The following is an overview of the year 2009 in Japanese music. It includes notable awards, lists of number-ones, yearly best-sellers, albums released, groups established and disestablished, deaths of notable Japanese music-related people as well as any other relevant Japanese music-related events. For overviews of the year in music from other countries, see 2009 in music.

Events December 31 – 60th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen

Awards May 30 – 2009 MTV Video Music Awards Japan December 30 – 51st Japan Record Awards

Number-ones Oricon number-one albums Oricon number-one singles Hot 100 number-one singles RIAJ Digital Track Chart number-one singles

Best-sellers Artists The two best-selling music artists in Japan in 2009 by value of sales, including sales of records and of DVDs and Blu-rays, according to Oricon, were Arashi, with and Exile.

Albums The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in Japan in 2009, according to Oricon. The best-selling album of the year, All the Best! 1999–2009, sold more than 1.43 million copies. Rank Album Artist 1 All the Best! 1999–2009 Arashi 2 Supermarket Fantasy Mr. Children 3 Shio, Koshō Greeeen 4 Aisubeki Mirai e Exile 5 Exile 6 Ayaka's History 2006–2009 Ayaka 7 Do You Dreams Come True? Dreams Come True 8 Remio Best Remioromen 9 Box Emotions Superfly 10 Calling Kobukuro

Albums released The following section includes albums by Japanese artists released in Japan in 2009 as well as Japanese-language albums by foreign artists released in the country during this year. January 14 – Camouflage by Merzbow January 21 - Shin-shiro by Sakanaction January 28 - Trick by Koda Kumi January 28 – 4 Akogare My Star by Cute January 28 – 5 by Flow February 4 - 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de Original Soundtrack by Hideki Sakamoto and Naoki Sato February 4 – Antenna by GO!GO!7188 March 4 – Kyūtai by MUCC March 9 – Remio Best by Remioromen March 17 – Hayley Sings Japanese Songs 2 by Hayley Westenra March 18 – Akiko Infinity Kokia: Balance by Kokia March 18 – Harmonia by Akiko Shikata March 18 – Kokia Infinity Akiko: Balance by Kokia March 21 – Do You Dreams Come True? by Dreams Come True March 25 – Next Level by Ayumi Hamasaki May 27 – Dream by Yuna Ito May 27 – Family by May J. June 10 – Shio, Koshō by Greeeen June 24 – Hocus Pocus by Kaela Kimura July 15 – Fight by Mayumi Iizuka August 5 – Calling by Kobukuro August 19 – All the Best! 1999–2009 by Arashi September 2 – Box Emotions by Superfly September 9 -Emotions by Thelma Aoyama September 16 - Best Ai by Ai September 23 – Ayaka's History 2006–2009 by Ayaka October 21 – Best Scandal by Scandal November 11 - Canaan Inspired Album by Faylan and Annabel November 25 – Aurora by Nico Touches the Walls November 25 - Canaan Original Sound Track: Ai by Hikaru Nanase December 2 – Aisubeki Mirai e by Exile December 9 – Carol by Chara December 9 – I Am by Mao Denda December 16 – Past<Future by Namie Amuro December 23 – Anime's Compilation Best by Kotoko December 23 – Hajimari no Uta by Ikimono-gakari 13 Japanese Birds by Merzbow

Groups established Angerme bump.y ClariS Flower Gacharic Spin Oldcodex Passepied Passpo SDN48 Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku Sphere YuiKaori

Groups disestablished BeForU Bleach GAM Kuroyume Two-Mix

Deaths Jasmine You dies on August 9.

See also 2009 in Japan 2009 in Japanese television List of Japanese films of 2009

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