Matsuda used to hold the records for the most number 1 singles (25) and most consecutive number 1 singles (24) on the Japan's Oricon charts, for 12 years from 1988 to 2000. The single was certified a million-seller by RIAJ. 'I want to meet you ~Missing you~') in 1996, which would remained as her last number 1 single till date. Matsuda gained another number 1 single 'Anata ni Aitakute ~Missing You~' (lit. Her consecutive number 1 record ended in 1989 when her 27th single 'Precious Heart' was ranked at number-two, behind Tetsuya Komuro's 'Gravity of Love'. She shattered the Japanese former record of nine consecutive number-ones by popular 1970s music duo Pink Lady. 'Wind Is Autumn Color') became the first of her 24 consecutive number 1 hits in Japan. Later in the same year, her 3rd single 'Kaze wa Aki-iro' (lit. BiographyĪfter winning the ‘Miss Seventeen’ contest held by a popular magazine in 1978, a sixteen-year-old girl named Noriko Kamachi from Fukuoka adopted the stage name 'Seiko Matsuda' and rose to fame in 1980 as a teen idol, making her debut with the song 'Hadashi no Kisetsu' (lit. She placed right behind pop group SMAP and ahead of Akina Nakamori, her biggest rival from the 1980s, who was listed in third place. In January 2011, the Japanese music television program Music Station listed her as the 2nd best-selling idol of all time in Japan, with 29,510,000 records sold.

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