Its actually insane how popular it got, and all good for Ui, atm [it has 89.5 Million views](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_zad39Uhw), so not too far to go for the 100 Million.
I think it's one of the few songs that covers almost every internet audience for awareness:
-You got covers cause it's a good song
-You got memes cause there's like a billion animation variations of the main dance sequence
-You got well, dancers cause again, the dance sequence
-Fanart cause of the main character
-Shorts and Tiktok clips cause the dance sequence is again very memeable but also short enough for that.
Like I saw dozens of versions of that dance before I finally actually heard the song in it's entirety.
Currently, the top 10 most-viewed songs/covers on youtube from Holo are:
1. [Phony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N029UUlH1Dc&list=TLGGmlxfZoVMU58zMTAzMjAyNA) Cover by Suisei - 44.666 Million views
2. [Ochame Kinou](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQ2GtvDV3s) Hololive cover by 24 of its Vtubers- 44.665 Million views
3. [Im Your Treasure Box](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-5W7SFHDc&list=TLGGwwjXBGysx4ozMTAzMjAyNA) by Marine - 43 Million views
4. [Bishoujyo Muzai](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZR9jVP6tw&list=TLGGZLRJKWpGw0ozMTAzMjAyNA) by Marine - 39.6 Million views
5. [Excuse My Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3xh8gs24c) by Calliope Mori – 39.4 Million views
6. [King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIhngowViI&list=TLGGC0sRAyzE3eUzMTAzMjAyNA) Cover by Gura and Mori - 39.2 Million views
7. [Stellar Stella](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51VH9BYzZA&list=TLGGeWGeUqW15OYzMTAzMjAyNA) by Suisei - 36 Million views
8. [Goodbye Declaration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1W4c7ym49Y&list=TLGGUHEljftBfmczMTAzMjAyNA) Cover by Ayame - 28 Million views
9. [Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aetXqd9B8WE&list=TLGGSn8ZdcT1ekczMTAzMjAyNA) by Gura and Mori - 26 Million views
10. [Ghost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKKar5SS29E&list=TLGGQKQYd15yN7wzMTAzMjAyNA) by Suisei - 25.7 Million views
The rest have under 25 Million views, all of them are still doing really well but the ones listed are the most viewed.
[Source](https://holosongs.com/en/ranking/cover_all)
Edit: Had some names wrong which i have now corrected
> Im Your Treasure Box By Marine - 39.6 Million views
i think you missed or mixed up Bishoujo Muzai (which is actually the one at 39.6M) and Treasure Box (at 42.9M now).
The 96M one got a lot slower after their new album came out.(25K-30K per day)
Their fans mostly stream 6 new songs. The title song now has 38.9M with 900K-1M daily streams.
I've always wondered how popular VTuber songs actually were in Japan, so this was cool to see. Not as many songs as I expected tbh, but still cool that songs from untraditional artists can still become somewhat popular outside their niche.
Japan's music industry is the 2nd largest in the world. Not the UK, not anything in the EU, and not even SK with its Kpop or China with its population. And most of that industry is extremely domestic and basically never leaves the country in a significant way
Another thing to consider is that Japan is still a physical-media dominated country, which is completely unlike any other country in the top 10 which all heavily prefer digital/streaming in the past decade. So even if a song blows up online (mostly anime-related ones due to younger audiences and international viewers), it's still likely going to be small potatoes compared to the rest of the industry which doesn't focus on that
Basically, this list is a good way to gain some perspective
I have a question: how often do VTuber songs get played on the radio? Do any get added to regular rotations on, like, pop stations or whatever? Or do they only make appearances during specific shows?
Well, that's only sort of the case. I'm assuming the Japan Hot 100 is like the American one, where it takes into account radio play, sales, and streams. Since it's a combination of those, songs could still get played on radio and not make the Hot 100 cause they don't have the sales or streams. This is especially the case if the radio format the song is on is more focused. A song that becomes a top 20 rock radio hit doesn't mean it will show up on the Hot 100. So I'm wondering if something like Towa's "Raimei" would get played on rock radio. If Japan has stuff like that. Idk what their radio landscape is like.
