-streaming operations within Japan. Prior to Spotify, he served as ...