MTV Video Music Award Japan for Album of the Year

MTV Video Music Award Japan for Album of the Year
Country	Japan
Presented by	MTV Japan
First awarded	2003

The MTV Video Music Award Japan for Album of the Year (最優秀アルバム賞) is an annual award given by MTV Japan since 2003.

Results

The following table displays the nominees and the winners in bold print with a yellow background.

2000s

Year	Artist	Album
2003 (2nd)	Chemistry	Second to None
	Eminem	The Eminem Show
	Avril Lavigne	Let Go
	Rip Slyme	Tokyo Classic
	Hikaru Utada	Deep River
2004 (3rd)	Outkast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
	Missy Elliott	This Is Not A Test!
	Exile	Exile Entertainment
	Linkin Park	Meteora
	Mika Nakashima	Love
2005 (4th)	Orange Range	MusiQ
	Eminem	Encore
	Green Day	American Idiot
	Ken Hirai	Sentimentalovers
	Usher	Confessions
2006 (5th)	Orange Range	Natural
	The Black Eyed Peas	Monkey Business
	Ketsumeishi	Ketsunopolis 4
	Mr. Children	I Love You
	Oasis	Don't Believe The Truth
2007 (6th)	Daniel Powter	Daniel Powter
	Ayaka	First Message
	Def Tech	Catch The Wave
	Kumi Koda	Black Cherry
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium
2008 (7th)	Exile	Exile Love
	Ketsumeishi	Ketsunopolice 5
	Kumi Koda	Kingdom
	Avril Lavigne	The Best Damn Thing
	Ne-Yo	Because of You
2009 (8th)	Mr. Children	Supermarket Fantasy
	Ayaka	Sing to the Sky
	Coldplay	Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
	Ne-Yo	Year of the Gentleman
	Hikaru Utada	Heart Station

2010s

Year	Artist	Album
2010 (9th)	Exile	Aisubeki Mirai e (愛すべき未来へ)
	Namie Amuro	Past < Future
	The Black Eyed Peas	The E.N.D.
	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown
	Superfly	Box Emotions
2011 (10th)	Kana Nishino	To Love
	Eminem	Recovery
	Miliyah Kato	Heaven
	Linkin Park	A Thousand Suns
	Yui	Holidays in the Sun
2012 (11th)	Girls' Generation	Girls' Generation
	Coldplay	Mylo Xyloto
	Juju	You
	Kara	Super Girl
	Lady Gaga	Born This Way
2013 (12th)	2PM	Legend of 2PM
	Carly Rae Jepsen	Kiss
	Linkin Park	Living Things
	Kana Nishino	Love Place
	One Direction	Take Me Home
2014 (13th)	Kyary Pamyu Pamyu	Nanda Collection
	Beyoncé	Beyoncé
	Daft Punk	Random Access Memories
	Maximum the Hormone	Yoshū Fukushū
	J Soul Brothers III	Blue Impact
2016 (15th)	Japanese album	Album
	Babymetal	Metal Resistance
	Back Number	Chandelier
	Bump of Chicken	Butterflies
	Kana Nishino	Just Love
	Perfume	Cosmic Explorer
	International album	Album
	Beyoncé	Lemonade
	Adele	25
	Drake	Views
	Justin Bieber	Purpose
	Rihanna	Anti
2018 (17th)	Hikaru Utada	Hatsukoi
2019 (18th)	Gen Hoshino	Pop Virus

2020s

Year	Artist	Album
2020 (19th)	Babymetal	Metal Galaxy
2021 (20th)	Official Hige Dandism	Editorial
2022 (21st)	Aimyon	Falling into Your Eyes Record
2023 (22nd)	Aiko	Ima no Futari o Otagai ga Miteru

See also

• MTV Europe Music Award for Best Album