Oricon Combined Albums Chart

The Oricon Combined Albums Chart (Japanese: オリコン合算アルバムランキング, Hepburn: Orikon Gassan Arubamu Rankingu) is a record chart released weekly by Oricon, a major provider of information on the Japanese music industry.

First published on December 24, 2018, it ranks the top fifty albums through an equivalent unit system based on physical CD sales, digital downloads, and the streaming of songs.

The Oricon Albums Chart (active since 1987) only factors physical sales.

The new charts would factor in CD sales, digital downloads, and streaming, like the Japan Hot 100 and Hot Albums charts published by competitor Billboard Japan.

[2][3] Alongside the Combined Singles and Streaming Singles Charts, the Oricon Combined Albums Chart was launched with the issue dated December 24, 2018; Anti Anti Generation, the tenth album by rock band Radwimps, was the inaugural number one.

With their album Anti Anti Generation (2018), rock band Radwimps (pictured in 2016) topped the first issue of the Oricon Combined Albums Chart.
The boy band Snow Man (pictured in 2023) have topped two year-end Combined Albums Charts: in 2022 with Snow Labo. S2 and in 2024 with Rays .