2008 in Japanese music

The following is an overview of the year 2008 in Japanese music. It includes notable awards, lists of number-ones, yearly best-sellers, albums released, groups established and disestablished, deaths of notable Japanese music-related people as well as any other relevant Japanese music-related events. For overviews of the year in music from other countries, see 2008 in music.

2008 in music
By location
By genre
By topic
List of years in Japanese music

Events
  • December 31 – 29th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen

Awards

Number-ones

Best-sellers

Artists

The best-selling music artist in Japan in 2008 by value of sales, including sales of records and of DVDs and Blu-rays, according to Oricon, was Exile, with ¥19.58 billion .[1]

Albums

The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in Japan in 2008, according to Oricon.[2]

RankAlbumArtist
1 Exile Love Exile
2 Best Fiction Namie Amuro
3 5296 Kobukuro
4 Exile Catchy Best Exile
5 Heart Station Utada Hikaru
6 Exile Ballad Best Exile
7 B'z The Best "Ultra Pleasure" B'z
8 A Complete: All Singles Ayumi Hamasaki
9 And I Love You Dreams Come True
10 Ā, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu. Greeeen

Albums released

The following section includes albums by Japanese artists released in Japan in 2008 as well as Japanese-language albums by foreign artists released in the country during this year.

Groups established

Groups disestablished

See also

References
  1. "Arashi sweeps 2009 sales rankings". tokyograph. December 17, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  2. "年間　CDアルバムランキング 2008年度". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved September 26, 2016.


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