[Video] Digital Music Trends 139: the Japanese music market, Foursquare + Deezer, RIAA Certifications, Songza and more Taishi Fukuyama (@ tshfkym ) speaks about the Japanese music industry and recent news within the global digital music industry with former longtime billboard magazine writer and current author of http://mccluremusic.com , Steve McClure with host, Andrea Leonelli (@ digitalmusictrends ) on this weeks Digital Music Trends . Topics and timeline: 00:15 Introduction and guests 02:00 Foursquare announces a partnership with Deezer in 15 territories, is Foursquare pervasive enough to grant Deezer a chunk of new users? 08:00 The Japanese music market, on the brink of surpassing the US in terms of revenues, were you guys surprised? What is the current state of the Japanese music industry today? 13:15 The growth of the Japanese market has been tied to the rise in physical sales related to the J-pop phenomenon and very specific bands. This is not coupled with the growth of a sustainable digital market yet, is this a dangerous position to be in? 18:04 Who is the main provider of music downloads on “feature phones” and how do those work? Taishi talks about Recochoku and the availability of artist-specific subscription as well as on-demand downloads. 20:00 How come that these services didn’t adapt to offer smartphone-based services too when the shift started happening over a year back? 27:00 Promic.tv is the latest website placing a focus on promoting Japanese music internationally, is there a lot of focus on breaking Japanese artists abroad and are Japanese artists working towards that? 36:45 The japanese authors society JASRAC is a huge part of the music industry in Japan, what kind of organisation is it, what’s the perception of the society in JAPAN and how does it behave with digital services for example? 42:30 The RIAA decided to change its certification rules in light of the release of Magna Carta Holy Grail, implying that they will count the copies sold via Samsung as part of the certification process while Billboard stated they won’t count towards the charts. What’s your take on all this? 50:25 Songza launched a premium service with “Club Songza” priced at 99 cents per week. 56:00 What’s the state of internet radio in Japan? 57:30 Napster Documentary “Downloaded” is available to download in the US 58:10 The SXSW machine restarts with the Panelpicker entries open once again 58:57 Thanks and outro via Please like on facebook and follow on twitter ! See you there! July 5, 2013 1 note Filed under: digital music trends dmt digital music trends napster documentary video sxsw songza japan billboard riaa magna carta holy grail jasrac promic recochoku jpop foursquare deezer . tshfkym reblogged this from prtlblog prtlblog posted this View the discussion thread.