# The best-selling music artists in Japan: top 30 (Oricon cumulative sales)

Japan's best-selling singers and groups according to cumulative sales on Oricon's singles and albums charts. B'z are first with more than 86 million, and also hold the all-time record for album sales, followed by AKB48, Mr. Children and Ayumi Hamasaki.

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- Feb 16, 2026 · artnerd
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## Top 30

1. **AKB48** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — About 73.4 million records sold according to Oricon.
2. **Glay** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — About 38.8 million records sold according to Oricon.
3. **B'z** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 86.25 million records sold according to Oricon.
4. **Mr. Children** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 60.01 million records sold according to Oricon.
5. **Southern All Stars** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 48.8 million records sold according to Oricon.
6. **Dreams Come True** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 44.94 million records sold according to Oricon.
7. **L'Arc-en-Ciel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 40 million records sold according to Oricon (estimate).
8. **Chage and Aska** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 31 million records sold according to Oricon.
9. **Tube** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 24.55 million records sold according to Oricon.
10. **Exile** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 23.44 million records sold according to Oricon.
11. **Every Little Thing** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 22.72 million records sold according to Oricon.
12. **Maki Ohguro** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — About 22.67 million records sold according to Oricon.
13. **Seiko Matsuda** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — About 30 million records sold according to Oricon (estimate).
14. **Ayumi Hamasaki** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 50.708 million records sold according to Oricon.
15. **Yumi Matsutoya** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 39.39 million records sold according to Oricon.
16. **Arashi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 38.44 million records sold according to Oricon.
17. **Hikaru Utada** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 37.34 million records sold according to Oricon.
18. **Namie Amuro** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 36.18 million records sold according to Oricon.
19. **Globe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 28.94 million records sold according to Oricon.
20. **KinKi Kids** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 28.38 million records sold according to Oricon.
21. **Koda Kumi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 27.5 million records sold according to Oricon.
22. **Akina Nakamori** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 25.34 million records sold according to Oricon.
23. **Morning Musume** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 22.47 million records sold according to Oricon.
24. **Miyuki Nakajima** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 21.96 million records sold according to Oricon.
25. **Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — About 21.64 million records sold according to Oricon.
26. **Zard** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — About 37.63 million records sold according to Oricon.
27. **SMAP** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — About 37.2 million records sold according to Oricon.
28. **X Japan** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — About 30 million records sold according to Oricon (estimate).
29. **Masaharu Fukuyama** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — About 24.1 million records sold according to Oricon.
30. **TRF** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — About 21.71 million records sold according to Oricon.

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