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2008 Oricon Number 1 Releases

#1 Singles and Albums in 2008 according to Oricon

From December 10, 2007 to December 7, 2008. Week 3's sales unavailable due to Oricon holidays and week 4's sales is a combination of two weeks. Click on the # for that week to view the top 30 albums, singles.

Note: 'Week Sales' means the number of units that the product sold to get to #1 for that week. Usually this is the product's first week sales, but not always.

# Date Single Artist Single Week Sales Album Artist Album Week Sales
1 12.24 V6 way of life 91,313 EXILE EXILE LOVE 670,478
2 12.31 SMAP Dangan Fighter 110,327 Kobukuro 5296 390,884
3 01.07 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
4 01.14 SMAP Dangan Fighter 47,336 Kobukuro 5296 454,601
5 01.21 AAA MIRAGE 25,333 Kobukuro 5296 111,643
6 01.28 Tohoshinki Purple Line 40,033 Bank Band Soushi Souai 2 175,727
7 02.04 RADWIMPS Order Made 73,130 ZARD ZARD Request Best ~beautiful memory~ 126,713
8 02.11 Aoyama Thelma feat. SoulJa Soba ni Iru ne 47,409 Koda Kumi Kingdom 421,302
9 02.18 KAT-TUN LIPS 351,294 Koda Kumi Kingdom 84,522
10 02.25 Porno Graffitti Anata ga Koko ni Itara 63,529 m-flo Award SuperNova -Loves Best- 85,927
11 03.03 ARASHI Step and Go 324,223 the brilliant green the brilliant green complete
single collection '97-'08
91,926
12 03.10 NEWS Taiyou no Namida 230,186 BoA THE FACE 110,653
13 03.17 SMAP Sono Mama / White Message 115,100 ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION World World World 100,104
14 03.24 Kanjani8 Wahaha 194,304 Shibasaki Kou Single Best 227,423
15 03.31 Amuro Namie 60s 70s 80s 38,162 Utada Hikaru HEART STATION 480,081
16 04.07 20th Century Ore ja Nakya, Kimi ja Nakya 38,898 EXILE EXILE CATCHY BEST 680,162
17 04.14 L'Arc~en~Ciel DRINK IT DOWN 94,086 EXILE EXILE CATCHY BEST 187,494
18 04.21 Hamasaki Ayumi Mirrorcle World 145,576 YUI I LOVED YESTERDAY 285,407
19 04.28 B'z BURN -Fumetsu no Face- 141,562 Perfume GAME 154,304
20 05.05 Tohoshinki Beautiful you / Sennen Koi Uta 62,139 ARASHI Dream"A"live 220,722
21 05.12 Maizu Tsukasa No more 110,538 Madonna Hard Candy 55,462
22 05.19 NEWS SUMMER TIME 201,266 Madonna Hard Candy 33,508
23 05.26 KAT-TUN DON'T U EVER STOP 381,672 Superfly Superfly 122,947
24 06.02 Hey! Say! JUMP Dreams come true 181,064 Superfly Superfly 199,242
25 06.09 GReeeeN Kiseki 186,097 mihimaru GT mihimarise 80,332
26 06.16 GReeeeN Kiseki 72,977 KAT-TUN KAT-TUN III -QUEEN OF PIRATES- 240,317
27 06.23 GLAY VERB 97,928 Himuro Kyosuke 20th Anniversary ALL SINGLES
COMPLETE BEST "JUST MOVIN'
ON" ~ALL THE-S-HIT~
81,465
28 06.30 Tegomass Aiaigasa 90,240 B'z B'z The Best "ULTRA Pleasure" 560,857
29 07.07 ARASHI One Love 313,976 GReeeeN A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu. 377,070
30 07.14 YUI SUMMER SONG 83,440 GReeeeN A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu. 121,637
31 07.21 Perfume love the world 80,742 ORANGE RANGE PANIC FANCY 75,089
32 07.28 Tohoshinki Doushite Kimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimattandarou? 68,417 Kimaguren ZUSHI 41,251
33 08.04 Hey! Say! JUMP Your Seed / Bouken Rider 160,032 EXILE EXILE ENTERTAINMENT BEST 400,038
34 08.11 Mr.Children GIFT 194,144 Amuro Namie BEST FICTION 681,187
35 08.18 Southern All Stars I AM YOUR SINGER 357,154 Amuro Namie BEST FICTION 257,440
36 08.25 SMAP Kono Toki, Kitto Yume ja Nai 90,616 Amuro Namie BEST FICTION 153,107
37 09.01 ARASHI truth / Kaze no Mukou e 467,288 Amuro Namie BEST FICTION 88,335
38 09.08 KinKi Kids Secret Code 187,298 Amuro Namie BEST FICTION 62,745
39 09.15 Mr.Children HANABI 260,196 Amuro Namie BEST FICTION 55,318
40 09.22 Mr.Children HANABI 84,262 Hamasaki Ayumi A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ 538,876
41 09.29 V6 LIGHT IN YOUR HEART / Swing! 81,719 B'z B'z The Best "ULTRA Treasure" 413,038
42 10.06 EXILE The Birthday ~Ti Amo~ 171,435 SMAP super.modern.artistic.performance 214,104
43 10.13 NEWS Happy Birthday 201,304 Takeuchi Mariya Expressions 305,082
44 10.20 Koda Kumi TABOO 65,569 Takeuchi Mariya Expressions 132,772
45 10.27 Tohoshinki Jumon -MIROTIC- 70,655 Takeuchi Mariya Expressions 72,450
46 11.03 Hey! Say! JUMP Mayonaka no Shadow Boy 211,322 Hexagon All Stars WE LOVE Hexagon 270,310
47 11.10 Kanjani8 Musekinin Hero 347,735 Porno Graffitti PORNO GRAFFITTI BEST ACE 104,747
48 11.17 ARASHI Beautiful days 351,860 Kato Miliyah BEST DESTINY 92,423
49 11.24 DREAMS COME TRUE Tsuretette Tsuretette 46,452 YUI MY SHORT STORIES 173,741
50 12.01 UVERworld Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi 118,852 NEWS color 180,380
51 12.08 EXILE LAST CHRISTMAS 200,255 Nakashima Mika VOICE 155,502
52 12.15 KAT-TUN White X'mas 250,106 EXILE EXILE BALLAD BEST 943,901