Best-selling albums in Japan

Data as of 2007 indicates that Japan has the second largest music market in the world, but it is the largest in Asia. In 2008, Japan surpassed the United States for having the most physical sales.

In the history of the Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart which started in January 1970, 278 out of all the charting albums has sold more than 1 million copies.

This is the list of top-ten out of the best-selling albums on the Oricon. The Japanese albums chart had been separated into LPs (started in 1970), cassette tapes (introduced in 1974), and compact discs (launched in 1985) charts until they were unified in January 1987.

Sales figure derived from data that the Oricon provided in 2007. Though digital sales play a big role in overall sales nowadays, this list does not take them into account.

Aside from the materials recorded by Japanese artists or Asian performers who sang in Japanese, 21 out of all the charting albums have sold over 1 million copies as of November 2009. This is the list of 10 best-selling non-domestic artists' recordings, including soundtrack albums. Sales figures listed here are based on the data provided by the Oricon (those are occasionally lower than reports by the record labels, tabloids, or other Japanese record charts).

This is the list of the albums that have shipped over 1,000,000 copies and been certified Million by the RIAJ. Albums are listed in alphabetical order of each recording artists' name.

Sales figures derived from Oricon.

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