1990 in Japanese music

none September 2026 1990 1990 Japanese music In 1990 (Heisei 2), Japanese music was released on records, and there were charts, awards, contests and festivals. During that year, Japan continued to have the second largest music market in the world,Billboard. 2 June 1990. p J-24. twelve percent of all recorded music sales took place in that country, and the value of recorded music sold there was $2.9818 billion."Music sales rise in face of slump". Music Week. 12 October 1991. p 4. Awards, contests and festivals The 32nd Osaka International Festival (Japanese: 大阪国際フェスティバル) was held from 7 April to 11 May 1990.1990年度のラインナップ. Asahi Shimbun Foundation. The international contest of the 19th Tokyo Music Festival was held on 1 June 1990."(S) Tokyo Music Festival 7:00-8:54 p.m. TBS, MBS, CBC" in "Today's Choice". The Japan Times. 1 June 1990. No 32810. p 18. col 4.Wilson Phillips. Entertainment Weekly. 31 August 1990. The 4th Teens' Music Festival was held on 8 August 1990.TEENS' MUSIC FESTIVAL '90全国フェスティバル. Yamaha Music Foundation. The national contest of the 4th "Band Explosion" festival was held on 26 October 1990,BAND EXPLOSION '90日本大会. Yamaha Music Foundation. and the international contest was held on 28 October 1990.BAND EXPLOSION '90世界大会. Yamaha Music Foundation. The final of the 19th FNS Music Festival was held on 11 December 1990."(S) FNS Song Grand Prix 7:30-9:48 p.m. FUJI, KTV, THK" in "Today's Choice". The Japan Times. 11 December 1990. No 32999. p 18. col 4. The 32nd Japan Record Awards were held on 31 December 1990.第32回 日本レコード大賞. Japan Composer's Association. The 41st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen was held on 31 December 1990.第41回NHK紅白歌合戦. NHK. Southern All Stars won the grand prix for Japanese artist of the year at the 4th Japan Gold Disc Awards.The Japan Gold Disc Successive Award.第4回 日本ゴールドディスク大賞. Number one singles Oricon List of Oricon number-one singles of 1990 The following reached number 1 on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart:See the weekly issues of Oricon magazine Issue date Song Artist 1 January "Christmas Eve (Tatsuro Yamashita song) ja クリスマス・イブ (山下達郎の曲) Christmas Eve" Tatsuro Yamashita 8 January (No information) 15 January "Christmas Eve" Tatsuro Yamashita 22 January "Kuchibiru Kara Biyaku" Shizuka Kudo 29 January "Midnight Taxi" Miho Nakayama 5 February "Aku no Hana" Buck-Tick 12 February "Kuchibiru Kara Biyaku" Shizuka Kudo 19 February "Kouya No Megaropolis ja 荒野のメガロポリス" Hikaru Genji 26 February "No Titlist ja NO TITLIST" Rie Miyazawa 5 March "Imasugu Kiss Me ja 今すぐKiss Me" Lindberg 12 March "Minogashitekureyo ja 見逃してくれよ!" Kyōko Koizumi 19 March "Imasugu Kiss Me" Lindberg 26 March "1990 (song) ja 1990 (曲) 1990" Complex 2 April "Imasugu Kiss Me" Lindberg 9 April "Sexy Music" Wink 16 April 23 April "Roman Hikō" Kome Kome Club 30 April "Oh Yeah!" Princess Princess 7 May 14 May "Sayonara Jinrui ja さよなら人類/らんちう" Tama (band) ja たま (バンド) Tama 21 May "Senryū no Shizuku" Shizuka Kudo 28 May "Jealousy O Nemurasete ja JEALOUSYを眠らせて" Kyosuke Himuro 4 June "Pure Gold (Eikichi Yazawa song) ja PURE GOLD Pure Gold" Eikichi Yazawa 11 June "Jealousy O Nemurasete" Kyosuke Himuro 18 June "Sayonara Jinrui" Tama 25 June "Taiyō no Komachi Angel" B'z 2 July "Nichiyoubi ja にちようび" Jitterin' Jinn ja JITTERIN'JINN 9 July "Odoru Pompokolin" B.B.Queens 16 July "The Point of Lovers' Night ja THE POINT OF LOVERS' NIGHT" TM Network 23 July "Odoru Pompokolin" B.B.Queens 30 July "Dear Friend" Akina Nakamori 6 August "Jōnetsu no Bara" The Blue Hearts 13 August "Dear Friend" Akina Nakamori 20 August "Odoru Pompokolin" B.B.Queens 27 August "Co Co Ro ja CO CO RO" Hikaru Genji 3 September "Odoru Pompokolin" B.B.Queens 10 September 17 September 24 September 1 October "Watashi ni Tsuite" Shizuka Kudo 8 October "Time to Count Down ja TIME TO COUNT DOWN" TMN 15 October "Easy Come, Easy Go!" B'z 22 October 29 October 5 November "Itoshii Hitoyo Good Night..." 