Resource to find new Japanese music: Tons of Spotify playlists based off of what is actually being listened to in Japan

Today, I came across [everynoise.com](https://everynoise.com/#otherthings) and found some cool resources for discovering new Japanese music. Discovering Japanese music on US Spotify isn’t great, and often the playlists by Spotify and users are just anime songs people in the US like.

When I went to karaoke in Japan this October with some Japanese friends I thought it was funny which English songs they thought were popular, and they roasted the Japanese songs I knew too for the same reason. The songs people actually listen to in a country and what foreigners think people listen to are two different things. Here a rough order of the areas of the site I thought were the most useful to discover new Japanese music.

1. [Spotify World Browser](https://everynoise.com/worldbrowser.cgi): A lot of Spotify curated playlists in Japan.

2. [Genres by Country](https://everynoise.com/countries.html): Clicking Japan gives you a playlist with the overall sound of the country. You can find a ton of Japanese music genres here too. Clicking a specific genre takes you to a page with playlists like a genre intro, new songs, [top songs of the year](https://everynoise.com/2023_around_the_world.cgi?vantage=JP&genre=%28JP%29), etc.

3. [Every Demographic](https://everynoise.com/everydemo.cgi?vector=country&gscope=all&ascope=all): Explore playlists popular with different countries demographics grouped by age and gender. There’s also a page I found cool that gives you the music different [schools are listening to](https://everynoise.com/everyschool.cgi?scope=JP&vector=activity), so you can see what’s popular with different college students around the country.

4. [The Needle](https://everynoise.com/theneedle.html): Playlists for underground music, discovering songs that might become the popular (or fall into obscurity). Looks for slight changes in listening patterns to try and find new music that might become popular in Japan.

5. [Every Place at Once](https://everynoise.com/everyplace.cgi?root=Tokyo%20JP&scope=all): Localized playlist of popular songs for different cities in Japan, also lets you know most popular genres in that city. [Hyperspace House Concerts](https://everynoise.com/hyperspace_house_concerts.cgi?country=JP&region=Tokyo&city=Tokyo) gives you playlists for songs that are more popular in that specific city for wtv reason.

Anyway I thought this was a cool site to try and find new Japanese music you like that is actually being listened to by people in Japan. Hope someone out there finds this interesting/useful too!