Ayumi Hamasaki’s Most Moving Songs and Popular Tracks Ranking [2026]

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Ayumi Hamasaki / SEASONS (Short Ver.)

Ayumi Hamasaki’s 16th single, released in June 2000.

It was the theme song for Fuji TV’s Monday 9 p.m.

drama “The Lovers’ Weather Forecast.” The song carries a message that amid the ever-turning seasons, there are joyful days and days so sad they bring you to tears, but a day will come when you can smile again.

Its bittersweet yet catchy melody resonated widely, reaching No.

1 on the Oricon Weekly Chart and selling a total of 1.367 million copies.

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Ayumi Hamasaki / Who… [Live Lyric Video] [from “A BEST -15th Anniversary Edition-”]

It’s a song included on Ayumi Hamasaki’s second original album, “LOVEppears,” released in 1999.

Used as the theme song for the film “Moon,” it is often performed at the end of Ayumi Hamasaki’s concerts.

It seems to be sung with fans, family, and loved ones in mind, making it a masterpiece through which you can directly feel Ayumi Hamasaki’s emotions.

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Ayumi Hamasaki – End roll

This song has also been used in many commercials.

While looking back on a love that has ended, it also conveys a resolve to keep walking alone—a song that, despite its sadness, exudes strength.

It’s definitely a track to listen to when you’re trying to move on from a heartbreak.

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A Song Is Born [ME SINGING]

Released in 2001 as a duet single by Ayumi Hamasaki and KEIKO from globe.

In response to the September 11 attacks in the United States, it was released as the first single of songnation, a charity project launched by Tetsuya Komuro and Masato Matsuura.

The song conveys the sorrow of history repeating itself and the preciousness of life.

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Ayumi Hamasaki / CAROLS (Short Ver.)

This is a ballad that portrays feelings of love alongside winter scenery.

It was released in September 2004 as Ayumi Hamasaki’s 34th single.

The song was used in a commercial for Panasonic’s LUMIX FX7 digital camera.

The lyrics crafted by Hamasaki are imbued with precious memories shared with a lover and hopes for the future, resonating deeply.

They sing of the bashful mood on the day they first met and the tenderness that grows as the relationship deepens.

If you listen to it while spending Christmas with your partner, it might make you cherish them even more.

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Ayumi Hamasaki / Dearest

A singer-songwriter who reigned at the pinnacle of the J-POP scene as a “charismatic icon for high school girls,” Ayumi Hamasaki released her 24th single in September 2001.

Widely beloved as the ending theme for the TV anime Inuyasha and as a song for Tu-Ka commercials, it is a renowned ballad that won the 43rd Japan Record Award.

Set to a grand melody woven by piano and strings, the lyrics convey a heartfelt resolve to accept parting and loss while continuing to wish for the other person’s happiness.

It’s a gem of a number you’ll want to listen to while thinking of someone dear, as the season begins to carry a hint of winter.

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Ayumi Hamasaki / Duty (10.28 Release ARENA TOUR 2015 A Cirque de Minuit ~Midnight Circus~ The FINAL)

It is the song of the same name included on Ayumi Hamasaki’s third original album, “Duty,” released in 2000.

It was used as the theme song for the Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic commercial.

The lyrics resonate as if sensing the end of an era.