Timeline of Japanese music
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This page is a timeline of Japanese music and also indexes the individual year in Japanese music pages.
1880s
[edit]- 1888 - Kimigayo adopted as national anthem
1890s
[edit]- 1897 - Gunkan kōshinkyoku
1910s
[edit]- 1910 - Nipponophone founded
- 1912 - 1st Japanese symphony: Kachidoki to Heiwa by Kōsaku Yamada[1]
1920s
[edit]- 1921 - Inno Meiji by Kōsaku Yamada[2]
- 1927 - Akatombo
1930s
[edit]- 1931 - King Records founded
- 1934 - Nagauta Symphony
1940s
[edit]- 1942 - Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association founded
- 1946 - 1st Mainichi Film Award for Best Music; 1st broadcast of NHK Nodo Jiman
1950s
[edit]- 1951 - 1st Kōhaku Uta Gassen
- 1954 - Godzilla includes music by Akira Ifukube
- 1959 - 1st Japan Record Awards[3]
1960s
[edit]- 1961 - 1st broadcast of Minna no Uta
- 1963 - Sukiyaki reaches number 1 in the USA
- 1962 - 1st broadcast of Shichiji ni aimashō
- 1964 - 1st broadcast of Music Fair
- 1967 - Oricon founded; Akiko Nakamura released Nijiiro no mizūmi;[4] Hibari Misora released Makkana Taiyō[5]
- 1968 - 1st broadcast of Yoru no Hit Studio; CBS/Sony founded
- 1969 - 1st Yamaha Popular Song Contest
1970s
[edit]- 1970 - 1st World Popular Song Festival; 1st Japan Music Awards; 1st publication of Music Labo; Nippon Music Foundation established
- 1972 - 1st Tokyo Music Festival
- 1974 - 1st FNS Music Festival
- 1978 - 1st broadcast of The Best Ten[6]
- 1979 - Number one singles include Chameleon Army, Young Man (Y.M.C.A.) and Ihojin.
1980s
[edit]- 1980 - Number one singles include Ihojin and I'm in the Mood for Dancing
- 1981 - A Long Vacation
- 1982 - Number one singles include Matsu wa and Second Love
- 1983 - Number one singles include Second Love, ½ no Shinwa, Flashdance... What a Feeling, Kinku and Cat's Eye
- 1984 - Number one singles include Southern Wind, Amaoto wa Chopin no Shirabe, Jukkai (1984) and Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa
- 1986 - 1st broadcast of Music Station
1990s
[edit]- 1993 - 1st broadcast of Count Down TV
- 1994 - 1st broadcast of Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ
- 1996 - 1st broadcast of Utaban
- 1998 - 1st broadcast of Channel A
2000s
[edit]- 2004 - 1st broadcast of Bokura no Ongaku
- 2005 - 1st broadcast of J-Melo
- 2006 - 1st broadcast of Idoling!!!; 1st broadcast of Rock Fujiyama
- 2007 in Japanese music
- 2008 in Japanese music
- 2009 in Japanese music
2010s
[edit]- 2010 in Japanese music
- 2011 in Japanese music
- 2012 in Japanese music
- 2013 in Japanese music
- 2014 in Japanese music
- 2015 in Japanese music
- 2016 in Japanese music
- 2017 in Japanese music
- 2018 in Japanese music
- 2019 in Japanese music
2020s
[edit]- 2020 in Japanese music
- 2021 in Japanese music
- 2022 in Japanese music
- 2023 in Japanese music
- 2024 in Japanese music
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Tokyo Ongaku Gakko. Kinsei Hogaku Nempyo. Rokugatsu-Kan. Volume 1. 1912. Volume 2. 1914. Volume 3. 1927.
- ^ Handbook of Japanese Music in the Modern Era, p 256.
- ^ Music on the Move, p 123
- ^ 1959年12月27日、第1回日本レコード大賞が開催。受賞曲は水原弘「黒い花びら」. News Online. Nippon Broadcasting System. 27 December 2017.
- ^ 1967年10月10日、中村晃子の「虹色の湖」が発売～“一人GS”と呼ばれる理由. News Online. Nippon Broadcasting System. 10 October 2018.
- ^ ちょうど50年前･1967/5/25 GSブームから生まれた美空ひばりの大ヒット‘真っ赤な太陽’リリース【大人のMusic Calendar】. News Online. Nippon Broadcasting System. 25 May 2017.
- ^ 「１９７８」エンタメプレイバック. ZAKZAK. 23 June 2023.
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