Voting is now open for the TOP 50 – JAPANESE BOY BANDS 2026!
Check out the list of nominees for the Top 50 – Japanese Boy Bands:
&TEAM, A.B.C-Z, AE! GROUP, ARASHI, BALLISTIK BOYZ, BE:FIRST, BULLET TRAIN, CREEPY NUTS, DA PUMP, DA-ICE, DXTEEN, EXILE, FANTASTICS, FREDERIC, GEMN, GENERATIONS, GENIC, GREEEEN, HEY! SAY! JUMP, ICEX, IMP., INI, INTERSECTION, JO1, KAMIGATA BOYZ, KAT-TUN, KID PHENOMENON, KING & PRINCE, KING GNU, KINKI KIDS, KIS-MY-FT2, LIL LEAGUE, MAN WITH A MISSION, MAZZEL, MRS. GREEN APPLE, MY FIRST STORY, NANIWA DANSHI, NCT WISH, NEWS, NOBODYKNOWS, NUMBER_I, OCTPATH, ONE OR EIGHT, ORBIT, OWV, PSYCHIC FEVER, RADWIMPS, SANDAIME J SOUL BROTHERS, SIXTONES, SMAP, SNOW MAN, SPYAIR, SUCHMOS, SUPER EIGHT, THE JET BOY BANGERZ, THE ORAL CIGARETTES, THE RAMPAGE, TIMELESZ, TRAVIS JAPAN, UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, V6, W-INDS, WEST. and WILD BLUE.
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What is the best Japanese boy band?
The 32 groups with the most votes advanced to the knockout stage, which consists of four rounds; vote for your favorites.
In the first phase, 32 groups compete for the trophy, but only 16 advance to the next stage. There are 8 matchups, but only the two highest-voted groups from each one will move on to the next round!
The two groups with the most votes from each matchup advance to the next round! Voting for the first phase ends on July 27.
VOTE NOW:
ROUND 1: NUMBER_I x THE RAMPAGE x KINKI KIDS x NANIWA DANSHI.
The winning group will receive a physical trophy!
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ROUND 2: &TEAM x KID PHENOMENON x TRAVIS JAPAN x A.B.C-Z.
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ROUND 3: IMP. x W-INDS x SIXTONES x KIS-MY-FT2.
ROUND 4: MRS. GREEN APPLE x SUPER EIGHT x FANTASTICS x ARASHI.
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The two groups with the most votes from each matchup advance to the next round!
ROUND 5: PSYCHIC FEVER x LIL LEAGUE x JO1 x GENIC.
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ROUND 6: INI x SNOW MAN x WILD BLUE x KAT-TUN.
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ROUND 7: GENERATIONS x BALLISTIK BOYZ x ONE OR EIGHT x BE:FIRST
ROUND 8: SANDAIME J SOUL BROTHERS x THE JET BOY BANGERZ x KING & PRINCE x MAZZEL
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The winning group will receive a physical trophy!
YOU CAN VOTE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT!
TOP 60 – JAPANESE BOY BANDS 2026
#33 SMAP
#34 AE! GROUP
#35 WEST
#36 HEY! SAY! JUMP
#37 NEWS
#38 V6
#39 DXTEEN
#40 NCT WISH
#41 MY FIRST STORY
#42 ORBIT
#43 EXILE
#44 CREEPY NUTS
#45 DA-ICE
#46 RADWIMPS
#47 MAN WITH A MISSION
#48 SPYAIR
#49 BULLET TRAIN
#50 TIMELESZ
#51 GREEEEN
#52 SUCHMOS
#53 KING GNU
#54 OWV
#55 GEMN
#56 THE ORAL CIGARETTES
#57 OCTPATH
#58 ICEX
#59 UNISON SQUARE GARDEN
#60 NOBODYKNOWS
#61 DA PUMP
#62 KAMIGATA BOYZ
#63 INTERSECTION
#64 FREDERIC
*Every day, the nominees with the fewest votes are eliminated and placed here.
WATCH TOP 50 – J-POP GROUPS:
J-pop is often stylized in capital letters as J-POP and, in Japan, just as “pop”; is a musical genre that entered Japan’s musical mainstream in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional Japanese music, but significantly in 1960s pop, rock, and bubblegum pop music from artists such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, who influenced the band Happy End to create a fusion between rock and Japanese music in the early 1970s. J-pop was further defined by new wave groups in the late 1970s, particularly the electronic synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra and the pop rock band Southern All Stars.
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The origin of modern J-pop is said to be a type of Japanese-language rock inspired by artists such as The Beatles. Unlike the Japanese music genre called kayōkyoku, J-pop uses a special type of pronunciation, which is similar to English. One notable singer to do this is Keisuke Kuwata, who pronounced the Japanese word karada (“body”) as kyerada. Additionally, unlike Western music, the major second (G and A) was generally not used in Japanese music, except in art music, before rock became popular in Japan. When the Group Sounds genre, which was inspired by Western rock became popular, Japanese pop music adopted the second major, which was used in the closing sounds of the songs “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles and (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Although Japanese pop music changed from music based on the Japanese pentatonic scale and distorted tetrachord to more Western music over time, music that took from the traditional Japanese singing style remained popular (such as that of Ringo Shiina).
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