12 November "Warratteyo ja 笑ってよ" Hikaru Genji 19 November "Mizu ni Sashita Hana" Akina Nakamori 26 November "Silent Eve ja サイレント・イヴ" Midori Karashima ja 辛島美登里 3 December "Julian" Princess Princess 10 December "Silent Eve" Midori Karashima 17 December 24 December "Ai wa Katsu" Kan 31 December Number one albums Music Labo The following reached number 1 on the Music Labo chart: 8 January: Gigs Just A Hero Tour 1986 ja “GIGS” JUST A HERO TOUR 1986 - BoøwyBillboard. 27 January 1990, p 80. 15 January: Voice (Hound Dog album) ja VOICE (HOUND DOGのアルバム) Voice - Hound Dog"Japan" in "Hits of the World". Billboard. 27 January 1990, p 80. 22 January, 29 January and 5 February: Southern All Stars (album) ja Southern All Stars (アルバム) Southern All Stars - Southern All StarsBillboard. 10 February 1990, p 74. 24 February 1990, p 77. 10 March 1990, p 83. 12 February: Aku no Hana - Buck-TickBillboard. 24 February 1990, p 77. 5 March: Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi Live 89 ja 長渕剛LIVE'89 - Tsuyoshi NagabuchiBillboard. 24 March 1990, p 62. 12 March: Greatest Venus ja グレイテスト ビーナス - Go-Bang'sBillboard. 24 March 1990, p 62. 19 March: Cue (album) ja CUE (高野寛のアルバム) Cue - Hiroshi TakanoBillboard. 7 April 1990, p 78. 26 March and 2 April: Computer Game Music Dragon Quest 4 ja 交響組曲「ドラゴンクエストIV」導かれし者たち (ファミリーコンピュータ).Billboard. 7 April 1990, p 78. 21 April 1990, p 30. This album is the soundtrack of Dragon Quest IV. 9 April: San (Otokogumi album) ja 参 (男闘呼組のアルバム) San - OtokogumiBillboard. 21 April 1990, p 30. 16 April: Rosette - Shizuka KudoBillboard. 5 May 1990, p 72. 23 April: Eeney Meeney Barbee Moe ja eeney meeney barbee moe - Barbee BoysBillboard. 5 May 1990, p 72. 30 April: Romantic 1990 ja ROMANTIC 1990 - ComplexBillboard. 19 May 1990, p 74. Far East Cafe ja Far East Café - Kazumasa OdaBillboard. 2 June 1990, p 78. 5 June: Wink First Live Shining Star - WinkBillboard. 16 June 1990, p 83. 14 July 1990, p 63. 12 June: Sprinkle (album) ja SPRINKLE Sprinkle - Kiyotaka SugiyamaBillboard. 16 June 1990, p 83. 14 July 1990, p 63. I'm Breathless - MadonnaBillboard. 30 June 1990, p 76. Yoru o Yuke - Miyuki NakajimaBillboard. 30 June 1990, p 76. 16 July: Tokyo (album) ja tokyo (渡辺美里のアルバム) Tokyo - Misato WatanabeBillboard. 28 July 1990, p 63. 23 July and 30 July: Bonga Wanga - Toshinobu KubotaBillboard. 28 July 1990, p 63. 11 August 1990, p 73. 25 August 1990, p 78. 6 August: Anzen Chitai 7 Yume No Miyako ja 安全地帯VII〜夢の都 - Anzen ChitaiBillboard. 11 August 1990, p 73. 25 August 1990, p 78. 27 August: The Best of Dreams ja The Best of Dreams - RebeccaBillboard. 8 September 1990, p 69. 3 September: Jeep (album) ja JEEP (アルバム) Jeep - Tsuyoshi NagabuchiBillboard. 8 September 1990, p 69. 10 September and 17 September: Inamura Jane (album) ja 稲村ジェーン (サウンドトラック) Inamura Jane - Southern All StarsBillboard. 22 September 1990, p 72. Soundtrack of Inamura Jane ja 稲村ジェーン. 24 September: Apollo (Senri Oe album) ja APOLLO (大江千里のアルバム) Apollo - Senri OeBillboard. 6 October 1990, p 68. 8 October: Baby a Go Go ja Baby a Go Go - RC SuccessionBillboard. 20 October 1990, p 77. 15 October: Kedamono No Arashi ja ケダモノの嵐 - UnicornBillboard. 20 October 1990, p 77. Justice (Hideaki Tokunaga album) ja JUSTICE (徳永英明のアルバム) Justice - Hideaki TokunagaBillboard. 