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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
tofubeats
Person · male · Japan · Kobe · born 1990
Japanese singer, record producer and disc jockey
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1990s
Biography
English biography165 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1378749154
Biography
Yūsuke Kawai (河合 佑亮, Kawai Yūsuke; born 26 November 1990), known professionally as Tofubeats, is a Japanese singer, record producer, and DJ.
Kawai began producing music at the age of 14, under the name "DJ Newtown". He initially distributed his music online through websites such as 2channel and YouTube. He later released music with Maltine Records, a Japanese netlabel, before signing with the Warner Music Japan sublabel Unborde in 2013. Kawai also manages HIHATT, a label he launched in 2018.
The video for his song "No. 1" featuring G.Rina was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award Japan for Best Dance Video (in 2014), and his album titled First Album for the Grand Prix at the 2015 CD Shop Awards.
EPs
Remix albums
Lost Decade Remixes (19 September 2013)
First Album Remixes (28 January 2015)
Positive Remixes (20 January 2016)
Fantasy Club Remixes & Instrumentals (27 July 2018)
RUN Remixes (4 September 2020)
Reflection Remixes (3 November 2022)
Singles
See the singles section in the Japanese Wikipedia.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put tofubeats head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17231417genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17231417seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofubeatsbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofubeats
Why this artist is in the database
- List of J-pop artists
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Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q17231417 · MusicBrainz: 6c6869ac-cd89-4740-b808-949bff1652fa
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