Spotify launches Anime Hub allowing fans to stream TV and Movie Anime songs in the new Japanese Anime hub according to a recent blog posting. Anime fans in Japan, the US, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, India, South Africa, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the 13 regions in MENA can find and stream anime music by going here.
Since the hub launched in October, fans in the US, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico have streamed anime music the most, with about 25,000 daily active users streaming playlists inspired by Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, and Tokyo Ghoul. Plus, four new playlists—Genesis of Aquarion, Kantai Collection, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, and CARDCAPTOR SAKURA have recently come to Spotify from Victor Entertainment’s Flying Dog label, known for its rich categories of anime-related music. This adds over 1,300 anime-related tracks to Spotify, including theme songs and an original soundtrack album for Genesis of Aquarion mainly composed by Yoko Kanno.
“I’m so happy to see that the Anime Hub has made it easier to guide listeners to find the music they have a preference for,” says TK, who leads his solo project off of the legendary J-Rock band Ling tosite sigure and is known for the successful Tokyo Ghoul theme song “unravel.”
“Through streaming services as well as anime works, my music has made its way to so many listeners across borders,” he says. In just one year and nine months on Spotify, “unravel” has surpassed 39 million streams, over 200,000 of them since the hub launched. And he hopes these streams will continue to increase. “I would love to see more and more listeners find my music through the Anime Hub,” TK explains.
Other additions to Spotify’s Anime catalogue include:
- Linked Horizon, another J-Rock band known for their Attack on Titan theme song “Guren no Yumiya,” which has seen incredible streaming growth in the past year since anime playlists were launched. As of 20th November, 2018, the opening theme had 13 million global streams on Spotify. In the past year, it has almost doubled, now racking up over 24 million streams to date.
- NARUTO fans will also recognize “Sign,” the combined English and Japanese theme song behind the American anime favourite Naruto Shippuden. The theme was written by J-Rock band FLOW, who is also known for their song “GO!!!.” Both it and the theme song can be found on the This Is FLOW playlist, which has also seen growth since its inclusion on the Anime Hub.
