Tokyo Top Tracks

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s touring Europe, ’Family Party’ charted at number two in Japan—sitting between ClariS and Morning Musume. Sekai no Owari’s there dressed as clowns, Namie Amuro still holding down elder J-pop space, Ken Hirai in the mix. Following these charts doesn’t feel like tracking music so much as watching a whole aesthetic system work itself out—all these eras existing at once, and it works.