The highest ranking seasonal number was back number’s “Christmas Song.”
A Billboard Japan Women in Music interview.
Next Fire is a show on TikTok Live that highlights the rising J-pop artists of the moment, based on Billboard Japan’s TikTok Weekly Top 20 chart.
The trackmaker and singer formed Black Boboi with Utena Kobayashi and Julia Shortreed in 2018.
The initiative launched this year in the same spirit of Billboard’s annual Women in Music issue that began in 2007.
Last week’s No. 1 song, Kenshi Yonezu’s “KICK BACK,” falls to No. 2.
Plus: The excitement generated by the 2022 FIFA World Cup has fueled King Gnu's "Stardom" into the top 10 this week
Billboard Japan caught up with the members for the first time since they performed in front of their fans in Brazil at the end of July.
“Subtitle” rose to No. 1 again powered by streaming.
There's no question that "Subtitle" is one of the biggest hit songs of the Japanese music scene in the latter half of 2022.
