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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.
His most popular song, "Ue o Muite Arukō" ("I look up when I walk") is the only Japanese song to reach number one on the Billboard pop charts in the United States, a position it maintained for three weeks in 1963. It was also the first-ever Japanese language song to enter the Australian charts, where it reached #2.
Kyu Sakamoto hit #1 in 1963 with "Ue o Muite Arukō", titled "Sukiyaki" in the U.S., becoming the first and only Japanese song to do so.. These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1963.
Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 1963 in the U.S. by Capitol Records.All of the songs on the album are sung in Japanese and feature the title track, a #1 hit in the U.S. for three weeks in 1963, and peaking at #6 in the UK when issued by EMI on its HMV label.
The Beach Boys had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Surfin' U.S.A.", the number one song of 1963. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1963, which appeared in the December 28, 1963 issue of Billboard. [1] [2]
However, those included the sales of non full-track digital download singles. 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]
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 ; [6] Hibari Misora released Makkana Taiyō [7] 1968 - 1st broadcast of Yoru no Hit Studio; CBS/Sony founded; 1969 - 1st Yamaha Popular Song Contest
"Blue Eye"), originally released as an English song, was released as a Japanese song. [44] In 1966, folk singer Ryoko Moriyama, a daughter of jazz musician Hisashi Moriyama, also released hit song "Kyō no Hi wa Sayōnara" (今日の日はさようなら, lit. "Good-bye, Today"). The Blue Comets' song "Blue Chateau" won the grand prix award at ...