2017 in Japanese music
The year 2017 in Japanese music.
Events
Number-ones
Awards
Albums released
September
Debuting
Debuting groups
- =Love
- 100%
- 22/7
- Atarashii Gakko!
- Blackpink
- Brats
- Cellchrome
- Chō Tokimeki Sendenbu
- CY8ER
- Cynhn
- Dimlim
- Exo-CBX
- Faky
- Last Idol
- Leetspeak Monsters
- Lovebites
- Mellow Mellow
- Migma Shelter
- Monsta X
- NCT 127
- NGT48
- Novelbright
- Pentagon
- Pink Babies
- Pink Cres.
- Polkadot Stingray
- Qumali Depart
- Qyoto
- Ryokuoushoku Shakai
- SF9
- The Rampage from Exile Tribe
- Roselia
- SudannaYuzuYully
- TRCNG
- Twice
- Ukka
- Up10tion
- Winner
- Yorushika
Debuting soloists
- Adieu
- Asca
- Beverly
- Haru Nemuri
- Hiroomi Tosaka
- Junna
- Keina Suda
- Masaki Suda
- Nao Tōyama
- Rena Nōnen
- Sayuri
- Shiina Natsukawa
- Shuta Sueyoshi
- Sōma Saitō
- Taecyeon
- Tao Tsuchiya
Artists resuming activities
Artists on hiatus
- Ikimono-gakari
- Tsubaki
- YuiKaori
- Ami Wajima
- Tsuki Amano
- Pour Lui
- Tackey & Tsubasa
- Sphere
- Vamps
- Flumpool
- Cyntia
- Mejibray
Retiring artists
- Nanami Hashimoto
- Sayaka Shionoya
- Momoko Tsugunaga
- Ray
- Himeka Nakamoto
- Mai Endo
- Haruka Shimada
- Shuuka Fujii
Disbanding artists
- Doll Elements
- Especia
- Prizmmy
- Rev. from DVL
- White Ash
- C-ute
- Mimi Meme Mimi
- Plenty
- Reol
- Megamasso
- Hilcrhyme
- Musubizm
- Cibo Matto
- Sug
- High4
- Wonder Girls
Deaths
- February 8 – Rina Matsuno, 18, idol singer and model, heart arrhythmia
- February 25 – Toshio Nakanishi, 61, musician and producer, esophageal cancer
- March 1 – Hiroshi Kamayatsu, 78, singer and guitarist, pancreatic cancer
- April 12 – Peggy Hayama, 83, singer, pneumonia
- July 8 – Seiji Yokoyama, 82, composer, pneumonia
- December 2 – Norihiko Hashida, 72, folk singer-songwriter, parkinson's disease