Breakup songs to listen to at Christmas: timeless tracks to soothe your time alone
Introducing heartbreak songs you’ll want to listen to at Christmas!
Christmas comes once a year.
Some people spend a wonderful holiday with their partner, while others find themselves alone for various reasons—like not being able to see the person they like or having broken up with their significant other.
In this article, we’ve gathered songs about Christmas heartbreak: tracks that will make you cry and songs that keep you company during solo time.
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Heartbreak songs to listen to at Christmas: timeless tracks to soothe your solo time (21–30)
LAST CHRISTMASEXILE
“Last Christmas,” Wham!’s signature song and a staple of Western Christmas music, is a classic that has been covered by artists around the world—and EXILE also covered it in 2008.
Their version features newly written Japanese lyrics, showcasing the sweet vocals of ATSUSHI and TAKAHIRO in a way you can really savor.
Both the original and EXILE’s cover have a sparkling, festive Christmas sound, yet the lyrics tell a poignant story of a past love.
The contrast between the bright melody and the bittersweet words actually serves to heighten the song’s sense of melancholy.
Because I fell in loveaimyon
The fun of being in love, the thrill that makes you float over the smallest things.
And on the flip side, the feelings of deep anxiety.
This song, packed tight with those emotions of being in love—Aimyon’s “Koi wo Shita Kara” (Because I Fell in Love).
It’s included on her second album, “Momentary Sixth Sense,” released in 2019.
It’s a moving song that makes you quietly realize that things which might seem trivial from an objective viewpoint can look completely different just because you’re in love—and that it’s precisely because you fell in love that you came to know those feelings.
Christmas Eve feat. AISHADōji-T
This is a pop song that recalls the happy Christmas he spent with her last year, and now, disgusted with the version of himself who’s become helpless without her, it sings of melancholy feelings.
Released on December 1, 2010, it’s a track included on his fifth major album at the time, GOLD.
Featuring AISHA, an R&B singer known for breakup songs, it vividly portrays the push-and-pull of romance.
Silent NightWHITE JAM
“Silent night” is WHITE JAM’s heartbreak song.
It features male vocals, female vocals, and a rap part by the trio, with each voice blending exquisitely.
When you suddenly feel lonely amid the Christmas bustle, give this track a listen—it’s sure to soothe your heart.
It doesn’t have to be on Christmas Day.Yuika
Released in December 2024 by singer-songwriter Yuika, born in 2005, this work is a mid-tempo number that captures the aching desire to meet someone—without insisting on Christmas Day itself.
Interweaving nighttime scenes glittering with illuminations and everyday details like slipping a pocket warmer into her coat for cold hands, it tenderly portrays a heroine’s earnest feelings as she longs to close the distance yet can’t take that final step.
The string arrangement by Takahiro Onagawa blends with Yuika’s crystal-clear vocals, gently enveloping the bittersweetness of a winter night.
It’s a Reiwa-era Christmas song perfect for those who relate to spending the holy night alone, or who want to pass a quiet moment thinking of an unrequited love.
DEAR…againHirose Kōmi
Kohmi Hirose’s “DEAR…again,” released in 1996, is a bittersweet Christmas song about waiting for a lover to return.
The lyrics, from a woman’s perspective, express repeated wishes for him to come back.
If you can’t forget an ex or just can’t move on to a new love, having a good cry to this song might help you feel refreshed.
A Lonely ChristmasASIA ENGINEER
ASIA ENGINEER is a four-member hip-hop-style vocal group that made their major-label debut in 2005 but went on hiatus seven years later.
Their words flow to the rhythm of rap, and even if you don’t fully grasp the lyrics, the tightly synchronized vocal technique of the four members in “A Lonely Merry Christmas” conveys a sense of loneliness and melancholy—yet still leaves you thinking, Next Christmas will be better! It’s a highly recommended track, especially for anyone currently spending the holidays solo.
