Music Station Special: Best Selling Artists of All Time

Music Station is back! The first episode of the year was an SP enlisting best selling acts of all time by category (solo, band, group).

Overall, B'z are still far ahead of everyone as the most selling act in Japan with over 80 million of copies sold.

Band
01. B'z - 80,150,000
02. Mr.Children - 54,980,000
03. SOUTHERN ALL STARS - 47,840,000
04. DREAMS COME TRUE - 43,280,000
05. GLAY - 37,850,000
06. ZARD - 37,450,000
07. CHAGE & ASKA - 31,400,000
08. globe - 28,930,000
09. L`Arc~en~Ciel - 28,850,000
10. TUBE - 24,500,000
11. Every Little Thing - 22,680,000
12. SPITZ - 20,580,000
13. Kome Kome CLUB - 18,650,000
14. Checkers - 15,380,000
15. JUDY & MARY - 14,360,000
16. WANDS - 13,760,000
17. T-BOLAN - 13,670,000
18. LINDBERG - 13,250,000
19. Yuzu - 13,180,000
20. Porno Graffiti - 12,960,000

Group
01. SMAP - 32,730,000
02. KinKi Kids - 25,210,000
03. TRF - 21,690,000
04. Arashi - 21,590,000
05. EXILE - 19,760,000
06. SPEED - 19,540,000
07. Morning Musume - 16,860,000
08. Pink Lady - 13,330,000
09. AKB48 - 13,280,000
10. Hikaru GENJI - 12,220,000
11. V6 - 12,210,000
12. My Little Lover - 11,990,000
13. CHEMISTRY - 11,640,000
14. PUFFY - 9,190,000
15. KETSUMEISHI - 9,080,000
16. KAT-TUN - 8,450,000
17. MAX - 8,270,000
18. Wink - 7,490,000
19. Tonneruzu - 7,290,000
20. GOSPELLERS - 6,450,000

Male Solo
01. Masaharu Fukuyama - 21,370,000
02. Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi - 21,230,000
03. Noriyuki Makihara - 20,750,000
04. Yosui Inoue - 15,800,000
05. Hiromi Go - 15,790,000
06. Kenji Sawada - 15,700,000
07. Eikichi Yazawa - 14,450,000
08. Chiharu Matsuyama - 14,200,000
09. Ken Hirai - 14,070,000
10. Kazumasa Oda - 14,030,000
11. Taro Yamashita - 13,960,000
12. Toshinobu Kubota - 13,410,000
13. Shogo Hamada - 13,380,000
14. Hideki Saijo - 13,290,000
15. Hideki Tokunaga - 12,780,000
16. Toshihiko Tahara - 12,700,000
17. Masahiko Kondo - 12,670,000
18. T.M.Revolution - 11,540,000
19. Masashi Sada - 11,370,000
20. Yutaka Ozaki - 10,370,000

Female Solo
01. Ayumi Hamasaki - 49,780,000
02. Yumi Matsutoya - 38,380,000
03. Hikaru Utada - 36,190,000
04. Namie Amuro - 30,410,000
05. Seiko Matsuda - 29,530,000
06. Akina Nakamori - 25,340,000
07. Maki Oguro - 22,660,000
08. Miyuki Nakajima - 21,860,000
09. MISIA - 17,820,000
10. Momoe Yamaguchi - 16,220,000
11. Mai Kuraki - 15,700,000
12. Miki Imai - 15,310,000
13. Miho Nakayama - 14,970,000
14. Mariya Takeuchi - 14,890,000
15. Shizuka Kudo - 14,870,000
16. Kyoko Koizumi - 14,260,000
17. Misato Watanabe - 13,080,000
18. Kumi Koda - 12,260,000
19. Tomomi Kahala - 12,190,000
20. Chisato Moritaka - 11,650,000

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taecish 14th-Jan-2012 06:29 pm (UTC)

globe still top 10 :)) best band ever !!!

aisasami 14th-Jan-2012 06:48 pm (UTC)

Amen!

