‘Space Dandy’ Soundtrack 2 Ranks in iTunes Awards 2014 Anime Category

Online downloads are spreading more and more as a way to enjoy music, movies, and games. A highly popular service for this is the Apple service iTunes. The most popular works of 2014 in Japan have now been published by iTunes as the iTunes Best of 2014 ranking. A custom each year, the ranking is comprised of award-winning works chosen from an interesting chat among the iTunes staff. The ranking includes a sense of iTunes through differing trends in CDs and package software, and from it even the Internet trends of the year can be understand.

Winning the award for Best Anime in the music category, a category closely followed by anime fans, is the second soundtrack to chief director Shinichiro Watanabe’s TV anime Space Dandy, Space Dandy Original Soundtrack 2 Boobies Wonderland. From the very beginning, Space Dandy became a sensation for the many wonderful music artists who lent their talents. This series is one in which music is a focal point. The album will feature 43 songs by various artists including the song for advertising use called “Dandy Beat,” the special ending theme “Space Dandy/Zen-La-Rock feat. Yomeiriland” by Zen-La-Rock, “Burning & Rising” by Yuki Katsuragi, and others.

Another standout is “Kanchigai Lonely Night” which grabbed the top spot for the first time as iTunes’ Top Anime Song. This is the song from Episode 20, “Rock 'n' Roll Dandy, Baby,” by the one-hit wonder band Dropkix.

In other news, the winner of the iTunes Best of 2014 music category’s Best Soundtrack went to Frozen Original Soundtrack [Japanese Ver.]. Songs from this movie also ranked on the yearly chart, showing a Frozen boom with “Let it Go - Ari no Mama de (Japanese Song)” by Takako Matsu topping out the yearly chart, followed by “Let it Go” by Idina Menzel in 4th and “Umarete Hajimete (Japanese Song)” by Sayaka Kanda and Takako Matsu in 10th.

In the movie category, Japanese film Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno won the Best Movie award, and The Lego Movie won the Family Movie award.

Frozen ranked at No. 1 on the yearly chart as well. The ranking for best movie reflected the thoughts of the iTunes staff, with X-Men: Days of Future Past coming in at No. 10. The yearly chart contained only the best 10 anime from Japan, with Mobile Suit Gundam UC: Episode 7 - Over the Rainbow ranking at No. 5. From the ranking, it’s clear that Mobile Suit Gundam UC, which is popular on just about every distribution site, is widely popular on iTunes as well.

iTunes Best of 2014
Space Dandy Music Site
Space DandyOfficial Site

TV Animation Space Dandy O.S.T. 2 Boobies Wonderland
Produced by Shinichiro Watanabe 
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Source: animeanime

Space Dandy Original Soundtrack 2 Boobies Wonderland
© 2014 BONES / Project SPACE DANDY

Space Dandy Original Soundtrack 2 Boobies Wonderland
Space Dandy Original Soundtrack 2 Boobies Wonderland
© 2014 BONES / Project SPACE DANDY
© 2014 BONES / Project SPACE DANDY

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