The IFPI, the international arm of the music industry, has just recently announced that they're setting an aligned global release day to Friday. Yes, that's right - FRIDAY. This is different than the Tuesdays we're familiar with, or in Japanese standards, Wednesday (Tuesday's the "furage" day). http://www.ifpi.org/news/Global-release-day-announced http://www.ifpi.org/news/Viewpoint-by-Frances-Moore-on-the-benefits-of-Global-Release-Day http://mashable.com/2015/02/26/albums-released-fridays/ So, what do you think about this change? How will Japan respond - will they comply to this new global release day standards? And if so, how will the Oricon charts shape up with this significant change of how music gets released?
