Today statistics-tracking company Oricon Inc. published its complete end of the year report, which reveals all of the sales data that it collected for the year 2016. This includes the five top earning acts for the year, as well as the yearly single, album, music DVD, and music Blu-ray charts.
This year’s top five selling acts, and their total gross for the year (in yen) are as follows:
- Arashi (¥12,183,000,000)
- Sandaime J Soul Brothers (¥8,256,000,000)
- Nogizaka46 (¥7,437,000,000)
- AKB48 (¥6,947,000,000)
- Kanjani8 (¥4,788,000,000)
Arashi also managed to top this year’s Album chart with “Are You Happy?”, as well as the yearly Music Blu-ray chart with their “ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2015 Japonism’”. Meanwhile, Sandaime J Soul Brothers topped the yearly Music DVD chart with their “Sandaime J Soul Brothers LIVE TOUR 2015 ‘BLUE PLANET'” and AKB48 found themselves atop the yearly Singles ranking with “Tsubasa wa Iranai”, making it the 7th year in a row that they’ve had Japan’s best selling single.
You’ll find the Top 50 Singles and Albums and the Top 10 Music DVDs & Blu-rays for the year right after the jump, so please read on if you’re curious about the full rankings.
-Oricon Inc. Yearly Sales Rankings 2016-
Singles:
- AKB48 – Tsubasa wa Iranai (Sales Number: 1,519,387)
- AKB48 – Kimi wa Melody (Sales Number: 1,294,962)
- AKB48 – LOVE TRIP / Shiawase wo Wakenasai (Sales Number: 1,213,660)
- AKB48 – High Tension (Sales Number: 1,202,533)
- Nogizaka46 – Sayonara no Imi (Sales Number: 910,811)
- Nogizaka46 – Hadashi de Summer (Sales Number: 851,229)
- Arashi – I seek / Daylight (Sales Number: 828,533)
- Nogizaka46 – Harujion ga Saku Koro (Sales Number: 828,315)
- Arashi – Fukkatsu LOVE (Sales Number: 541,121)
- Arashi – Power of the Paradise (Sales Number: 471,619)
- Keyakizaka46 – Futari Sezon (Sales Number: 467,845)
- SMAP – Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana (Sales Number: 439,774)
- Keyakizaka46 – Sekai ni wa Ai Shika Nai (Sales Number: 392,719)
- Keyakizaka46 – Silent Majority (Sales Number: 376,871)
- SKE48 – Chicken LINE (Sales Number: 365,328)
- NMB48 – Boku wa Inai (Sales Number: 363,583)
- HKT48 – Saikou Kayo (Sales Number: 332,231)
- SKE48 – Kin no Ai, Gin no Ai (Sales Number: 324,415)
- Hey! Say! JUMP – Maji SUNSHINE (Sales Number: 308,610)
- HKT48 – 74 Okubun no 1 no Kimi e (Sales Number: 305,137)
- Kanjani8 – Tsumi to Natsu (Sales Number: 300,357)
- NMB48 – Amagami Hime (Sales Number: 296,753)
- Kis-My-Ft2 – Sha la la☆Summer Time (Sales Number: 291,356)
- Hey! Say! JUMP – Fantastic Time (Sales Number: 288,361)
- Kis-My-Ft2 – Gravity (Sales Number: 238,550)
- Kanjani8 – NOROSHI (Sales Number: 232,695)
- Hi-STANDARD – ANOTHER STARTING LINE (Sales Number: 220,211)
- BOYS AND MEN – YAMATO☆DANCING (Sales Number: 217,975)
- KAT-TUN – UNLOCK (Sales Number: 217,454)
- KinKi Kids – Bara to Taiyou (Sales Number: 211,800)
- Sexy Zone – Colorful Eyes (Sales Number: 196,539)
- Hoshino Gen – Koi (Sales Number: 190,348)
- KinKi Kids – Michi wa Tezukara Yume no Hana (Sales Number: 188,815)
- AKB48 – Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby (Sales Number: 182,786)
- Kanjani8 – Panorama (Sales Number: 180,218)
- NEWS – Koi wo Shiranai Kimi e (Sales Number: 178,812)
- Sandaime J Soul Brothers – Welcome to TOKYO (Sales Number: 175,046)
- NEWS – Hikari no Shizuku / Touch (Sales Number: 163,802)
- Morning Musume ’16 – Tsumetai Kaze to Kataomoi / ENDLESS SKY / One and Only (Sales Number: 153,242)
- KAT-TUN – TRAGEDY (Sales Number: 144,954)
- EXO – Coming Over (Sales Number: 140,074)
- Hikawa Kiyoshi – Miren Kokoro (Sales Number: 139,241)
- Johnny’s WEST – Jinsei wa Subarashii (Sales Number: 137,226)
- μ’s – MOMENT RING (Sales Number: 135,607)
- Bodan Shounen Dan – RUN -Japanese Ver.- (Sales Number: 133,469)
- Sexy Zone – Yobisute (Sales Number: 129,549)
- Johnny’s WEST – Gyakuten Winner (Sales Number: 129,394)
- Kuwata Keisuke – Yoshiko-san (Sales Number: 128,804)
- V6 – Beautiful World (Sales Number: 127,480)
- THE YELLOW MONKEY – Suna no Tou (Sales Number: 126,761)
Find #51-100 here.
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