We are now at the midpoint of 2020, meaning that mid-year charts are here! Oricon has released its charts for the first half of 2021! This chart covers the period from 12/14/20 to 6/13/21.
Snow Man is the best selling artist of the year so far, while Ado is the best selling new artist of the year so far.
Snow Man also topped the Combined Single and Single charts with their single “Grandeur.”
SixTONES topped the Combined Album and Album charts with their debut album “1ST.”
Ado‘s “Usseewa” topped the Digital Single chart, while YOASOBI’s debut mini album “THE BOOK” also topped the Digital Album chart. Yuuri‘s “Dry Flower” topped the Streaming chart.
Artist
- Snow Man: ¥4,920,000,000
- Nogizaka46: ¥4,910,000,000
- BTS: ¥4,560,000,000
- King & Prince: ¥3,970,000,000
- SixTONES: ¥3,250,000,000
- YOASOBI: ¥3,210,000,000
- Sexy Zone: ¥1,940,000,000
- Johnny’s WEST: ¥1,780,000,000
- Kis-My-Ft2: ¥1,660,000,000
- NiziU: ¥1,630,000,000
New Artist
- Ado: ¥830,000,000
- TREASURE: ¥420,000,000
- 7ORDER: ¥290,000,000
Combined Single
- Snow Man – Grandeur: 1,019,433 points
- NiziU – Take a picture / Poppin’ Shakin’: 898,189 points
- Yuuri – Dry Flower: 875,494 points
- YOASOBI – Kaibutsu / Yasashii Suisei: 875,149 points
- Nogizaka46 – Boku wa Boku wo Suki ni Naru: 822,947 points
- BTS – Dynamite: 822,929 points
- YOASOBI – Yoru ni Kakeru: 819,669 points
- NiziU – Step and a step: 747,612 points
- Ado – Usseewa: 741,579 points
- LiSA – Homura: 652,109 points
Combined Album
- SixTONES – 1ST: 571,143 points
- YOASOBI – THE BOOK: 343,821 points
- BTS – BE: 316,210 points
- Hey! Say! JUMP – Fab! -Music speaks.-: 267,430 points
- Johnny’s WEST – rainboW: 257,776 points
- Utada Hikaru – One Last Kiss: 226,566 points
- Yonezu Kenshi – STRAY SHEEP: 211,644 points
- Sexy Zone – SZ10TH: 210,763 points
- NCT 127 – LOVEHOLIC: 164,751 points
- KinKi Kids – O album: 147,777 points
Single
- Snow Man – Grandeur: 951,555
- Nogizaka46 – Boku wa Boku wo Suki ni Naru: 714,554
- King & Prince – I promise: 611,818
- Nogizaka46 – Gomen ne fingers crossed: 589,751
- Hinatazaka46 – Kimi Shika Katan: 527,948
- King & Prince – Magic Touch / Beating Hearts: 492,770
- SixTONES – Boku ga Boku Janai Mitai da: 489,816
- SEVENTEEN – Hitori Janai: 419,097
- Sakurazaka46 – BAN: 418,862
- NiziU – Take a picture / Poppin’ Shakin’: 365,083
Album
- SixTONES – 1ST: 571,143
- Hey! Say! JUMP – Fab! -Music speaks.-: 267,430
- Johnny’s WEST – rainboW: 257,776
- BTS – BE: 224,003
- Sexy Zone – SZ10TH: 210,763
- NCT 127 – LOVEHOLIC: 156,341
- Utada Hikaru – One Last Kiss: 150,717
- KinKi Kids – O album: 147,777
- YOASOBI – THE BOOK: 122,384
- Fling Posse VS MAD TRIGGER CREW – Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- 2nd D.R.B “Fling Posse VS MAD TRIGGER CREW”: 118,753
Digital Single
- Ado – Usseewa: 304,407
- Yuuri – Dry Flower: 283,217
- LiSA – Homura: 274,434
- YOASOBI – Yoru ni Kakeru: 257,905
- YOASOBI – Kaibutsu: 236,420
- BTS – Dynamite: 224,533
- Eve – Kaikai Kitan: 214,563
- Utada Hikaru – One Last Kiss: 195,657
- Suda Masaki – Niji: 150,530
- Yonezu Kenshi – Pale Blue: 128,573
Digital Album
- YOASOBI – THE BOOK: 79,202
- Utada Hikaru – One Last Kiss: 38,541
- Yonezu Kenshi – STRAY SHEEP: 19,812
- Fuji Kaze – HELP EVER HURT NEVER: 13,885
- BTS – BE: 12,967
- Arashi – This is Arashi: 11,827
- Yorushika – Sousaku: 10,424
- Aimer – Walpurgis: 9,308
- Mr.Children – SOUNDTRACKS: 9,120
- Momoiro Clover Z – ZZ’s II: 8,971
Streaming
- Yuuri – Dry Flower: 228,655,854
- YOASOBI – Yoru ni Kakeru: 214,945,303
- BTS – Dynamite: 212,972,809
- Ado – Usseewa: 185,938,520
- YOASOBI – Kaibutsu: 163,588,059
- LiSA – Homura: 139,077,824
- Eve – Kaikai Kitan: 132,489,905
- Awesome City Club – Wasurena: 128,871,986
- YOASOBI – Gunjou: 126,686,194
- Suda Masaki – Niji: 102,331,449
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