Classic and popular karaoke songs to sing when you’re feeling lonely
Here are some classic and popular songs, recommended by our studio staff, from the ones you’ll find yourself wanting to sing when you feel lonely.
It’s a soothing playlist that feels like it fills the gaps in your heart just by listening.
Karaoke classics and popular songs to sing when you’re feeling lonely (1–10)
So that you can find happinessNEW!kurisu haato
Chris Hart’s songs always warm people’s hearts with his gentle messages.
This particular track is a message song for disaster recovery—dedicated to those working hard to rebuild and to people carrying emotional scars.
Even amid sorrow, it sings of facing forward and of happiness spreading to those around us.
The fact that, after many retakes, they chose the very first, candid vocal take conveys his strong commitment to recovery.
Included on the album “Song for You,” released in March 2014, the piece was created as SoftBank’s support theme for recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
It’s a number that wraps sinking feelings in warmth and gives you the strength to look ahead.
LonelinessMrs. GREEN APPLE
This track, included on the album ANTENNA released in July 2023, squarely asks how we confront loneliness.
It portrays the protagonist’s introspection as they try to take a step forward despite their weakness and sense of stagnation, with lyrics that are striking for the heartbeat that emerges not by rejecting loneliness, but by accepting it.
In live performances, it’s unveiled amid a spectacle of pillars of flame in the darkness, and despite being an album track, it instantly raises the venue’s energy with its commanding presence.
The sound—where dark emotionality coexists with the driving force of dance music—is truly one of a kind.
It’s a song that quietly stays by your side on nights when you want to face yourself or when you want to confirm the feelings deep in your heart.
I like you, but it seems you don’t really like me.back number
A quintessential back number love song that distills the pain of unrequited love right into its title.
It’s a track from the album “Chandelier,” released in December 2015.
With plain, direct lyrics, it draws the gap between a wholehearted devotion to someone and the reality that those feelings don’t reach them.
Even while realizing that your world revolves around that person, you’re not someone special to them—that frustrating ache hits hard.
It’s a song you’ll want to hear if you’re in a one-sided love or struggling because the person you like won’t look your way.
On this blue, blue EarthUehara Azumi
Azumi Uehara’s signature song, which also served as an anime theme.
With a mysterious worldview, it delivers a poignant longing for someone you want to see, carried by an up-tempo beat.
There’s a touch of fantasy, too, and you might start to feel a bit enchanted as you sing along.
You are my friend.Hirai Ken
A masterpiece with Ken Hirai’s voice resonating in your heart! The lyrics are great, of course, and the wistful melody is perfect for lonely moments—definitely worth a listen.
The melody is simple, so even people who aren’t confident singers can sing it well.
It’s a song that will make you want to see your friends.
Let’s smileyonige
This is a song that makes you feel happy, as if your luck might improve just by listening to it.
Since it was used as the CM song for au’s “Santaro Series,” which aired from December 2017, many of you have probably heard it.
This work is a yonige-style cheer song that combines the kindness of saying you don’t have to force a smile with the strength to keep looking forward.
Based on an American folk song, its familiar melody gently soaks into the heart.
When you’re feeling down or low on energy, it will quietly give you a nudge forward—a little charm to carry with you.
It’s fine for now.MIMI
A ballad whose beautiful, heartrending melody and striking piano sound gently stay by your side.
Wrapped in a warm, tender tune, it sings as if offering a quiet hand to someone weary of putting on a brave face.
There are nights when we can’t sleep, unable to accept our failures, setbacks, or our own frailty.
This song encourages you to keep moving forward at your own pace, embracing even past tears as cherished memories.
Released as a single in December 2022, it is also included on the album “When I Embrace the Night.” out in March 2025.
It’s a song to listen to softly when you’re hurting or feel like you’re trying too hard on your own.