Young customers shop at the HMV Record Shop Shibuya in Tokyo. (Ryo Jozuka)
On a recent Sunday afternoon in February in the young and trendy Shibuya district, Akira Nagai is one of the many customers record hunting at HMV Record Shop Shibuya, which mainly deals in vinyl.
Nagai, 16, has started buying records by Hikaru Utada and other musicians on vinyl, even though the first-year senior high school student from Yokohama subscribes to a music streaming service. The static noise produced when the needle is dropped onto the disc warms my heart, and it lifts my spirits just to see (the records) placed in my room, Nagai said.
The second single off
Blame It On Baby was certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last September. The song initially blew up on TikTok before taking the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in June. Spotify confirmed “Rockstar” was officially the most-streamed song of summer 2020 with over 380 million streams.
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