Music Station Pits the Top 25 Showa Acts Against the Top 25 Heisei Acts

10. SMAP

Total sales: 35.18 million

Single sales: 23.79 million

Album sales: 11.4 million

Best selling single: Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana (2003 / 2.58 million copies)

 

9. Utada Hikaru

Total sales: 36.22 million

Single sales: 15.5 million

Album sales: 20.72 million

Best selling single: Automatic (1998 / 2.06 million copies)

 

8. Southern All Stars

Total sales: 36.57 million

Single sales: not given

Album sales: not given

Best selling single: TSUNAMI (2000 / 2.93 million copies)

 

7. ZARD

Total sales: 37.46 million

Single sales: 17.73 million

Album sales: 19.73 million

Best selling single: Makenaide (1993 / 1.64 million copies)

 

6. GLAY

Total sales: 38.53 million

Single sales: 20.18 million

Album sales: 18.34 million

Best selling single: Winter, again (1999 / 1.64 million copies)

 

5. AKB48

Total sales: 38.69 million

Single sales: 34.01 million

Album sales: 4.68 million

Best selling single: Sayonara Crawl (2013 / 1.95 million copies)

 

4. DREAMS COME TRUE

Total sales: 43.56 million

Single sales: 15.02 million

Album sales: 28.54 million

Best selling single: LOVE LOVE LOVE (1995 / 2.48 million copies)

 

3. Ayumi Hamasaki

Total sales: 50.56 million

Single sales: 21.49 million

Album sales: 29.07 million

Best selling single: A (1999 / 1.63 million copies)

 

2. Mr.Children

Total sales: 59.12 million

Single sales: 28.63 million

Album sales: 30.49 million

Best selling single: Tomorrow never knows (1994 / 2.76 million copies)

 

1. B’z

Total sales: 81.82 million

Single sales: 35.8 million

Album sales: 46.03 million

Best selling single: (1993 / 2.02 million copies)

 

 

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