2021 in Japanese music

The year 2021 in Japanese music.

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
1	Sukkarakan	Eito	^[6]
	Love Live! Sunshine!! Kurosawa Dia First Solo Concert Album ~White First Love~	Arisa Komiya	^{[citation needed]}
	Enka Yume no Kyōen	Yukino Ichikawa, Kohei Fukuda	^[7]
6	Mikunoyoasobi	Ayase	^[8]
	Bokutachi No Denkosekka	Greeeen	^[9]
	Sweet Hug	Misako Uno	^[10]
	1ST	SixTones	^[11]
	Wadachi	Spyair	^[12]
	Suki Suki Ronchan	Suki Suki Ronchan	^[13]
	The Book	Yoasobi	^[14]
13	One	7order	^[15]
	Tasekai kaishaku	Genin Wa Jibun Ni Aru.	^[16]
	Japanese Star	Girls²	^[17]
	Reincarnation	Go to the Beds	^[18]
	Straight Outta Rhyme Anima	Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle	^[19]
	Guinea Pig Lab	Kyuso Nekokami	^[20]
	Hyaku hi Ryōran-sen	LatuLatu	^[21]
	Speed Music Box - All The Memories -	Speed	^[22]
	"Idolish7 Second Beat" Original Soundtrack "Beyond The Shine"	Tatsuya Kato	^[23]
15	Kōkyō kumikyoku uchūsenkan'yamato 2202	Akira Miyagawa	^[24]
20	Baekhyun	Baekhyun	^[25]
	Unseen World	Band-Maid	^[26]
	Six	Da-ice	^[27]
	Pop In City ~For Covers Only~	Deen	^[28]
	D4DJ Groovy Mix Cover Tracks Vol.1	Happy Around!, Peaky P-key, Photon Maiden, Merm4id, Rondo, Lyrical Lily	^[29]
	Sing;est	Hiroki Moriuchi	^[30]
	~10th Anniversary~ "Princess Assemble"	Houkago Princess	^[31]
	Ghost in the Shell Superb Music	Kenji Kawai, Yoko Kanno, Cornelius	^[32]
	Gradation	Little Glee Monster	^[33]
	Mamejor!	Mameshiba no Taigun	^[34]
	Sabitsuku made	Miyashita Yuu	^[35]
	20th Anniversary Best Kachō Fūgetsu	Monkey Majik	^[36]
	Theory	Oisicle Melonpan	^[37]
	Mādadayo	Satoshi Hayashibe	^[38]
	To Redefine/To Be Defined	Survive Said The Prophet	^[39]
	The Idolmaster Shiny Colors Colorful Feathers -Stella-	Team.Stella	^{[citation needed]}
	Green Giraffe	Toshinori Yonekura	^[40]
	Still Dreaming	Tomorrow X Together	^[41]
25	Hikigatari Live	Chiharu Matsuyama	^[42]
27	Just Believe You	All At Once	^[43]
	Hyaku Nozomi Yakō	Asca	^[44]
	Boymen the Universe	Boys and Men	^[45]
	Aster	Colon	^[46]
	Harami Teishoku DX ~Streetpiano Collection~ "O Kawari"	Harami-chan	^[47]
	Mother Music Revisited	Keiichi Suzuki	^[48]
	Tomaranai Kazeguruma	Little Parade	^[49]
	"Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club" Original Soundtrack "Sound of Tokimeki"	Naoki Endo, Nijigasaki High School Idol Club	^{[citation needed]}
	Chaosix	Nobuhiko Okamoto	^[50]
	10ct	Predia	^[51]
	Note	Ryo Nishikido	^[52]
	Find Fuse in Youth	Soshi Sakiyama	^[53]
	Star	Super Junior	^[54]
	"Dear Vocalist Raving Beats!!!" Lumiere Vo.Re-o-do	Toshiki Masuda	^{[citation needed]}
	Physical	Yoru no Honki Dance	^[55]
	Sōsaku	Yorushika	^[56]
30	"Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!" Original Soundtrack	Horiguchi Junka	^{[citation needed]}

