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JAPAN TOP SONGS 2017 - Billboard Japan Hot 100 Year-End Chart

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• published: 31 Mar 2017
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The Year-End chart is finally out, and this gives us a good look into the world of J-Pop in 2016. Hope you all enjoy the video! With the intro out of the way, I would like to apologize to all of my subscribers as I went "missing" for the last few weeks. Many things came up and I was really really really busy over that period, which leads to the lack of videos and response from me. I am terribly sorry. Hopefully this special video will be able to make up for my disappearance over the last few weeks. Now to talk about this chart... ♢Warning: Possible Spoilers???♢ This is possibly the most unremarkable No.1 song ever. Seriously. Last year we see R.Y.U.S.E.I.(2015~#1) almost present in every Top 25 video I made ever, which leads to the Top 100 special this year. The year before we see GUTS(2014~#1) getting two consecutive weeks No.1 which is extremely rare in Japan. But this year? I forgot about this song already. It has almost no chart presence aside from the 2-3 weeks after its debut. So it getting the No.1 spot came as a total surprise to me. To me, No.2/No.3 is much more deserving of the top spot this year. With No.2 achieving two week consecutive No.1, and No.3 being almost as prevalent as R.Y.U.S.E.I. in the second half of the year. Another odd thing about the chart is the amount of songs that we never/rarely see in the weekly Top 25 videos I make. #88 and #71 are some of the examples. I believe they are the chart lurkers that usually stay in the Bottom 50 of the chart but is constantly present so that their sales eventually accumulates enough to enter the Year-End chart. Also from my personal experience, there seems to be much more old songs retained from 2015, which is why I added the "chart movement" labels. You can see that there are a lot of old songs that moved around, but there are also more re-entries than I expected. One of the songs actually debuted 12 years ago, even before Billboard Japan is created. (First Year-End Chart is in 2008) That is why the song is considered a "DEBUT" on the Year-End Chart. Alright my commentary aside, hope you all enjoy the video and have a great holiday season. ^^ I need to apologize to the Japanese viewers as I am not fluent in Japanese and thus I cannot translate my rant here into Japanese. But I plan to show the songs and the artists' name in both English and Japanese in future episodes, hope you guys can bear with me. All video clips and audio tracks used to make this video are copyright and owned by the recording artists and their labels as well as the TV channels that air them. No Copyright Infringement intended. The source of this year-end chart is available at a special page at the official Billboard Japan website, which is right here: http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100_year&year;=2016 ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ For anyone who is interested, here are my 10 favorite songs of 2016 (In no particular order): 1. KEYTALK – HELLO WONDERLAND 2. Kenshi Yonezu – LOSER (米津玄師 – LOSER) 3. Utada Hikaru feat. Sheena Ringo – Nijikan Dake no Vacance (宇多田ヒカル feat. 椎名林檎 – 二時間だけのバカンス) 4. Yasutaka Nakata feat. Kenshi Yonezu – NANIMONO (中田ヤスタカ feat. 米津玄師 – NANIMONO) 5. Motohiro Hata – Sumire (秦基博 - スミレ) 6. SPYAIR – THIS IS HOW WE ROCK 7. CreepHyp – Hakka (クリープハイプ - 破花) 8. Aimer feat. Yojiro Noda(RADWIMPS) – Chouchou Musubi (エメ – 蝶々結び) 9. Happiness - Ordinary Girls 10. MYTH & ROID - STYX HELIX I only realized after I finished this list that none of these songs are present in the Year-End chart. This is not saying that the Year-End chart is bad, it's just that there are so many great songs this year that I am spoiled for choice. All of the songs in my list are available on YouTube so do check them out. What is your favorite song this year? How do you feel about the Year-End chart this year? Do tell me in the comments below.