Trying to create a list of albums with Japan bonus tracks and what the songs are.

So far I got

ASAP Rocky ALLA - OG Ms and Multiply
ASAP Rocky Long Live ASAP - Purple Swag REMIX
Tinashe Aquarius - Watch me work and Vulnerable
Tinashe Joyride - 4 bonus songs
MGK- Tickets to my Downfall- Bloody Valentine (Acoustic)
Ariana Grande-The Best (Japan exclusive greatest hits album)
Ariana Grande-Thank U Next - 7 Rings remix and Monopoly

Trying to find more as I want to start collecting some

Why are Japan bonus tracks a thing?

Graduation

muse first 4 albums

Pink Friday & The Pinkprint

Doja cat hot pink project has a Japan edition but don’t know which are the bonus tracks

Edit: never mind found them

open.spotify.com/album/3xcNRROgwXUvhR9NVrvAR4?si=yyMyeTG3R_yWpKbIs_vN8g&dl_branch=1

Last vampire weekend album
The cool
Thundercat drunk

It's cheaper to order a North American version online and import it than it is to buy it locally. Local record shops were shutting down like crazy so Japanese record label parent companies (Sony etc) decided to add exclusive tracks to the Japanese releases so that Japanese people would buy locally and support the Japanese economy and Japanese businesses.

Late Registration
Graduation

Thank Me Later

Back in the day, different territories to compete would release different bonus tracks.

So before the days of download, you always had Japanese (or any foreign market that was a noticeable market) bonus tracks with a lot of the popular artists in rock,pop, hip hop, r&b-soul. Now every label didn't do that, some labels would just get a Japanese dance remix. But frequently, you would get non-album tracks that were completed unreleased songs.

A perfect example of that is "Brad" Brad was a group with Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam. They were signed to a major and in the Japan territory they had non album song's.

like this:

If someone didn't have any material, they would just put some "live tracks" or maybe an "Acoustic version" Long story short, a lot of record companies were forced to make variations because of the constant competition with the different regions like North America, UK.

U.K. would engage in entirely different tactics. Where they would completely change the sequence of tracks or omit certain tracks. (I think the US started copying them and changing tracklisting to a lot of popular rock bands) They don't seem to do it as much as they did in 60's -70's. But if you look at band's like The Who, Kinks, you get an idea of the constant battling they had to do with different imports.

Sometimes Japan would one up their American contemporaries by releasing live albums when America would drag their feet because they didn't want to release a live album.

In some ways, digital bonus tracks on different platforms is a an extension to the foreign market game.

I'm trying to think of a great example of an import of something that was really different. Here's another one.

This particular album had bonus track already but Japan wanted another bonus. So this goat gave them this version of Electric Ladyland which is just magical but a bummer for the UK audience because most didn't get to own this.

I hope this helps

This and Good Night are so GOAT