The following is an overview of the year 2007 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 2007 in music.
Events December 31 – 28th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
Awards May 26 – 2007 MTV Video Music Awards Japan December 30 – 49th Japan Record Awards
Number-ones Oricon number-one albums Oricon number-one singles
Best-sellers Albums The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in Japan in 2007, according to Oricon. Rank Album Artist 1 Home Mr. Children 2 Black Cherry Kumi Koda 3 Kobukuro 4 The Best Damn Thing Avril Lavigne 5 A Best 2: White Ayumi Hamasaki 6 Ai Am Best Ai Otsuka 7 A Best 2: Black Ayumi Hamasaki 8 Ketsumeishi 9 Can't Buy My Love Yui 10 Sukima Switch
Albums released The following section includes albums by Japanese artists released in Japan in 2007 as well as Japanese-language albums by foreign artists released in the country during this year. February 2 – The Marrow of a Bone by Dir En Grey February 28 – A Best 2: Black by Ayumi Hamasaki February 28 – A Best 2: White by Ayumi Hamasaki March 7 – Dear... by Sachi Tainaka March 7 – Journey by W-inds. March 14 – BeForU III by BeForU March 14 – Home by Mr. Children March 28 – Ai Am Best by Ai Otsuka April 4 – Can't Buy My Love by Yui April 18 – 2 Mini: Ikiru to Iu Chikara by Cute April 18 – Cartoon KAT-TUN II You by KAT-TUN April 18 – Diary by Shiori Takei May 9 – Go to the Future by Sakanaction May 23 – 1st GAM: Amai Yuwaku by GAM June 6 – KJ2 Zukkoke Dai Dassō by Kanjani Eight June 17 – Ā, Domo. Hajimemashite by Greeeen July 4 – Circus by FictionJunction Yuuka July 6 – Fun! Fun! Fun! by Shonen Knife July 11 – Kyohei Tsutsumi Tribute: The Popular Music by Various artists August 1 – 4th Ai no Nanchara Shisū by Berryz Kobo August 1 – by Sukima Switch August 29 – by Ketsumeishi September 30 – CM Yoko by Yoko Kanno October 24 – Contact by Minori Chihara November 7 – Metanoia by Yōsei Teikoku November 21 – Kiss by L'Arc-en-Ciel December 5 – Action by B'z December 19 – Kirarin Land by Koharu Kusumi December 19 – Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth- by Various artists
Groups established
9mm Parabellum Bullet Fuyumi Abe Acid Black Cherry Athena & Robikerottsu Thelma Aoyama Yui Aragaki Aqua5 Bright Buono! Coldrain Cherryblossom Chocolove from AKB48 Leah Dizon Alan Dawa Dolma Exile The Second Genki Rockets Hey! Say! JUMP Hotch Potchi J-Min Kira Pika Natsumi Kiyoura Love Kelun Teppei Koike Nao Matsushita Masami Mitsuoka Mamoru Miyano Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai Uri Nakayama Nichika Nico Touches the Walls Hatsune Okumura On/Off One Ok Rock Ongaku Gatas PureBoys Sakanaction Erika Sawajiri Skin School Food Punishment Sekai no Owari Stephanie Superfly Satomi Takasugi Nana Tanimura Kinoko Teikoku Tomboy Yanokami
Groups disestablished Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai
See also 2007 in Japan 2007 in Japanese television List of Japanese films of 2007
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