Karaoke service chain DAM has unveiled their most commonly sung songs of 2016, with every single entry hailing from an anime of some sort – though a song from the movie of a famous children’s franchise has easily acquired first place due to the film’s substantial success.
1. Himawari no Yakusoku (Stand By Me Doraemon)
2. Zankoku na Tenshi no Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
3. Sugar Song to Bitter Step (Kekkai Sensen)
4. Let It Go (Frozen)
5. Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari (Monogatari)
6. Zenzenzense (Kimi no Na wa)
7. Lion (Macross Frontier)
8. RPG (Crayon Shin-chan: Very Tasty! B-class Gourmet Survival!!)
9. Hanamaru Pippi wa Yoi Ko dake (Osomatsu-san)
10. Single Bed (DNA2)
11. Butter-Fly (Digimon Adventure)
12. Touch (Touch)
13. God knows… (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
14. Sousei no Aquarion (Aquarion)
15. Kokoro e (Major)
16. Sekai ga Owaru Made wa… (Slam Dunk)
17. unravel (Tokyo Goul)
18. only my railgun (To Aru Kagaku no Railgun)
19. Love is an Open Door (Frozen)
20. Uso (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
I’m not just astonished that a song from D.N.A.^2 made the list, I’m also astonished that it’s not “Blurry Eyes” from L’Arc En Ciel.
I know EVANGELION’s really only a year younger than the D.N.A.^2 TV anime but I didn’t think D.N.A.^2 got anywhere near the level of mainstream awareness and nostalgia as EVA does in Japan. Or maybe it’s just that the song “Single Bed” was popular independently of D.N.A.^2 and most Japanese karaoke crooners aren’t even aware that that song was used in an anime from 1994.
Kinda surprised to see Only my Railgun in 18th.
According to the list, I think customer age is around 30-40 years old. It a shop for drunk salary man and ol?
I can’t believe frozen end up in this list with all these anime Twice!
I really do with people WOULD let this song go already.
WISH
this cartoon is insanely popular in Japan. I remember that “let it go” played like crazy in every seven-eleven / family-mart in Tokyo :/
18. only my railgun (To Aru Kagaku no Railgun)
Proves the ranking is utterly wrong. It’s strange for a song to be nº1 for over 6 years to suddenly fall that low.
Not strange, only fanbois will keep alive while the normies move on.