Thursday, December 01, 2022

Tower Records Japan Bestsellers 2022 (Music)

Tower Records Japan released its bestsellers rankings for 2022 today where you can see the hits for various categories such as Japanese music, K-pop, Western music, jazz and classical. What I found interesting was that the physical CDs sales rankings were pretty much dominated by Johnny's Jimusho's groups and various idol groups while the online streaming rankings saw a more varied mix of artists. Does this mean that fans of idol groups tend to be more willing to pay for physical CDs while other music consumers prefer to listen to their music digitally? 

It will also be interesting to compare this with the nationwide rankings compiled by Oricon which will most likely be released later in December. The Tower Records rankings doesn't give any information about sales figures so it can be difficult to assess how much the difference is between positions in the same ranking and the true impact of sales/streaming numbers.

Here are the top 10 rankings for the Japanese music categories. For the full list, please refer to the respective links for each category:


1) "MIDNIGHT SUN" by JO1
2) "I" by INI
3) "Brother Beat" by Snow Man
4) "Orange Kiss" by Snow Man
5) "M" by INI
6) "Watashi" by SixTONES
7) "The Answer / Sachiare" by Naniwa Danshi
8) "Kyoumei" by SixTONES
9) "Good Luck! / Futari" by SixTONES
10) "Tsukiyomi / Irodori" by King & Prince



1) "Snow Labo. S2" by Snow Man
2) "1st Love" by Naniwa Danshi
3) "CITY" by SixTONES
4) "Made in" by King & Prince
5) "Mixed Juice" by Johnny's WEST
6) "KIZUNA" by JO1
7) "FILMUSIC!" by Hey! Say! JUMP
8) "SOFTLY" by Yamashita Tatsuro
9) "Uta no uta ONE PIECE FILM RED" by Ado
10) "Yumin Banzai! ~ Matsutoya Yumi 50 shuunen kinen best album ~" by Matsutoya Yumi



1) "Snow Man LIVE TOUR 2021 Mania" by Snow Man
2) "Johnny's Festival ~Thank you 2021 Hello 2022~" by Various Artists
3) "Feel da CITY" by SixTONES
4) "Naniwa Danshi First Arena Tour 2021 # Naniwa Danshi shika katan" by Naniwa Danshi
5) "King & Prince CONCERT TOUR 2021 ~ Re:Sense ~" by King & Prince
6) "KANJANI'S Re:LIVE 8BEAT" by Kanjani 8
7) "Johnny's WEST LIVE TOUR 2021 rainboW" by Johnny's WEST
8) "NEWS LIVE TOUR 2020 STORY" by NEWS
9) "LIVE TOUR V6 groove" by V6
10) "Sexy Zone Anniversary Tour 2021 SZ10TH" by Sexy Zone



1) BTS
2) Ado
3) YOASOBI
4) Official Hige Dandism
5) Yuri
6) Yonezu Kenshi
7) back number 
8) King Gnu
9) Aimyon
10) B'z


1) "Zankyosanka" by Aimer
2) "BETELGEUSE" by Yuri
3) "Dried Flower" by Yuri
4) "Yoru ni kakeru" by YOASOBI
5) "Mixed Nuts" by Official Hige Dandism
6) "Shinjidai" by Ado
7) "Cry Baby" by Official Hige Dandism
8) "Ichizu" by King Gnu
9) "Habit" by SEKAI NO OWARI
10) "Gunjou" by YOASOBI

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