Where to Get Access to J-Pop, K-Pop, and C-Pop

http://www.jpopasia.com/

While I was looking through my blog, I noticed that I have lots of postings that are related to Korean, Japanese, and Chinese music. I think Asian pop music is really good and it’s becoming world wide now. Therefore, I want to tell you how you could be ahead of the trend, “Asian Pop”!
This website is specialize in Japanese music but it also has Korean and Chinese music too!

http://www.jpopasia.com/

This website is very up to date so you can check out the new released albums and singles! They have the ranking for every country's music! Isn't that cool?

http://www.jpopasia.com/

If you don’t live in that country, it’s really hard to get access to that country’s recent music but this website is great. This website also provides you with pronunciation of the lyrics in alphabets and the English translation.

http://www.jpopasia.com/

On this website you can also search for the song or the artist that you like. I wish everyone could find their favorite artist in every country from this website!

Download
If you want to download the music and put it into you ipod, unfortunately, you can’t get access to most of them. However, there is a fantastic website that allow you to download almost every kind of music. The link below will take you there!
The Best Website Ever!
All you have to do is just search the artist or the name of the song!

If you want to get more specific, visit the websites below.
Japanese:
A blog that is specialized for Japanese music for download is this website!
Korean:
A blog that is specialized for Korean music for download is this website!

Do You Like Classical Music?

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If your answer to the question is yes, this will be a perfect drama for you. Even though you hate classical music, I recommend you to watch it because my perspective on classical music changed after watching this drama. This drama that I'm talking about is "Nodame Cantabille". This was originally written as a comic by a Japanese author due to it's popularity, it was made into a drama in 2006.

Synopsis: This drama is basically about a girl named Noda Megumi and a guy named Chiaki Shinichi who attends to a same university. Noda Megumi (Nodame) is a genius in playing piano but refuses to learn music theories. She wants to enjoy and learn music with her ears instead of reading the complicated scores and getting stressed while playing piano. She is a very cute, unique, and messy character. On the other hand, Chiaki Shinichi is a guy who seems to be perfect who secretly dreams of becoming a conductor. Even though Chiaki has all the talents, he has a bad memory about airplanes while he was young which makes him trapped in Japan. Which doesn't help him improve. Noda becomes to like Chiaki and because of him, Noda enters a piano competition which makes her improve tremendously.

I really like this drama because it has great amount of humor. The events that Noda and Chiaki go through and their relationship is very cute and funny. The video below is my favorite scene from Nodame Cantabile. It's Chiaki's debut as a conductor and it gave me goose bumps. I think this drama makes classical music entertaining. I actually thought classical music was boring but after watching this drama, classical music was more familiar and fun for me! I think it's a great drama!



This drama was a big hit in Japan and a movie version was released just a few months ago. I didn't watch it yet, but I'm looking forward to it!