Yearly best selling albums 1995-2006

[slowmoth]

I don't know where to post it... I need to know the list of the yearly best selling album for every year since 1995 to 2006 and if possible the list of best selling singles between these years too, please :D

Sorry if it's in the wrong place!

[ayu_fan929]

YEARLY #1 SINGLES 1995-2007
1995: 2,351,840 "LOVE LOVE LOVE/Arashi ga Kuru" - DREAMS COME TRUE
1996: 2,302,910 "Namonaki Uta" - Mr. Children
1997: 2,223,090 "CAN YOU CELEBRATE?" - Amuro Namie
1998: 1,611,920 "Yuuwaku" - GLAY
1999: 2,918,220 "Dango 3 Kyodai" - Hayami Shimizu, Shigemori Ayumi etc.
2000: 2,886,940 "TSUNAMI" - Southern All Stars
2001: 1,484,940 "Can You Keep A Secret?" - Utada Hikaru
2002: 1,000,260 "}{" - Hamasaki Ayumi
2003: 2,108,565 "Sekai de Hitotsu Dake no Hana" - SMAP
2004: *,834,448 "Hitomi wo Tojite" - Hirai Ken
2005: *,945,345 "Seishun Amigo" - Shuuji to Akira
2006: 1,038,923 "Real Face" - KAT-TUN
2007: *,963,803 "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" - Akikawa Masafumi

[ayu_fan929]

YEARLY #1 ALBUMS 1995-2007
1995: *,***,*** "DELICIOUS" - DREAMS COME TRUE
1996: *,***,*** "globe" - globe
1997: *,***,*** "REVIEW ~BEST OF GLAY" - GLAY
1998: 5,034,980 "B'z The Best 'Pleasure'" - B'z
1999: 7,365,830 "First Love" - Utada Hikaru
2000: 3,451,660 "delicious way" - Kuraki Mai
2001: 4,404,290 "Distance" - Utada Hikaru
2002: 3,526,780 "Deep River" - Utada Hikaru
2003: 2,001,917 "Second to None" - CHEMISTRY
2004: 2,495,967 "Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL. 1" - Utada Hikaru
2005: 2,630,763 "musiQ" - ORANGE RANGE
2006: 2,070,766 "Single Collection 1995-2005 'UTABAKA'" - Hirai Ken
2007: 1,144,155 "HOME" - Mr. Children

I'm not sure about 1995-1997 albums.

[SKYia]

Seems like Hikki rules here

[summersnow]

wow!! I didn't know that Hikki's First Love sold more than 7 million.

thanks for the info!

Those good old days where breaking million mark was so easy job.

[criminal]

1995: 2,910,000 "DELICIOUS" - DREAMS COME TRUE
1996: 3,763,000 "globe" - globe
1997: 3,334,000 "REVIEW ~BEST OF GLAY" - GLAY

Those are rounded up to 1000, I think.

[TITANIC]

year after year the sales go weaker right??

[slowmoth]

Thanks ayu_fan929! This is very useful

[ayumisrael]

Yeah, those were the days... ayu's A BEST outsell most of the albums on the list... and hikki totally had huge album sales and ayu had 2 millions as well... where are those days?...

[AyuGAME]

wow hikki get a lot of achievement there

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

YEARLY #1 SINGLES 1995-2007
1995: 2,351,840 "LOVE LOVE LOVE/Arashi ga Kuru" - DREAMS COME TRUE
1996: 2,302,910 "Namonaki Uta" - Mr. Children
1997: 2,223,090 "CAN YOU CELEBRATE?" - Amuro Namie
1998: 1,611,920 "Yuuwaku" - GLAY
1999: 2,918,220 "Dango 3 Kyodai" - Hayami Shimizu, Shigemori Ayumi etc.
2000: 2,886,940 "TSUNAMI" - Southern All Stars
2001: 1,484,940 "Can You Keep A Secret?" - Utada Hikaru
2002: 1,000,260 "}{" - Hamasaki Ayumi
2003: 2,108,565 "Sekai de Hitotsu Dake no Hana" - SMAP
2004: *,834,448 "Hitomi wo Tojite" - Hirai Ken
2005: *,945,345 "Seishun Amigo" - Shuuji to Akira
2006: 1,038,923 "Real Face" - KAT-TUN
2007: *,963,803 "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" - Akikawa Masafumi

Most of them had a tie-in with a drama or TV show.
1995: Theme song of TBS' drama "Aishiteiru to Ittekure"
1996: Theme song of Fuji TV's drama 'PURE'
1997: Theme song of Fuji TV's drama 'Virgin Road'
1998: No drama tie-in.
1999: Song from a NHK children show.
2000: Opening of a TBS' variety show
2001: Theme song of Fuji TV's drama HERO
2002: No drama tie-in
2003: Theme song of Fuji TV's drama Boku no Aruku Michi
2004: No TV tie-in (theme song of movie Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu)
2005: Theme song of NTV's Nobuta wo Produce
2006: No TV tie-in.
2007: Theme song of Fuji TV's special drama Barefoot Gen (but the song was already a huge hit).

[TITANIC]

alomost all theme song

[s1012h]

hikki's still going strong today with FoL!