Oricon Albums Chart

The Oricon Albums Chart is a Japanese music chart for albums. Albums on the chart are ranked by the number of copies they have sold. The chart is made by Oricon. The Oricon Albums Chart started including downloaded album copies in 2016.^[1] In November 2018, Oricon also started including streamed albums.^[2]

The charts are released every Tuesday. There are different charts for the most popular albums of every day, week, month, and year.

Best-selling albums on the charts

These are the albums that have sold the most copies on the Oricon Albums Chart.

Rank	Year	Title	Musician	Albums sold
1	1999	First Love	Hikaru Utada	7,650,215[3]
2	1998	B'z The Best "Pleasure"	B'z	5,135,922
3	1997	Review	Glay	4,875,980
4	2001	Distance	Hikaru Utada	4,469,135
5	1998	B'z The Best "Treasure"	B'z	4,438,742
6	2001	A Best	Ayumi Hamasaki	4,301,353
7	1996	Globe	Globe	4,136,460
8	2002	Deep River	Hikaru Utada	3,604,588
9	2000	Delicious Way	Mai Kuraki	3,530,000
10	1998	Time to Destination	Every Little Thing	3,520,330