6 Japan music charts to check out latest hit pop
07.05.08Filed Under: J-Pop
One way check out the latest hot musics in Japanese music industry is by looking at their music charts. When speaking about Japanese music charts, the first thing that comes to mind will definitely is the Oricon. But there is more other charts that worth checking out too that I introduce in this post.
Oricon Style
I visit Oricon Style regularly. The ranking is based on the sales of the singles/album. Sorted by daily, weekly, and monthly, Oricon itself is already sufficient to check out the latest hit music. English version can be found at ThePPN.
Japan Billboard Hot 100
A Japanese music chart based on Billboard style calculation.
Yahoo! Music Ranking
Another impressive music charts brought to you by Yahoo!.
Recochoku Chaku Uta Ranking
A chart site dedicated to hand phone music tone (Chaku Uta). Normally the upcoming release songs will be first release as Chaku Uta. It is quite an important chart to look out because Japanese people used to download songs through hand phone.
Mora music download ranking
A chart based on music downloads.
Music Station Power Ranking
Finally, another worth checking chart is Music Station Power Ranking.
End note
Because this post is all about Japanese music so all the sites are in Japanese language. Sorry if any inconvenience caused.
Great list and I too often just check Oricon (especially the indies chart). Thanks for reminding me others exist
May 7th, 2008 at 7:36 ambut too bad is all in hiragana….got in english one?
May 8th, 2008 at 1:05 pmStumbled upon this site from cssdaddy.com
hey, i like Jpop too! I don’t know they have online charts for mobile tones too! thanks for the info 
May 8th, 2008 at 11:05 pmmight come back here again
@ LMF: yeah, it’s all Japanese language
@ Angels: Hi thanks for the support 
May 9th, 2008 at 11:22 pmCheck up “Rie Fu” her Tobira Album is nice also!
May 28th, 2008 at 6:46 pmthanks LMF for the recommendation, I will check that out
May 30th, 2008 at 10:04 amThanks for your post about phone..I got a lot of info from this post.
March 28th, 2010 at 10:13 pm