List of best-selling albums in Japan

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Japan has the second largest music market in the world. In 1962, Tokushin music reports was founded and became the leading provider of music sales in Japan. However their reports and charts are only available to industry insiders and are not available to the general public. In 1968 the Original Confidence was established and began providiing music charts to the general public with data collected from various retailers throughout Japan.

This is the list of 10 best-selling albums, based on the data by Oricon.

For simplicity, only display the TOP 10 here. To see a more complete list, click here

1 Best Selling Albums In Japan 1968 - 2008
- 1.1 Note
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Best Selling Albums In Japan 1968 - 2008

Rank	Year	Title	Artist	Sales
1	1999	First Love	Utada Hikaru	7,650,215
2	1998	B'z The Best "Pleasure"	B'z	5,135,922
3	1997	REVIEW	GLAY	4,875,980
4	2001	Distance	Utada Hikaru	4,469,135
5	1998	B'z The Best "Treasure"	B'z	4,438,742
6	2001	A BEST	Ayumi Hamasaki	4,295,353
7	1996	Globe	Globe	4,136,460
8	2002	Deep River	Utada Hikaru	3,604,588
9	2000	Delicious Way	Mai Kuraki	3,530,000
10	1998	Time to Destination	Every Little Thing	3,520,330

Source: ^[1]

[edit] Note

Doesn't count in sales outside Japan.
Doesn't include albums that were released before 1968.
Based only on data collected from Oricons retail partners and not the record companies.