![]() ![]() However home karaoke pre-dates the invention of the PlayStation.ĭr Nakamura recalls that as a child in Japan in the 1980s, specially-designed cassette tape players were the most popular method for singing karaoke. The event lasted 101 hours, 59 minutes and 15 seconds and ran from September 19 to 23 in 2011, and 1,295 songs were performed. Leonardo Polverelli holds the world record for the longest karaoke marathon. By 2009, five years after its release, the karaoke-style game had sold 20 million copies according to Sony. If you had a PlayStation 2 in the early 2000s there is a very high chance you owned a copy of SingStar. "So, the popularity of Japanese songs might facilitate the use of karaoke in those countries," he says. "So in America at least, the way that most Americans first interacted with karaoke machines was at Japanese restaurants in the 1980s, and that first taste ignited a boom for them in the years to come."ĭr Nakamura adds it helps that Japanese pop songs, known as J-Pop, were also going global, especially in other Asian countries. "As Japanese businessmen started to do more and more business abroad and establishments emerged to cater to them, especially in major cities such as New York or Los Angeles, the karaoke machines came along with them," Alt says. ![]() "Also, many people use karaoke for releasing stress from work or study." "This is because karaoke is a valuable opportunity to make a good relationship among family members, friends, and colleagues," Dr Nakamura says. Japan's love for karaoke was never going to stay contained.ĭr Toshiyuki Nakamura from the Australian National University's Japanese school says karaoke is very important to Japanese culture. Inoue, however, was awarded a satirical Ig Nobel peace prize in 2004 for "inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other" and was named one of Time's most influential Asians of the century in 1999. He is often mistakenly referred to as the inventor of karaoke for this reason. Instead, the money went to a Filipino businessman by the name of Roberto del Rosario, who became the first patent holder for his machine titled the Sing Along Machine. Neither Inoue nor Negishi saw a dime from their inventions. In fact, the karaoke machine was independently invented no fewer than five times between 19.Īround the same time Inoue invented the 8 Juke - a cube-shaped vending machine with a microphone attached, Shigeichi Negishi was creating the spark box - another box-shaped machine, which played 8-bit tapes connected to a microphone. But Inoue was not solely responsible for karaoke. ![]()
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