In 1968 Original Confidence was established and began providing music charts to the general public with data collected from various retailers throughout Japan.
Guinness World Records certified that Thelma Aoyama's "Soba ni Iru ne" is the best-selling full-track digital download single in Japan with over 8 million copies.
Yujiro Ishihara & Shunko Makimura's "Ginza No Koi No Monogatari" (1961) sold estimate 3.35 million copies in Japan.
The following list covers the highest-selling singles in the country based on physical sales compiled by Oricon since its foundation in November 1967.
[15] Notes: With over 9.2 million combined sales, Thelma Aoyama's "Soba ni Iru ne" is the best-selling multi-format single in Japan.