Japanese VGM
Japanese VGM is video game music by Japanese composers, the soundtracks written for games from the 8-bit era to today's orchestral scores.
VGM stands for video game music. Early consoles could play only a few simple tones at once, so composers wrote short, strong melodies that looped, and that tuneful approach stayed even as hardware allowed full orchestras, rock bands and vocals. Japan's game companies made these soundtracks known worldwide from the 1980s on, and they are now performed in concert halls and sold as albums.
Artists it is known for: Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura, Yasunori Mitsuda.
- Family
- J-Pop & Anime
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A use, not a style
- From
- Japan, 1980s
- Also called
- Japanese video game music, game music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have japanese vgm among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Japanese VGM artists
Lyn
HOYO-MiX
平田志穂子
Azumi Takahashi
アトラスサウンドチーム
SEGA SOUND TEAM
Mili
Akira Yamaoka
Lotus Juice
Yu-Peng ChenThe japanese vgm artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.