J-Pop
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J-Pop is the popular music of Japan. Recently, J-Pop has been influenced (affected) by western culture, J-Pop now sounds different than older J-Pop.
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[change] Yumi Matsutoya
Yumi Matsutoya, also known as Yuming, Yumi Arai and Karuho Kureta, is considered by many the "mother" of modern-day J-Pop. She has been one of the most successful Japanese singer-songwriters in the twentith century in the world of pop music. Almost half of her albums reached number one at the Japanese Oricon charts, and all of her albums reached top 10 since her first one, Hikōki-gumo in 1973. She has sold over 37,800,000 copies of albums and singles.
