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My Top 100 Popular Japanese Songs From the 1980s

Throughout the past few years of being into J-Pop and anime songs, l've found myself looking at what's popular in Japan on charts like Spotify and iTunes for recommendations, so my pallet of J-Pop/J-Rock is a bit rooted in the mainstream, but I got curious as to how much popular stuff I really like, so I made it a goal to go through different decades of J-Pop's history by selecting the biggest hits of each year and ranking them, starting with the 2010s (a few videos ago) as it would get me started with pretty familiar ground. I tried to select at most less than 20 songs per year, but closer to 13-15 songs narrowed down by Oricon rankings, RIAJ status, YouTube views and Spotify streams. And this is it! The final video of this ranking series on my channel! (I am not doing 70s J-Pop lmao) This has been such an interesting journey and arguably there’s some songs that I missed but I’ve now listened to a good chunk of the most popular J-Pop songs since 1980. Now how was this decade? Honestly pretty solid. The 80s are definitely a decade that people hold to a high regard in terms of music but would I say the same for specifically Japanese music? This era is definitely quite a bit detached from my bread and butter but there still was a lot of great stuff and I’ve become quite fond of city pop. I listened to Anri’s album Timely for another ranking I have coming up and it has become one of my all time favorite albums. That being said anytime an enka song came up I couldn’t stand it tbh. There was one song actually that, while enka, was still relatively tame and fine but it didn’t make the list (I think it was a Takashi Hosokawa song from 1982), but the rest of the enka stuff really wasn’t for me. It’s interesting to see tho how many artists I used to see as boomer artists now have songs I regularly come back to, like Tatsuro Yamashita with RIDE ON TIME, TUBE with Season in the Sun, Akina Nakamori with Kiita Wing, THE ALFEE with Hoshizora no Distance, hell even Johnny’s groups had some bangers in the 80s. And aside from the enka stuff, most of the stuff I listened to sounded pretty fine and that made making this list a little difficult, but I’m glad I was able to make it work. The one thing I will say is that people talk about how much more soulful music was back in the 80s-90s and while there definitely are some banging soulful tracks like I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS and Kiita Wing, I feel like immersing yourself in everything that came out in the decade kinda takes away from that magic when there were similar sounding songs then just as there are now. Unrelated to the songs themselves, but I only used cover art for this ranking as opposed to the MVs because I think most of the songs don’t have regular MVs anyways. Looking at the covers tho, I feel like unfortunately a lot of them look very similar, just like a front profile shot of the singer. It was when I saw the cover for Shanels’ Runaway tho that I realized that unfortunately Masayuki Suzuki did blackface back in the 80s. Really sad to see tbh cuz his songs are pretty good imo, and I can separate the art from the artist, but it still sucks. Along with this, I will also be reuploading all of my previous videos from this series as there have been a lot of mutes in the current uploads due to copyright, and I will also do a top 50 video for the half decade 2020-2024. I’m also going to soon have a doc that I put in the description with all of the songs I used for each year if anyone cares and also in case there’s any songs that people think I should’ve included that I didn’t