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.
@anianimalsmoe Could be, but I don’t do streaming music since I prefer owning my music and the streaming services pay their artists poorly.
Without full statistics of how the music market in Japan, it’s hard to say whether or not CDs are dying in Japan. After all, there are the mainstream idol groups that sell handshake tickets with the CDs, which the wota buys it all up and throw away the CDs afterwards. :leafeonmoney: I wonder if this is still a thing.
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