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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 ...
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 .
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.
Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 九, Hepburn: Sakamoto Hisashi or Sakamoto Kyū, 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985), legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima (大島 九, Ōshima Hisashi) since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor. He was best known outside Japan for his international hit song "Ue o Muite Arukō" (known as "Sukiyaki ...
The song is well known in Asia and has been recorded by musicians into the 21st century in Taipei and Kuala Lumpur. [6] [7] In a national survey by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in 1997, the song was voted 16th among the 100 greatest Japanese songs of all time. [8]
Perfect Best: Compilation album 2007: Exile Love: 2008: Exile Catchy Best: Compilation album Exile Ballad Best: 2× Million 2009: Aisubeki Mirai e: Million: 2011: Negai no Tō: 1993: Masaharu Fukuyama: Calling: 1995: M-Collection: Kaze wo Sagashiteru: Compilation album 1999: Magnum Collection 1999 "Dear" Double-disc compilation album 2001: F ...
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number-one on the Oricon Singles Chart, the preeminent singles chart in Japan, which was created in 1967, and monitors the number of physical single purchases of the most popular singles.
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 is a record chart in Japan for songs. It has been compiled by Billboard Japan and Hanshin Contents Link since February 2008. [1] The chart is updated every Wednesday at Billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at Billboard.com ().