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yoonchi wrote:


>AFAIK the music business is much more a business in the US then in the
>rest of the world. The corporations sell music as a product; it could
>have been soap these corporations sell. So, to get hits in the US, you
>have to have a product that fits the selling channels. Your music has
>to be playable on radio, your image should be acceptable.

It's far more formatted and commercialized here in Japan than 
anything I have ever seen in the states.  The boy band thing is 
currently on a roll in the States.  In Japan girl bands boy bands 
totally dominate the waves and have for years and years and for the 
most part no one over the age of about 15 even pretends that any of 
these people have any real singing ability.