Takahashi Yu’s Most Moving Songs and Popular Tracks Ranking [2026]

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Yu Takahashi “Wonderful Everyday”

While satirizing a modern society that can wear you down, it sings with the hope that surely tomorrow will be wonderful.

The lyrics, which affirm despair and failure, really resonate.

It’s a gentle song that makes you feel you don’t have to push yourself so hard.

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Yu Takahashi “Real-Time Singer-Songwriter” MV

A song by real-time singer-songwriter Yu Takahashi, released in December 2024.

Featured on the album “HAPPY,” it was also used as the commemorative commercial song for the 40th anniversary of Akitakomachi rice.

It strikingly contrasts personal happiness with the complexities of the world, leaving a deep impression on listeners.

Its appeal also lies in a free musicality unconstrained by genre.

Titled with the catchphrase from his debut days, it’s a track that tightly encapsulates Takahashi’s ‘now.’

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Masaki Takahashi “Forget-me-not” Music Video

These are songs by the wonderful singer-songwriter Yu Takahashi, known for inspiring, passionate lyrics like in “Ashita wa Kitto Ii Hi ni Naru” and “Fukuwarai.” It was released digitally in September 2022.

The lyrics, which tenderly evoke thoughts of someone dear and suddenly bring back nostalgic images of your hometown, slowly sink in.

With its gentle melody and warm atmosphere, this track is one of Takahashi’s softest-feeling ballads.

It seems to mirror the winding paths we take and draw out the feelings we’ve been quietly holding, making it a companion to many different moments in life.

Please listen while thinking of someone important to you.

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Sakura No Uta

With the warmth of spring, don’t you sometimes find yourself thinking of old friends? Marking the fifth anniversary of his major debut, the single Yu Takahashi released in March 2016 vividly captures the subtleties of that season.

Its lyrics affirm not only past glories, but even the stubborn realities that don’t go our way and the pain of parting, embracing them as “the beauty of a graceful farewell,” and gently giving listeners a push forward.

The music video, starring Mugi Kadowaki and supervised by film director Hirokazu Kore-eda, became a major talking point; its visuals, like a short film, deepened the song’s world even further.

Even if circumstances change and we grow apart, the message that someday we’ll laugh together again under the same tree will surely resonate deeply with anyone starting a new chapter, whether graduating or transferring to a new post.

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Yu Takahashi “End Roll” MV

A medium-tempo ballad of gratitude and resolve that Takahashi Yu released to mark the major milestone of his 15th anniversary since his major-label debut.

It’s a lead track from the best-of album “Jiyū Gozen,” set for release in December 2025, and it was digitally released in July.

Starting with a quiet piano motif and building powerfully toward the latter half, its structure unfolds like a single film retracing his journey so far.

It’s a work infused with his soul—he even rebuilt it from near completion after deciding, “This isn’t it.”

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Takahashi Yu “Under the Same Sky”

Under the Same Sky, a song by Yu Takahashi, was used as the theme for NHK General’s “Shigoto Hakken-den.” It also drew attention for its music video, which featured footage interviewing an ordinary 64-year-old man.

Takahashi said of the song, “I think ‘Under the Same Sky’ is an anthem for a community of people who aren’t the ones who can do everything.” When things aren’t going well, listening to this song might just bring you to tears.

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Yu Takahashi “Be a Boy”

This is a song by singer-songwriter Yu Takahashi, released digitally in 2011.

It’s included on his first album, “Real-Time Singer-Songwriter.” Chosen as the ending theme for the TBS TV program “Honne Biyori,” the track is a ballad set to piano and cello, delivering a powerful message: “If you can’t find a reason to live right now, it’s fine to come up with one later.” It’s a song I especially want boys in the high school baseball generation to hear.