/r/citypop

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A subreddit for City Pop, a Japanese style of popular music originating in the 1980s.

Official City Pop Discord: https://discord.gg/pN2fST6

Just discovered City Pop?
Try one of these recommendation charts:

Where do I start?
By decade: 70s / 80s / 90s / 00s
By color: Red / Blue / Yellow / Purple-ish / Grayscale

Or check out SuperKayo, a community maintained CITY POP and Japanese oldies archive.

Thinking of starting a collection?
Guide: How Do I Collect Japanese Music from Outside Japan?

About City Pop (Text Source: Wikipedia, RYM)

In the early 1980s, with the spread of car stereos, the term City Pop came to describe a type of popular music... a breezy, mellow mixture of smooth jazz and album-oriented rock – often with elements of jazz fusion, jazz-funk, or boogie – which appealed to an older and more affluent Japanese audience. Essentially a "mood" or "lifestyle" genre, its themes reflected a life of luxury in a sophisticated urban environment.

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Related subreddits:
/r/TrueCityPop (a highly curated alternative)
/r/JapaneseNewMusic
/r/japanesemusic
/r/jfunk
/r/shibuyakei
/r/jpop
/r/OmegaTribe
/r/Yuming

/r/silkysmoothmusic
/r/boogiemusic
/r/softrock
/r/jazzfusion
/r/vintageobscura

/r/futurefunk
/r/vaporwave

External links/blogs:
Kayo Kyoku Plus (lots of info and YT links!)

Please do not share illegal download links on the subreddit. Thanks!

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Recommendation of the day

https://youtu.be/4Sh2FPgKFzk?si=f1Ob58SZPOUaL-E_

A beautiful song! ♥️🎶✨️

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2024/11/01
03:43 UTC

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Women of Japanese Pop - A collection of good songs by Japanese female singers.[Pop]

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2024/11/01
02:55 UTC

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Best record stores in LA for citypop?

Headed out to Los Angeles soon and wondering if anyone would reccomend a couple shops to check out that I might can find some good citypop? Thanks so much!

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2024/10/31
23:33 UTC

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Minako Yoshida - Monster Stomp (1981) - Happy Halloween!

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2024/10/31
21:13 UTC

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Any JADOES listeners?? Lmk what your favorite song is

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2024/10/31
19:47 UTC

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City Pop Vol.3 🇯🇵

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2024/10/31
17:50 UTC

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Any recs for citypop music?

I really enjoy listening to Ginger Root and the sound he creates. I'd like to listen to more citypop, but don't know where to start.

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2024/10/31
10:54 UTC

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Amazing quick musical overview of Flying Beagle by Himiko Kikuchi. Worth the watch!

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2024/10/30
23:17 UTC

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Noriyo Ikeda - Dream In The Street (1980)

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2024/10/30
22:40 UTC

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I’m looking looking for a song with a female vocalist.

I think the chorus or some part she says something like “I wanna be neat, neat, every day” that or she says clean?

I run into it every now and again and I think it’s from one of the bigger names, but I feel so silly for always forgetting the song and artist.

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2024/10/30
16:25 UTC

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Neo City Pop Japan - New generation of Japanese city pop. [Pop]

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2024/10/30
02:28 UTC

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Anybody basing their City Pop collection on a specific artist?

Anybody basing their City Pop collection on a specific artist?

I like most City Pop songs and artist i have heard and I do have some of the must haves for City Pop fans (Tomoko Aran's Fuyu Kukan, Mariya Takeuchi's Variety, Takako Mamiya's Love Trip etc) but i have focused my collecting on City Pop artist Yuko Tomita. This is because I heard her songs first and that is what brought me into City Pop (I had listened to heavy metal band Loudness's song Odin and the Youtube AI thought i wanted to hear other Japanese artists and brought up Yuko Tomita's Shampoo)

I know have tapes, CD's, records, autographs, ticket stubs, posters of hers.

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2024/10/29
21:25 UTC

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Piano Cover of Anri's "Lost Love in the Rain" by 音楽音泉 PIANO

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2024/10/29
20:37 UTC

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Kumi Nagao BEST SONGS - Kumi Nagao [Pop]

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2024/10/29
02:08 UTC

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