How to Get Featured in Billboard Japan
Billboard Japan draws about 1.2 million monthly visits, holds a domain rating of 72, passes a do-follow link, and publishes in about a week.
A separate domain, a separate market, and a real audience
Billboard Japan is the Japanese edition, at billboard-japan.com, covering the Japanese music market with its own charts and editorial. About 1.2 million monthly visits with a do-follow link.
The edition question matters here more than usual, because Billboard's regional editions vary enormously. Some sit on subdomains with a few thousand monthly visits and inherit the flagship's domain rating without the readership. This one is on its own domain, earned its own rating of 72, and reaches 1.2 million readers in the world's second largest recorded music market. Regional edition vs flagship works through that distinction in detail.
The routes in
Artists releasing in or touring Japan.
Japanese music industry news.
International artists with a Japanese audience.
Music business and chart coverage.
A placed feature, written and approved by you before it runs. That is what we handle, and it is a different product from an editor there choosing to write about you.
How long it takes
About a week. About average. Plan for the top of the range rather than the bottom, and remember your own approval sits inside the window rather than after it.
Links and indexing
Do-follow, at a domain rating of 72. That is uncommon at this size: across our catalogue the larger a publication is, the less likely it is to pass authority, which is the whole finding in which publications give do-follow links.
It indexes and AI engines read it, so the piece works as a citation when someone asks an assistant about you, not only as a link.
What gets turned down
Artists with no route to a Japanese audience.
Claims about chart performance that the edition would check.
Non-music stories.
Who it suits
Recording artists with Japanese audiences or tours. Labels releasing in Japan. Music businesses entering the market. Anyone whose audience is in the second largest music market in the world.
The short version
1.2 million monthly visits, domain rating 72, do-follow, about a week. A regional edition with a real readership rather than an inherited rating.
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Frequently asked questions
01How do you get featured in Billboard Japan?
Three routes: pitch an editor directly, be quoted as an expert in a piece they are already writing, or use a placement service. We write the article, you approve every word, and we secure the placement. Billboard Japan draws about 1.2 million monthly visits and publishes in about a week.
02How long does it take to get published in Billboard Japan?
About about a week from approval to publication, against a market average of roughly two weeks. Your own review sits inside that window rather than after it.
03Does Billboard Japan give a do-follow link?
Billboard Japan passes a do-follow link, at a domain rating of 72. That is unusual at this size, because the larger a publication is the less likely it is to pass authority.
04Is Billboard Japan a real edition or a subdomain?
It is on its own domain, billboard-japan.com, with its own charts, editorial and a readership of about 1.2 million a month. That matters because some Billboard regional editions sit on subdomains and inherit the flagship's domain rating while carrying only a few thousand visitors. This one earned its rating of 72 independently.