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
3	The End	Aina the End	^[57]
	Billow	Keina Suda	^[58]
	Reboot	Madkid	^[59]
	Travel	Mamamoo	^[60]
	Green Diary	Megumi Nakajima	^[61]
	Kimi ga Ita kara	Pixmix	^{[citation needed]}
	Frontier	Ryo Kitazono	^[62]
	You Can Change My Life	Sung Si-kyung	^[63]
	I Love You	Super Beaver	^[64]
	Live Loud	The Yellow Monkey	^[65]
	Sakkac Craft	Tsumiki	^[66]
10	The Idolmaster Master Artist 4 07 Miki Hoshii	Akiko Hasegawa	^{[citation needed]}
	15	Cali Gari	^[67]
	The Idolmaster Master Artist 4 08 Miura Azusa	Chiaki Takahashi	^{[citation needed]}
	America/Hosono Haruomi Live in US 2019	Haruomi Hosono	^[68]
	One Wish EP	Man with a Mission	^[69]
	The Millennium Parade	Millennium Parade	^[70]
	Love Live" Sunshine Matsuura Kanan First Solo Concert Album ~Sakana ka nandaka?~	Nanaka Suwa	^{[citation needed]}
	The Idolmaster Master Artist 4 09 Ritsuko Akizuki	Naomi Wakabayashi	^{[citation needed]}
	Sekadepa!	Qumali Depart	^[71]
	Sekai no Owari 2010–2019	Sekai no Owari	^[72]
	Hachijuokubunnoichi: to you	Sonar Pocket	^[73]
	Two-Mix 25th Anniversary All Time Best	Two-Mix	^[74]
	Gusare	Zutomayo	^[75]
14	Seiko Matsuda 40th Anniversary Bible -bright moment-	Seiko Matsuda	^[76]
17	Aces	AtToKun	^[77]
	Chō kakumei-teki koisuru nichijō	Azumi Waki	^[78]
	Gardenia Jasminoides	Cocco	^[79]
	Fake Land	Fake Type	^[80]
	Ethernity	For Tracy Hyde	^[81]
	Reamp	Hitorie	^[82]
	Yakou Himitsu	Indigo la End	^[83]
	Between The World And Me	Inoran	^[84]
	Loveholic	NCT 127	^[85]
	Guts Entertainment	Su-xing-cyu	^[86]
	The Idolmaster Shiny Colors Colorful Feathers -Luna-	Team.Luna	^{[citation needed]}
	Vacation	TFG	^[87]
	Vivid Vice	Who-ya Extended	^[88]
21	Suikyō Kyoku	Yuki Saito	^[89]
24	It's All Me, Vol. 2	Ai	^[90]
	Killing Idols	Bis	^[91]
	X	Dish	^[92]
	Hanaemi	HY	^[93]
	Believe	Jel	^[94]
	Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- 2nd D.R.B "Matenro VS Buster Bros!!!"	Matenro, Buster Bros!!!	^{[citation needed]}
	Masahiro Tanaka	Momoiro Clover Z	^[95]
	Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen ~Good Morning ohayō hōsō-shitsu~ Drama CD Youth Capriccio	Nijigasaki High School Idol Club	^{[citation needed]}
	"Dear Vocalist Raving Beats!!!" Brave Child Vo. Joshua	Nobunaga Shimazaki	^{[citation needed]}
	Kyō Sō	Pure White Canvas	^[96]
	Pure x Pure x Pure	Purely Monster	^[97]
	Fiction	Rikako Aida	^[98]
	Three	Sayonara Poesie	^[99]
	Subekaraku Matsuri	Subekaraku Kai	^{[citation needed]}
	Digitalian is Eating Breakfast Special Edition	Tetsuya Komuro	^[100]
	Reboot	The Rampage from Exile Tribe	^[101]
	Sutekina otona ni naru hōhō	Tota Kasamura	^[102]
	Useless	XIIX	^[103]
	Natural	Yui	^[104]

