The room › Artists › Yu Hayami
Where to start with Yu Hayami
Start with 夏色のナンシー — 夏色のナンシー, 2017. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 36 Yu Hayami tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 36 Yu Hayami tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 36 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
It is spread thin and wide — 36 tracks across 20 different records, which is a browsing history rather than a shelf of favourites.
Every dated track here carries the same year, 2017 — one moment of the discography rather than the shape of it.
Every track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The energy knob swings 46 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
夏色のナンシー — 夏色のナンシー, 2017. Of the 36 Yu Hayami tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
REMEMBER? — WOW!, 2017. The lowest energy reading of any Yu Hayami track in the room (31 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
ダウン・タウン・チャーミング — Burning illusion, 2017. The highest energy reading here, at 77 out of 100 — a 46-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Yu Hayami sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Yu Hayami's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 63 | 43–73 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 62 | 31–77 | ambient → driving |
| density | 53 | 29–63 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 60 | 47–76 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Shadows of the knight | 2017 | 4 |
| GET DOWN! | 2017 | 4 |
| LANAI | 2017 | 3 |
| COLORFUL BOX | 2017 | 3 |
| MOMENTS | 2017 | 3 |
| Sincerely | 2017 | 2 |
| AND I LOVE YOU | 2017 | 2 |
| 哀愁情句 | 2017 | 2 |
| RECESS | 2017 | 2 |
| BEAT LOVER | 2017 | 1 |
| Tonight | 2017 | 1 |
| CLASH | 2017 | 1 |
| Burning illusion | 2017 | 1 |
| 夏色のナンシー | 2017 | 1 |
| あの頃にもう一度 | 2017 | 1 |
| 渚のライオン | 2017 | 1 |
| ハートは戻らない | 2017 | 1 |
| Dear | 2017 | 1 |
| Me☆セーラーマン | 2017 | 1 |
| WOW! | 2017 | 1 |
Every Yu Hayami track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| LOVE-LIGHT | AND I LOVE YOU | 2017 |
| 急いで!初恋 | AND I LOVE YOU | 2017 |
| BEAT LOVER | BEAT LOVER | 2017 |
| ダウン・タウン・チャーミング | Burning illusion | 2017 |
| CLASH | CLASH | 2017 |
| AZIES | COLORFUL BOX | 2017 |
| Stardust Night | COLORFUL BOX | 2017 |
| もう一度 Hello | COLORFUL BOX | 2017 |
| 可愛いサマータイム | Dear | 2017 |
| COVER UP | GET DOWN! | 2017 |
| LOVE ATTACK | GET DOWN! | 2017 |
| STOP FOOLIN' AROUND | GET DOWN! | 2017 |
| YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON | GET DOWN! | 2017 |
| Rainy Boy | LANAI | 2017 |
| Sail In The Sunset | LANAI | 2017 |
| 逢いたい気分 | LANAI | 2017 |
| Me☆セーラーマン | Me☆セーラーマン | 2017 |
| BEYOND THE WORDS | MOMENTS | 2017 |
| COOL DOWN ~Heat Of The Beat~ | MOMENTS | 2017 |
| THE BROKEN-HEARTED | MOMENTS | 2017 |
| Mermaid 1984 | RECESS | 2017 |
| 抱いてマイ・ラブ | RECESS | 2017 |
| Mr.J | Shadows of the knight | 2017 |
| ロマンスに首ったけ | Shadows of the knight | 2017 |
| 手さぐりのDay Break | Shadows of the knight | 2017 |
| 硝子のトライアングル | Shadows of the knight | 2017 |
| 緑色のラグーン | Sincerely | 2017 |
| 誘惑光線・クラッ! | Sincerely | 2017 |
| Tonight | Tonight | 2017 |
| REMEMBER? | WOW! | 2017 |
| あの頃にもう一度 | あの頃にもう一度 | 2017 |
| ハートは戻らない(Get out of my life) | ハートは戻らない | 2017 |
| 不意打ちのランデブー | 哀愁情句 | 2017 |
| 哀愁情句 | 哀愁情句 | 2017 |
| 夏色のナンシー | 夏色のナンシー | 2017 |
| 渚のライオン | 渚のライオン | 2017 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Yu Hayami's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Noriko Sakai — city pop, 23 tracks
- Where to start with Yukiko Okada — city pop, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Iyo Matsumoto — city pop, 25 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Yu Hayami as a solo artist, from Atami, Japan and born in 1966. Its contributors tag the artist idol kayō, pop and j-pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Yu Hayami tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 36, across 20 albums. 36 of them carry a date, running from 2017 to 2017. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 36 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 36 of these 36 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.