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The following is an overview of the year 2009 in Japanese music. It includes notable awards, lists of number-ones, yearly best-sellers, albums released, groups established and disestablished, deaths of notable Japanese music-related people as well as any other relevant Japanese music-related events. For overviews of the year in music from other countries, see 2009 in music.
Events
- December 31 - 60th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
Awards
- May 30 - 2009 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
- December 30 - 51st Japan Record Awards
Number-ones
- Oricon number-one albums
- Oricon number-one singles
- Hot 100 number-one singles
- RIAJ Digital Track Chart number-one singles
Best-sellers
Artists
The two best-selling music artists in Japan in 2009 by value of sales, including sales of records and of DVDs and Blu-rays, according to Oricon, were Arashi, with ¥14.46 billion and Exile.[1]
Albums
The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in Japan in 2009, according to Oricon.[2] The best-selling album of the year, All the Best! 1999–2009, sold more than 1.43 million copies.[1]
Rank | Album | Artist |
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1 | All the Best! 1999–2009 | Arashi |
2 | Supermarket Fantasy | Mr. Children |
3 | Shio, Koshō | Greeeen |
4 | Aisubeki Mirai e | Exile |
5 | Exile Ballad Best | Exile |
6 | Ayaka's History 2006–2009 | Ayaka |
7 | Do You Dreams Come True? | Dreams Come True |
8 | Remio Best | Remioromen |
9 | Box Emotions | Superfly |
10 | Calling | Kobukuro |
Albums released
The following section includes albums by Japanese artists released in Japan in 2009 as well as Japanese-language albums by foreign artists released in the country during this year.
- January 14 - Camouflage by Merzbow
- January 28 - 4 Akogare My Star by Cute
- January 28 - 5 by Flow
- February 4 - Antenna by GO!GO!7188
- March 4 - Kyūtai by MUCC
- March 9 - Remio Best by Remioromen
- March 17 - Hayley Sings Japanese Songs 2 by Hayley Westenra
- March 18 - Akiko Infinity Kokia: Balance by Kokia
- March 18 - Harmonia by Akiko Shikata
- March 18 - Kokia Infinity Akiko: Balance by Kokia
- March 21 - Do You Dreams Come True? by Dreams Come True
- May 27 - Dream by Yuna Ito
- May 27 - Family by May J.
- June 10 - Shio, Koshō by Greeeen
- June 24 - Hocus Pocus by Kaela Kimura
- July 15 - Fight by Mayumi Iizuka
- August 5 - Calling by Kobukuro
- August 19 - All the Best! 1999–2009 by Arashi
- September 2 - Box Emotions by Superfly
- September 9 -Emotions by Thelma Aoyama
- September 23 - Ayaka's History 2006–2009 by Ayaka
- November 25 - Aurora' by Nico Touches the Walls
- December 2 - Aisubeki Mirai e by Exile
- December 9 - Carol by Chara
- December 9 - I Am by Mao Denda
- December 23 - Anime's Compilation Best by Kotoko
- December 23 - Hajimari no Uta by Ikimono-gakari
- 13 Japanese Birds by Merzbow
Groups established
- Angerme
- bump.y
- ClariS
- Flower
- Gacharic Spin
- Oldcodex
- Passepied
- Passpo
- SDN48
- Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku
- Sphere
- YuiKaori
Groups disestablished
References
- ^ a b "Arashi sweeps 2009 sales rankings". tokyograph. December 17, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
- ^ "年間 CDアルバムランキング 2009年度". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved September 26, 2016.