List of number-one digital singles of 2010 (Japan)

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This is a list of songs that reached #1 on the RIAJ Digital Track Chart chart in Japan in 2010. The highest-selling digital singles in Japan are published by Recording Industry Association of Japan . PC downloads and ringtone downloads are not eligible for the chart, only cellphone downloads (Chaku-uta Full) count for the chart.

The RIAJ Digital Track chart was a record chart that ranks the best selling digital singles in Japan, with data provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan from April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads. On July 27, 2012, the service that tracked the charts was shut down.

The following is a list of notable events and releases that occurred in 2010 in Japanese music.

Recording Industry Association of Japan organization

The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969.

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The chart week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday. The final week of 2009, starting December 29, was merged with the following week (12/30-1/5) due to New Year's celebrations (in a similar manner to Oricon).

Oricon Inc., established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.

Chart history

Issue dateSongArtist(s)Reference(s)
January 5"Hatsukoi" Masaharu Fukuyama [1]
January 12"Butterfly" Kaela Kimura [2]
January 19"Always" Mika Nakashima [3]
January 26 [4]
February 2"Butterfly"Kaela Kimura [5]
February 9"Forever Love" Shota Shimizu x Miliyah Kato [6]
February 16 [7]
February 23"Best Friend" Kana Nishino [8]
March 2 [9]
March 9 [10]
March 16"Lion" Yusuke [11]
March 23"Sakura" Ketsumeishi [12]
March 30"Bye Bye"Miliyah Kato [13]
April 6"Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru" Fuyumi Sakamoto [14]
April 13 [15]
April 20"Daijōbu" Hilcrhyme [16]
April 27 [17]
May 4"Tsubomi feat. Kusuo" lecca [18]
May 11"Daijōbu"Hilcrhyme [19]
May 18"Aitakute Aitakute"Kana Nishino [20]
May 25 [21]
June 1"Loose Leaf"Hilcrhyme [22]
June 8 [23]
June 15"Ring a Ding Dong"Kaela Kimura [24]
June 22"Love Rain (Koi no Ame)" Toshinobu Kubota [25]
June 29"Hello, Again (Mukashi Kara Aru Basho)" Juju [26]
July 6"Sunshine Girl" Moumoon [27]
July 13"Lollipop" Kumi Koda [28]
July 20"Moon" Ayumi Hamasaki [29]
July 27"Ofutari Summer"Ketsumeishi [30]
August 3"If"Kana Nishino [31]
August 17 [32]
August 24"Heavy Rotation"AKB48 [33]
August 31 [34]
September 7"if"Kana Nishino [35]
September 14"Motto Tsuyoku" Exile [36]
September 21"Suki de, Suki de, Suki de."Kumi Koda [37]
September 28"Motto Tsuyoku"Exile [38]
October 5 [39]
October 12"I Wish for You" [40]
October 19"One Day" The Rootless [41]
October 26"Gee" Girls' Generation [42]
November 2"Kimi tte"Kana Nishino [43]
November 9 [44]
November 16 [45]
November 23"Kono Yoru o Tomete yo"Juju [46]
November 30"Ryūsei" Kobukuro [47]
December 7"Kono Yoru o Tomete yo"Juju [48]
December 14 [49]
December 21"Can't Wait 'Til Christmas" Hikaru Utada [50]

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