The Reality of the Loudness War in Japan -The Case Study on Japanese Popular Music-

Watanabe K, Kawahara K, Nishida H, Okusa K. The Reality of the Loudness War in Japan -The Case Study on Japanese Popular Music-. In: AES Convention 149. Audio Engineering Society; 2020. Paper 10424. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20961

@inproceedings{Watanabe2020_20961,
  author = {Watanabe, Kazuma and Kawahara, Kazuhiko and Nishida, Hiroko and Okusa, Kosuke},
  title = {{The Reality of the Loudness War in Japan -The Case Study on Japanese Popular Music-}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 149},
  note = {Paper 10424},
  year = {2020},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20961}
}

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TI  - The Reality of the Loudness War in Japan -The Case Study on Japanese Popular Music-
AU  - Watanabe, Kazuma
AU  - Kawahara, Kazuhiko
AU  - Nishida, Hiroko
AU  - Okusa, Kosuke
T2  - AES Convention 149
M1  - Paper 10424
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - This paper focused on the loudness statistics of the songs, especially commercially succeeded albums of popular music in Japan during the year of 1989 to 2018. The purpose of this paper was to verify the existence of the “loudness war” in Japan. The statistical results showed there was a leap of loudness in the middle 1990s, which implies the existence of the loudness war was on in Japan. Moreover, the authors employed the time series analysis and estimated the average loudness from 2019 to 2028. The authors proposed the loudness estimation by using the ARIMA model. The model estimated the future average loudness would rise to -4 LUFS, in case of without any regulations.
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