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In Japan, "Ue o Muite Arukō" topped the Popular Music Selling Record chart in the Japanese magazine Music Life for three months, and was ranked as the number one song of 1961 in Japan. In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language.
However their reports and charts are only available to industry insiders and are not available to the general public. In 1968 Original Confidence was established and began providing music charts to the general public with data collected from various retailers throughout Japan. This is the list of the best-selling singles, based on the data by ...
Hearing the song several times, Benjamin decided to bring it back to England. Due to concerns that the title would be too hard for English-speakers to pronounce or remember, the song was renamed "Sukiyaki", after the Japanese cooked beef dish familiar to the English. The new title was intended to sound both catchy and distinctive in Japanese ...
The top music artists in Japan include Japanese artists with claims of 15 million or more record sales or with over 2 million subscribers.Japan is the largest physical music market in the world and the second largest overall behind the United States, and the biggest in Asia, according to International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
Japan is the second-largest music market in the world and the following lists cover the top-selling albums in the country of Japan, based on information provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan and Oricon Inc. [1]
[8] The song is a mosaic of Japanese-oldies-style melodies and contemporary music. The song can be interpreted as Momoiro Clover's (whose popularity is rising) proclamation of war for the top of the Japanese idol music scene, as a declaration of war for an ultimate idol showdown. [5] The B-side "Push" is a cheer anthem. [9]
Ranking Single Artist Release Sales 1 "Odoru Pompokolin" B.B.Queens: April 4, 1990 (): 1,308,000 2 "Roman Hikō" Kome Kome Club: April 8, 1990 (): 619,000 3 "Kiss Me (Ima sugu Kiss Me)"
Ranking Single Artist Release Sales 1 "Tsunami" Southern All Stars: January 26, 2000 (): 2,886,000 2 "Sakura Zaka" Masaharu Fukuyama: April 26, 2000 (): 2,280,000 3 "Wait & See (Risk)"