This Side of Japan's 50 Favorite Songs of 2022 (So Far)
This Side of Japan's 50 Favorite Songs of 2022 (So Far)
Here are the newsletter's 50 favorite Japanese songs of the year so far
Here is This Side of Japan’s 50 favorite Japanese songs of 2022 so far. You can also check out this list as a Spotify playlist here. (Idol songs are in a separate list here.)
4s4ki - “Punish”
Ado - “Kokoro To Iu Na No Fukakai”
Aimyon - “My First Love Is Crying”
Anna Takeuchi - “Te No Hira Kasanereba”
Azusa Tadokoro - “Hakoniwa No Koufuku”
BIM ft. DONGURIZU - “Anchovy”
cresc. - “Mischief”
DAOKO & Yohji Igarashi - “MAD”
DE DE MOUSE & Punipunidenki - “Midnight Dew”
DIALOGUE+ - “Who said we are idiots?”
Dirty Androids & RANASOL - “eyes”
Ferri-Chrome - “How Could I Feel You?”
Fujii Kaze - “Matsuri”
Gen Hoshino - “Comedy”
Haretokidoki ft. AKZ - “STAY IN MY HEART”
Haruka Kudo - “Memory Suddenly (Taku Takahashi Remix)”
Hikaru Utada - “BAD Mode”
Hitsujibungaku - “Hikarutoki”
iri - “Matenrou”
JYOCHO - “The End of Sorrow”
Kaho Nakamura - “Good Bye Claire”
Kana Hanazawa - “Don’t Know Why”
Kudaranai1nichi - “Yarusenai”
Lucie,Too - “heartless”
majiko - “FANTASY”
Masayoshi Iimori & viwiv - “Dustware”
Mashinomi - “escape”
Menace9 - “Play dead”
Miyuna - “Choudai”
MONDO GROSSO ft. Hikari Mitsushima & Ryuichi Sakamoto - “IN THIS WORLD”
the peggies - “Highlight Highlight”
Perfume - “Mawarukagami”
PUNPEE & JJJ - “Step into the Arena”
Raon - “Kune Kune (Wiggle Wiggle)”
Sakanaction - “Shock!”
Sakura Fujiwara - “My Life”
sasakure.UK - “Decadence”
Satoko Shibata - “Understood”
Serph - “Piplup Step”
Shaka Bose ft. Tohji - “Moon Sun”
So Shibano - “Ai Wo Oranaide”
TEMPLIME & Toto Hoshimiya - “skyline”
tofubeats ft. Kaho Nakamura - “REFLECTION”
Tohji - “Super Ocean Man”
TORiENA - “RAW”
TYOSiN ft. Xgang, HAKU FiFTY, W, Yvng Patra, ORIGAMI & GNB AAlucarD - “Raimei”
UA - “Binetsu”
Vaundy - “Koi Kaze Ni Nosete”
Wednesday Campanella - “Manekineko”
Yuga - “Yuragi”
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