2017 in Japanese music

The year 2017 in Japanese music.

Events

• 68th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen

Number-ones

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

Awards

• 59th Japan Record Awards
• 2017 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

Albums released

January

February

March

April

May

June

August

September

October

November

December

Debuting

Debuting groups

• =Love
• 100%
• 22/7
• Atarashii Gakko!
• Blackpink
• Brats
• Cellchrome
• Chō Tokimeki Sendenbu
• CY8ER
• Cynhn
• Dimlim
• Exo-CBX
• Faky
• Last Idol
• Leetspeak Monsters
• Lovebites
• Mellow Mellow
• Migma Shelter
• Monsta X
• NCT 127
• NGT48
• Novelbright
• Pentagon
• Pink Babies
• Pink Cres.
• Polkadot Stingray
• Qumali Depart
• Qyoto
• Ryokuoushoku Shakai
• SF9
• The Rampage from Exile Tribe
• Roselia
• SudannaYuzuYully
• TRCNG
• Twice
• Ukka
• Up10tion
• Winner
• Yorushika

Debuting soloists

• Adieu
• Asca
• Beverly
• Haru Nemuri
• Hiroomi Tosaka
• Junna
• Keina Suda
• Masaki Suda
• Nao Tōyama
• Rena Nōnen
• Sayuri
• Shiina Natsukawa
• Shuta Sueyoshi
• Sōma Saitō
• Taecyeon
• Tao Tsuchiya

Artists resuming activities

• Chemistry
• Megumi Nakajima
• Makidai
• Gesu no Kiwami Otome
• Indigo la End
• Aoi YÅ«ki

Artists on hiatus

• Ikimono-gakari
• Tsubaki
• YuiKaori
• Ami Wajima
• Tsuki Amano
• Pour Lui
• Tackey & Tsubasa
• Sphere
• Vamps
• Flumpool
• Cyntia
• Mejibray

Retiring artists

• Nanami Hashimoto
• Sayaka Shionoya
• Momoko Tsugunaga
• Ray
• Himeka Nakamoto
• Mai Endo
• Haruka Shimada
• Shuuka Fujii

Disbanding artists

• Doll Elements
• Especia
• Prizmmy
• Rev. from DVL
• White Ash
• C-ute
• Mimi Meme Mimi
• Plenty
• Reol
• Megamasso
• Hilcrhyme
• Musubizm
• Cibo Matto
• Sug
• High4
• Wonder Girls

Deaths

• February 8 – Rina Matsuno, 18, idol singer and model, heart arrhythmia
• February 25 – Toshio Nakanishi, 61, musician and producer, esophageal cancer
• March 1 – Hiroshi Kamayatsu, 78, singer and guitarist, pancreatic cancer
• April 12 – Peggy Hayama, 83, singer, pneumonia
• July 8 – Seiji Yokoyama, 82, composer, pneumonia
• December 2 – Norihiko Hashida, 72, folk singer-songwriter, parkinson's disease

See also

• 2017 in Japan
• 2017 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 2017

References