3 November 1990, p 77. Kokon Tozai - Chisato MoritakaBillboard. 3 November 1990, p 77. 3 November: Rythym Red ja RHYTHM RED - TMNBillboard. 17 November 1990, p 71. 10 November: Wonder 3 ja WONDER 3 - Dreams Come TrueBillboard. 17 November 1990, p 71. 19 November: Risky - B'zBillboard. 1 December 1990, p 67. 3 December and 10 December: Heaven's Door (Yumi Matsutoya album) ja 天国のドア Heaven's Door - Yumi MatsutoyaBillboard. 15 December 1990, p 64. Oricon w:ja:Template:オリコン週間アルバムチャート第1位 1990年 The following reached number 1 on the Oricon Albums Chart:See the weekly issues of Oricon magazine 19 February and 26 February: Hurry Up Mode (1990 Mix) by Buck-Tick 24 September: Bust Waste Hip by The Blue Hearts 31 December: Princess Princess by Princess Princess Annual charts B.B.Queens' Odoru Pompokolin was number 1 in the Oricon annual singles chart.シングル年度別のヒット曲 TOP 1. Jipang, from Oricon. Film and television The music of Dreams and Childhood Days, both by Shin'ichirō Ikebe, won the 45th Mainichi Film Award for Best Music.第45回 日本映画大賞 The music of Dreams and Childhood Days and Ruten no umi, all by Shin'ichirō Ikebe, won the 14th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Music (awarded in 1991).Prizes. Sherry (pseudonym of Izumi Kato (singer) ja 加藤いづみ Izumi Kato) released the Record of Lodoss War OVA song "Kaze No Fantasia" (Japanese: 風のファンタジア).加藤いづみ、足跡を振り返る2枚組自選ベスト. Natalie. 4 April 2014.シングル売上TOP1作品. Oricon News.As to her later career, see Oricon and CDJournal. The music of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water includes the song "Blue Water (Miho Morikawa song) ja ブルーウォーター Blue Water" by Miho Morikawa.「ナディア」「ちびまる子ちゃん」...アニソンの歴史を振り返ろう！1990年,1991年編. USEN encore, from USEN. 31 May 2025. Debuts Rumi Shishido released her debut single "Cosmic Rendezvous"宍戸留美、デビュー曲「コズミック・ランデブー」ほかソニーミュージック時代の全音源が全世界配信. CDJournal. 20 January 2021.宍戸留美. CDJournal. Taeko Nishino released her debut single "A Kyu Kiss"現代日本人名錄 98. Nichigai Associates. 1998. vol 3. p 105. Other singles released Gallery and Shōnen no Hitomi ni... by Yōko Oginome Yoru ni Hagurete (Where Were You Last Night) and New Moon ni Aimashō by Wink Michi, Kusai Mono ni wa Futa wo Shiro!! and Ame by Chisato Moritaka Semi-sweet Magic and Megamitachi no Bōken by Miho Nakayama Lady-Go-Round and Be There by B'z Yume wo Shinjite by Hideaki Tokunaga Week End by X Japan Other albums and EPs released The Sheltering Sky by Ryuichi Sakamoto Knock on My Door and '91 Oginome Collection by Yōko Oginome Velvet, Wink Hot Singles and Crescent by Wink Unlimited by Shizuka Kudo All for You, Jeweluna and Collection II by Miho Nakayama Seiko by Seiko Matsuda Natural by T-Square Break Through and Wicked Beat by B'z Colors by Mari Hamada Symphonic Buck-Tick in Berlin by Buck-Tick Kiss My Thang: Toshinobu Kubota's Selection by Toshinobu Kubota Hard Way by Show-Ya The Ghost in Science by Susumu Hirasawa See also Timeline of Japanese music 1990 in Japan 1990 in music w:ja:1990年の音楽 References Ongaku Nenkan '90 (Japanese: 音楽年鑑 '90). "Japan". Billboard. 2 June 1990. pp J-1 to J-26. (International Spotlight). J-POPの歴史「1990年と91年、音楽業界の規模が倍々ゲーム的に大きくなった始まり」. Rolling Stone Japan. 18 May 2023. 続・J-POPの歴史「1990年と91年、バンドブームと怒涛の日本武道館公演ラッシュ」. Rolling Stone Japan. 12 August 2023. Oricon Weekly magazine (オリコンウィークリー) Music Labo magazine ミュージック・リサーチ Music Research magazine シンプジャーナル magazine. ["The Communication Magazine of Music"]. What's In? magazine 1990 オリコン年鑑 1991 Oricon Year Book オリコン年鑑. Oricon No. 1 Hits 500. Clubhouse (Japanese: クラブハウス). 1998. ISBN 9784906496136. vol 2 (1986~1994).