sakanaction — 夜の踊り子

A Sapporo five-piece's electro-rock single from the back half of their breakout era is broadly charting today, tracked across 116 country and platform charts and running well above its recent baseline. Originally commissioned as a commercial song for the design school Mode Gakuen, with choreographer Jonte' Moaning fronting the spots, the track was released in 2012 and collected onto the band's catalog in 2013, per Wikipedia. Sakanaction fuse alternative rock, new wave, and electronic textures — and this is one of their most danceable distillations of that formula, a bouncing, water-skipping rhythm matched to Ichiro Yamaguchi's clipped vocal. With more than 36 million Spotify plays logged, it remains a durable entry point into the band's deep discography. The current surge has lifted it across markets simultaneously.