J1 reports steady listening for November, 2009

November's listening stats for J1 are at about the same as October. There was a decline in VIP listening. Overall listening fell sharply around the USA Thanksgiving Day holiday but since has rebounded.

In December, we are already starting to see a sharp increase in listening, especially with VIPs. This increase is in spite of changes to the Live365 stream that reduced the number of free listener slots. December's listening may be impacted negatively due to the Christmas and New Year holidays around the world as well as the American school winter break period. From the way it looks right now, the earlier part of the month will help pad the latter part of the month when listening traditionally declines.

J1 is planning three year end specials related to Christmas, the yearly Top 100 chart and a preview of the Kohaku Uta-gassen.

J1 reminds listeners that you will never reach a busy signal with a Live365 VIP membership. While we do not directly make money off of VIP memberships, it does reduce our monthly bill at the end of the programming year. Please help out by purchasing your VIP from J1FM.com and by listening with your VIP membership logged in!

Thanks for a great 2009
J1 LOVES YOU!
Michi & Almeda

J1 Live365 listener statistics were as follows:
Total Listening Hours: Sep 10,018 / Oct 10,912 / Nov 10.,916
Total VIP Listening Hours: Sep 681 / Oct 1,056 / Nov 837
Streams Launched: Sep 18,067 / Oct 19,647 / Nov 18,227
Average listen length (minutes): Sep 33 / Oct 33 / Nov 36

J1 worldwide listening (TLH) in the past 30 days:
USA 4367 - 39%
JAPAN 2907 - 26%
Singapore 862
Canada 672
United Kingdom 243
Finland 186
France 174
Philippines 174
Mexico 173
Malaysia 156

J1 US Markets
Los Angeles 456 - 10.4%
Bay Area 440 - 10.1%
New York City 396 - 9.0%
Hartford/New Haven 231 - 5.3%
Seatte 216 - 4.9%
Baltimore 207 - 4.7%
Honolulu 179 - 4.1%

Website stats:
Page loads: Oct 3,247 / Nov 3,239
Unique visitors: Oct 1,641 / Nov 1,598
First Time vistitors: Oct 1,282 / Nov 1,111

Mari Iijima / 飯島真理 - Echo

Michi here again!!!!
このミチちゃんを再度です！




J1 is proud to present Mari Iijima with her recent album release "ECHO".
J1は飯島真理の最近のアルバムが存在する喜びしている「ECHO」。

We will air 2 tracks from the album "Echo" and "Suki to Ienai" starting with the next playlist update!
我々は、アルバムから2曲を放送し、「ＥＣＨＯ」と「好きと居えない」は、次のプレイリストを更新し始まる！

While best known in some circles for her role as Lynn Minmay in the Macross series of anime, Mari has released many albums dating back to 1983.

For more information on Mari Iijima or to purchase your own copy of Echo, please visit
http://marimusic.com

Wendy Tokunaga / 徳永 ウエンディ

Hi! Michi here!
こんいちは！　ミチちゃんです！

I would like to welcome a new Rising Star artist to J1!
私はJ1に新しいライジングスターアーティストを歓迎したいと思います！




徳永 ウエンディ
Wendy Tokunaga

Here's her bio:

Wendy Nelson Tokunaga is the author of the novels, MIDORI BY MOONLIGHT (St. Martin's Press) and LOVE IN TRANSLATION (St. Martin's Press, November 24, 2009). Japan and Japanese culture have been major influences on her life and this is reflected in much of her writing. Her first trip to Japan was as a winner in a songwriting contest sponsored by a Japanese record label. Later she lived for a year in Tokyo, taught English, recorded narration work for language tapes, and sang with some rock bands. She even appeared on a wacky TV singing contest for foreigners, which is part of the inspiration for the television show depicted in Love in Translation. After she returned home she continued to participate in Japanese karaoke contests in San Francisco’s Japantown and won a number of prizes, and also appeared on NHK’s Nodo Jiman program. It was in San Francisco that she met and married her husband Manabu Tokunaga, an expatriate who had moved to the United States from Osaka when he was eighteen.

Wendy signed her two-book deal with St. Martin’s just as she was beginning the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco in 2006. Along with her MFA, she also holds a BA in Psychology from San Francisco State University. In her spare time Wendy sings bossa nova, cool pop, jazz standards and Japanese songs accompanied by Manabu on electronic keyboards. They live with their cat Meow in the San Francisco Bay Area, a short walk from the Pacific Ocean.

Wendy recorded a "pop enka" song that is the theme to her recently released novel "LOVE IN TRANSLATION". Listen for "Nozomi no Hoshi" 「望みの星」 (The Wishing Star) on J1 throughout the week.
 
ウェンディは"ポップ演歌"は、彼女の最近発表された小説のテーマは「LOVE　IN　TRANSLATION」は歌を記録した。には、J1の放送で再生される曲"望みの星"を聞いてください。

For more information on Wendy Tokunaga, please visit
徳永ウェンディの詳細については、下記をご覧ください
http://WendyNelsonTokunaga.com

Welcome to the J1 extended family, Wendy. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

If you are a Japanese or Japanese-inspired independent artist, and you would like to have your work aired on J1. Please contact us for details. Message us through Ameba or e-mail michelle@recnet.com .