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Ranking of Japanese Male Singers’ CM Songs, Commercials, and Popular Tracks [2025] When you’re watching TV, sometimes a commercial jingle suddenly grabs your attention, doesn’t it?
Like, “Wait! That was such a great song—what was it?!”
They’re often so short that you can’t even tell the song title or who the singer is.
Commercial songs tend to feature lots of catchy, memorable tracks, so they might be a treasure trove of popular and great music.
Here, we introduce a ranking of CM songs, commercials, and popular tracks by Japanese male artists.
You might find a song that’s been on your mind—or discover a great new one!
Table of Contents Ranking of Japanese Male Singers’ CM Songs, Commercials, and Popular Tracks [2025] Night of Osmanthus Mushroom Empire White Lovers Keisuke Kuwata Season of Love Naoto Inti Raymi Go The Distance DEAN FUJIOKA MELROSE ~A Promise Not to Love~ EXILE ATSUSHI Love Story EXILE TAKAHIRO SOCIAL VIRUS Hyde Love will win KAN Summertime RIRI, KEIJU, Nariaki Obukuro Fire◎Flower halyosy Kanda River Princess Kaguya We are! Hiroshi Kitadani California coconuts kururi From the North Country ~From the Distant Land~ Hotaru’s Theme Masashi Sada Lotto Theme Koichi Sugiyama Overture Koichi Sugiyama As long as the sun is in the sky Akira Nishikino Like tonight’s moon Elephant Kashimashi Our Tomorrow Elephant Kashimashi I can’t put it into words Of course IT’S MY Courage Kimaguren MEGA SHAKE IT! Kyuso Nekokami Romance overflows Girl of Extreme Vulgarity It’s not me unless it’s me Girl of Extreme Vulgarity Million Films Kobukuro the red thread Kobukuro weathercock Kobukuro Baton Kobukuro Effeminate; overly sentimental; being clingy/whiny (context-dependent) Golden Bomber years Sakanaction aruku around Sakanaction plateau Sakanaction Maybe the wind. Sakanaction kaiju (giant monster) Sakanaction Please, Time Machine Sadistic Mika Band I’ve gotta do the thing that seems impossible. Sambomaster Shine a light on me so much that it leaves me bewildered. Sambomaster Blitzkrieg Bop The Cro-Magnons Number one punk! The Cro-Magnons What a nice bath. The Drifters Sounds good, let’s make it awesome! The High-Lows So it’s summer. The High-Lows Fun Fun Christmas Che’Nelle × TEE × LEO light Straightener × Motohiro Hata the last day of the month Spitz Stargazer Spitz Maple Spitz Nagisa Spitz Beautiful fin Spitz Magic Words Spitz Yoko of the Port, Yokohama, Yokosuka Down Town Boogie Woogie Band Lullaby of a Serrated Heart The Checkers Journey of the Heart Tulip LG21 March Tortoise Matsumoto, Aoi Miyazaki (the character for Saki is a substitute form) Treasure ~Until This Voice Fades Away~ Naoto Inti Raymi I won’t forget who you are now. Naoto Inti Raymi To say goodbye Billy BanBan For now, just like this. Billy BanBan Half-baked star Funky Kato School Heaven Finger Five Morning of Parting Pedro & Capricious Hungry Pride Maximum the Hormone Premeditated revenge Maximum the Hormone Forewarning and Revenge (Nissin Yakisoba U.F.O. Parody Version) Maximum the Hormone energy flow Ryuichi Sakamoto Easy★Rider Tamio Okuda The wind is from the west. Tamio Okuda With a fiery heart Akira Kobayashi Until we meet again Kiyohiko Ozaki Eyes On You Masayoshi Yamazaki One more time,One more chance Masayoshi Yamazaki Over the Rainbow Masayoshi Yamazaki Updraft Masayoshi Yamazaki The morning only you know Masayoshi Yamazaki Today, with you Masashi Yamada Stop the night once more Kenjiro Sakiyama In the Great Sky and on the Vast Earth Chiharu Matsuyama Matsuken Samba II Ken Matsudaira Sexual Violet No. 1 Masahiro Kuwana Go for it, baby!! Keisuke Kuwata toad lily [Tricyrtis] Keisuke Kuwata Sad Feelings (Just a Man in Love) Keisuke Kuwata Distant Street Corner (The Wanderin’ Street) Keisuke Kuwata youth Koichi Morita and Top Gallant Tsuppari High School Rock’n Roll (Going-to-School Version) Yokohama Ginbae Voice