Top-ranked artists from Japan

N.B. Artist from before the mid-1960s may not be as well represented in this chart, because this chart only takes into account their albums. (Before that time, singles were far more prevalent than albums).

	Rank	Artist	Albums The number of albums by this artist featuring on this site.	Top Ranked Album The top-ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart (N.B. some artists might not have a top-ranked album, if their albums are ranked outside the top 100,000)	Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
	1	フィッシュマンズ [Fishmans]	20	Long Season (310th)	11,224
	2	Boris	41	Flood (1,459th)	3,253
	3	青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba]	17	アダンの風 [Adan No Kaze] (1,925th)	2,429
	4	ボアダムス [Boredoms]	23	Vision Creation Newsun (1,518th)	2,032
	5	Nujabes	4	Modal Soul (1,273rd)	1,978
	6	Yellow Magic Orchestra	14	Solid State Survivor (2,395th)	1,309
	7	山下達郎 [Tatsuro Yamashita]	14	For You (2,151st)	1,231
	8	Mono	20	Hymn To The Immortal Wind (3,993rd)	1,146
	9	植松伸夫 [Nobuo Uematsu]	16	Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack (4,489th)	1,093
	10	坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto]	39	Thousand Knives (6,722nd)	1,059
	11	久石譲 [Joe Hisaishi]	31	Hana-Bi (4,646th)	980
	12	山岡晃 [Akira Yamaoka]	6	Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtracks (2,796th)	979
	13	Cornelius	12	Fantasma (2,338th)	925
	14	椎名林檎 [Ringo Sheena]	19	加爾基 精液 栗ノ花 [Karuki Samen Kuri No Hana] (3,278th)	882
	15	吉村弘 [Hiroshi Yoshimura]	13	Music For Nine Post Cards (5,063rd)	725
	16	Melt-Banana	11	Fetch (4,155th)	706
	17	Yoko Ono	19	Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (8,372nd)	706
	18	矢野顕子 [Akiko Yano]	19	ただいま。 [Tadaima.] (9,480th)	664
	19	福居良 [Ryo Fukui]	5	Scenery (2,836th)	644
	20	荒井由実 [Yumi Arai]	12	Cobalt Hour (10,177th)	594