Yumi Matsutoya Popular Songs Ranking [2026]

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Yumi Matsutoya – Once in Infinity (YUMING SPECTACLE SHANGRILA 1999)

“Once in Infinity,” the first track on Yumi Matsutoya’s 24th album TEARS AND REASONS, released on November 27, 1992, was also featured in a Kirin Lager Beer commercial.

Perhaps because of that, it has a slightly beer-tinged atmosphere—an adult love song.

The lyrics portray the passion and poignancy of love, where you give it your all even though you knew how it would end, and the song carries a gentle, mature air—an adult-tinged track through and through.

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Yumi Matsutoya – Setsugetsuka

A soul-stirring ballad interwoven with winter’s stillness and a distinctly Japanese sense of beauty.

Sung by Yumi Matsutoya—affectionately known as Yuming—the song features delicate lyrics that seem to let past memories and the present intersect, offering deep comfort to listeners.

It is included on her 32nd album, “Wings of Winter, Shades of Summer,” released in November 2002, and was also used as the theme for NHK’s program “NHK Television 50 Years: I Want to Meet That Person.” There’s an anecdote that during production, the producer instructed her to “write lots of ballads,” and after many songs were discarded, this piece was finally completed.

It’s a winter classic you’ll want to hear when quietly revisiting memories alone at night.