Psst - it's the anniversary of Cowboy Bebop's and Music Women Wednesday by @loewe
So, let's post music from the incomparable Yoko Kanno, specifically Tank! - which served as the theme for Cowboy Bebop. https://songwhip.com/seatbelts/tank
In a recent report, it seems that sale of “Anime Music” is down in Japan. Of course, that does not tell the whole story.
In recent years, Seiyuu as themselves make music for Anime under their own name, which makes their releases look like any old music release unless the person knows where the song came from and they release a lot of songs that aren’t even tied to anime. Even regular musical acts are creating music for Anime.
Sure, we see character songs and seiyuus as the anime characters singing the OP/ED, but I’m noticing over the course of a decade that a musical artist or a seiyuu does the music for the opening/ending and less of the charracters themselves with the CV credits doing it these days.
@chikorita157 "Anime music" is down, meanwhile "Idol", made by a normal band but made for anime, was #7 on Apple Music for the entirety of 2023, being Number 1 on AM for literally months.
Physical media sales are down nationwide in Japan too, to the point of SquareEnix announcing hours ago they'd put more resources into digital sales/goods as one of their medium-term pillars.
I don't like their overly-strict definition of Anisong.
It's Music Women Wednesday from @loewe and let me tell you - LiSA has been dropping a bunch of special clips, music clips, music videos onto her YouTube channel in the past few days.