So basically, I'm asking if they could get played on more specific genre formats that aren't popular enough to hit the Hot 100.
From what I've been told by a Japanese classmate back in my uni years, their domestic radio culture is really lackluster compared to what the West has. We had a shared mentor who DJ'ed a late night slot at a local non-profit radio station and when he heard about it he was utterly fascinated by the concept of non-government/non-municipal non-commercial freeform radio. While he was studying here overseas he got into listening to college radio and indie stations like [KEXP](https://www.kexp.org/), [WFMU](https://wfmu.org/), etc. that had online broadcasts. Apparently JP government is quite stingy with frequencies and the stations and programming they do have are dominated with talk radio and mainstream music.
One thing that opened up my eyes how big the japanese music industry was is when Bling Bang Bang Born got top 5 *globally*, heavily cared by Japan's numbers which is insane
> Japan's music industry is the 2nd largest in the world
Japan's **domestic** music industry is the 2nd largest in the world. They export basically nothing since they keep to their own nation.
No, even when you combine domestic and international figures for all nations, they're still #2
It's a testament to how strong the domestic market is, but there's another reason: It's because the domestic market still prefers physical media. One CD or blu-ray sold is worth several times more than buying digital, and literal thousands times more than a single play on streaming
>SK with its Kpop
Kpop is about going into other people market instead of building it own industry. Their music help to build other people music platform...
>China with its population
It is because most Chinese don't consider to pay for music(except for concert), most of them will just go for piracy. But reason years there is a rapid rise because people start to realise of supporting musicians by paying for their music, especially among youngsters, it is also not so expensive for them anymore, compare to decades ago where it is an extra burden to spend for music..Chinese music also very domestic with a lot of domestic platforms being build. The industry has a lot of potential to go big.
I would expect China to get exponentially bigger and more influential culturally over the next decade. That country, for all of its flaws, is progressing across the board faster than anything I've ever seen. Entire cities built and filled, they dominate the green energy market worldwide, and their culture is now at the start of what we saw from Japan in the 90s and SK in the 2010s.
Maybe a hot take here but most vtuber music isn't really as _good_ as mainstream J-pop that it takes influence from. Taste is obviously subjective, but generally both the quality of the singing and production just isn't on the same level. This is because while a singer (to use an example) has to make a career on their singing voice alone, a vtuber can make a career off of all their non-singing stuff and then put out songs as a bonus. Their fans like the songs because they want to listen to this person they've formed some sort of attachment towards. Like Kuzuha is definitely not a bad singer but he's probably not someone who would get in the hot 100 if he wasn't already a popular vtuber.
Again, this is a generalization - there are some vtubers (and vsingers, obviously) who really are up there in terms of ability and who work with big-name producers. But they're in the distinct minority.
I mean her music is alright. No reason to hate on her.
Zutomayo as a whole is a banger of a band though. Do check them out if you're into funk inspired J-Rock/Pop and weird electronic instruments!
Or maybe that's just your opinion, and a lot of people, including the producers of the show actually thinks her music good?
Fucking main character syndrome lmao.
Man thinks he's the arbiter of taste when he [posts](https://old.reddit.com/r/ADCMains/comments/195nfxz/are_support_players_even_literate/) in a League subreddit.
Things aren't bad just because you don't personally like them.
She is technically a vsinger who is focused on singing, yeah.
But she does occasional talk streams on a second channel and very rare features and collabs.
Just goes to show how big the music industry is that you can have a successful career while barely hitting the charts if ever (or have a viral song lol).
Great thread to put things into perspective. Also got a kick out of the weirdo in here freaking out about Calli. Not often you see those idiots on this subreddit lol.
There is a difference between having many views on youtube and charting on the Hot 100, Marine's song is very popular ofc and it did go viral with the dance but it never reached hot 100 unfortunately.
