2021 in Japanese music

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The year 2021 in Japanese music.

Debuting

Main article: List of Japanese musical groups (2020s) § 2021

Debuting groups

Debuting soloists

Returning from hiatus

Returning groups

Returning soloists

Events

Number-ones

Awards

Albums released

January

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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]
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February

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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]
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March

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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]
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]
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April

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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
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]
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May

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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]
Aoppella -aoppella!?- Riruhapi, FYA'M' [citation needed]
24 Ame*Sta EP Ame*Sta [246]
25 Kitto Anohi Bokuha Shinda =Conect [247]
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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June

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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]
PvP ZOC
14 Do or Not Pentagon [273]
16 BTS, the Best BTS [274]
18 Zutto Zutto Zutto Ryokuoushoku Shakai
28 Superstar Shinee [275]
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July

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11 Pontoon Asaka
21 Re:Sense King & Prince
28 Perfect World Twice [276]
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August

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

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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]
With Me Again 2PM [284]
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October

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27 Scorpion Moon Thelma Aoyoma [285]
Unconditional Love Mai Kuraki [286]
Candy Racer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu [287]
Outsider BtoB [288]
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November

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10 Bright Future Empire [289]
Chaotic Wonderland Tomorrow X Together [290]
23 Forever Daze Radwimps
24 U NiziU [291]
Absolute 6ix AB6IX [292]
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December

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Date Album Artist Ref.
1 The Book 2 Yoasobi [293]
6 Best: 2000-2020 Koda Kumi [294]
8 Human Max Changmin [295]
Friends III B'z [296]
15 Revive Nemophila [297]
Time Flies Nogizaka46 [298]
22 It'z Itzy Itzy [299]
30 Uverworld
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