[Text list] This Side of Japan's Top 100 Japanese Songs of 2021
Listing the year's best from Gen Hoshino, Hitsujibungaku, Hakushi Hasegawa and more
Here is the text list of This Side of Japan’s top 100 songs of 2021. (Idol songs get a separate list!) You can return to the main feature here. You can also check out this list as a Spotify playlist.
Gen Hoshino - “FUSHIGI”
STUTS & Takako Matsu with 3exes ft. T-Pablow, Daichi Yamamoto, NENE, BIM, KID FRESINO - “Presence (Remix)”
Hikaru Utada - “One Last Kiss”
TAKU INOUE & Suisei Hoshimachi - “Sanji Juunifun”
HallKariMaako - “TERMINAL”
STARRY PLANET - “Kirari Party Time”
For Tracy Hyde - “Interdependence Day (Part I)”
Dr.Anon - “Blast”
Ado - “Odo”
mitsume - “Fiction”
Kudaranai1nichi -”I Guess So”
Ai Furihata - “Ushirogami Hikarete”
DIALOGUE+ - “Ayafuwa Asterisk”
Riho Sayashi - “Find Me Out”
adieu - “Tenshi”
Kabanagu - “Iidake”
Yakichikasaku/men - “Move”
Mamana - “mid seventeen”
millennium parade & Belle - “U”
Kayoko Yoshizawa - “Shishu”
NTsKi - “Misty”
TUYU - “Damonisch”
STARKIDS ft. EDWARD(Me), rirugiliyangugili, Yokai Jaki - “KUJYO CYPHER”
phritz, hirihiri, Amane Uyama, Kabanagu - “all night”
Hitsujibungaku - “Mayoiga”
Smewthie - “bitter sweet darling”
Ayano Kaneko - “Houyo”
Layla - “Flyaway!”
hirihiri & Yaca - “power!”
LiSA - “Another Great Day!!”
Pasocom Music Club ft. Moto Kawabe & unmo - “Uminari”
SaToA - “Yuuka na Kimie”
Hakushi Hasegawa - “Look at Me”
sunsetinfall - “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
Nana Mori - “Shinkai”
Tohji, Loota & Brondiski - “Iron D**k”
I.P.U. - “Transition”
Erika Nishi & PARKGOLF - “PINK”
JYOCHO - “Gather the Lights”
AAAMYYY - “TAKES TIME”
Dizzy Sunfist - “Andy”
LEX, Only U, Yung sticky wom - “STRANGER”
Subway Daydream - “Teddy Bear”
samayuzame - “Ruirui”
Sound’s Deli - “DAWG LIFE FREESTYLE”
Hi,how are you - “Natsukaze Date”
Homecomings - “Here”
Taichi Mukai - “Celebrate!”
Leo Ieiri - “Sora To Ao”
Fujii Kaze - “Tabiji”
Regal Lily - “Tokyo”
Sumire Uesaka - “Seikatsu Konkyuu Dame Dinero”
PEARL CENTER - “Alright”
The Traveling Theory - “Insurance”
harmoe - “Kimagure Ticktack”
Ohzora Kimishima - “Mukougami”
kZm - “Aquarius Heaven”
Kana Hanazawa - “magical mode”
ako - “bye”
Haiki - “Hajime No Ippo”
aiko - “Jishaku”
Tempalay - “Shingo”
My Lucky Day - “Sunny day Highway”
HARETOKIDOKI - “Don’t Stop the Eurobeat (DE DE MOUSE Remix)”
yonige - “Taigan No Kanojo”
AIMI - “ReSTARTING!!”
eill - “hikari”
ASA Wu - “Bloomer”
Toko Miura - “Tsuukaten”
Soshi Takeda - “Floating Mountains”
Denonbu ft. Masayoshii Iimori - “Let Me Know”
JJJ ft. Benjazzy - “Cyberpunk”
Nariaki Obukuro - “Work”
TORiENA - “C.Q.C.”
PuniPuniDenki x Yohji Igarashi - “Deeper”
DONGURIZU - “E-jan”
SARA-J - “How We Gonna”
BIM & VaVa - “Fruit Juice”
tonari no hanako - “Late Spring, Sunny”
S.L.N.M. - “GENT”
ano - “SWEETSIDE SUICIDE”
She Her Her Hers - “silver rain”
Split End - “TEENAGER”
Northern19 - “MOVE ON”
Neibiss - “Chameleon”
MAISONdes ft. OOO & Kujira - “Hontou Wa Yoru No Hashimade,”
CVLTE - “wasted times.”
AprilBlue - “Seaside”
Paraiso - “Biriyani”
JUBEE ft. HIYADAM - “Mess”
KUNG-FU GIRL - “rabuka”
Umeda Cypher ft. OSCA, KennyDoes, KOPERU, ILL SWAG GAGA, Funk, Taurin, TAKE-M - “Big Jumbo Jet”
HEAVEN ft. aryy, Lil Soft Tennis - “BOLT”
rira - “Are You Ready”
Genie High ft. CHANMINA - “Kasha Na Lip”
Nanaka Suwa - “Cobalt No Kodou”
SonoSheet - “Epilogue”
Miku Itoi - “No. 6”
Eiko Ishibashi - “Drive My Car (Kafuku)”
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