These are the ''
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
'' number one albums of 2002, per the
Oricon Albums Chart
The Oricon Albums Chart is the Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Oricon originally published LP, CT, Cartridge and CD charts prior to the establishment of the Oricon Albu ...
.
Chart history
Trivia
* Number-one album of 2002: ''
Deep River'' by
Hikaru Utada
, who is also known by the mononym Utada, is a Japanese-American pop singer, songwriter and producer. By 2010, Utada had become one of the most influential, and best-selling, musical artists in Japan.
Born in the United States to Japanese parent ...
.
* Most weeks at number-one:
Misia
Misaki Itō, commonly known as and stylized as MISIA, is a Japanese singer and songwriter. Born in Nagasaki, Misia moved to Fukuoka at the age of 14 to pursue a recording career. There, she continued her secondary education and briefly attended ...
with a total of 4 weeks.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20141021000023/http://www.geocities.jp/object_ori/indexa.html
See also
*
2002 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.
Specific locations
* 2002 in British music
* 2002 in Norwegian music
* 2002 in South Korean music
Specific genres
* 2002 in classical music
* 2002 in country musi ...
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2002 record charts
Lists of number-one albums in Japan
2002 in Japanese music