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[Carefully Selected] Popular Love Songs: Recommended Romance Tracks

Love songs that give you courage or ease your pain when you’re in love.

Haven’t you listened to them at least once while you were in love? Love songs often portray strong feelings and emotions toward someone you like, so when something resonates with your own feelings, you end up empathizing and getting absorbed in the music without even realizing it.

In this article, we’ve selected the perfect love songs for you—whether you’re looking for recommended tracks, popular love songs everyone’s listening to, or love songs by trending artists.

Be sure to give them a listen!

[Carefully Selected] Popular Love Songs: Recommended Romance Tracks (301–310)

TearsX JAPAN

X Japan – Tears (single)
TearsX JAPAN

“Tears” is X JAPAN’s biggest hit and is said to have been the song HIDE loved the most.

YOSHIKI, who wrote the lyrics and composed the music, revealed that he created it in memory of his late father.

When it was used as an insert song in the Korean film “Windstruck” starring Jun Ji-hyun, it became a major talking point because it was the first Japanese-language song to be used in a South Korean film after the lifting of restrictions on Japanese culture.

Right away…azu

Released in 2009 as AZU’s fifth single.

The lyrics were written by AZU, and it has become one of her signature songs.

The lyrics express feelings overflowing with love—missing him when thinking about him and wanting to see him upon hearing his voice.

Together foreverKobukuro

Kobukuro - Together for Eternity
Together foreverKobukuro

It was released in 2004 as Kobukuro’s 10th single.

The song was written by member Kentaro Kobuchi to sing at a friend’s wedding, and it drew attention when Tomonori Jinnai performed it as a piano-and-vocal piece at his wedding reception with Norika Fujiwara.

The lyrics are filled with many aspects of sharing a life together as a couple, and it’s a moving song that stirs feelings for someone dear.

cherrysupittsu

This is Spitz’s 13th single, a song created with the image of a new departure.

Despite having no tie-in, it became a major hit and sold over a million copies.

The title “Cherry” carries the image of breaking free from everything and setting out, inspired by cherry blossoms being flowers that bloom in spring.

dogwood (flowering dogwood)Hitoto Yo

It is said that these lyrics were written in about a week, prompted by an email from a friend who was actually in New York during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

Initially, words like “terror” and “shotgun” appeared, and according to Yo Hitoto, the lyrics were provocative, but they were later pared down to arrive at the current version.

It became a major hit.

Snow BlossomNakajima Mika

Mika Nakashima 'Yuki no Hana' Music Video
Snow BlossomNakajima Mika

As you might expect from the title, this is a popular song often listened to in winter.

At Mika Nakashima’s request, the music video was reportedly filmed in a studio at below 0 degrees Celsius.

Chosen as the theme song for a KBS drama, it became a huge hit in South Korea and has been covered not only by Japanese artists but also by many artists across Korea and other parts of Asia.

planetariumOtsuka Ai

Planetarium – Ai Otsuka (Full)
planetariumOtsuka Ai

Ai Otsuka’s 10th single debuted at number one on the Oricon charts.

It’s also known as the image song for the smash-hit TV drama “Hana Yori Dango” starring Mao Inoue, and as a song that poignantly expresses the pain of young love, it enjoyed immense popularity at the time, especially among junior high and high school students.

It is said to be a song she created during her junior college years.