Why is Japanese Pop, Asian Pop, and and Korean Pop so difficult to acquire in th!


Question: I have always been interesting in hearing more from the Asian countries, but acquiring the music from over there is extremely difficult. Especially through legal channels. Why is that?


Answers: I have always been interesting in hearing more from the Asian countries, but acquiring the music from over there is extremely difficult. Especially through legal channels. Why is that?

Actually, it is not hard to find, that is, if you have an Asian community in the city you live in, you should be able to find Asian CD stores.

I was lucky, I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area which has a large Asian population. There was a number of Asian CD stores to choose from.

I'm a transplanted American living in China now and fell in love with Asian music the first time I came here. I find the music different and refreshing. While I like American popular music, there is something different about the Asian popular music that I really like. From the beat, to the rhythm of the words to the melody. To even one artist that does a masterful job of combining traditional instruments and melodies into a westernized style of delivery. While I don't understand the words, it is amazing how easy it is to understand the meaning of the songs just from the melody, singers voice and the delivery. Some of the songs are stuff to make love too. To just dancing your asssssss off.

Most of the artist, I have no idea what their names are because its all in Chinese. The ones I know that have adopted English names, these are my favorites, Jolin, A-Mei, Jay, Update Jane, and Angila. All incredible in their own rights.

Americans are really missing out on a lot. What I find disingenuous about some of the Answers here are statements from people saying that Americans don't like it. That is blatantly wrong, because most Americans have never heard it. I have turned some of my stateside friends onto Asian music and they really love it. My son, who's a part time DJ in a local club in the college town he lives in uses some of the stuff I send to him there, and the crowd eats it up.

It amazes me how people make blanket statements about things they have never been exposed too, or if they have, they never took the time to find out anything about it, except a few fleeting seconds worth. Or they base their knowledge of Asian music on very traditional types and think all of Asia is stuck in some kind of traditional music time warp. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Lastly, go to the Asian CD stores in the states, the prices are unusually cheap. $5 to $7 and most of the CD's are doubles. Where I live in China, the same CD's cost $1.50 to $2 You can get CD's on Amazon, but you'll pay USA prices, anywhere from $10 to $18 and possibly a lot more because its an import.

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mostly because everyone wants really badly to keep it out of this country.

because we listen to good music!!!!

because your american, the americanism in your country is big, i live in australia, its hard to aquire it too, but i have friends all over asia, i ask them to buy it for me, or i go to the city, ( melbourne) they have a all azn movie - pop music store to get my asian stuff

It's not difficult at all. @__@ Just get your butt on Amazon.com and pick up stuff from whichever artist you want.

Don't be ignorant and jump to conclusions! You asked why its hard to find, if people liked it it would be easy to acquire and you wouldn't be asking that question. No one has even been close to making a racist remark. I don't wanna listen to people who sing bluegrass, that doesn't mean I hate them as people. This is a place where you get answers sometimes you dont get what you want to hear, its life, and its fact.

because it SUCKS, what Americans wanna listen to a bunch of Asian people sing... The USA is an ENGLISH speaking country and it will stay that way. So why would we want that crap? We already had William Hung that was enough

Its all about money.

If you were in the retail trade you would understand that.
Here is how it works:
All stores that carry music have x amount of space on the floor for cd's, dvd's etc.
A computer is used to order music, the program that orders it is uses a algorithm that automatically 'ages' merchandise based on how long it stays on the shelf, (it knows when it was ordered and how much was sold based on check-out receipt) it also knows (because the store input it) the total space on the retail floor and the cost monthly for that space) . Using this and other data, such as the cost of each item it works out a profit margin. Under performing song hits receive less place on the shelves, some are returned for credit, some are never ordered again. those selling well receive more space ...so on and so forth. The store employees receive a daily list of what to pull and what to add..as well as the placememt of the item so that customers might see it easier.
Pop from asian countries plain and simple does not sell, there are not enough buyers for it, and ... most of the asian kids here go to American schools and their peers listen to english bands, so they do too. Some do listen to their own countries music but not many. most of them are born and bred in USA. Say you were asian and you had in your car some foreign music, even if they sang in english, the rest of your friends who might be American/white/black etc...would go...what is that??? put on Justin man.... !!!!!

Plain and simple a store does not sell enough copies of the music to justify the cost of ordering a cd from overseas (extra cost) and wasting space on the floor for it in the hopes that someone will someday maybe buy it....
The space on the floor can be more profitably used. So as I said in the beginning of this explanation...."Its all about money."


Go to an Asian grocery store if you want to purchase ethnic CD's...they always have a few...because their 'ordering systems' are based on the fact that persons buying ethnic foodstuff might be more likely to listen to ethnic music as well and therefore its good business to stock a few popular CD's and DVD's.!!!!

US dont like asian . let them admit it . but we the ones making their technology && another thign is that while they dont let our music come through they steal our movie ideas



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