The year 2022 in Japanese music.
Debuting
Debuting groups &Team Boysgroup Classy ExWhyZ Fruits Zipper Golden Child Ive Kep1er The Last Rockstars Lil League from Exile Tribe Metamuse MyGO!!!!! Ocha Norma Omega X OnlyOneOf Psychic Fever from Exile Tribe STAYC TFN Travis Japan Verivery WEi XG
Debuting soloists Akari Akase Hanna Ishikawa Kang Daniel Kent Itō Miru Shiroma Onew SennaRin Yoshino Aoyama Yuki Yomichi
Returning from hiatus Returning groups Doping Panda Mrs. Green Apple
Returning soloists
Events
Number-ones Oricon number-one albums Oricon number-one singles Hot 100 number-one singles
Awards 64th Japan Record Awards 2022 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
Albums released
January Date Album Artist Ref. 5 City SixTones Placebo ASP 12 We are Girls² Girls² Ichi Yuuri OnlyOneOf Japan Best Album OnlyOneOf 19 Bad Mode Hikaru Utada 25 Ray of Light The Rampage from Exile Tribe 26 Mirror ScandalKyōgenAdo
February Date Album Artist Ref. 1 Love Cycle Ayaka21518@onefive 26/27 Airi Suzuki Blue Cresc. Cynhn Visions Milet 9 Fo(u)r YuU Liyuu 16 Team Team Shachi 23 Dream Ai Tokyo Super Beaver
March Date Album Artist Ref. 4 Queendom Awich 9 Gundam Song Covers 3 Hiroko Moriguchi Collage Masaki Suda Flare Milet Our Teen: Blue Side T1419 16 1 or 8 Eito #Twice4 Twice Epitaph Tohoshinki 23 Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku Umibe Sid30 Pinky Swear CIX Oh My Girl Best Oh My GirlAdaptSakanaction
April Date Album Artist Ref. 6 Bloom Red Velvet 13 Dignified SennaRin 20 Terzo Juice=Juice Journey Little Glee Monster L.S. Lyrical School 22 Shunka Ryougen Haru Nemuri
May Date Album Artist Ref. 11 Antidote Taichi Mukai 17 Shukuten Momoiro Clover Z 18 Assort NovelbrightReflectionTofubeats 25 Kizuna JO1 Break and Cross the Walls II Man with a Mission Beyond: ZeroAteez 27 She's the Boss The Boyz30The GreatestBoA
June Date Album Artist Ref. 1 The Highlight Sexy Zone 8 Harukakanatae Haruka Fukuhara 15 Sono Ichi Ho6la Phalaris Dir En Grey 17 / 20 Marumaru to Ninomiya to Kazunari Ninomiya 22 Circus Stray Kids Softly Tatsuro Yamashita 29 Made In King & Prince Mikansei no Mirai NGT48 The Best: Dear Fantasy SF9
July Date Album Artist Ref. 6 Nonnegative Coldrain Delighted Reviver Nana Mizuki Life Goes OnOnew 8 Unity Mrs. Green Apple 13 But wait. Cats? Alexandros 1st Love Naniwa Danshi 20 First Snow First Love Yuki Yomichi Dempark!!! Dempagumi.inc 27 Plasma Perfume Celebrate Twice
August Date Album Artist Ref. 3 As You Know? Sakurazaka46 Nocturnal Tokyo Girls' Style 10Uta's Songs: One Piece Film RedAdo Weather B.O.L.T Highway X B'z 11 Youth WEi 17 Falling Into Your Eyes Record Aimyon We are Cats. The World Standard Savior AB6IX Vocalo Zanmai 2 Wagakki Band 24 Genesis Arcana Project Stand Up! Omega X 31 Be: 1 Be First
September Date Album Artist Ref. 2 Japan Activity Best EXID 9 Luxury Disease One Ok Rock 14 Feelin' Like Pentagon 21 Unleash Band-Maid Snow Labo. S2 Snow Man For. Sumika 28 Beyooooo2nds Beyooooonds
October Date Album Artist Ref. 5 Joy Ride Kang DanielDoki Doki Love Rocket Punch 12 Quarter Anly Hitori Toiro Karin Miyamoto 26 Sadame Enhypen
November Date Album Artist Ref. 2 XYZ ExWhyZ 9 Dream Seventeen 16 Lander LiSA 18 E-Side 2 Yoasobi 23 Dopamine Oneus 30 The World EP. Paradigm Ateez
December Date Album Artist Ref. 14 Deep Down AimerHotel InsomniaFor Tracy HydeMagneticKaela Kimura Seize the Fate Nemophila
Disbanding and retiring artists
Disbanding Empire Go to the Beds Predia HO6LA
Retiring
Going on hiatus Kiyoshi Hikawa Mary's Blood Hikaru Yaotome Yoshimotozaka46
References