[Valentine’s Heartbreak Songs] Masterpieces and Popular Tracks to Heal a Wounded Heart

forget-me-notAwesome City Club

Awesome City Club / Wasurena (MUSIC VIDEO)

This is a signature song by Awesome City Club, created as an inspired piece for the film “We Made a Beautiful Bouquet.” The harmonies woven by the male-female twin vocals beautifully portray the heartbreak of a love that has ended, along with the hope of facing forward while holding onto the memories.

Many listeners will likely be moved by the protagonist, who does not forget a past love yet takes a new step forward.

Released for early streaming in January 2021, it quickly became a sensation and has surpassed 300 million streams.

On a Valentine’s night marked by tears over an unrequited love, let this song gently accompany your heart and warm you like a flower waiting for spring.

BAD LOVEHANA

HANA / BAD LOVE -Music Video-

“I believed in you, but you betrayed me.” “It’s precisely because I loved you so much that I can’t forgive you.” There are nights when you’re shaken by such fierce emotions.

With members JISOO and MOMOKA contributing to the lyrics, this work portrays a struggle where love and hate are intertwined.

The vocals riding on the intense beats of rock and drum & bass carry a force that seems to speak for a wounded heart.

Released in September 2025, it also drew attention as a commercial tie-in song.

It’s a track we especially want those who spent a bittersweet Valentine’s Day—one that couldn’t end with only sweet memories—to hear.

Why not let all your anger and sadness out and transform them into the energy you need to look forward?

an unrelated personKaneyori Masaru

Kaneyori Masaru “A Person Who Has Nothing to Do (with Me/Us)” MV

Even though they should no longer have anything to do with me, I just can’t get them out of my head.

Kaneyori Masaru’s “Kankei no Nai Hito” vividly portrays lingering attachment to a finished love, obsession, and even self-loathing.

Released in April 2022, the song was originally available only as a demo recording, but it gained attention on social media and was officially distributed.

Chitose Mina’s diary-like, unadorned words and her fragile yet powerful vocals express those untidy emotions just as they are, making your chest tighten.

I especially want people who got their hearts broken on Valentine’s Day and are suffering alone while trying to force themselves to forget to listen to it.

By sharing the pain, you might come to forgive your own weaknesses.

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Shayteop - Room (Official Music Video)

Songs by Shitope that you’ll want to listen to on nights when you don’t want to sleep yet, under a quiet light.

They vividly portray lingering feelings for an ex and the regret of “if only I hadn’t let go then.” True to the story that vocalist So Sasaki created the song in tears based on his own experience, it carries a heartbreaking, chest-tightening sorrow.

Released in June 2022 as their first single, it was later included on the album “Hors d’oeuvre.” The unadorned, simple sound and the gentle voice that resonates close to your ear seep deeply into a lonely heart.

It’s a ballad that gently stays by your side on nights when you worked up the courage for Valentine’s but your feelings didn’t reach them, or when you can’t move on because there’s someone you can’t forget.

I love you, I love you, I love youKōda Kumi

Kumi Koda / I love you, I love you, I love you.

This is a gem of a ballad by Kumi Koda, delivering overflowing, passionate love straight through the lyrics.

The repeated lines expressing an irresistible longing for someone seep gently and deeply even into hearts wounded by heartbreak.

Released as a single in September 2010, it became widely known as the TV commercial song for Kracie’s Ichikami at the time.

It was issued as a double A-side along with the NHK drama “Second Virgin” theme song, and later included on the album “Dejavu.” On a Valentine’s night in tears over a love that won’t reach the one you yearn for, why not let your overflowing feelings resonate with this song? It’s a track that makes you believe that the memory of truly loving someone will one day make you stronger.

Goodbye, my beloved.Hana＊Hana

Hana*Hana “Goodbye, My Beloved”

Parting with someone you love is painful, but it comes to everyone.

This work by Hana*Hana was written by member Izumi Kojima based on her feelings for her grandfather, who passed away when she was 16, and it’s a ballad that resonates with the heart through a very personal farewell.

Released as a single in October 2000, it became widely known as the theme song for the drama “Oyaji,” starring Masakazu Tamura.

Its warm, piano-centered sound will gently wrap your wounded heart.

Give it a listen on a Valentine’s night when a confession didn’t go well, or when you want to let go of your feelings.

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Aimyon - Bleach [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO (Short ver.)]

Bleach by Aimyon, which was chosen as the theme song for the film “Ren’ai Kitanshu” (Love Anecdotes), is a love song with a narrative arc: someone who believed they would never fall in love does so, learns to love, and then experiences heartbreak.

It’s a song that brings back memories of someone you loved—one that will move anyone nursing a broken heart to tears.

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