of the Sea Urashima Taro (Kenta Kiritani) countryside Koji Tamaki Time, stop. Eikichi Yazawa IT’S ONLY LOVE Masaharu Fukuyama Let me live so that flowers will bloom again and again. Masaharu Fukuyama Let’s become a family Masaharu Fukuyama boy Masaharu Fukuyama lover Masaharu Fukuyama dearest Masaharu Fukuyama Sakurazaka Masaharu Fukuyama Heart Up Ayaka & Daichi Miura WINDING ROAD Ayaka × Kobukuro Tomorrow will surely be a good day. Yu Takahashi Fukuwarai (a traditional Japanese “lucky laugh” face-making game) Yu Takahashi Eternal, unchanging love Tetsuro Oda play_arrow Play in playlist2025 Ranking of Commercial Songs and Popular Tracks by Male Japanese Artists (1–10) Night of Osmanthus Mushroom Empire 1rank/position A SUUMO commercial packed with all sorts of “firsts,” starring Moka Kamishiraishi.
From her first time living alone to the many first experiences that come with it, the ad is exciting for viewers to watch.
The commercial song features Kinoko Teikoku’s “Kinmokusei no Yoru.”
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White Lovers Keisuke Kuwata 2rank/position It is a lyrical ballad that depicts the bittersweet feelings of love in winter.
Released in October 2001, it is a work by Keisuke Kuwata themed around the winter season.
Rather than simply mourning a love that has passed, it also carries a sense of celebrating the memories of love, portraying warm emotions alongside scenes of a city blanketed in falling snow.
It was used as the theme song for Coca-Cola’s “No Reason” campaign commercial, and later featured in UNIQLO’s “LifeWear” commercial, earning affection from a wide audience.
It is a heartwarming song to listen to when you want to heal a heart hurt by love or reflect on cherished memories.
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Season of Love Naoto Inti Raymi 3rank/position The song used in the commercial for Kirin Beer’s canned chuhai “Hyoketsu” was “Koisuru Kisetsu” by Japanese singer-songwriter Naoto Inti Raymi.
It brightly and refreshingly portrays the heart-pounding feeling of falling in love, and its catchy, pop vibe seems to match the product’s image.
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Go The Distance DEAN FUJIOKA 4rank/position This commercial features Dean Fujioka and introduces the appeal of the new Golf.
It showcases its strengths in every aspect—exterior, interior, and driver-assistance systems—making it a comprehensive ad that lets you grasp the key features of the new Golf just by watching it.
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MELROSE ~A Promise Not to Love~ EXILE ATSUSHI 5rank/position Released in 2012 as EXILE ATSUSHI’s third single overall.
The song portrays a mature romance about falling in love with someone one must not love, and it was featured in the “Reveur Moist & Gloss” commercial.
It reached No.
2 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.
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Love Story EXILE TAKAHIRO 6rank/position EXILE TAKAHIRO’s second single, “Love Story,” was selected as the commercial song for Samantha Thavasa meets SAMANTHA KINGZ.
The lyrics, which straightforwardly depict a bright future with a loved one, are wonderful.
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SOCIAL VIRUS Hyde 7rank/position This commercial portrays HYDE listening to music with AVIOT’s WA-J1 and TE-J2, expanding into an imaginative world and highlighting the immersive, expansive quality of the sound.
The depiction of the body being enveloped by particles of sound is striking, centering on the sense of immersion in the world of music.
The track that powerfully conveys the realism of that imagery is HYDE’s “SOCIAL VIRUS.” Its fast-paced sound layered with a powerful vocal performance leaves a strong impression, evoking an image of pressing forward with strength.
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