The highest-selling albums in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each albums' weekly physical sales. This list includes the albums that reached the number one place on that chart in 1991. In 1991, 32 albums occupied the peak position on the chart.
Yumi Matsutoya's twenty-second studio album The Gates of Heaven became the best-selling album of 1991 despite not reaching number one during the year. The album achieved two weeks atop the chart in 1990.
Chart history Issue Date Album Artist(s) January 14 Princess Princess Princess Princess January 21 January 28 February 4 K2C Kome Kome Club February 11 February 18 February 25 March 4 Start Jun Sky Walker(s) March 11 Green Midori Karashima March 18 Mind Universe Shizuka Kudo March 25 Green Midori Karashima April 1 Yamada Katsute Nai CD Yamada Katsute Nai Wink Hoka April 8 April 15 Higher Self Kyosuke Himuro April 22 April 29 Lindberg IV Lindberg May 6 Kome Kome Club Kome Kome Club May 13 May 20 Lindberg IV Lindberg May 27 Oh! Yeah! Oda Kazumasa June 3 June 10 Mars B'z June 17 Scene II Aska June 24 July 1 Artisan Tatsuro Yamashita July 8 Washing Mariko Nagai July 15 Jealousy X Japan July 22 Lucky Misato Watanabe July 29 Chou-fleur Takako Okamura August 5 Afropia Kyōko Koizumi August 12 August 19 August 26 Scene II Aska September 2 Calendar Girl Ayumi Nakamura September 9 Edge of the Knife Shogo Hamada September 16 Expo TMN September 23 Lluvia Miki Imai September 30 Kubojah: Parallel World I Toshinobu Kubota October 7 Guitarhythm II Tomoyasu Hotei October 14 Revolution Hideaki Tokunaga October 21 Tree Chage and Aska October 28 November 4 November 11 Extra Flight Lindberg November 18 November 25 Million Kisses Dreams Come True December 2 Dawn Purple Yumi Matsutoya December 9 In the Life B'z December 16 Dolls in Action Princess Princess December 23 Japan Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi December 30
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