The year 2019 in Japanese music.
Events 70th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
Number-ones Oricon number-one albums Oricon number-one singles Hot 100 number-one singles
Awards 61st Japan Record Awards 2019 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
Albums released
January Date Album Artist Genre Labels 1 Ai Am Best, Too Ai Otsuka Avex Trax 8 Last Gang Parade Gang Parade J-pop T-Palette Records 9 19 Box Asaka 5pg. Records Boy Okamoto's Ariola Japan Oh My Girl Japan Debut Album Oh My Girl J-pop Ariola Japan 15 Remind Kiss Bee West J-pop Kiss Bee West 16 This is DaizyStripper Daizystripper Rock Kiss Records Touken Ranbu Original Soundtrack Koji Endo Film score Toho Flava Little Glee Monster J-pop Sony Music Records Wonder Hack Shuta Sueyoshi Avex Trax 21 F Fujifabric Sony Music Associated Records 23 Abe Mao Best Mao Abe J-pop Pony Canyon Journey & My Music Mai Fuchigami Lantis 30 Denki Groove Ki/oon Music Vorvados Syu Warner Music Japan Love Songs Mariya Takeuchi Ariola Japan 30 Polaris Base Ball Bear DGP Records History in the Making Dean Fujioka Pop A-Sketch Hilcrhyme Hilcrhyme Universal Music Japan Yuki no Hana 15 Anniversary Best Bible Mika Nakashima Sony Music Associated Records
February Date Album Artist Genre Labels 4 Nissy Entertainment 5th Anniversary Best Nissy J-pop Avex Trax 6 Body Aaamyyy Electropop Space Shower Music Double Encore Masaharu Fukuyama Universal Music Synchro Nao Matsushita Epic Records Japan Uchōten Polkadot Stingray Alternative rock Universal Music Hell Like Heaven The Peggies Epic Records Japan Forme Yuki Epic Records Japan 13 Shunkanteki Sixth Sense Aimyon Unborde / Warner Music Japan Love Diamonds Tatsuya Ishii Sony Music Records Design & Reason Noriyuki Makihara Pop Buppu Label Thunderbird Ohashi Trio J-pop Rhythm Zone Eye of the Storm One Ok Rock Rock A-Sketch 20 Koda Kumi Driving Hit's 9 Koda Kumi Rhythm Zone Worldista NEWS J-pop Johnny's Entertainment F.A.R. Marie Ueda J-pop Giza Studio 27 Eye Sekai no Owari J-pop Toy's Factory Lip J-pop Toy's Factory
March Date Album Artist Genre Labels 3 MUSiC Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku J-pop SME 6 Remember Hiroyuki Sawano Sacra Music #Twice2 Twice J-pop Warner Music Japan Cat'CH The World The World Standard J-pop Idol Street 13 Pages Sexy Zone J-pop Pony Canyon 20 Best! Morning Musume 20th Anniversary Morning Musume J-pop Zetima 29 Nucleus Anthem Heavy metal Nuclear Blast
April Date Album Artist Genre Labels 3 Band-Maiko Band-Maiko Revolver Records 10 Penny Rain Aimer SME Records Sun Dance SME Records 17 9999 The Yellow Monkey Rock Atlantic Records Awaken NCT 127 J-pop Avex Trax W.A.H. Marie Ueda J-pop Giza Studio 29 Ima ga Omoide ni Naru Made Nogizaka46 J-pop Sony Music Records
May Date Album Artist Genre Labels 10 Connection Seyong J-pop Irving 17 Momoiro Clover Z Momoiro Clover Z J-pop Evil Line Records 29 Sappy Red Velvet J-pop Avex Trax My Bouquet Ran Itō GT Music
June Date Album Artist Genre Labels19834.194SakanactionNF Records 26 5x20 All the Best!! 1999–2019 Arashi J Storm
July Date Album Artist Genre Labels 3 Carrots and Sticks Bish Avex Trax Oh My Girl Japan 2nd Album Oh My Girl J-pop Ariola Japan 10 Aurora Arc Bump of Chicken J-pop Toy's Factory Love Masaki Suda J-pop Epic Records Japan31Latata(G)I-dleJ-popUniversal Music Japan
August Date Album Artist Genre Labels 14 Let's Goal!: Barairo no Jinsei Mai Kuraki Northern Music 28 The Side Effects Coldrain Warner Music
September Date Album Artist Genre Labels 3 EN. Novelbright Hard rock Emperor Mode4New Young CityFor Tracy HydeDream popP-Vine Records 18 Perfume the Best: P Cubed Perfume Universal Music Japan Savage Taichi Mukai J-pop Toy's Factory
October Date Album Artist Genre Labels 2 Attitude Mrs. Green Apple EMI 7 Heart Touch Asaka J-pop 5pb. Records 9 Traveler Official Hige Dandism J-pop Pony Canyon 11 Metal Galaxy Babymetal BMD Fox, Toy's Factory, Amuse 19 Hello Chapter 1: Hello, Stranger (Japanese edition) CIX J-pop Warner Music Japan
November Date Album Artist Genre Labels 6 Hyakkaryōran Asca J-pop, anison Sacra Music Kansha!!!!! - Thank You for 20 Years New and BestAiR&BEMI Tattoo The Boyz J-pop Ariola Japan 13 Love Parade Gang Parade J-pop Fueled By Mentaiko Apple of Universal Gravity Ringo Sheena Pop EMI 20 &Twice Twice J-pop, EDM Warner Music Japan 27 Beyooooond1st Beyooooonds J-pop Zetima
December Date Album Artist Genre Labels 4 Infinity Beverly J-pop Avex Trax Unser Uverworld Alternative rock gr8! records Treasure EP.Extra: Shift the Map Ateez J-pop Nippon Columbia 11 Conqueror Band-Maid Hard rock Revolver Records 18 I Airi Suzuki J-pop Zetima The Great Journey Album Empire J-pop WACK, Avex Trax Cross Luna Sea Universal Playlist Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku J-pop SME 25 α Sayaka Yamamoto Universal Sigma Mai Kuraki Single Collection: Chance for You Mai Kuraki Northern Music
Debuting and returning artists Debuting groups
A-Jax ALI Argonavis from BanG Dream! Ateez Ballistik Boyz from Exile Tribe Bialystocks B.O.L.T Boyfriend Beyooooonds Bis Carry Loose CIX College Cosmos Dialogue Dos Monos DracoVirgo Girls² Hinatazaka46 Honest Boyz (G)I-dle Iz*One King Gnu Mameshiba no Taigun Oh My Girl @onefive Oneus Sard Underground Tebasaki Sensation The Boyz Yoasobi ZOC
Debuting soloists Akari Kitō Aimi Tanaka Eito Haruka Fukuhara Mayu Maeshima Milet Sayaka Yamamoto Taeyeon Toshiki Masuda' Vaundy Yuuri
Returning from hiatus Flumpool DuelJewel Soulhead Ran Itō
Disbanding and retiring artists Disbanding Tsuri Bit Negoto Kalafina Janne Da Arc Rock a Japonica Flower Shiggy Jr Country Girls The Hoopers Wake Up, Girls! Rhymeberry Kinoko Teikoku Pentagon CocoSori Myteen
Retiring Boku no Lyric no Bōyomi Yūsuke Tomoi Masako Mori
Going on hiatus An Cafe Blu-Billion Kana Nishino
Deaths Yuya Uchida dies on March 17. Michiro Endo dies on April 25.
See also 2019 in Japan 2019 in Japanese television List of Japanese films of 2019
References