Popular Sakura Song Ranking [2025]

This year's cherry blossomsflumpool85rank/position

This year's cherry blossoms

It’s a classic filled with warm cheers for those leaving their hometowns and taking a new step, a beautiful song that naturally stirs a positive mindset.

Released on the December 2009 album “What’s flumpool!?”, it was also used as the opening theme for “Minna no Koshien.” Created as an answer song to their debut track “Hana ni Nare,” this piece has comforted many as an anthem of support for the season of departures.

As spring arrives—whether you’re starting a new chapter in life or striving toward new goals—it will give you a strong push forward.

Have the plums bloomed? Are the cherry blossoms not yet?Metis86rank/position

Metis / Has the plum blossomed? Is the cherry blossom not yet?

A single released in 2007.

Born in 1984, a singer-songwriter from Hiroshima Prefecture.

This was their first single after making a major-label debut.

Centered around the lyric phrase “The cherry blossoms will bloom,” it spread by word of mouth—particularly among students preparing for entrance exams—as a so-called “success/entrance exam song,” and became a hit.

Thunder Sakura feat. 9Lana, SAKURAmotiMAISONdes87rank/position

Urusei Yatsura Season 2 Ending Full – Raiou by MAISONdes feat. 9Lana, SAKURAmoti

MAISONdes presents a heartwarming song that paints thunder heralding the arrival of spring and fluttering cherry blossoms.

Its melody evokes the feeling of strolling down a cherry-lined path bathed in gentle sunlight, layered with 9Lana’s translucent vocals to express the tender act of cherishing memories with someone dear.

The lyrics, which delicately depict the wish to treasure ordinary moments as well as the bittersweetness and joy felt with spring’s arrival, resonate deeply.

Chosen as the ending theme for the third cour of the anime Urusei Yatsura, currently airing on Fuji TV’s Noitamina block since January 2024, it matches the coming-of-age story beautifully.

It’s a wonderful track you’ll want to bring along on a springtime drive.

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Daiki Ueno / “Zawameki” Music Video

Daiki Ueno’s music delicately portrays the joy, anxiety, and anticipation that come with the arrival of spring.

The warm tones of acoustic guitar and cello gently resonate with the listener’s heart.

The song is included on the album Shinryoku, released in April 2023, and was also chosen as the theme song for TV Tokyo and BS TV Tokyo’s late-night drama “Konkatsu Shokudo.” It’s a heartwarming track you’ll want to listen to in the spring season, especially recommended for those who have experienced new encounters or farewells during the cherry blossom season.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue [Official Music Video] [HD UPGRADE]

A gem of a song woven by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who experienced drug dependence and conflicts in human relationships, infused with hope for rebirth.

Included on the album Californication, released in June 1999, it peaked at No.

9 on the Billboard Hot 100.

With lyrics that symbolize emotional scars and John Frusciante’s striking slide guitar, it’s a melodious and emotional track.

Loved by many listeners as healing music, this work resonates with those who have overcome past hardships and are trying to take a new step forward.

My Past Life, Many Lifetimes AgoRADWIMPS90rank/position

RADWIMPS – Zenzenzense (movie ver.) [Official Music Video]

One song, Zenzenzense, was written specifically as an insert song for director Makoto Shinkai’s film Your Name and is included on the soundtrack RADWIMPS released in 2016.

With over 200 million views on the official music video, it’s a love song many of you surely know! While the track might feel more like summer than spring, listening to it beneath the springtime cherry blossoms will still make those feelings of love swell! Who knows—you might even have a fateful encounter.

That’s the kind of song it is.

Its sense of speed is outstanding, so definitely give it a listen!

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Gen Hoshino – Koi (Official Video)

Gen Hoshino’s smash hit song “Koi.” It was the theme song for the 2016 TV drama “We Married as a Job” (Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu), in which Hoshino himself appeared.

The “Koi Dance,” performed by the cast in the ending sequence, became a huge craze and is beloved by people of all ages, from kids to adults.

In 2021, a New Year’s special sequel of the drama aired, where the Koi Dance was performed again with some new choreography added.

It’s a song that makes your heart want to dance no matter the season, but if you listen to it in spring when a new chapter of life begins, it might lift your spirits and make you think, “Maybe I’ll try falling in love again!”