Japan: Inside the world’s second-largest music market
With a slew of new venues under construction, Japan has a new drive to return to the glory days as a crucial tour destination for international acts
Feature By Adam Woods | 12 September 2023
The western concert business tends to view itself as a global movement these days, professionalising and supercharging new markets one by one – and there is plenty of truth in that narrative. A market like Japan, however, sits stubbornly outside that vision.
Already the second-biggest live market in the world, Japan doesn’t require professionalising by American or European operators, and Covid pains aside, it hardly needs supercharging.
It remains a market ruled by large domestic operators, in which major western…
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