Kenji Sawada Popular Song Rankings [2026]

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Kenji Sawada / Bad Tuning of Love (1980)

After the failure of the work before last, ‘Lonely Wolf,’ the Itoi–Kase duo course-corrected to a second installment featuring quintessentially Julie-style psychedelic hard rock and pop.

He shocked audiences with a performance cradling a dummy skeleton guitar, and when he took off his sunglasses, an uncanny look appeared thanks to colored contact lenses.

With this 30th single, his cumulative single sales surpassed 10 million, making him the fourth act in the history of Japanese popular music to achieve this milestone.

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Kenji Sawada / White Room (1975)

This is the artist’s 15th solo single, released in 1975.

The backing band is the Kenny Wood Orchestra.

It opens with a trumpet solo intro, with the trumpet featured throughout.

Strings and other elements are also used, giving it a dramatic finish.

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Kenji Sawada - Continuing Happiness / The Fortune to a Future

This is a song that was chosen as the image song for the 2002 Nestlé Tsuzuku Shiawase Present campaign.

Kenji Sawada’s powerful yet gentle vocals are deeply moving.

Even after this song’s run ended, the tie-in continued with artists like The Gospellers carrying it on.

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[Chinese-translated lyrics] Kenji Sawada – Reminiscence (1974) Kenji Sawada “Nina”

The tenth single and the second song to reach No.

1 on the Oricon chart.

It can be said to be the first work in which the world of classic foreign films—later often used as a motif—appeared, and it also became a catalyst for turning their gaze overseas.

Winner of the 16th Japan Record Award.