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

The top 3 according to 21 votes from people: AKB48 · Glay · B'z. (Updated Feb 16, 2026.)

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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Top 30

  1. 1

    AKB48

    About 73.4 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  2. 2

    Glay

    About 38.8 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  3. 3

    B'z

    About 86.25 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  4. 4

    Mr. Children

    About 60.01 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  5. 5

    Southern All Stars

    About 48.8 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  6. 6

    Dreams Come True

    About 44.94 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  7. 7

    L'Arc-en-Ciel

    About 40 million records sold according to Oricon (estimate).

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  8. 8

    Chage and Aska

    About 31 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  9. 9

    Tube

    About 24.55 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  10. 10

    Exile

    About 23.44 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  11. 11

    Every Little Thing

    About 22.72 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  12. 12

    Maki Ohguro

    About 22.67 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  13. 13

    Seiko Matsuda

    About 30 million records sold according to Oricon (estimate).

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  14. 14

    Ayumi Hamasaki

    About 50.708 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  15. 15

    Yumi Matsutoya

    About 39.39 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  16. 16

    Arashi

    About 38.44 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  17. 17

    Hikaru Utada

    About 37.34 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  18. 18

    Namie Amuro

    About 36.18 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  19. 19

    Globe

    About 28.94 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  20. 20

    KinKi Kids

    About 28.38 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  21. 21

    Koda Kumi

    About 27.5 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  22. 22

    Akina Nakamori

    About 25.34 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  23. 23

    Morning Musume

    About 22.47 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  24. 24

    Miyuki Nakajima

    About 21.96 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  25. 25

    Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi

    About 21.64 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  26. 26

    Zard

    About 37.63 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  27. 27

    SMAP

    About 37.2 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  28. 28

    X Japan

    About 30 million records sold according to Oricon (estimate).

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  29. 29

    Masaharu Fukuyama

    About 24.1 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  30. 30

    TRF

    About 21.71 million records sold according to Oricon.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1

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