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
3	Doushitatte Tsutaerarenaikara	Aiko	^[105]
	Reboot	Airi Miyakawa	^[106]
	Cryamy -Red Album-	Cryamy	^[107]
	SS	Devil Anthem.	^[108]
	IV	Hiroyuki Sawano	^[109]
	Katashigure	Hiroyuki Yoshino	^[110]
	Fizzy Pop Syndrome	Kiro Akiyama	^[111]
	Canvas	Keisuke Ueda	^[112]
	15th Anniversary Hikigatari Best	Maiko Fujita	^[113]
	Paradises Return	Paradises	^[114]
	Bravely Default II Original Soundtrack	Revo	^[115]
	L	Sakurako Ohara	^[116]
	SZ10TH	Sexy Zone	^[117]
	Shibuya	Shibu3 Project	^[118]
	Peacepeace	Sky Peace	^[119]
	Amusic	Sumika	^[120]
	Ska=Almighty	Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra	^[121]
	LP	Towa Tei	^[122]
	New World	Trio Ohashi	^[123]
	Saikyō Tsubomi DX	Tsubomi	^[124]
	Ningen Gekijō	Yurry Canon	^[125]
	Self Selection "Hip Hop"	Ai	^[126]
4	Love Live! Sunshine!! Kunikida Hanamaru First Solo Concert Album～Oyasuminasan!～	Kanako Takatsuki	^{[citation needed]}
10	Ai Kayano 10th Memorial Book & Mini Album "Musunde Hiraite"	Ai Kayano	^[127]
	Sudachi no Uta / Life is Cider	Anemoneria	^[128]
	Appare! Parade	Appare!	^[129]
	Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- 2nd D.R.B "Bad Ass Temple VS Matenro"	Bad Ass Temple, Matenro	^{[citation needed]}
	I Love You	Fujifabric	^[130]
	A Cappella 2	Gospellers	^[131]
	Bokutachi no Gunzō	Granrodeo	^[132]
	One Last Kiss	Hikaru Utada	^[133]
	This Is Not A Song	Jun. K	^[134]
	Glory, Glory, to the World	Lovebites	^[135]
	Button	Sakura Shimeji	^[136]
	Aoi Honoo	Shizuka Kudo	^[137]
	The Idolmaster Shiny Colors Colorful Feathers -Sol-	Team.Sol	^{[citation needed]}
	Octopath Traveler Original Soundtrack	Yasunori Nishiki	^{[citation needed]}
	Asagao	Yuta Orisaka	^[138]
11	2+0+2+1+3+1+1= 10 years 10 songs	Radwimps	^[139]
13	Gurenge / Flame	Lisa	^[140]
14	Only One	3LDK	^[141]
14	20XX "The Best"	W-inds	^[142]
16	Thanatos	Inuwasi	^[143]
17	Where's My History?	Alexandros	^[144]
	M.C.A・T Da Pump Mix	Da Pump	^[145]
	'Funfare	Fudanjuku	^[146]
	One	Gyroaxia	^{[citation needed]}
	Rainbow	Johnny's West	^[147]
	Akahoshi Ao Hoshi	Kayoko Yoshizawa	^[148]
	Debut 20th Anniversary Recital @ Nippon Budokan	Keisuke Yamauchi	^[149]
	Duets	Maaya Sakamoto	^[150]
	Evergreen 2	Motohiro Hata	^[151]
	Sunny!!	Pmarusama	^[152]
	Shiro Sagisu Music from "Shin Evangelion"	Shirō Sagisu	^{[citation needed]}
	Velvet Night	Shoose	^[153]
	Cure	Sirup	^[154]
	8 Infinity	Solidemo	^[155]
	Breaking Dawn	The Boyz	^[156]
	It's A Perfect Blue	Tokyo 7th Sisters	^[157]
	Twilight Wanderers -Best of Yuji Nakada 2011-2020-	Yuji Nakada	^[158]
	"Haikyū!! To The Top" Original Soundtrack	Yuki Hayashi, Asami Tachibana	^{[citation needed]}
21	A Long Vacation 30th Anniversary Edition	Eiichi Ohtaki	^[159]
24	One Of Us	Afterglow	^[160]
	Enter	Akira Takano	^[161]
	Into the A to Z	Ateez	^[162]
	Colony	BIN	^[163]
	Hypnosismic -Division Rap Battle- 2nd D.R.B "Fling Posse VS Mad Trigger Crew"	Fling Posse, Mad Trigger Crew	^{[citation needed]}
	Pandora	Go!Go!Vanillas	^[164]
	55 Stones	Kazuyoshi Saito	^[165]
	Piece	Kenji Urai	^[166]
	Full Colors	Oldcodex	^[167]
	"Dear Vocalist Raving Beats !!!" Kagaribi Vo. Juda	Sōma Saitō	^{[citation needed]}
	"Shoujo ☆ Kageki Review Starlight" Best Album	Starlight Kuku Gumi	^{[citation needed]}
	Ghost Album	Tempalay	^[168]
	Seishun to Band wa Tanoshikute Mendokusai	The Coinlockers	^[169]
	For U	Yusuke Kamiji	^[170]
28	Singer 7	Aya Shimazu	^[171]
30	30th Anniversary Best Album "Vintage Denim"	Megumi Hayashibara	^[172]
31	"Yuru Camp Season 2" Original Soundtrack	Akiyuki Tateyama	^{[citation needed]}
	Hakkō-tai	Hanaregumi	^[173]
	Who?	Ikimono-gakari	^[174]
	Ketsuno Paradise	Ketsumeishi	^[175]
	Shin uchū + Warp Drive II	Kirameki Unforent	^[176]
	"Yamiyonikarasu, yuki ni sag" kanzen seisan gentei-ban	Lacco Tower	^[177]
	16th ~That's J-POP~	Morning Musume	^[178]
	Mata Aitaito Omoeru Tomoni, Jinseide Nannin Meguriaeruka?	High School 3-C	^[179]
	Unite	Spyair	^[180]
	The First Step: Treasure Effect	Treasure	^[181]
	"Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 2" Animation Derby Season 2 Vol. 3 Original Soundtrack	Utamaro Movement	^{[citation needed]}

