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| Entertainment / Arts › Anime songs top charts with talented singers and support from women Posted: 03 Oct 2010 03:22 PM PDT TOKYO — Theme songs and soundtracks from Japanese anime are making inroads into the mainstream J-pop music genre, drawing popularity particularly from female consumers as talented voice actresses sing the songs. More than 60 anime songs hit the top 10 singles chart this year, according to entertainment information provider Oricon Co. Sales of CDs in the anime and soundtrack genre totaled 29.3 billion yen in 2009, up from 24.9 billion yen in 2005, according to Oricon. Since the Tower Records store in Tokyo's Shinjuku district opened a section for anime songs this spring, Ryo Majima, who is in charge of J-pop music at the store, says he saw more than a 30 percent increase in female customers. The songs have ''good melody lines and the voice actresses singing are talented,'' Majima says. He believes customers including women, who are not necessarily ardent anime fans, can easily connect with songs sung by popular anime voice actresses. Especially noteworthy is the growing popularity in so-called ''character songs,'' in which the voice talents sing as anime characters, says Hiroko Katsuragi, editor at entertainment business magazine ''Oricon Biz.'' CDs released under a band appearing in anime ''K-on'' have topped Oricon's weekly hit charts. ''This is a big boom that we've never seen before,'' says Katsuragi. ''The talents are going into the anime songs genre and I believe the popularity will last,'' she added. © 2010 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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