

However, a sonosheet was not a regular 7-inch single. Machiko Soga's "Oba-Q Ondo" sold estimate 2 million single and 4 million sonosheet in Japan. Guinness World Records certified that Thelma Aoyama's " Soba ni Iru ne" is the best-selling full-track digital download single in Japan with over 8 million copies. However, those included the sales of non full-track digital download singles. GReeeeN's "Ai Uta" sold 5 million digital download singles. Hikaru Utada's " Flavor of Life" sold over 7.7 million combined sales. There were many non full-track digital download singles in Japan. Kyu Sakamoto's " Sukiyaki" sold estimate 13 million copies over worldwide.

Shoukichi Kina's "Subete No Hito No Kokoro Ni Hana Wo" sold estimate 30 million copies over worldwide. There were several singles which achieved worldwide success. Guinness World Records certified that Masato Shimon's " Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun" is the best-selling single in Japan. It does not include singles that were released before 1968, and is only from data collected from Oricon's retail partners and not the record companies.īest-selling physical singles in Japan This is the list of the best-selling singles, based on the data by Oricon.

In 1968 Original Confidence was established and began providing music charts to the general public with data collected from various retailers throughout Japan. However their reports and charts are only available to industry insiders and are not available to the general public. In 1962, Tokushin music reports was founded and became the leading provider of music sales in Japan. Japan has the second largest music market in the world.