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
4	Your Mori.	Mori Calliope	^{[citation needed]}
7	Chōtokkyū ≠Me Iki	≠Me	^[182]
	First E.P	Backdrop Cinderella	^[183]
	Music Wardrobe	Five New Old	^[184]
	Caramel Guerrilla	Kenichi Asai	^[185]
	Kyū	Kizu	^[186]
	Wonderland	Lyrical School	^[187]
	Odds and Ends	Nishina	^[188]
	The World	Regal Lily	^[189]
	Uya Muya	ShishiShishi	^[190]
	3	Six Lounge	^[191]
8	A Ballads 2	Ayumi Hamasaki	^[192]
14	Walpurgis	Aimer	^[193]
	Yosuga	Ayano Kaneko	^[194]
	Only One / Guerrilla's Way	Boom Trigger	^[195]
	"Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet" Original Soundtrack	Katsuo Ōno	^{[citation needed]}
	Kotoba to Ongaku	Sakanamon	^[196]
	Acoustique Electrick Sessions 2020	Toru Kitajima	^[197]
	Yesworld	Toru Kitajima	^[197]
15	Tsukiyo no Ongakkai	Akiko Shikata	^{[citation needed]}
17	Love Live! Sunshine!! Watanabe You First Solo Concert Album	Shuka Saitō	^{[citation needed]}
21	Talk About Everything	Airblue	^[198]
	Radiant Memories	Ayahi Takagaki	^[199]
	Joyful Style	Bradio	^[200]
	Mystere	Haruka Yamazaki	^[201]
	"Jujutsu Kaisen" Original Soundtrack	Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Terui, Alisa Okehazama	^{[citation needed]}
	Bouquet	Hololive Idol Project	^[202]
	SadaDon ShinJibunFudoki III	Masashi Sada	^[203]
	Etc.works3	Mongol800	^[204]
	Best Album "Myōjō"	Mucc	^[205]
	New Gravity	Nulbarich	^[206]
	Enchant	Orbit	^[207]
	Sukima Switch Tour 2020-2021 Smoothie	Sukima Switch	^[208]
	Fly! Fly! Fly!	T-Square	^[209]
	Colorless	Taichi Mukai	^[210]
	Eguism	Takuya Eguchi	^[211]
	Latte	Tsubasa Sakiyama	^[212]
	Big Jumbo Jet	Umeda Cypher	^[213]
	Fruitful	Yasuyuki Horigome	^[214]
	SDR	Ziggy	^[215]
28	25 Years After All Time Best	Chihiro Yonekura	^[216]
	Girls Revolution / Party Time!	Girls²	^[217]
	One Love Anthology	Glay	^[218]
	Oneway Generation	Kishidan	^[219]
	Diabolik Lovers Daylight Vol.2 Sakama Shuu	Kōsuke Toriumi	^[220]
	"Dear Vocalist Raving Beats!!!" Jet Rat Fury Vo.Yuu	Natsuki Hanae	^{[citation needed]}
	Opening Declaration	Novelbright	^[221]
	Genius Love	Quruli	^[222]
	Piofiore no Banshō Evening Bell Character Drama CD Vol.1 Nikola Francesca	Ryōhei Kimura	^{[citation needed]}
	Be Brave	Shinya Kiyozuka	^[223]
	Forced Shutdown	Tomori Kusunoki	^[224]
	Ai Kotoba.	Yukari Tamura	^[225]
	Terminal	Yuki	^[226]

