Oricon

Oricon KK オ リ コ ン 株式会社
legal form	Parent company
founding	November 1967
Seat	Roppongi , Minato , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
management	Ko Koike
Number of employees	198
Website	https://www.oricon.co.jp/

Oricon KK ( Japanese オ リ コ ン 株式会社 , Orikon Kabushiki kaisha ) is a company that regularly publishes information about the Japanese music industry. The name is most likely associated with the Japanese Oricon charts, which Oricon publishes in Oricon style . The name Oricon comes from the English words " Ori ginal Con fidence."

The annual charts consist of all record sales that were counted between mid-December of the previous year and this year (at that time an “Oricon year” ran from the beginning of December to the end of November). An "Oricon year" has only 51 weeks, in contrast to the calendar year with 52 weeks. The last week of December and the first week of January are merged.

Few European or American artists have made it to number 1 on the Japanese charts since 1967. The best-selling non-Japanese song is Beautiful Sunday by Daniel Boone (released 1976). Since 1980 there have only been five other non-Japanese # 1 successes in the charts: I'm in the Mood For Dancing by The Nolans (1980), Flashdance… What a Feeling by Irene Cara (1983), To Love You More by Celine Dion and Kryzler & Kompany (1995), La-La-La Love Song by Toshinobu Kubota and Naomi Campbell and Candle in the Wind '97 by Elton John (1997).

history

In 1967 Original Confidence, the predecessor of Oricon, was founded by Sōkō Koike. In November of the same year, the company began preliminary single sales charts, and on January 4, 1968, the first Japanese Hit Parade, called Original Confidence, officially started. In 1992 the company name was changed to "Oricon" and seven years later Oricon split up into individual subsidiaries.

Oricon charts

music

format	Every day	Weekly	Per month	Yearly
Singles	Top 50	Top 200	Top 50	Top 200
digital singles		Top 20
Albums	Top 50	Top 300	Top 50	Top 1000
digital albums		Top 30		Top 50
western albums		Top 30		Top 30
Independent singles		Top 20		Top 20
Independent albums		Top 20		Top 20

Other :

• Weekly Enka Top 20
• Monthly Anime Top 10
• Weekly Tracks Chart Top 30
• NINKI weekly single top 10 and weekly album top 10 (based on survey of interest and intention to buy)
• Monthly web sales top 20
• Monthly Songwriters Top 20
• Monthly Composers Top 20
• Monthly Producers Top 10

DVD / BD & film

format	Every day	Weekly	Per month	Yearly
DVD general (DVD 総 合)	Top 20	Top 20	Top 20	Top 20
DVD music (DVD 音 楽)	Top 20	Top 20
DVD movie (DVD 映 画)	Top 20	Top 20
DVD Anime (DVD ア ニ メ)	Top 20	Top 20
BD General (Blu-ray 総 合)	Top 10	Top 10

Other :

• Weekly Japanese Box-Office Top 10
• Weekly US Box-Office Top 10

Books & Magazines

• Weekly Books Top 50 General
• Weekly magazine top 20
• Weekly Manga Top 50
• Weekly library top 50
• Weekly paperback Top 50
• Weekly children's literature Top 50
• Weekly hobby and leisure literature Top 50
• Weekly top 50 physics and engineering literature
• Weekly business literature Top 50

Best-selling singles

space	year	title	Performers	Sales
1	1975	Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun	Masato Shimon	4,546,000
2	1972	Onna no Michi	Shiro Miya and Pinkara Trio	3,256,000
3	2003	Sekai ni Hitotsu dake no Hana	SMAP	3,133,000
4th	2000	Tsunami	Southern All Stars	2,936,000
5	1999	Dango 3 Kyōdai	Kentarō Hayami , Ayumi Shigemori , Himawari Kids , Dango Gasshōdan	2,918,000
6th	1992	Kimi ga Iru Dake de	Kome Kome Club	2,895,000
7th	1991	Say yes	Chage & Aska	2,822,000
8th	1994	Tomorrow Never Knows	Mr. Children	2,766,000
9	1991	Oh! Yeah! / Love Story wa Totsuzen ni	Kazumasa Oda	2,587,000
10	1995	Love Love Love / Arashi ga Kuru	Dreams Come True	2,488,000
11	1993	Yah yah yah	Chage & Asaka	2,418,000
12	1996	Namonaki Uta	Mr. Children	2,308,000
13	2000	Sakurazaka	Masaharu Fukuyama	2,299,000
14th	1997	Can You Celebrate?	Namie Amuro	2,296,000
15th	1996	Departures	Globe	2,288,000
16	1969	Kuroneko no Tango	Osamu Minagawa	2,236,000
17th	1995	Wow War Tonight: Toki ni wa Okose yo Movement	H Jungle With T	2,103,000
18th	1968	Koi no Kisetsu	Pinky & Killers	2,077,000
19th	1999	Automatic / Time Will Tell	Utada Hikaru	2,062,000
20th	1993	True love	Fumiya Fujii	2,023,000

Best-selling albums

space	year	title	Performers	Sales
1	1999	First love	Utada Hikaru	7,650,000
2	1998	B'z The Best "Pleasure"	B'z	5,136,000
3	1997	Review	Glay	4,876,000
4th	2001	Distance	Utada Hikaru	4,469,000
5	1998	B'z The Best "Treasure"	B'z	4,439,000
6th	2001	A Best	Ayumi Hamasaki	4,301,000
7th	1996	Globe	Globe	4,136,000
8th	2002	Deep river	Utada Hikaru	3,605,000
9	2000	Delicious way	Mai Kuraki	3,530,000
10	1998	Time to destination	Every Little Thing	3,520,000
11	1998	Umi no Yeah !!	Southern All Stars	3,463,000
12	1994	Atomic Heart	Mr. Children	3,429,000
13	1996	Sweet 19 blues	Namie Amuro	3,359,000
14th	1997	bolero	Mr. Children	3,283,000
15th	1998	New music	Yumi Matsutoya	3,251,000
16	1997	Faces Places	Globe	3,239,000
17th	1992	The swinging star	Dreams Come True	3,226,000
18th	1994	Impression	Mariya Takeuchi	3,045,000
19th	1999	Zard Best: The Single Collection	Zard	3,023,000
20th	1996	Loose	B'z	3,003,000

Web links

• ORICON
• ORICON STYLE
• Ranking lists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 歴 代 シ ン グ ル チ ャ ー ト ( Memento from May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on Yamachan Land (Japanese).
2. ↑ 歴 代 ア ル バ ム チ ャ ー ト ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Yamachan Land (Japanese).