User:FrostFairBlade/sandbox/Tatsuro Yamashita

Websites

 * https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/413417-most-consecutive-years-to-appear-on-the-japan-single-chart
 * "Christmas Eve" appeared on Japan's singles chart for 30 consecutive years (1986-2015)
 * Released by Warner Music Japan on 14 December 1983; spin-off single from Melodies
 * Rose in popularity after being featured in a JR Tokai commercial in 1988

Articles

 * December 4, 1982 - https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1982-12-04_94_48?q=%22tatsuro+yamashita%22 - Billboard - p.9 - "Sign of Times in Japan: No Million-Selling Singles
 * For You - biggest selling album of the year; sells half-a-million copies
 * June 27, 1992 - https://books.google.ca/books?id=wBAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA77&dq=tatsuro+yamashita&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0psPciZ_rAhXDv54KHQT6AsIQ6AEwA3oECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=tatsuro%20yamashita&f=false - Billboard - p. 1, 77 - "Tradition Tumbles Down as Act Sues Japanese Label" - Steve McClure
 * Yamashita taking BMG Victor to court over compilation album - contract with BMG ended 10 years ago - distribution of album halted
 * Smile (production company that Yamashita has a contract with) sold the master rights for his 1982 records to RVC (predecessor to BMG Victor)
 * 1990 - BMG Victor told Yamashita that it would release Greatest Hits of Tatsuro Yamashita (1980), and asked Smile to provide technical help
 * Smile agreed and the album was released in September 1990 with the phrase "the only album authorized by Tatsuro Yamashita" on the obi band
 * February 1991 - Yamashita finds out through a fan letter complaining that 5 out of 12 tracks were different from the versions Yamashita chose for the album (Yamashita is known as a perfectionist)
 * February 1991 - through lawyer Atsushi Naito, sends BMG Victor a cease-and-desist for false advertising
 * According to Naito, BMG responds in April 1991
 * BMG: the album is authorized, because Smile had provided BMG Victor with an independent technician it had hired to help with production
 * Naito: The independent technician shouldn't be involved with the creative/substantive elements of the album
 * October 1991 - Yamashita and Smile launch a civil suit in the Tokyo District Court - seeking:
 * reversion to the production company of all recordings now controlled by BMG Victor
 * public apology via advertisement
 * 10 million yen ($78,000) in damages
 * Naito: even though BMG has the master rights, a contractual relationship still exists between Smile and BMG Victor as long as the record company is paying Smile royalties - "they should be prohibited from doing anything damaging to [Yamashita's] reputation."
 * September 19, 1998 - https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1998-09-19_110_38?q=%22tatsuro+yamashita%22 - Billboard - p. 75 - "Global Music Pulse: The Latest Music News From Around the Planet" - Edited by Dominic Pride
 * Cozy (Warner Music Japan) released August 26 - seven years after Artisan (released on Moon Records) - shipped 800,000 copies, reached #1 on Oricon's September 7 album chart
 * "[...] Yamashita has spent the last few years producing other artists, such as pop duo Kinki Kids."
 * December 8, 2001 - https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UBIEAAAAMBAJ?q=%22tatsuro+yamashita%22 - Billboard - p. 69 - "Teen Idol's 'Disappearance' Spotlights Japanese Practice" - Steve McClure
 * "[Lawyer Atsushi] Naito represented singer/songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita in 1991, when the artist sued BMG locally after it issued what Yamashita claimed was an unauthorized greatest-hits collection (Billboard, June 27, 1992)."
 * August 6, 2020 -https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/08/06/music/city-pop-on-vinyl-event/ - The Japan Times - "City Pop on Vinyl brings back the glitzed-out sounds of Japan's bubble" - Patrick St. Michel
 * Record Collector's Magazine - list of the top 100 city pop songs of the 1980s - Tatsuro Yamashita is listed 3 times

Books

 * MacClure, S. (1998). Pure Pop. In Nipponpop (p. 36). Tuttle Publishing. - https://archive.org/details/nipponpop00mccl/page/n3/mode/2up?q=tatsuro+yamashita
 * 音楽CD検定公式ガイドブック(下): 下卷(J-pop/歌謡曲・邦楽/ワールド・ミュージックイージーリスニング・ミュージック/レコードの基礎知識) - https://books.google.ca/books?id=AoFgIowII48C&pg=PA36&dq=tatsuro+yamashita&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0psPciZ_rAhXDv54KHQT6AsIQ6AEwBnoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=tatsuro%20yamashita&f=false