[Carefully Selected] Popular Love Songs: Recommended Romance Tracks

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MACO – LOVE

It’s a love song that expresses the feeling that no matter how many relationships you go through, you always feel like it’s your first love with the person you fall for at that moment.

It was released in 2015 as MACO’s debut single.

It’s an irresistible song for women experiencing all aspects of love—the heartache and the tenderness alike.

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Thread – Miyuki Nakajima (Full)

This is a song by singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in 1992, which also became the theme song of a hugely popular TV drama.

It expresses encounters between people and delicate emotions through the metaphor of “threads,” and while it is a love song, it reveals many different forms of love.

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Conton Candy – Fuzzy Navel [Official Video]

Some of you might find that, even knowing it’s a lost cause, you still can’t give up.

Capturing that feeling with a refreshing touch is the song “Fuzzy Navel.” It’s a track released by the next-generation rock band Conton Candy, and it’s also known for going viral on TikTok.

In the song, love is likened to a sweet yet slightly bitter fuzzy navel, and that metaphor contributes to the song’s fresh, uplifting vibe.

As you listen, pay special attention to the resolve expressed at the very end.

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GReeeeN – Kiseki

Released in 2008 as GReeeeN’s seventh single, this song was used as the theme for the high school baseball–themed drama “ROOKIES.” It’s filled with love, celebrating the miracle of meeting and the path the two have walked together, and expressing a wish to keep walking that path side by side.

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MONGOL800 / A Small Love Song

Despite never being released as a single, the song became widely known as a MONGOL800 track and has been covered by various artists, including Rimi Natsukawa and JUJU.

It also drew attention when it was used as an insert song in the TV drama “Operation Love.”

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LOVE BRACE / Tomomi Kahala (live)

It was released in 1996 as Tomomi Kahala’s fourth single.

The song is a single cut from the album of the same name, LOVE BRACE, and was produced by Tetsuya Komuro.

Used as the CM song for DAM in which Komuro appeared, it conveys such deep love for him that it boldly declares one cannot love anyone else this much.

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At That Speed by the brilliant green

This song, used as the theme for the TBS drama “Love Again,” is the brilliant green’s third single.

The lyrics portray the feelings of someone struggling in life as they take a step forward, and it is one of the band’s most popular tracks.