Most Popular Songs in Japan [1967-2022]

The best-charting singles each year in Japan from 1967 to 2022.The Japanese artists have been marked with a Japanese flag. Stats are from Oricon Number Ones (1967-1989) and Oricon Best-Selling (1990-2022).

[@GeldtheGelded]

It's so weird to seea country that values its own language and artists over the pop tsunamis of the anglophone world

[@jetfan925]

Search Commander Matthew Perry and watch Martin Scorsese's Silence to find out about these Japanese isolation periods.

[@mavintosh]

AKB48 really had the number one spot for a whole decade?Damn talk about chart dominance 😂

[@jetfan925]

The Tom Brady of Oricon Charts

[@AA-ux6gg]

Cuz they cheat

[@Akbff7]

Not anymore even if he remains in our hearts

[@roverg2009]

Notable Daniel Boone, el único no japonés en esta lista. Las AKB48 dominaron sin contrapeso durante una década, algo que no pudieron ni The Beatles ni ABBA. Japón es un mundo aparte.

[@NatalieMllr]

Can you do it from Brazil, please?

[@charlottejenae3622]

He just posted it

[@charlottejenae3622]

Cool

[@emgrey]

Arashi - Believe / Kumorinochi, Kaisei (2009) was removed by copyright holders

[@s.t.1295]

何か色々と時代！ですね？ 🥲

[@everlastingfraends8140]

الصدمة اكثر اغنية احبها طلعت من 1990 اظن الي شفتهم يغنوها كانت تغطيه للاغنية و انا حسبتهم المغنيين الاصل

[@YoshiCh1ef-je6me]

Disappointing to see that one of the most popular bands of their time, Cheap Trick, weren't featured

[@prn_Melatonin]

Namie Amuro 1997.. Holy fuck

[@Bandidaciega14]

2:48 ya sabemos que esa es una de las canciones que canta El YMCA coreano

[@juunenoir]

2010 was not heavy rotation?omg

[@millsyinnz]

The weebs will be drooling over this one,

[@Hydetta]

Странный рейтинг) Вместо KAT-TUN были написаны Arashi И AKB48 целое десятилетие на волне 😂

[@theviolator818]

Uh beryu honorabru uproadu..

[@Violetstar42]

Too much AKB48 in the 2010s! They weren't even really that great IMO.