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katamijj 14th-Jan-2012 06:31 pm (UTC)

thank you! :)

xubebe 14th-Jan-2012 06:31 pm (UTC)

With all the fame and promotions this year, I thought AKB48 would rank at least in top 5 @@ Gosh, the top 5 this year is so awesome!!
Congratz my Ayumi. She's fabulous and talented. And she stays on the 1st position for years! :)

antifools 15th-Jan-2012 10:39 am (UTC)

This is all time not only this year. So how can AKB in 6 years achieve what other artists achieve in more than a decade.

llamaswag 14th-Jan-2012 06:32 pm (UTC)

I don't see Gackt anywhere. Thank God.

abusedpancake 15th-Jan-2012 07:51 pm (UTC)

i think they didnt know if GACKT is -lately- a singer, a band or a group, lol XD

*jk*
but why *thank god*? you seem to be a fan..?

yunizhamasaki 14th-Jan-2012 06:35 pm (UTC)

Ayumi Hamasaki - Queen of Jpop.
Congratulation to the others. And WOW, the female artists sales more than male artists

queencleopatra 14th-Jan-2012 06:36 pm (UTC)

Come on AKB! Only like 3 or 4 more singles until they knock MM off their perch! (Literally, now they are like, birds and all)

arashic5 14th-Jan-2012 06:36 pm (UTC)

I'm loving the list. dreams come true. chage&aska. kome kome club. hikaru genji. <3
smap+kinkikids+arashi :D

hikki needs to come back and sell some more.

Edited at 2012-01-14 06:37 pm (UTC)

yaoilicious_53 14th-Jan-2012 06:42 pm (UTC)

Cool lists! I approve of them all.

Arashi <3

aprillis 14th-Jan-2012 06:43 pm (UTC)

Flawless list <3

Pleasantly surprised to see Kattun on the list, even if I'm not a fan.

taylorniw 14th-Jan-2012 06:44 pm (UTC)

Very typical and obvious list. But at the same time I'm glad Japan recognizes the difference between a band and a group because some people just cannot get that right for whatever reason.

rim1789 14th-Jan-2012 08:00 pm (UTC)

Offtopic, but your post made me realize that in my native language the difference between '' band'' and group doesn't exist. There is only a single word for both of them.

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nansan_ogawa 14th-Jan-2012 06:47 pm (UTC)

WoW glay beaten laruku hooo
CHEMISTRY & My Queen never missed ☆〜（ゝ。∂）

flightbyzephyr 14th-Jan-2012 06:48 pm (UTC)

i thought akb already overtook mm? I guess just in single sales huh?

eishastan 14th-Jan-2012 07:02 pm (UTC)

Yup only in singles, but still they need to release a few more singles and that should do it.

krzhope 14th-Jan-2012 06:49 pm (UTC)

soooooo happy with the lists!!!! ♥♥♥

our_scars 14th-Jan-2012 06:56 pm (UTC)

SPEED <3<3<3

rainbow_yarn 14th-Jan-2012 06:56 pm (UTC)

Already posted in Ayu's entry, but.

tiffa666 14th-Jan-2012 06:57 pm (UTC)

B'z is amazing. Glay outsold Laruku by miles.lol~

L'Arc <333

liime_arix 14th-Jan-2012 07:06 pm (UTC)

Here's the top 20 overall list

1. B'z - 80,150,000
2. Mr.Children - 54,980,000
3. Ayumi Hamasaki - 49,780,000
4. Southern All Stars - 47,840,000
5. Dreams Come True - 43,280,000
6. Yumi Matsutoya - 38,380,000
7. Glay - 37,850,000
8. Zard - 37,450,000
9. Hikaru Utada - 36,190,000
10. SMAP - 32,730,000
11. Chage and Aska - 31,400,000
12. Namie Amuro - 30,410,000
13. Seiko Matsuda - 29,530,000
14. Globe - 28,930,000
15. L'Arc-en-Ciel - 28,850,000
16. Akina Nakamori - 25,340,000
17. KinKi Kids - 25,210,000
18. Tube - 24,500,000
19. Every Little Thing - 22,680,000
20. Maki Ohguro - 22,660,000

In many ways I'm not surprised (but I do tend to forget about Japan's male soloists).