Western music rankings popular among women [2025]

California Dreamin’The Mamas & The Papas99rank/position

The Mamas & the Papas – California Dreamin’

A representative song by the folk group The Mamas & the Papas, active in the 1960s, whose introduction alone will make many people think, “How nostalgic!” Listening again now, the slightly wistful melody line and lyrics make it feel as though this song—which should also be a flagship of the peace movement they championed at the time—was already foreseeing the flower movement, bordering on illusion, and the hippie culture sliding into decadence; it’s melancholy.

Because the parts are easy to divide, I’d like to sing it while playing the tambourine, filled with a sense of nostalgia.

Yesterday Once MoreCarpenters100rank/position

Yesterday Once More

Like a radio show we once listened to with rapt attention, this Carpenters song awakens sweet-and-sour memories.

It portrays a protagonist who reunites with songs that were as precious as an old romance and finds themselves humming their melodies.

Karen Carpenter’s warm yet faintly wistful voice stirs a nostalgia for a glittering era and fills the heart, doesn’t it? Released in May 1973, the track’s popularity is evident from its peak at No.

2 on the U.

S.

Billboard Hot 100.

On the album Now & Then, it’s also used effectively as an introduction to the oldies medley.

On a slightly sentimental holiday afternoon, why not listen to it while gazing at your photo memories?