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that ranks the best selling digital singles in

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Recording Industry Association of Japan The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include pr ...

from April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads (着うたフル ''Chaku-Uta Full'') (not downloads from PCs, or ringtones (着うた ''Chaku-Uta'')). On July 27, 2012, the service that tracked the charts was shut down.

History

The RIAJ originally started certifying digital downloads in August 2006. At the same time, they began posting a monthly chart called the (officially the ). This now defunct chart ranked the highest Chaku-uta (ringtone) downloads for the month. The chart was disbanded in March 2009 (the final month's data being February 2009), and was replaced by the identically named weekly Chaku-Uta Full chart.

Methodology

The chart week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday and updated on every Friday at 11 a.m ( JST). The first number-one song on this chart was "

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Only three non-domestic artists have ever broken the top 10 charts:

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' " Straight Through My Heart" at #4 in September 2009 and

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- " Love Story" *Exile - " Futatsu no Kuchibiru" *Exile - " I Wish for You" *Exile - " Yasashii Hikari" *

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- " Hatsukoi" *

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" *Mr. Children - " Kazoe Uta" *

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" *Kana Nishino - " Sakura, I Love You?" *

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- " Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru" *

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- " Forever Love" *

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