Ayu is now on Spotify

[truehappiness]

I think it's a lot of YouTube if they can. Or via Apple sources? When I saw anyone listening to July 1st, it was on old iPods or using iTunes somehow.

The chart that the song got on for AWA was "recently added songs total plays" or something and has gone up to no.4 on there but it doesn't seem like there's a ton of plays to begin with on AWA.

[attractive nausea]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think it's a lot of YouTube if they can.

How can they do that though? Japanese official channels never upload music videos entirely lol Short versions are still a thing there it seems.

Physical sales overall are decreasing, streaming isn't very common either, seems like japanese people don't really care for music anymore?

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by attractive nausea

How can they do that though? Japanese official channels never upload music videos entirely lol Short versions are still a thing there it seems.

Physical sales overall are decreasing, streaming isn't very common either, seems like japanese people don't really care for music anymore?

That's just true for certain companies/artists, not for the whole market.
Even within avex it depends on the artist.
Especially artists being popular with the younger generations are uploading full videos and doing YouTube lives and so on.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by attractive nausea

How can they do that though? Japanese official channels never upload music videos entirely lol Short versions are still a thing there it seems.

Physical sales overall are decreasing, streaming isn't very common either, seems like japanese people don't really care for music anymore?

YouTube is not an option for some artists, but some bigger artists have full videos out especially nowadays. In the cases where there isn't a YouTube option people probably either rip them from rentals or buy.

I think CD rentals (then ripping files from them) are probably the big thing that is not as common anywhere else that Japan has access to. Streaming isn't nearly as big as physical in Japan still but it's growing, same for downloads... but people are still able to get their music somehow, lol.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/201...outube-report/
http://musically.com/2017/09/25/riaj...reaming-japan/

38.4% listened to physical CDs.

27% played their favorite tracks from ripped digital files.

9.7% listened to music downloads.

8.7% listened to online radio.

6% used free streaming platforms.

3.9% paid to stream their tracks.

The key question: the RIAJ asked people how they listen to music, with 42.7% saying they used YouTube.

Here's a somewhat recent report. Basically it says physical CDs + CD rips + YouTube are what people use but the amount polled wasn't too large. Still, it's something. The numbers may add up a bit strangely due to allowing multiple answers from the participants.