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THE MOST POPULAR JAPANESE MUSIC

When we were in Seoul, one of my postings was on the  most popular Korean songs from the 1950's to the present .  In Tokyo, I also did not quite finish something similar for Japan.  So today will be one of the fallouts from our recent 2-month adventure throughout the Orient. Similar to South Korea, Japan had a relatively recent big hit on Billboard:  Yoasobi's  Idol  reached #1 on the Billboard Global...Excluding the U.S., on 10June2023.  Well, not quite the same, for BTS hit #1 in 2020 on the Billboard Hot 100 with  Dynamite ,  and followed at #1 with Savage Love ( complicated re-mix of Savage Love with Jason Derulo and Jawsh 685 ), Life Goes On, Butter, Permission to Dance and My Universe (with Coldplay).   Yoasobi is a Japanese musical duo formed in 2019 of producer Ayase ( on the left ) and vocalist Lilas Ikuta.  I asked Google AI about other recent Japanese hits. Other Japanese songs to hit the top 10 of the Global Excl. U...