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
5	Flavors of Love	Monsta X	^[227]
12	Zenbu, Naisho.	=Love	^[228]
	Tasogare-Resonance	Calmera	^[229]
	Atarashī Seikatsu	Cubers	^[230]
	Utai tsugu! Nihon no hayariuta Part 2	Hiroshi Miyama	^{[citation needed]}
	Moving Days	Homecomings	^[231]
	Anataninaritakatta	Ken Hirai	^[232]
	Off	Nao Tōyama	^[233]
	"Girls und Panzer" Original Soundtrack	Shiro Hamaguchi	^{[citation needed]}
	Electric Jellyfish	Tokusatsu	^[234]
	Will Never Die	You the Rock	^[235]
	Ainodeban + Thanks to	Yu Sakai	^[236]
18	Love Virus	Yurimental	^[237]
19	Battle & Message	Angela	^[238]
	BanMon! Best goku nakayoshi teki sekai	Band Ja Naimon!	^[239]
	Ladybug	Lisa	^[240]
	This is Youth	Longman	^[241]
	Freak	Necry Talkie	^[242]
	Title Idol	Pastel*Palettes	^[243]
	Musicaloud #38 Act.3	Sayaka Kanda	^[244]
21	Wink	Chai	^[245]
21	Aoppella -aoppella!?-	Riruhapi, FYA'M'	^{[citation needed]}
24	AmeSta EP*	Ame*Sta	^[246]
25	Kitto Anohi Bokuha Shinda	=Conect	^[247]
25	Oneday Everyday	Dan Dan	^{[citation needed]}
26	Setsuzoku	Ajico	^[248]
	Anal Sex Penis	ASP	^[249]
	2nd Step	Camellia Factory	^[250]
	Wakainagara mo rekishi ari 96.3.2@新宿Liquid Room	Fishmans	^{[citation needed]}
	Atarashii Kajitsu	Grapevine	^[251]
	Gekokujō	Hanasaki Morinaka	^[252]
	4Wheels 9Lives	Ken Yokoyama	^[253]
	"Tengaramon" Original Soundtrack	Kow Otani	^{[citation needed]}
	Superspin	Kuzira	^[254]
	Utamonogatari	Mai Mizuhashi	^[255]
	Nonochan 2sai Kodomo Uta	Nonoka Murakata	^[256]
	Sekirara	Polkadot Stingray	^[257]
	Piofiore no Banshō Character Drama CD Vol.2 Gilbert Redford	Showtaro Morikubo	^{[citation needed]}
	OT Works II	Taiiku Okazaki	^[258]
	Mass	The Gazette	^[259]
	"Dear Vocalist Raving Beats!!!" Veronica Vo. Momochi	Toshiyuki Toyonaga	^{[citation needed]}
	Flight	Win Morisaki	^[260]
	Overseas Highway	Wolpis Carter	^[261]
29	XXV	Mitsuhiro Oikawa	^[262]

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References

Wikiwand - on

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
2	Simple is Best	Aoi Teshima	^[263]
	Save Your Life Ayaka Hirahara All Time Live Best	Ayaka Hirahara	^[264]
	Parade Shon	BabyKingdom	^{[citation needed]}
	Toumei	Civilian	^[265]
	Aru Nitsu... eien mitai ni!	Cyaron!	^{[citation needed]}
	Trinity	Future Foundation	^[266]
	Love Person	Hideaki Tokunaga	^[267]
	Mask a Raid	Kamen Joshi	^[268]
	Playful	Koichi Domoto	^[269]
	Lovely Best Complete Lovely2 Songs	Lovely²	^{[citation needed]}
	Auguries	The Songbards	^[270]
6	Tokyo Invader	Iginari Tohoku San	^[271]
9	Starlight	Wagakki Band	^[272]
9	PvP	ZOC
14	Do or Not	Pentagon	^[273]
16	BTS, the Best	BTS	^[274]
18	Zutto Zutto Zutto	Ryokuoushoku Shakai
28	Superstar	Shinee	^[275]

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
11	Pontoon	Asaka
21	Re:Sense	King & Prince
28	Perfect World	Twice	^[276]

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
4	Aoi Inochi	Hiroko Moriguchi	^[277]
4	Bubble Up!	Rocket Punch	^[278]
18	Editorial	Official Hige Dandism	^[279]

Date	Album	Artist	Ref.
1	DIALOGUE+1	Dialogue	^[280]
	What'z Itzy?	Itzy	^[281]
	Beside You	Ran Itō
8	Gacharic Spin	Gacharic Spin
27	Self Selection "Piano Ballad"	Ai	^[282]
29	Mary's Blood	Mary's Blood	^[283]
29	With Me Again	2PM	^[284]