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In Japan, "Ue o Muite Arukō" topped the Popular Music Selling Record chart in the Japanese magazine Music Life for three months, and was ranked as the number one song of 1961 in Japan. In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language.
Music portal; Television portal; Rokusuke Ei (永 六輔, Ei Rokusuke, April 10, 1933 – July 7, 2016) [1] was a Japanese lyricist, composer, author, essayist, and television personality of Chinese descent. Ei wrote the lyrics to the song "Ue o Muite Arukō", known internationally as "Sukiyaki", which
(August 2024) The Top 100 Brasil is a record chart that ranks the most-played songs in Brazilian radio stations. Compiled and published by Crowley Broadcast Analysis , the chart is based on each song's weekly airplay .
He was best known outside Japan for his international hit song "Ue o Muite Arukō" (known as "Sukiyaki" in English-speaking markets), which was sung in Japanese and sold over 13 million copies. It reached number one in the United States Billboard Hot 100 in June 1963, making Sakamoto the first Asian recording artist to have a number one song on ...
In 1961, when I was 16, I lived in Japan. A friend and I, another American girl, attended Japanese movies in our little town of Zushi; it was about the only thing we could find to do on Saturdays. Ue O Muite Auruko was the theme song to a movie we saw staring Kuy Sakamoto. We went straight to the music store after the movie looking for the record.
(For Positive Music) is an American male R&B group best known for their cover version of "Sukiyaki", which peaked at number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1995. 4 P.M. is an acronym meaning 'For Positive Music' meaning the band's music would not contain explicit lyrics, does not promote violence, and does not degrade women.
The Brasil Hot 100 is a record chart that ranks the best-performing songs in Brazil. Its data is compiled by Luminate and published by music magazines Billboard Brasil and Billboard. The chart is based on each song's weekly audio and video streams on online digital music platforms. [1]
Sérgio Mendes (pictured) is the Brazilian artist with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100. This list contains all Brazilian entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The chart, compiled and published by Billboard magazine, tracks the most listened-to songs each week in the United States and is a measure of popularity. It gathers data from ...