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Number ones

* Oricon number-one albums * Oricon number-one singles * Hot 100 number-one singles

Awards

* 60th Japan Record Awards * 2018 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

Albums released

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Debuting and returning artists

Debuting groups

* April * Day6 * dps * Dreamcatcher *

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* EXID * Fantastics from Exile Tribe * First Place * GFriend * Gugudan * Hachimitsu Rocket * King & Prince * Mamamoo * Myteen * Neo Japonism * Raise A Suilen * Red Velvet * Seventeen * Spira Spica * STU48 * Uijin * Yoshimotozaka46 * Zutomayo

Debuting soloists

* Aina the End * Shuta Sueyoshi * Ryuji Imaichi * Taiki Yamazaki * Minori Suzuki * Mai Fuchigami * Misako Uno * Ryucheru * Rika Tachibana * Kiyoe Yoshioka * Kaori Ishihara * Shigeru Joshima * Haruka Yamazaki *

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* Makoto Furukawa * Ryusei Yokohama * Yuka Ozaki * Reona * Chiaki Satō * Yuka Ozaki * Akari Nanawo * Chiaki Ito * Meimi Tamura * Halca * Taemin * Key

Returning from hiatus

* Ayami Mutō * Eir Aoi * KAT-TUN * Ami Wajima * Ellegarden * Hilcrhyme * Ikimonogakari * Charisma.com

Disbanding and retiring artists

Disbanding

* Idol Renaissance * La PomPon * Mix Speaker's,Inc. * GEM * Chelsy * Cheeky Parade * Chatmonchy * Ciao Bella Cinquetti * Tackey & Tsubasa * Passpo * Babyraids Japan * Vanilla Beans * X21 * Aqua Timez * Secret *

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Retiring

* Tetsuya Komuro * Namie Amuro * Chiyo Okumura * Hideaki Takizawa (Tackey & Tsubasa) * Hitomi Yoshizawa

Going on hiatus

* Charisma.com * Folks * Tsubasa Imai (Tackey & Tsubasa) * Chris Hart * Mao Denda * Jero * Yumi Hara * Keito Okamoto (

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) * Nobuo Uematsu *

Shiori Niiyama is a Japanese singer and songwriter, who made major debut with single ''Yureru Yureru'' under B Zone in 2013. In, 2018, she announced hiatus which lasted 3 years and in 2021 resumed her music activities. Biography Under the influence of her f ...

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* Sads

Deaths

* January 26 – Junji Yayoshi, guitarist and record producer (b. 1968) * January 31 – Itokin, MC and track maker (b. 1979) * April 24 – Doji Morita, singer-songwriter (b. 1953) * April 27 – Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress (b. 1935) * May 16 – Hideki Saijo, singer and actor (b. 1955) * October 12 – Takehisa Kosugi, composer and violinist (b. 1938) * November 14 – Masahiro Sayama, jazz pianist (b. 1953) * November 25 – Norio Maeda, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1934)

References

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