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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 ...
This is a list of J-pop artists and groups. Originally an evolution of jazz, and coined New Music, the style went on to become known as City Pop, music with an urban theme. Later called Japan-made Pop, the term was shortened to J-pop and now encompasses a wide range of musical styles and genres.
Billboard Japan began ranking the Japanese music market on the week ending January 21, 2008. [1] AKB48 hold the record for the most number-ones songs with 44. Yui (pictured) holds the record for the most number-one songs by a female solo artist with 4 while Kenshi Yonezu has the most by a male artist with 9. All acts are listed alphabetically.
In addition, Afrojack was featured artist of two number one's by Sandaime J Soul Brothers, "Summer Madness" and "Scarlet". However, official website of Billboard does not list these songs on discography of these featured artists. For number one songs by Korean artists, see List of K-pop songs on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. [citation needed]
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.
This is a list of the top-selling albums in Japan, based on data compiled by Oricon. Prior to January 1987, the domestic albums chart was separated into LPs (created in 1970), cassette tapes (introduced in 1974) and compact discs (launched in 1985), until their unification, which remains the current form.
The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 ... Rock / pop [11] 295.5 million. US ...
AKB48, a Guinness World Record holder for being the "largest pop group", and the best-selling idol group The following is a list of Japanese musical groups . This includes a list of bands and idol groups , organized by year of debut.