Billboard Japan is a sister organization of the U.S. -based music magazine Billboard . It is operated by the Japanese Osaka -based company Hanshin Contents Link (a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway ), holding an exclusive licence from Billboard ' s parent company to the Billboard brand name in Japan , and manages, among others, the website www.billboard-japan.com and several "Billboard Live"-branded music clubs located in the country.
8-596: In February 2008, Hanshin Contents Link, under licence from Billboard , launched the Billboard Japan Hot 100 music chart. As of 2016, the list of charts compiled by Billboard Japan also includes an albums chart named Billboard Japan Hot Albums , sales-only-based charts Top Singles Sales, Top Albums Sales, Top Jazz Albums Sales, and Top Classical Albums Sales, a radio-airplay chart named Radio Songs, an animation music chart named Hot Animation, and
16-654: A chart for foreign songs named Hot Overseas. Since 2010, Billboard Japan holds an annual awards ceremony called the Billboard Japan Music Awards , which honors domestic and international artists who achieved the best results on Billboard Japan ' s music charts during the previous year. Music Labo ( Japanese : ミュージック・ラボ) was a music magazine in Japan, published from 1970 to 1994. Billboard Publications bought 45% of that business to create Billboard Japan/Music Labo in 1971. Music Labo published
24-636: A number of record charts including the "Hot 150", the "Hot 100", and the "Hot 50". The Music Labo charts were used for the "Japan" section of "Hits of the World" in Billboard. There were Billboard and Music Labo Awards at the Tokyo Music Festival . Japan Hot 100 The Billboard Japan Hot 100 is a record chart in Japan for songs. It has been compiled by Billboard Japan and Hanshin Contents Link since February 2008. The chart
32-605: Is " Apt. " by Rosé and Bruno Mars . From the chart's inception in 2008, to December 2010, the chart combined CD single sales data from SoundScan Japan , tracking sales at physical stores across Japan, and radio airplay figures from Japan's then 32 AM and FM radio stations sourced from the Japanese company Plantech. In December 2010, the chart expanded to include sales from online stores, as well as sales from iTunes Japan. From December 2013, Billboard incorporated more digital music stores (such as Recochoku and Mora ) into
40-433: Is updated every Wednesday at Billboard-japan.com ( JST ) and every Thursday at Billboard.com ( UTC ). The first number-one song on the chart was " Stay Gold " by Hikaru Utada on the issue dated January 16, 2008. The first number-one song on the chart by a non-Japanese artist was " Bleeding Love " by Leona Lewis in the issue dated April 30, 2008. The current number-one on the chart as of the issue dated November 27, 2024,
48-665: The Japan Hot 100. In addition, Afrojack was featured artist of two number one's by Sandaime J Soul Brothers , "Summer Madness" and "Scarlet". Desiigner was also featured in number one hit by BTS ' " Mic Drop ". However, official website of Billboard does not list these songs on discography of these featured artists. For number one songs by Korean artists, see List of K-pop songs on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 . List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2012 (Japan) Too Many Requests If you report this error to
56-800: The Twitter and Gracenote metrics were removed from the chart. From December 7, 2016, onwards, Billboard Japan teamed up with GfK Japan to distribute digital sales of each track on the Hot 100 chart (between the positions of number one to number 50) to the public. The companies will distribute the sales from over 3,900 digital stores nationwide, alongside streaming services with Apple Music, Awa and Line Music, which will commence in 2017 and will be recognized as points (similar to album-equivalent sales ). 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 There are only five Western songs that have topped
64-496: The chart. Billboard also added two additional factors: tweets relating to songs from Twitter data collected by NTT DATA , as well as data sourced from Gracenote on the number of times a CDs has been registered as being inserted into a computer. In May 2015, the chart began to include both on-demand streams and YouTube views. Finally, in November 2018, the chart began to include karaoke plays in its formula. In December 2022,
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