2018 in Japanese music

The year 2018 in Japanese music.

Number ones

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

Awards

• 60th Japan Record Awards
• 2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

Albums released

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Debuting and returning artists

Debuting groups

• April
• Day6
• dps
• Dreamcatcher
• Empire
• EXID
• Fantastics from Exile Tribe
• First Place
• GFriend
• Gugudan
• Hachimitsu Rocket
• King & Prince
• Mamamoo
• Myteen
• Neo Japonism
• Raise A Suilen
• Red Velvet
• Seventeen
• Spira Spica
• STU48
• Uijin
• Yoshimotozaka46
• Zutomayo

Debuting soloists

• Aina the End
• Shuta Sueyoshi
• Ryuji Imaichi
• Taiki Yamazaki
• Minori Suzuki
• Mai Fuchigami
• Misako Uno
• Ryucheru
• Rika Tachibana
• Kiyoe Yoshioka
• Kaori Ishihara
• Shigeru Joshima
• Haruka Yamazaki
• Yuma Uchida
• Makoto Furukawa
• Ryusei Yokohama
• Yuka Ozaki
• Reona
• Chiaki Satō
• Yuka Ozaki
• Akari Nanawo
• Chiaki Ito
• Meimi Tamura
• Halca
• Taemin
• Key

Returning from hiatus

• Ayami Mutō
• Eir Aoi
• KAT-TUN
• Ami Wajima
• Ellegarden
• Hilcrhyme
• Ikimonogakari
• Charisma.com

Disbanding and retiring artists

Disbanding

• Idol Renaissance
• La PomPon
• Mix Speaker's,Inc.
• GEM
• Chelsy
• Cheeky Parade
• Chatmonchy
• Ciao Bella Cinquetti
• Tackey & Tsubasa
• Passpo
• Babyraids Japan
• Vanilla Beans
• X21
• Aqua Timez
• Secret
• Tahiti

Retiring

• Tetsuya Komuro
• Namie Amuro
• Chiyo Okumura
• Hideaki Takizawa (Tackey & Tsubasa)
• Hitomi Yoshizawa

Going on hiatus

• Charisma.com
• Folks
• Tsubasa Imai (Tackey & Tsubasa)
• Chris Hart
• Mao Denda
• Jero
• Yumi Hara
• Keito Okamoto (Hey! Say! JUMP)
• Nobuo Uematsu
• Shiori Niiyama
• Rice
• Sads

Deaths

• January 26 – Junji Yayoshi, guitarist and record producer (b. 1968)
• January 31 – Itokin, MC and track maker (b. 1979)
• April 24 – Doji Morita, singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
• April 27 – Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress (b. 1935)
• May 16 – Hideki Saijo, singer and actor (b. 1955)
• October 12 – Takehisa Kosugi, composer and violinist (b. 1938)
• November 14 – Masahiro Sayama, jazz pianist (b. 1953)
• November 25 – Norio Maeda, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1934)

See also

• 2018 in Japan
• 2018 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 2018

References