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The following is an overview of the year2009 inJapanese music. It includes notable awards, lists of number-ones, yearly best-sellers, albums released, groups established and disestablished, deaths of notable Japanese music-related people as well as any other relevant Japanese music-related events. For overviews of the year in music from other countries, see2009 in music.
The two best-sellingmusic artists in Japan in 2009 by value of sales, including sales of records and of DVDs and Blu-rays, according toOricon, wereArashi, with¥14.46 billion andExile.[1]
The following is a list of the top 10best-selling albums in Japan in 2009, according toOricon.[2] The best-selling album of the year,All the Best! 1999–2009, sold more than 1.43 million copies.[1]
The following section includes albums by Japanese artists released in Japan in 2009 as well as Japanese-language albums by foreign artists released in the country during this year.
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