Best Selling Japanese Artist by Year

[visionfactory]

Hi, I'm looking for a list like this... or maybe you can help me to complete/correct it up

1997:
1998: Utada Hikaru (10,062,780 copies sold)
1999:
2000:
2001: Hamasaki Ayumi (10,496,613 copies sold)
2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
2008:
2009:

edit: completed

Spoiler:

Best selling artists by year (Thanks to ayumisrael)
1997: GLAY
1998: B'z
1999: Utada Hikaru (1,400,000)
2000: Hamasaki Ayumi (10,200,000)
2001: Hamasaki Ayumi (10,400,000)
2002: Utada Hikaru (4,800,000)
2003: Hamasaki Ayumi (3,600,000)
2004: Utada Hikaru (1,000,000)
2005: Orange Range
2006: Koda Kumi (4,700,000)
2007: Koda Kumi (1,000,000)
2008: EXILE
2009: ARASHI

Best selling singles by year (Thanks to Andrenekoi)
1997: Namie Amuro - Can you celebrate? (2,296,200)
1998: Glay - Yuuwaku (1,625,520)
1999: Kentarō Hayami, Ayumi Shigemori, Himawari Kids, Dango Gasshōdan - Dango 3 Kyodai (2,918,000)
2001: Utada Hikaru - Can you keep a secret? (1,485,000)
2002: Hamasaki Ayumi - H (1,016,000)
2003: SMAP - Sekai ni Hitotsu dake no Hana (2,573,000)
2004: Ken Hirai - Hitomi wo Tojite (893,000)
2005: Shuuji to Akira - Seishun Amigo (945,315)
2006: KAT-TUN - Real Face (1,038,923)
2007: Akikawa Masafumi - Sen no Kaze ni Natte (1,115,499)
2008: Arashi - Truth/Kaze no Mukō e (618,229)
2009: Arashi - Believe/Kumorinochi, Kaisei (656,676)

Best selling albums by year (Thanks to Andrenekoi)
1997: Glay - Review (4,870,000)
1998: B`z - B'z The Best "Pleasure" (5,135,922)
1999: Utada Hikaru - First Love (7,650,215)
2000: Mai Kuraki - Delicious way (3,530,000)
2001: Utada Hikaru - Distance (4,472,343)
2002: Utada Hikaru - Deep River (3,605,000)
2003: CHEMISTRY - Second to None (2,001,917)
2004: Utada Hikaru - Singles Collection (2,495,967)
2005: ORANGE RANGE - (2,630,763)
2006: Ken Hirai - Ken Hirai 10th Anniversary Complete Single Collection '95-'05 "Utabaka" (2,070,766)
2007: Mr. Children - HOME (1,181,241)
2008: EXILE - EXILE Love (1,500,000)
2009: Arashi - All the Best! 1999–2009 (1,700,000)

[SPEAKERnight.]

The best selling Japanese album of 2008 in EXILE's EXILE Love.

[Andrenekoi]

Singles:
1997: Namie Amuro - Can you celebrate? (2,296,200)
1998: Glay - Yuuwaku (1,625,520)
1999: Kentarō Hayami, Ayumi Shigemori, Himawari Kids, Dango Gasshōdan - Dango 3 Kyodai (2,918,000)
2001: Hikaru Utada - Can you keep a secret? (1,485,000)
2002: Hamasaki Ayumi - H (1,016,000)
2003: SMAP - Sekai ni Hitotsu dake no Hana (2,573,000)
2004: Ken Hirai - Hitomi wo Tojite (893,000)
2005: Shuuji to Akira - Seishun Amigo (945,315)
2006: KAT-TUN - Real Face (1,038,923)
2007: Akikawa Masafumi - Sen no Kaze ni Natte (1,115,499)
2008: Arashi - Truth/Kaze no Mukō e (618,229)
2009: Arashi - Believe/Kumorinochi, Kaisei (656,676)

Albums:
1997: Glay - Review (4,870,000)
1998: B`z - B'z The Best "Pleasure" (5,135,922)
1999: Utada Hikaru - First Love (7,650,215)
2000: Mai Kuraki - Delicious way (3,530,000)
2001: Utada Hikaru - Distance (4,472,343)
2002: Hikaru Utada - Deep River (3,605,000)
2003: CHEMISTRY - Second to None (2,001,917)
2004: Hikaru Utada - Singles Collection (2,495,967)
2005: ORANGE RANGE - (2,630,763)
2006: Ken Hirai - Ken Hirai 10th Anniversary Complete Single Collection '95-'05 "Utabaka" (2,070,766)
2007: Mr. Children - HOME (1,181,241)
2008: EXILE - EXILE Love (1,500,000)
2009: Arashi - All the Best! 1999–2009 (1,700,000)

[Andrenekoi]

Yeap, I'm bored xD

[ayumisrael]

I can give you also a best selling by year in Yen (Rounded numbers):

1997: GLAY (176,300,000 Yen)
1998: B'z (354,900,000 Yen)
1999: Utada Hikaru (281,200,000 Yen)
2000: hamasaki ayumi (217,500,000 Yen)
2001: hamasaki ayumi (243,700,000 Yen)
2002: Utada Hikaru (133,400,000 Yen)
2003: hamasaki ayumi (105,200,000 Yen)
2004: Utada Hikaru (86,600,000 Yen)
2005: Orange Range (143,500,000 Yen)
2006: koda kumi (127,000,000 Yen)
2007: koda kumi (73,500,000 Yen)
2008: EXILE (195,800,000 Yen)
2009: ARASHI (144,600,000 Yen)

[visionfactory]

Thanks a lot everyone! I may complete the first post now ^_^

[dreamland2.0]

Thanks this is neat!! ^.^

[gallowsCalibrator]

This is really cool~!!! I'm glad Ayu is #1 for so many years~!

[Kingdom]

This is cool to look at! Thanks. Kuuuu

[Nackar_91]

There are some discrepancies on the list though.

All the Best! 1999-2009 only sold 1.430.000 in 2009. The total of 1.700.000 adds sales of 2010.

And if you use that logic, then Exile Ballads Best was the best selling album of 2008, with a total of 1.800.000 copies sold.

Just trying to help ; )

[TITANIC]

so from 97-99 they keep making the new record of best selling album.. nice

[Nackar_91]

Originally Posted by riozz

so from 97-99 they keep making the new record of best selling album.. nice

Also, in 1996, Namie Amuro first held the record with Sweet 19 Blues with 3.600.000, then her own producer, Tetsuya Komuro, broke the record in the same year with his band globe, with sales of 4.200.000.

So 1995-2000 were really the golden years of the Japanese music industry XD

[AyUta]

Thanks for this list!

[TITANIC]

Originally Posted by Nackar_91

Also, in 1996, Namie Amuro first held the record with Sweet 19 Blues with 3.600.000, then her own producer, Tetsuya Komuro, broke the record in the same year with his band globe, with sales of 4.200.000.

So 1995-2000 were really the golden years of the Japanese music industry XD

Thats cool to know it... looks like Hikki's record wont be broken forever

[Polyrhythm]

Haha....just the way it should be

[Nackar_91]

Nope, the top 10 is pretty much fixed. Actually, with the way it's going right now, I can't see anyone even making it into the top 100 best-selling albums anymore XD

[y_nathz]

thanks this is very interesting