2016 in Japanese music

The year 2016 in Japanese music.

Events

• 67th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen

Number-ones

• Oricon number-one albums
• Oricon number-one singles
• Hot 100 number-one singles

Best-sellers

Artists

The following is a list of the 5 best-selling music artists in Japan in 2016 by value of sales, including sales of records and of DVDs and Blu-rays, according to Oricon.

Albums

The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in Japan in 2016, according to Oricon.

Singles

Oricon

The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling singles in Japan in 2016, according to Oricon.

Billboard Japan

The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling singles in Japan in 2016, according to Billboard Japan's year-end Top Singles Sales chart.

Awards

• 58th Japan Record Awards
• 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

Albums released

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Debuting

Debuting groups

• 3B junior
• Batten Girls
• B.I.G
• Bis
• Chai
• Chelmico
• CLC
• CocoSori
• DYGL
• FEMM
• FlowBack
• Gang Parade
• Hiragana Keyakizaka46
• Hotshot
• iKon
• Keyakizaka46
• Musubizm
• OnePixcel
• Poppin'Party
• Pyxis
• Reol
• Rock A Japonica
• ShuuKaRen
• Tempalay
• The Sixth Lie
• The World Standard
• Yahyel
• Zenbu Kimi no Sei da.

Debuting soloists

• Aina Aiba
• Asaka
• Ayaka Sasaki
• Kanna Hashimoto
• Kyuhyun
• Manami Numakura
• Miku Itō
• Momo Asakura
• Momoka Ariyasu
• Mone Kamishiraishi
• Reina Ueda
• Rie Murakawa
• Taichi Mukai
• Uru

Deaths

• February 10 – Asami Nagakiya, 30, Japanese steel pan player (suspected murder)
• April 3 – Kōji Wada, 42, Japanese singer and songwriter (pharyngeal cancer)

See also

• 2016 in Japan
• 2016 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 2016

References