TJ Media, the number one karaoke company in Korea, announced that the number of people enjoying band music at karaoke is gradually increasing. In the first half of 2024, band music accounted for 20% of the top 100 songs on the karaoke popularity chart, and in July, 5 out of the top 10 songs on the TJ Karaoke popularity chart were band music. The playback ratio of band music is also on the rise.
Band songs that ranked high on the TJ Karaoke first half popularity chart include DAY6’s “You Were Beautiful” and “So That It Can Be One Page,” Nerd Connection’s “If Only You Were Here,” and QWER’s “Addicted to Worry.”
TJ Media explained that music fans visiting TJ Karaoke to enjoy band music are gradually increasing, and songs that provide MR (Music Recorded) tracks received high responses.
Supporting the largest number of songs domestically with over 70,000 tracks, TJ Media produces music directly in its own studio and recording rooms. Top-tier session musicians and professional chorus singers participate to preserve the original song’s feel while raising the qualitative level of music content.
The TJ accompaniment machine expresses sound with a sense of three-dimensionality and spatiality through its proprietary sound source technology tailored for karaoke. It is praised for combining accompaniment content that boasts high quality and sound suitable for singing regardless of space, capturing the charm of band music.
An industry insider said, "TJ Media is the only company in Korea with a resident professional engineer dedicated to developing high-quality sound and immersive audio." He added, "They have a subsidiary, Dream S.A.S, a sound chip specialist company based in France," and noted, "The sound technology gap with other companies will only widen."
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