Billboard Japan Hot Albums


The Billboard Japan Hot Albums, also referred to as Combined Albums, is the primary album record chart published by Billboard Japan. It is released weekly on Thursday in Japan Standard Time.
The Hot Albums was launched on the week dated June 4, 2015, with Superfly's White as the inaugural number one. It initially ranked albums based on a combination of physical sales, digital downloads, and PC look-ups, and was the only combined albums chart in Japan until the establishment of the Oricon Combined Albums Chart in December 2018. Since December 2024, the chart has been based on physical sales, digital downloads, and streaming; the look-up factor was removed after Billboard Japan became unable to collect such data from the provider since October 2022. Physical sales units are provided by SoundScan Japan, whereas GfK Japan tracks digital downloads from Amazon, iTunes, Mora, Mu-mo, and RecoChoku, with additional iTunes data courtesy of Luminate, and streaming from Amazon, Apple Music, and Spotify, etc. In June 2025, Billboard Japan introduced the recurrent rule for the Hot Albums, alongside the Japan Hot 100, applying to albums charting more than 26 weeks. It came into effect on the chart week of June 4.
The South Korean band Seventeen holds the record for most number ones on the chart with a total of 14. Hikaru Utada, who has topped the chart 11 times, holds the record for solo artists. For specific albums, Dreams Come True The Best! Watashi no Dorikamu by Dreams Come True has the record for most weeks at number ones on the chart, with seven, and Kana Nishino's Just Love has the most number ones as a solo album, with five. Back Number's Encore has the most total chart weeks with 319; Kenshi Yonezu with Yankee, Dreams Come True with their aforementioned album, Yumi Matsutoya with Nihon no Koi to, Yuming to, and Southern All Stars with Umi no Yeah!! are the only other artists to have albums surpass 200 weeks.

Album and artist records

Albums with most weeks at number one

Artists with most weeks at number one

Albums with most chart weeks

WeeksArtistAlbumRelease year
332Back NumberEncore 2016
222Yankee 2014
219Southern All StarsUmi no Yeah!!1998
208Dreams Come TrueDreams Come True The Best! Watashi no Dorikamu2015
207A Complete: All Singles2008
206Nihon no Koi to, Yuming to2012
187Bootleg 2017
186Bremen2015
184One Ok RockNiche Syndrome 2010
175Help Ever Hurt Never 2022
166Globe15 Years: Best Hit Selection2010
161Official Hige DandismTraveler 2019
154Stray Sheep 2020
151YoasobiThe Book 2021
136King GnuCeremony 2020
136AdoKyōgen 2022
134YoasobiThe Book 2 2021
133AimyonMomentary Sixth Sense 2019
124AimyonExcitement of Youth 2017
123Mrs. Green AppleAttitude 2019
122Yellow Dancer2015
122VaundyStrobo 2020
121Arashi5x20 All the Best!! 1999–20192019
120YuuriIchi 2022
115Love All Serve All 2022
114Official Hige DandismEscaparade 2018
110AdoUta's Songs: One Piece Film Red 2022
110Ed Sheeran÷ 2017
109King GnuSympa2019
107AimyonHeard That There's Good Pasta 2020
105Doo-Wops & Hooligans 2010
105RadwimpsYour Name2019
104The Blue Hearts 30th Anniversary All Time Memorial: Super Selected Songs2015
104One Ok RockAmbitions2017
102One Ok Rock35xxxv2015
102Fantôme2016
100SixTones1ST2021