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The Japan Tokyo song chart |
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Song chart Japan Tokyo
Japan is the second largest music market in the world, but obtaining reasonable historic chart data is really quite difficult. This is a weekly top 100 chart from 1988 to 2008 for Tokyo (source //www.j-wave.co.jp/original/tokiohot100/ cgi-bin/top100.cgi).
We have to rely on automated translation tools (our Japanese is not good enough), these have some issues with converting artist names and song titles that are not in Latin text. In addition there are inconsistencies between the names of the same songs from one week to the next. We have tried to make the names consistent and map them as best we can, but there are more corrections to be made.
We would be glad to hear from anyone who can tell us where to get validated charts for Japan from before 1989.
Atributes
The attributes we use from this data are:
- artist: The artist
- name: The name of each song
- position: The peak position the song reached in the weekly chart
- date: The month in which the song first entered the chart
- weeks: The number of weeks the song was in the chart
artist
There are a wide range of ways to assign scores to artists in order to work out which artists are most significant. Here is one listing, of the top five artists of each half decade within this chart. This has been calculated using a score that combines the position and the number of weeks in the charts.
| Half Decade | Number 1 Artist | Number 2 Artist | Number 3 Artist | Number 4 Artist | Number 5 Artist |
| 1985 - 1989 | Richard Marx | Janet Jackson | Bobby Brown | Phil Collins | Madonna |
| 1990 - 1994 | Mariah Carey | Madonna | Janet Jackson | Prince | Wilson Phillips |
| 1995 - 1999 | Jamiroquai | Celine Dion | Mariah Carey | Madonna | Eric Clapton |
| 2000 - 2004 | M-flo | Misia | Chemistry | Janet Jackson | Madonna |
| 2005 - 2009 | Exile | Def Tech | M-flo | Crystal Kay | Bonnie Pink |
If we want to compare artists across the whole duration of this chart we need to remove the systematic bias that comes from the different chart dynamics for different eras. We can do that by first ording all the songs by success within a given year and then using this order to define a score (for example assigning 1.0 to the number 1 song, 0.5 to the number 2 and so on).
| # | Artist | Entries | Biggest Hit | Year | Year Position |
| 1 | Misia | 29 | Everything | 2000 | 1 |
| 2 | Janet Jackson | 38 | Doesn't Really Matter | 2000 | 2 |
| 3 | Bette Midler | 9 | From A Distance | 1990 | 1 |
| 4 | Diana King | 7 | Shy Guy | 1995 | 1 |
| 5 | The Beach Boys | 4 | Kokomo | 1988 | 1 |
| 6 | Franz Ferdinand | 3 | Do You Want To? | 2005 | 1 |
| 7 | Madonna | 49 | Hung Up | 2005 | 3 |
| 8 | Enya | 15 | Anywhere Is | 1995 | 2 |
| 9 | Bon Jovi | 25 | Born To Be My Baby | 1988 | 3 |
| 10 | Def Tech | 12 | My Way | 2005 | 2 |
| 11 | Phil Collins | 21 | Two Hearts | 1988 | 2 |
| 12 | M-flo | 33 | Come Again | 2000 | 3 |
| 13 | Stevie B | 3 | Because I Love You (The Postman Song) | 1990 | 2 |
| 14 | Wilson Phillips | 10 | Hold On | 1990 | 3 |
| 15 | Eternal | 9 | Power Of A Woman | 1995 | 3 |
| 16 | Mariah Carey | 37 | It's Like That | 2005 | 9 |
| 17 | Whitney Houston | 22 | I'm Your Baby Tonight | 1990 | 5 |
| 18 | Rick Astley | 8 | She Wants To Dance With Me | 1988 | 4 |
| 19 | U2 | 22 | Desire | 1988 | 8 |
| 20 | Speech | 10 | What's Going On? | 1995 | 4 |
| 21 | Amerie | 6 | 1 Thing | 2005 | 4 |
| 22 | The Backstreet Boys | 11 | Shape Of My Heart | 2000 | 5 |
| 23 | Sheena Easton | 12 | The Lover In Me | 1988 | 5 |
| 24 | Scatman John | 6 | Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) | 1995 | 5 |
| 25 | Oasis | 20 | Go Let It Out | 2000 | 9 |
| 26 | Coldplay | 5 | Speed Of Sound | 2005 | 5 |
| 27 | The Cardigans | 9 | Carnival | 1995 | 6 |
| 28 | Craig David | 10 | All The Way | 2005 | 7 |
| 29 | Stevie Wonder | 16 | For Your Love | 1995 | 8 |
| 30 | Tahiti 80 | 11 | Heartbeat | 2000 | 7 |
name
A number of song titles have been hits for more than one artist. Here are the twenty titles that have spent the most weeks in the Tokyo charts.
| # | Song Title | Total Weeks | Num Versions |
| 1 | Smile | 129 | 15 |
| 2 | Everything | 120 | 10 |
| 3 | Heaven | 120 | 12 |
| 4 | Believe | 100 | 10 |
| 5 | Crazy | 98 | 11 |
| 6 | Free | 93 | 11 |
| 7 | I Want You | 93 | 10 |
| 8 | Stay | 90 | 9 |
| 9 | Without You | 90 | 8 |
| 10 | Music | 88 | 8 |
| 11 | I'll Be There | 85 | 9 |
| 12 | Angel | 80 | 9 |
| 13 | Life | 80 | 7 |
| 14 | Change The World | 74 | 4 |
| 15 | I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden) | 73 | 1 |
| 16 | One | 73 | 9 |
| 17 | Kirakuni | 72 | 1 |
| 18 | I'm Not In Love | 70 | 7 |
| 19 | Real Love | 69 | 8 |
| 20 | Runaway | 68 | 6 |
position
The peak position that songs reached in the Tokyo charts.
date
The month in which a song first entered the Tokyo charts.
weeks
The number of weeks that the average song spends in the Tokyo chart has changed quite dramatically over the years. We have no good idea why this should be.
Previous Comments (newest first)
8 Aug 2022
Oricon annual charts+
Hello would you add annual single/album charts on Oricon from 1945-2019? Butall the songs here were shown in Japanese, such as Hey Jude - Beatles at no.48 in 1968 https://entamedata.web.fc2.com/music/hit_music1968.html
As is mentioned in the text our Japanese is not good enough to translate this data. If there is an English version somewhere we would consider it.