[Text list] This Side of Japan's Top 100 Songs of 2023
Just the list of the newsletter's best Japanese songs of the year from Ano, PeanutsKun, Conton Candy and many more
This is the simple text list of This Side of Japan’s Top 100 Songs of 2023. You can check out the main feature here. You can also listen to most of the songs in this list on this Spotify playlist.
Pasocom Music Club ft. Mei Takahashi - “Day After Day”
YOASOBI - “Idol”
Mall Boyz - “My Life”
Minori Suzuki - “My Own Story”
Ano - “Chu, Tayousei”
Kana Hanazawa - “Not Dramatic As…”
KAMIYA ft. cyber milk chan, nyamura, HAKU, MANON - “GALFY4”
GOSHI ft. Yurufuwa Gang & ralph - “Cho Fast”
Hikaru Utada - “Gold ~Mata Au Hi Made”
Tokyo Young Vision ft. Hideyoshi, Big Mike, Asiff, DALU & OSAMI - “MAKE IT BOUNCE”
Limre - “Kikoete”
bala - “barla”
DJ KANJI ft. CYBER RUI & Elle Teresa - “Speedy Freeky”
NEI - “ENN”
TIDAL CLUB - “Wonderland To Entairyokin”
KID FRESINO - “rose”
Queen Bee ft. Hikari Mitsushima - “Rejuvenation”
BIM ft. C.O.S.A., Daigos - “Intelligent Bad Bwoy”
Ginka Hajima (CV: Azuka Hajima) - “Ct”
(sic)boy ft. Only U - “Resonance”
Yuka Nagase Saori Hayami - “Shiko”
TOGENASHI TOGEARI - “no rhyme nor reason”
Hakos Baelz - “Psycho”
Big Animal Theory - “You Are Loved”
CYBER RUI - “MONOLOGUE”
Kudaranai 1nichi - “Tantan”
Hitsujibungaku - “Eien No Blue”
Ayano Kaneko - “Towelket Wa Odayakana”
CENT - “Suteki Na Yokan”
Masayoshi Iimori & 4s4ki - “pure boi”
Yuka Nagase - “Chikakute, Tookute”
Blooming Bungei - “Nanakai Kara Megusuri”
White Label Lover - “Call Me By Your Name”
Le Makeup ft. Tohji & gummyboy - “Play”
Fujii Kaze - “Hana”
BBBBBBB - “OH SAWAGI”
Homecomings - “Lapse”
kZm ft. JUMADIBA & ralph - “DOSHABURI (Remix)”
Fennel - “Toubou Seikatsu”
gaburyu ft. Seren Azuma - “magella magellan”
Conton Candy Azusa Tadokoro - “Private Room”
shiedA - “As0bu☆tAmE”
aiko - “Akatoki Reload”
IM DENPA.wav - “Lyrical Down”
PeanutsKun - “Gordon Kill the Thomas”
rirugiliyangugili - “PUKE”
Rei Yasuda - “Circle”
Barrier Reef - “aquascape”
KAF x Kenmochi Hidefumi - “Shugei-Hi!!!”
Conton Candy - “Fuzzy Navel”
Awich, NENE, LANA, MaRI, AI, YURIYAN RETRIEVER - “Bad Bitch Bigaku (Remix)”
Perfume - “Love Cloud”
JJJ - “Eye Splice”
AIMI - “MAGICAL DESTROYERS”
Neon Nonthana - “Ai Lie”
kojikoji - “Hoho Ni Hitokuchi”
Blow Your Brains Out - “No Control”
Saba Sister - “Time Sale Nogashitekure”
Ado - “Ibara”
eill - “WE ARE”
JUMADIBA, Ralph, Watson Aburinatown - “Rokudenashi No Uta”
Wednesday Campanella - “Akazukin”
Kayoko Yoshizawa - “Koorigashi”
Raon - “Like Like”
MEZZ ft. Nakamura Minami - “ROYAL MILK TEA”
CHANMINA - “I’m Not OK”
Ralph ft. JUMADIBA & Watson - “Get Back”
Fellsius - “Remember”
Ling tosite sigure - “alexithymiaspare”
Only U & Hezron - “What U Say!”
Kalen Anzai - “Heaven”
Fetus - “Puddle”
Nagakumo - “Ball”
Yuragi - “Worthy of…”
Tujiko Noriko - “A Meeting at the Space Station”
Neo Iceyyy ft. rirugiliyangugili & EDWARD(me) - “Never”
Shuta Hasunuma - “Emergence”
Elle Teresa - “Come On”
PAS TASTA ft. PeanutsKun - “peanut phenomenon”
7th Jet Balloon - “MGDYRKRNI”
Ohzora Kimishima ktskm - “Undertow”
JYOCHO - “As the Gods Say”
Sasuke Haraguchi - “Mu-topia”
QUBIT - “Mr. Sonic”
Kaneyorimasaru - “26”
BAILEFUNK KAKEKO - “toquio1998”
KRUELTY - “Burn the System”
Ohzora Kimishima - “c r a z y”
Sloppy Disk ft. Lil Leise But Gold - “Hold Me Tight”
Vaundy ft. Cory Wong - “Todome No Ichigeki”
KIRINJI ft. SE SO NEON - “honomekashi”
Emma Aibara - “i don’t know who i am”
ONJUICY, Nakamura Minami, uyumi, SKOLOR, Masayoshi Iimori - “Cho-chocolate drip v2”
Ryuichi Sakamoto - “20220214”
FULL URCHIN - “sundown”
CYBERHACKERSYSTEM - “C0ntr0l”
Oyubi - “¡!¡!bbbbBaadboi¡!¡!”
moreru - “Yuugure Ni Tsutaete”
lilbesh ramko - “i(dont)know”
Honeyworks ft. Chu-tan (CV: Saori Hayami) - “Kawaikute Gomen”
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