The extent to which Japanese songs are widely disseminated in China is indeed a long way from English and Korean.
The most popular Japanese songs may be limited to the current anime songs, theme songs and interludes of Japanese dramas, etc., far from reaching the point of popularity.
If you think about it, how many Japanese song titles can you say?
It is no exaggeration to say that the Japanese music scene in the 1990s has always been a bellwether for the Asian music scene, and early Japanese music has fed most of the Hong Kong music scene. Do you know these?
In the last century, the influence of Japanese music on Chinese pop music was more profound than we thought. Early Hong Kong pop music and even modern Chinese music developed on the basis of Japanese music.
Japan had a relatively formed entertainment circle in the 50s, and many artists in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 70s and 80s went to Japan to study and develop, such as Teresa Teng, Rowan, Beyond Band, etc. have been to Japan.
Teresa
I have to mention here are Miyuki Nakajima and Koji Tamaki, these two names may be unfamiliar to you, but their songs must be familiar to you. "Vulnerable Woman", "Sad Pacific", "First Dream" and so on are actually cover songs from Miyuki Nakajima.
Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima has long been known as the "National Treasure of Japan". In addition to being a professional singer, she is also a writer, radio host, actress, and professional songwriter. From the 1970s to the present, almost every album by Miyuki Nakajima has had songs refilled and covered by Chinese regional singers, most of which have become classics.
According to incomplete statistics, Hong Kong and Taiwan singers have sung at least more than 70 songs by Miyuki Nakajima. It can be said that Miyuki Nakajima, born in 1952, has influenced three generations of Chinese people in her singing career, but most Chinese are unaware of the existence of the Japanese singer.
Koji Tamaki
Koji Tamaki is another Japanese male singer who has been covered the most. Many people know Koji Tamaki through eason's cover songs, as early as the moment when the four kings bombed the Hong Kong pop music scene, they have covered many works of Koji Tamaki. In particular, he is known for singing the most famous singer god "Jacky Cheung", and loves the songs of Koji Tamaki.
In addition to these two representative singers, there are many Japanese singers or bands who are often covered singers. The "Red Sun", which was extremely popular in China, sang the "Big Event" of the Big Thing Man Band.
Li Keqin's "Red Sun" album cover
Stunned your cover appendix:
Tigers - Green Apple Paradise - Junior Team - whats your name
Kotora -- 红蜻蜓-长buchi-tonbo
Faye Wong - Vulnerable Woman - Miyuki Nakajima - ル一ジユ (lipstick)
Ying Kokukoku - Unsatisfy- Daiko Shiko - La? Vianlo's
张Koku-Koku 荣 - 风继续buki- Momoe Yamaguchi - Goodbye Tong-no-Kou
Ying Koku-Koku -Monica--Koji Yoshikawa - Monica
Gakutomo - One Street Yunobu- Maeda Wataru - Love Song for You Who Can't Cry (Unsatisfy Emotions)
Alumni - Minute Rains- Wataru Maeda - Nge to You Who Can't Cry
Jacky Cheung - Love you more every day - Kuwata Yoshiyuki - The fruit of true summer
Gakutomo - Lee Ko-hyun - Koji Tamaki - Don't Go (Leave Unnecessary)
Alumni - Half-Curves- Koji Tamaki - Continued (Ying-disciplinary Extension)
Mr. 邓丽 - Mata-Rin- Saori Yuji - Autumn in the Village
Teresa Teresa - Walking the Path of Life - Miyuki Nakajima - ひとりJoy (Used to being lonely)
