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New reissues, anniversaries and stories from city pop’s history.
· Reissues
New city pop reissues: what’s out in 2026 so far
A 50th-anniversary Circus Town, Meiko Nakahara and Mai Yamane back on vinyl, Yasuha’s “Fly-day Chinatown” on 7-inch — the year’s notable city pop reissues.
· Live
City Pop Waves: the year the music finally toured
Taeko Onuki’s first show outside Japan, Takanaka’s first world tour, Anri in Brooklyn, a festival in south London — a report on the concert series that took city pop on the road.
· Analysis
Pacific Breeze and the reissue boom: how city pop got a second pressing
One compilation with a Hiroshi Nagai cover turned a collector’s secret into a catalogue business. What the reissue wave got right, and what it flattened.
· Analysis
The algorithm that sold a million records: how “Plastic Love” came back
A 1985 single that flopped, an eight-minute fan upload, a photographer who never agreed to any of it — the strange machinery behind city pop’s most famous song.
· Artists
What happened to Meiko Nakahara?
She wrote her own hits, soundtracked Dirty Pair, and then stopped. The story of city pop’s most conspicuous disappearance — and what she did next.
· Analysis
Why was it called city pop? An in-depth analysis
Nobody agrees on what city pop means — not even the people who named it. A look at where the term came from, why it was plural, and how a marketing word became a genre.
· News
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