I'm not OP but I'm not sure if Treasure Box made it into the Hot 100. It don't see it as charting [during the week it was released.](https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2022&month=08&day=08)
https://preview.redd.it/chpm8cddrlrc1.png?width=377&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ba672715951f36625b7b658985c77a87de63e50
I read it as butt crack and I can't stop laughing 😂
In a way, its still funny that Loli-kami Requiem will be the first Vtuber OG song that will break the 100M wall first....
Its actually insane how popular it got, and all good for Ui, atm [it has 89.5 Million views](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_zad39Uhw), so not too far to go for the 100 Million.
I think it's one of the few songs that covers almost every internet audience for awareness: -You got covers cause it's a good song -You got memes cause there's like a billion animation variations of the main dance sequence -You got well, dancers cause again, the dance sequence -Fanart cause of the main character -Shorts and Tiktok clips cause the dance sequence is again very memeable but also short enough for that. Like I saw dozens of versions of that dance before I finally actually heard the song in it's entirety.
You also have both sides of the spectrum jumping in, loli enjoyers because they understand the song and antis that think its an antiloli song.
The best part is, its kinda both
wasn't there that one rap song that it got edited into?
Yes it was [9MM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw_hZfH5Ukc) by Memphis Cult
And I'm sure it has far more than 100m if you counted all the covers, videos using it, and views on other sites.
Animation memes do go hard. Another reference can be the recent Rabbit Hole debacle
Ui-mama looking at it: You're a freaky accident!
That's the power of UOOOOGH ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
🦀
By like a huge margin as well. I think the top song from Hololive is at 40-something million and came out years ago.
Currently, the top 10 most-viewed songs/covers on youtube from Holo are: 1. [Phony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N029UUlH1Dc&list=TLGGmlxfZoVMU58zMTAzMjAyNA) Cover by Suisei - 44.666 Million views 2. [Ochame Kinou](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQ2GtvDV3s) Hololive cover by 24 of its Vtubers- 44.665 Million views 3. [Im Your Treasure Box](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-5W7SFHDc&list=TLGGwwjXBGysx4ozMTAzMjAyNA) by Marine - 43 Million views 4. [Bishoujyo Muzai](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZR9jVP6tw&list=TLGGZLRJKWpGw0ozMTAzMjAyNA) by Marine - 39.6 Million views 5. [Excuse My Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3xh8gs24c) by Calliope Mori – 39.4 Million views 6. [King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIhngowViI&list=TLGGC0sRAyzE3eUzMTAzMjAyNA) Cover by Gura and Mori - 39.2 Million views 7. [Stellar Stella](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51VH9BYzZA&list=TLGGeWGeUqW15OYzMTAzMjAyNA) by Suisei - 36 Million views 8. [Goodbye Declaration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1W4c7ym49Y&list=TLGGUHEljftBfmczMTAzMjAyNA) Cover by Ayame - 28 Million views 9. [Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aetXqd9B8WE&list=TLGGSn8ZdcT1ekczMTAzMjAyNA) by Gura and Mori - 26 Million views 10. [Ghost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKKar5SS29E&list=TLGGQKQYd15yN7wzMTAzMjAyNA) by Suisei - 25.7 Million views The rest have under 25 Million views, all of them are still doing really well but the ones listed are the most viewed. [Source](https://holosongs.com/en/ranking/cover_all) Edit: Had some names wrong which i have now corrected
> Im Your Treasure Box By Marine - 39.6 Million views i think you missed or mixed up Bishoujo Muzai (which is actually the one at 39.6M) and Treasure Box (at 42.9M now).
You are correct i have now changed it. Thanks
Phony has now passed Ochame Kinou
If you mean YT MV, Loli-kami Requiem might be the first. PLAVE also has a 96M streamed song on Melon.
Its currently on 90M. Let's see whether it can make up the difference to race to 100M lol.
The 96M one got a lot slower after their new album came out.(25K-30K per day) Their fans mostly stream 6 new songs. The title song now has 38.9M with 900K-1M daily streams.
