Why does japan bonus tracks

Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed 19k times. Just as the title says: Why are bonus tracks so common in japanese versions of a release? Improve this question. Viktor Mellgren Viktor Mellgren 2, 2 2 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Please provide some examples Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. According to a user on MetaFilter : According to a friend who runs a small record label that occasionally does business in Japan: it's because it is invariably cheaper for Japanese buyers to import CDs rather than purchase them in their local record store.

Improve this answer. Tetsujin Tetsujin 6, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. This doesn't answer the question at all. You're talking about bootlegs, OP is asking about bonus tracks. Location: Kansas, United States.

Nowadays, the Best Buy, Target, etc exclusive tracks are the same as the Japanese bonus tracks. The Hud , Mar 16, Blame MacArthur. He wrote it in their constitution. Fastnbulbous , Mar 16, Bonus tracks are everywhere now. It's getting to the point where I'm hesitant to buy any edition of an album out of fear that there's a more complete version I could buy elsewhere.

Charli XCX - 'Break The Rules Japanese Version ' Sucker : If we're being entirely honest, as we always are, the English-language version of 'Break The Rules' is one of the most irritating songs, both lyrically and musically, that we've heard for a long time.

For some inexplicable reason though, its Japanese-language counterpart is almost brilliant. It's a strange world. It winds down an often relentlessly up-tempo, funk-filled album with a real sense of poignancy - giving the album a whole new dimension.

The xx - 'Reconsider' Coexist : From their second album, 's Coexist, comes this characteristically minimalist, haunting gem. The same can be said of almost any song from The xx, but 'Reconsider' is profoundly cinematic, and proves definitively that someone needs to ask this and to score a film.

Florence The Machine - 'Bird Song' Lungs : Slightly lighter on the orchestral heft that Welch is known for, but plenty heavy on the profoundly twisted and imaginative lyrics: "I picked up the bird and above the din I said, 'That's the last song you'll ever sing'.

Held him down, broke his neck, taught him a lesson he wouldn't forget. Beyonce - 'Dreaming' 4 : It's something of a tautology to ever bother saying that Beyonce's voice sounds amazing, but few demonstrate its quality to quite the extent of 'Dreaming', from the Japanese release of 4. Mr Porter of D comes through with an easy listening jazzy instrumental for Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh to spit their relaxed verses on and the hook is provided by Tone Trezure making it a really enjoyable song for fans of soulful laid back Hip-Hop.

What better way to break into a different market than by getting one of their native beat makers, the ever-talented Tokyo native DJ Celory to remix the title track of O. Released 2 years after the original, this remix is everything a remix should be: it sounds different yet not out of place. An absolute banger that only crate diggers in Japan can be lucky enough to find. This particular remix found on the Japanese version of the import, was also included on the groups B-sides compilation album Revised Quest For The Seasoned Traveller.