J-Rock
J-rock is rock music from Japan, usually sung in Japanese, spanning everything from hard rock and punk to alternative and pop rock bands.
Japanese rock dates back to the 1960s, when bands copied the British and American groups of the time, and it became a large domestic industry by the 1980s and 1990s. Bands are known for tight playing, strong melodies and frequent tie-ins with anime theme songs. Compared with J-pop it is built around a band playing guitars, bass and drums; visual kei is one of its best known branches.
Artists it is known for: X Japan, B'z, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, One Ok Rock.
- Family
- J-Pop & Anime
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Japan, 1960s
- Also called
- Japanese rock
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 6%
About 5,100 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have j-rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
J-Rock artists
Ado
Kenshi Yonezu
ヨルシカ
RADWIMPS
Eve
BABYMETAL
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
ZUTOMAYO
結束バンド
LiSAThe j-rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.