Japanese music group ( or just an idol group ), EXILE’s new album called AISUBEKI MIRAI E, or For Lovely Future in English translation, is on the top sales for a long time and it reaches at 1.45 million copies release.

This is a very rare news in Japanese music industry. Decads ago, there were many million seller records in Japan. But now, CDs are not sold like the past.

Music already became just consuming products. When we were teenager, records were treasures of our life.  Together with the music, we were raised and our life was influenced by the music of the times.

But the music in Japan fades away with a short on-air time. Download music has no jackets and the visual impact is no more needed. When the records were treasure, jackets also expressed our times.

Anyway, Exile’s new album is beeing sold well in Japan.  This may be the treasure of teenager of Japan now.

One thing we are impressed is that Exile iscompletely a copy of American culture again, it’s like street boy’s fashion, they just copy the American black fashion stream.  

Now the Japanese pop music are almost the copy of black music of America although I don’t think EXILE is a group of musicians, it’s just an idol group, I think.