This Side of Japan's 50 Favorite Songs of 2024 (So Far)
The newsletter's best Japanese music half way into the year
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Forgive me for not getting together the new issue on time. This Side of Japan Issue #85 will (hopefully) land on your inbox next week. I took a bit of a vacation this weekend, celebrating the Fourth as well as attending Anime Expo in L.A. once again. But in lieu of a newsletter, here is a list of our favorite songs of the year so far. You can browse the idol songs list here too.
You can check out all of the songs in this Spotify playlist.
7 ft. LANA & Elle Teresa - “Boss Bitch (Remix)”
AAAMYYY - “Savior”
Akari Kito - “Yume No Ito”
BUDDHAHOUSE - “Ephemeral Lovers”
chef’s - “Hitchcoke”
CREAM - “Picky”
CVN ft. DAFTY RORN - “invisible forest”
Divermy - “Dive Out”
e5 ft. CYBER RUI & KOTONOHOUSE - “PARADIGM”
Eiko Ishibashi - “Evil Does Not Exist”
Empty Old City - “Buffer”
Gusokumuzu - “Yume no hajimari.”
H TO O - “Awake”
Hoach5000 - “90s Crush”
inu - “memorycard 15”
Jane Jade - “Sketch of the Season”
Kana Hanazawa - “Love Me”
Kayoko Yoshizawa - “Namida No Kuni”
kegon - “Arakawa”
kinoue64 - “After School for You”
Kenshi Yonezu - “Sayonara Mata Itsuka!”
KOTONOHOUSE, DC Mizey & e5 - “BAKU”
KLONNS - “BEHERIT”
lilbesh ramko - “nichijou:loopmania”
Liyuu - “Soaring Heart”
marucoporoporo - “Cycle of Love”
Mashinomi - “Maximizer”
Milky ft. cyber milk chan - “You’ll Miss My Sine.wav”
muque - “desert.”
nervous light of sunday - “Kamioroshi”
Nine Percent - "Time2Crime"
Noa - “Zenhoko Bishojo”
Peterparker69 x Tennyson - “skyskysky”
Plant cell - “Speed Games at Daytona Beach”
RAISAN - “PEAK TIME”
RIM & KOKO - “Idyllic”
RYUSENKEI - “Super Generation”
SASAKRECT ft. 4s4ki, RhymeTube, OHTORA & Hanagata - “Don’t Look Back (DE DE MOUSE Jungle Flow Mix)”
Sasuke Haraguchi - “Igaku”
Shiina Ringo & Nocchi - “Hatsu KO Kachi”
Sora Amamiya - “Shoten”
Stones Taro - “Deepest Downtown”
Suichuu Spica - “beyond me”
Suisei Hoshimachi & Kaede Takagaki (CV: Saori Hayami) - “Jubilee”
TIDAL CLUB - “Somatsu”
tofubeats - “I CAN FEEL IT”
Tomonori Kusunoki - “MAYBLUES”
TREKKIE TRAX CREW - “Crystal”
Wednesday Campanella - “TAMAMONO-MAE”
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