[Carefully Selected] Popular Love Songs: Recommended Romance Tracks

remainingYoshizawa Kayoko

Kayoko Yoshizawa 'Left Behind' MUSIC VIDEO

A ballad set in the season from summer into autumn, featuring a woman left behind as the protagonist.

It was performed live before being officially recorded, and the studio release came to life thanks to passionate fan requests.

Anyone who listens can become the protagonist and project their own love onto the story.

It’s perfect for the end of summer, when the air starts to cool.

Be sure to add it to your ballad playlist.

If this song comes on unexpectedly, you’ll fully feel the changing of the seasons.

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MissingKubota Toshinobu

Toshinobu Kubota – Missing [Official Video]

This is an immortal masterpiece included on the first album “SHAKE IT PARADISE,” released in September 1986.

Although it was never released as a single, it’s widely known as one of Toshinobu Kubota’s signature songs.

It portrays a poignant relationship between a man and a woman who are drawn to each other yet can never be together, rendered through a one-of-a-kind, soulful voice.

The more one wishes to forget, the stronger the feelings grow—the searing emotion tightens the listener’s chest.

On a night when your heart is troubled by an unrequited love, why not listen quietly on your own?

AitaiKato Miria

Miliyah Kato - “Aitai”

It’s a heartrending love song about longing for someone who’s looking at somebody else.

Included on the acclaimed 2009 album “Ring,” this fan favorite became a hit with over 700,000 downloads despite not being released as a single.

It also adds deep resonance to the film “Villain” as an in-film track.

Even if I’m not your number one, even if I know I’ll get hurt, it has to be you… That desperate cry from the heart tightens the listener’s chest.

When you fall for someone, reason can’t do a thing about it.

If you’re suffering from an unrequited love, this is a song that will surely stay close to your heart.

Love is…Kato Miria

MILIYAH Kato “Love is…”

The grand ballad inspired by the classical masterpiece Canon delivers a straightforward message—no matter what happens, we’ll stay together—that truly resonates.

Even when loneliness and anxiety make it hard to see ahead, there is someone who will never give up on you and keep supporting you.

It sings of the strength and preciousness of such love and bonds.

Released in June 2007 as Miliyah Kato’s tenth single, the song also served as the ending theme for the anime Toward the Terra.

Its inclusion in the best-of album M BEST II shows how it has continued to be loved over time.

A pledge of eternal love, this work is the ultimate love song—one that makes you want to stay with the person you cherish forever.

Sayonara, baby.Kato Miria

Miliyah Kato 'Sayonara Baby'

This is a bittersweet love song about a heart swaying between true feelings and outward appearances.

She wants to believe his words, yet deep down she doubts them, and still can’t bring herself to end things… You can sense her wavering emotions in the chorus’s back-and-forth between the man and woman.

The track is a work by singer-songwriter Miliyah Kato, released in September 2008 as her 13th single.

Its arrangement is striking, unfolding from a wistful piano intro into a danceable four-on-the-floor sound.

The song is also included on the acclaimed album “Ring.” When you’re unsure of the other person’s feelings and don’t know what to do, listening to this might resonate with your complicated state of mind.

My StarEXILE

EXILE / My Star (Lyric Video)

Here is the third song in the six-month continuous release project “EXILE FRIDAY”: “My Star.” It’s a supreme love ballad that vows eternal love, expressing deep feelings for someone special.

It’s a moving song that makes you want to look up at the night sky as you listen.

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Sukima Switch – “Kanade” Music Video : SUKIMASWITCH / KANADE Music Video

This is Sukima Switch’s second single, released a full eight months after their debut single.

In response to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, a studio performance video was uploaded to YouTube by the duo themselves.

The lyrics, which sing about parting from a loved one, are heartbreaking.