2009 in Japanese music

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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

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
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 [ja]	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

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.

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[tokyograph-1] "Arashi sweeps 2009 sales rankings". tokyograph. December 17, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2016.

[2] "年間　CDアルバムランキング 2009年度". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved September 26, 2016.

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