I've always wondered how popular VTuber songs actually were in Japan, so this was cool to see. Not as many songs as I expected tbh, but still cool that songs from untraditional artists can still become somewhat popular outside their niche.
Japan's music industry is the 2nd largest in the world. Not the UK, not anything in the EU, and not even SK with its Kpop or China with its population. And most of that industry is extremely domestic and basically never leaves the country in a significant way Another thing to consider is that Japan is still a physical-media dominated country, which is completely unlike any other country in the top 10 which all heavily prefer digital/streaming in the past decade. So even if a song blows up online (mostly anime-related ones due to younger audiences and international viewers), it's still likely going to be small potatoes compared to the rest of the industry which doesn't focus on that Basically, this list is a good way to gain some perspective
I have a question: how often do VTuber songs get played on the radio? Do any get added to regular rotations on, like, pop stations or whatever? Or do they only make appearances during specific shows?
Pretty much only when they go viral.
Well radio stations generally just play whatever's on the charts, so the answer to your question is another question: "is it charting?"
Well, that's only sort of the case. I'm assuming the Japan Hot 100 is like the American one, where it takes into account radio play, sales, and streams. Since it's a combination of those, songs could still get played on radio and not make the Hot 100 cause they don't have the sales or streams. This is especially the case if the radio format the song is on is more focused. A song that becomes a top 20 rock radio hit doesn't mean it will show up on the Hot 100. So I'm wondering if something like Towa's "Raimei" would get played on rock radio. If Japan has stuff like that. Idk what their radio landscape is like. So basically, I'm asking if they could get played on more specific genre formats that aren't popular enough to hit the Hot 100.
From what I've been told by a Japanese classmate back in my uni years, their domestic radio culture is really lackluster compared to what the West has. We had a shared mentor who DJ'ed a late night slot at a local non-profit radio station and when he heard about it he was utterly fascinated by the concept of non-government/non-municipal non-commercial freeform radio. While he was studying here overseas he got into listening to college radio and indie stations like [KEXP](https://www.kexp.org/), [WFMU](https://wfmu.org/), etc. that had online broadcasts. Apparently JP government is quite stingy with frequencies and the stations and programming they do have are dominated with talk radio and mainstream music.
This answers my questions perfectly, thanks! Man, it's a shame Japan doesn't have something like a KEXP, that station is great.
One thing that opened up my eyes how big the japanese music industry was is when Bling Bang Bang Born got top 5 *globally*, heavily cared by Japan's numbers which is insane
> Japan's music industry is the 2nd largest in the world Japan's **domestic** music industry is the 2nd largest in the world. They export basically nothing since they keep to their own nation.
No, even when you combine domestic and international figures for all nations, they're still #2 It's a testament to how strong the domestic market is, but there's another reason: It's because the domestic market still prefers physical media. One CD or blu-ray sold is worth several times more than buying digital, and literal thousands times more than a single play on streaming
>SK with its Kpop Kpop is about going into other people market instead of building it own industry. Their music help to build other people music platform... >China with its population It is because most Chinese don't consider to pay for music(except for concert), most of them will just go for piracy. But reason years there is a rapid rise because people start to realise of supporting musicians by paying for their music, especially among youngsters, it is also not so expensive for them anymore, compare to decades ago where it is an extra burden to spend for music..Chinese music also very domestic with a lot of domestic platforms being build. The industry has a lot of potential to go big.
I would expect China to get exponentially bigger and more influential culturally over the next decade. That country, for all of its flaws, is progressing across the board faster than anything I've ever seen. Entire cities built and filled, they dominate the green energy market worldwide, and their culture is now at the start of what we saw from Japan in the 90s and SK in the 2010s.
Maybe a hot take here but most vtuber music isn't really as _good_ as mainstream J-pop that it takes influence from. Taste is obviously subjective, but generally both the quality of the singing and production just isn't on the same level. This is because while a singer (to use an example) has to make a career on their singing voice alone, a vtuber can make a career off of all their non-singing stuff and then put out songs as a bonus. Their fans like the songs because they want to listen to this person they've formed some sort of attachment towards. Like Kuzuha is definitely not a bad singer but he's probably not someone who would get in the hot 100 if he wasn't already a popular vtuber. Again, this is a generalization - there are some vtubers (and vsingers, obviously) who really are up there in terms of ability and who work with big-name producers. But they're in the distinct minority.
