The highest-selling albums in Japan are ranked in the weekly

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 ...

, which is published by ''Oricon Style'' magazine. The data is compiled by

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 ...

based on each albums' weekly physical sales. This list includes the albums that reached the number one place on that chart in 2014. In 2014, a total of 43 albums claimed the top position of the chart. Beginning with dance and vocal group

Sandaime J Soul Brothers , formerly simply J Soul Brothers and stylized as Sandaime J Soul Brothers from Exile Tribe, are a J-pop vocal and dance group formed by Exile ex-leader and producer Hiroyuki Igarashi in Japan in 1991. Sandaime J Soul Brothers are managed by Hiroy ...

's greatest hits/studio album, ''

The Best/Blue Impact ''The Best/Blue Impact'' (styled THE BEST/BLUE IMPACT) is an album by Japanese group Sandaime J Soul Brothers from Exile Tribe. It was released on January 1, 2014. It reached the number-one place on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart The Oricon Album ...

'', issue dated January 6.

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with it ...

's ''

Tsugi no Ashiato is the fifth studio album by Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It is the second AKB48 double-album, and was released in Japan on January 22, 2014 by King Records. It debuted at number one in the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, selling over 960,0 ...

'' was the best-selling album of 2014. The soundtrack, '' Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'', was the second best-selling album. With 980,000 copies sold, it became the best-selling animation film soundtrack album in Oricon history. Boy band

Arashi is a Japanese boy band consisting of five members formed under the Johnny & Associates talent agency. The members are Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Jun Matsumoto. Arashi officially formed on September 15, 1999 ...

's thirteenth studio album, ''

The Digitalian ''The Digitalian'' (stylized as THE DIGITALIAN) is the thirteenth studio album of the Japanese boy band Arashi. The album was released on October 22, 2014 under their record label J Storm in two editions: a first press/limited edition and a regula ...

'' was the third best-seller, with 785,000 copies sold.

Chart history

Chart history

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