Southern All Stars Popular Songs Ranking [2026]

TUNAMISazan Ōrusutāzu78rank/position

TSUNAMI by Southern All Stars — Sales: 3 million copies!! Full …so is it OK? ~Full! Karaoke?~ Cover~ TSUNAMI — Southern All Stars

The lyrics are wonderfully bittersweet.

I get an image of feelings for the other person surging like waves.

Not only the lyrics, but the melody also builds slowly, like a tide coming in.

Kuwata’s husky voice, too, feels like it presses right against the heart.

aloeSazan Ōrusutāzu79rank/position

Southern All Stars – Aloe [Official Music Video] Short ver.

A song that opens the album “Budou,” released about nine and a half years after the previous work.

The title “Aloe” doesn’t carry any particular meaning; at the demo stage it was “anyway,” and the rap-like interlude featuring food items was added on a whim—making it a characteristically Southern-style track.

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Southern All Stars – Julia Vanished Into a Dream [Official Music Video]

With its dazzling harpsichord timbre and powerful brass section, the track is stylish, and its melody—reminiscent of a wistful kayōkyoku—feels heartrending.

The lyrics also use many words that evoke Christianity, creating a mystical atmosphere.

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Southern All Stars – Days of Love and Desire [Official Music Video]

Also known as their milestone 50th single, “Ai to Yokubou no Hibi” (“Days of Love and Desire”) made a strong impression as the theme song for the drama “Ōoku: The First Chapter.” True to Southern All Stars’ style, it’s a Latin-influenced track, but it differs notably from their other works in one key way: the lyrics blend English and Japanese.

You’ll even hear some unfamiliar phrases.

If you can pronounce them well, it’ll sound incredibly cool.

By the way, the overall key is low, making it perfect for those who struggle with high notes.

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Southern All Stars – Far Country of the Island of the Gods [Official Music Video]

It’s a song inspired by a trip to Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, and the title directly refers to Ishigaki Island.

The lyrics feature many Okinawa-related words such as “awamori,” “Orion Beer,” and “sanshin,” and the sound of the sanshin also appears in the performance.

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Southern All Stars – With Love to the Fighting Warriors [Official Music Video]

A Southern All Stars number that makes you feel both the light and darkness of modern society.

It was used as the theme song for the film Flying Tire, based on Jun Ikeido’s novel and starring Tomoya Nagase of TOKIO.

The track perfectly fits the film’s story, which is steeped in the irrationality between big corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises.

When we crawl and fight our way through society, perhaps in the end, each person is alone.

We trust and are betrayed, we’re crushed by unfairness, what should exist doesn’t, and what shouldn’t exist does…

For those who fight in solitude within such a society, this song may well be the one that truly delivers love.

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Riding on the Time Machine of the Wind

Set along the Shonan coastline, this work weaves a breezy tale themed around life’s fresh starts.

With vocals by Haru Yoko and lyrics and composition by Keisuke Kuwata, it evokes a pleasant sea breeze alongside specific place names like Kamakura and Enoshima.

The scene of a drive escaping winter’s stagnation toward the seaside town brims with forward-looking energy, as if propelled by a tailwind, beautifully depicting the soothing sound of the waves.

Recorded in March 2025 for the album “THANK YOU SO MUCH,” their first in about ten years, the song was also performed on a nationwide tour.

It’s a perfect track for life’s turning points or whenever you’re ready to embark on a new beginning.