List of years in Japanese music
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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.

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 Hikaru Utada
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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