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  2. List of best-selling singles in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Guinness World Records certified that Thelma Aoyama's "Soba ni Iru ne" is the best-selling full-track digital download single in Japan with over 8 million copies. [5] Machiko Soga's "Oba-Q Ondo" sold estimate 2 million single and 4 million sonosheet in Japan. [6] However, a sonosheet was not a regular 7-inch single.

  3. Sukiyaki (song) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Music of Japan - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] B'z is the #1 best selling act in Japanese music since Oricon started to count, [citation needed] followed by Mr. Children. [citation needed] In the 1990s, pop songs were often used in films, anime, television advertisement and dramatic programming, becoming some of Japan's best-sellers.

  5. Sakura Sakura - Wikipedia

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    The "Sakura Sakura" melody has been popular since the Meiji period, and the lyrics in their present form were attached then. [citation needed] The tune uses a pentatonic scale known as the in scale (miyako-bushi pentatonic scale) and is played in quadruple meter and has three parts (ABBAC) which stretch over 14 bars (2 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 2).

  6. Timeline of Japanese music - Wikipedia

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    1961 - 1st broadcast of Minna no Uta; 1963 - Sukiyaki reaches number 1 in the USA 1962 - 1st broadcast of Shichiji ni aimashō; 1964 - 1st broadcast of Music Fair; 1967 - Oricon founded; Akiko Nakamura [] released Nijiiro no mizūmi []; [4] Hibari Misora released Makkana Taiyō [5]

  7. List of best-selling music artists in Japan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Category:Japanese songs - Wikipedia

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    English-language Japanese songs (35 P) Songs written for Japanese films (149 P) Japanese nursery rhymes (3 P) ... YouTube Theme Song; Yume no Hajima Ring Ring

  9. J-pop - Wikipedia

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    J-pop (ジェーポップ, jēpoppu) (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as pops (ポップス, poppusu), is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.