(This is the final part in a three-part series on how one short conversation between two salarymen led to the creation of global pop superstars.) Something was happening on TikTok. Two years after its ...

YOASOBI celebrated its fifth anniversary on Oct. 1. The J-pop duo, consisting of composer Ayase and singer ikura, launched its career in 2019 as a group that turns creative writing into music. The ...

Tirori Mix is a music project that McDonald’s started in 2022 to market to Gen Z customers. Prior to that, it used the “tirori” jingle that plays when fries are ready in a TikTok campaign in 2019, ...

McDonald’s Japan released the new Ado, Yoasobi, and Hoshimachi Suisei Tirori Mix 2025 collaboration song. This time around, the Tirori Mix 2025 song mashup mixes Ado’s “Yoru no Pierrot,” Yoasobi’s ...

Japanese pop sensation Yoasobi will be back in Singapore, this time for shows that are much bigger than their last one here a year ago. Yoasobi – comprising singer Ikura, 24, and composer Ayase, 30 – ...

SINGAPORE – A pair of popular J-pop acts will be coming to town and staging their shows at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Yoasobi – comprising vocalist Ikura, 23, and composer Ayase, 30 – announced on ...

are on fire right now. What was a bright flare ignited by vocalist Ikura and producer Ayase in 2019 has, over the course of a global pandemic and several chart-smashing singles, including the global ...

Journeying over 5,500 miles from the bustling streets of Tokyo to the barren desert of Indio, superstar J-pop group YOASOBI — Vocaloid producer Ayase and singer-songwriter Ikura — captivated the ...

In an unprecedented feat, YOASOBI's hit song "Idol" which is also the opening theme of Oshi no Ko has taken the music world by storm, breaking streaming records left and right. Five weeks after its ...

YOASOBI tops the year-end Japan Hot 100 with "Idol" as well as the Artist 100 ranking. By Billboard Japan Billboard Japan unveiled its 2023 year-end charts, tallying the weeks from Nov. 30, 2022 to ...