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International Music Records Popular in Japanese Marketplace

The United States purchases more music products than any other country in the world. Second to the United States in the music purchasing market is the country of Japan, according to Ben Sisario of the New York Times (Hutchison et al., 2010). The Japanese purchase roughly 25% of all foreign records and music products in the world. To give you some perspective on this, more than $1 billion is spent by the Japanese on foreign music products from other countries. When it comes to all the CD albums sold in Japan, 25% of them contain foreign music on them. Therefore, if you ...