Over the next few days, we’ll be looking back on the year end charts for the years that were covered in the 2017 editions of Oricon Flashback. We’re going to start things off with 1997.

Artists:

1. GLAY (¥17,630,000,000)

2. globe (¥14,180,000,000)

3. Mr.Children (¥11,750,000,000)

4. Namie Amuro (¥10,390,000,000)

5. B’z (¥9,980,000,000)

6. SPEED (¥9,340,000,000)

7. THE YELLOW MONKEY (¥8,490,000,000)

5. Every Little Thing (¥8,450,000,000)

9. ZARD (¥8,290,000,000)

10. JUDY AND MARY (¥7,720,000,000)

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