Guo Tomijo - 对你爱- Toshihiko Tahara - I Can't Dance in Silhouette (Incapable Yogeko Jump)
Rene Liu - Later - Kiroro - Future へ (Toward the Future)
Rene Liu - Love You Very Much - Kiroro - Nagama (Long Time)
Rene Liu - Turns out you are also here - Miyuki Nakajima - Love される花愛されぬ花 (loved flowers and unloved flowers)
Ying Kayawaka - Light--Koji Tamaki-Hikari
Jiang Yuheng - Toast to the past - Chang Shu Gang - Cheers
Fan Weiqi - the original dream - Miyuki Nakajima - riding on the back of a silver dragon
Ren Xianqi - Sad Pacific - Sachiko Kobayashi - Yukito (Happiness)
Ren Xianqi - Tianya - Miyuki Nakajima - Takegame
100 陈强 - Cold 风-Koji Tamaki - A Hunch of Love (Koino sense)
Li Keg-tsung - 红 红
Li Kuretsu - Night and Half Night Music - Kawai Nahoko - Half Moon Serenade (Moon and Half And Small Night Song)
Ying Hui-hyun - 1,000-Chikedos--Masahiko Kondo - Sunset Song (Yukono Uta)
Zhou Huajian - Let Me Rejoice and Make Me Worry - Chuck and the Bird - Male Woman (Man and Woman)
The Brothers 筷 - Old Man- Takuya Dae-Ya - Thank you (谢谢你)
Karen Mok - The fruit of midsummer - UA - Water color
Mo Wen Ul - Cold Rain - Bambaso - Cold Rain
Mo Wen Ul - Alive Self-Freedom-ZONE - Secret Base- What You Gave Me
Han Xue - Drifting Snow - Mika Nakajima - Snow No Hua
Han Xue - The Way Out of Love - Mika Nakajima - Find the way
范晓萱 - Health Songs-Ueki, etc. - Rinjiri's Loken Roll (Ying-Shikiri-no-Kakuchi)
范晓萱 - Little Witch Magic- MAI&YUMIKO-CHAN - The Town of Longing
范晓萱 - 让爱发发-Azumi Inoue - Maigo
范晓萱 - Bean bean bean sardines- Azumi Inoue - My Neighbor Totoro
范晓萱 - Yuko Kanzaki - Yuko Kanzaki - I want you to be
范晓萱 - Secret Magic—Yuko Kanzaki - Secret? magic
F4 - Meteor Shower - Ken Hirai - Gaining Through Losing
Flower Band - Wash Brush - Puffy - k2g ~ Run to You! ～
Letter Orchestra - Love When You Die - Park Wan-kyu - Love for Millions of Years
Fei Xiang - A Fire in Winter – The Tolans - Sexy Music
Grasshoppers - Limited Time ABC - Junior Team - ABC
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Lin Zhiying - Follow me to the beach - KinKi Kids - FLOWER
Lin Zhiying - Grab Back Your Love - KinKi Kids - Glass Boy
Nicholas Tse - Su San wants to say - KinKi Kids - Blue Sadness
Ma Tianyu - still together - KinKi Kids - Silver Code
Sky - Five Equal Loves Teenagers - Tokio - Huabei
Sky - Blasphemy - Smap - The Only Flower in the World
Sky - The World of 环-Smap - Mukou in the Night Sky
Everyday Up - Sunflower - Arashi - one love
5566 - for you——EXILE - song for you
S.H.E - Forgetting To Know What You Need to Know - Kiroro - Favorite Person
S.H.E - Starlight - Ayumi Hamasaki - About You
Wang Xinling - Moonlight - Hitomi Shimatani - A girl with flax-colored hair
Wang Shin Ryo - The Flying Wings- Large - Momonohana Villa
Wang Xinling - Youth Exam Paper - Sweets - Rainbow Color の Forever
Ryo Wang - 飞吧- Rin Natsukawa - Dojijin - Yamatoguchi ~
Nozomi Kamae - Night--Ketsumeishi - Night☆Ying
Zeng Baoyi - Concentration - Over Yaminai - Transformed into the Wind
Hata Hai-hyun - Meiten-Imaiten Happiness-Utada Hikaru - Let's Be Happy
Qin Hailu - A play without a protagonist - Ayumi Hamasaki - GAME
Qin Hailu - Happy Aftertaste - Ghost Bundle Chihiro - sign
Xiao Yaxuan - Rose - SAKURA - Oh I
Cai Chunjia - Accompany me to see the sunrise - Natsukawa Rimi - Tears glittering
Zheng Xiuwen - thank you - kokia - arigatou
These are just the tip of the iceberg in countless cover songs. Now you know that many of the songs we're familiar with are Japanese melodies.
Which other classic songs do you know that are cover Japanese songs? Let's leave a message to discuss