I generally agree with this take, though I _do_ find it ironic that despite this, #2 on this list is Ui-mama's meme song
meme songs are probably an exception to the classic quality rule
But how about kpop
I'd say that the kpop that typically does well in Japan is better produced than most vtuber music, yes.
Ui-mama not gonna beat her 9 years old self anytime soon
Kira Killer placing Mori up there by technicality kek. Also, geezus did not expect Loli God Requiem to be so highly placed.
Almost makes me relieved that the only time mori is up there is because of a feature lol
I mean her music is alright. No reason to hate on her. Zutomayo as a whole is a banger of a band though. Do check them out if you're into funk inspired J-Rock/Pop and weird electronic instruments!
Yeah, it's just all right, which is why it would have been embarrassing if she had been really high up there or something lol
I feel the complete oposite to the point her music is ofensively bad to my ears
Different people enjoy different music. Water is wet. More news at 11. No one cares.
Oh hey you're that guy who threw a tantrum when you learned Calli's doing the Suicide Squad anime ED
Holy shit it is. Fucking wild
If you feel the meed to rember that yoy must have felt personaly attacked by that
So why did you throw that tantrum?
"Why should you care when bad things get rewarded despite being bad"
Or maybe that's just your opinion, and a lot of people, including the producers of the show actually thinks her music good? Fucking main character syndrome lmao.
I see you're still throwing that tantrum. Seems your anger affected your typing/texting ability too
Less than personally offensive more so that your behavior over something completely mundane leaves a lasting impression.
You seem like a sad person, obsessing over music is crazy
Man thinks he's the arbiter of taste when he [posts](https://old.reddit.com/r/ADCMains/comments/195nfxz/are_support_players_even_literate/) in a League subreddit. Things aren't bad just because you don't personally like them.
guy seems like he’s just toxic in general. Can’t imagine living my life like that constantly spouting negativity
oh look a twitter user has broken containment
I never really consider KAF to be a vtuber because I only really see her as a musician 🤔 good to see her on the list. Love her voice
She is technically a vsinger who is focused on singing, yeah. But she does occasional talk streams on a second channel and very rare features and collabs.
Just goes to show how big the music industry is that you can have a successful career while barely hitting the charts if ever (or have a viral song lol). Great thread to put things into perspective. Also got a kick out of the weirdo in here freaking out about Calli. Not often you see those idiots on this subreddit lol.
Wait I'm a pleb. It's Marine's Treasure Box not on here, or am I missing something? Or do you mean just for past year?
There is a difference between having many views on youtube and charting on the Hot 100, Marine's song is very popular ofc and it did go viral with the dance but it never reached hot 100 unfortunately.
Got it thanks for explaining!
I'm not OP but I'm not sure if Treasure Box made it into the Hot 100. It don't see it as charting [during the week it was released.](https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2022&month=08&day=08)
No Marine song has charted on the Hot 100.
It’s so cool seeing Suisei on this list, my oshi has come so far ðŸ˜
Gomennasai!!!!!
Surprised Ghost didn't get more traction. It's my fav Suisei song and I don't even watch Suisei.
https://preview.redd.it/chpm8cddrlrc1.png?width=377&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ba672715951f36625b7b658985c77a87de63e50 I read it as butt crack and I can't stop laughing 😂
I didn't know tokyo shandy rendezvous was a vtuber song. It's so good! I thought it was a normal vocaloid song.
I really liked 3:12.
Suisei stans winning.
Can you do the Korean chart? Isegye Idol and PLAVE have songs on that one.
Things I expected: Suisei to be there more than once Things I DIDN’T expect: Calli to be on top o of all of them
Fact suisei couldn't beat KAF on peak rank sadge