JOYSOUND announces Winter Anime Theme Song Karaoke Ranking! TV Anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2 OP, Mrs. GREEN APPLE's "lulu." takes the top spot!
XING Inc., operating JOYSOUND, announced its 2026 Winter Anime Theme Song Karaoke Ranking. Mrs. GREEN APPLE's "lulu.," the OP for TV Anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2, ranked first. Meanwhile, TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 topped streaming viewership rankings, and this report analyzes winter anime trends from both perspectives.
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XING Inc., a USEN & U-NEXT GROUP company, has announced the "2026 Winter Anime Theme Song Karaoke Ranking" for the January 2026 season of winter anime, based on the number of times songs were sung on its commercial karaoke service "JOYSOUND."
This season, the most sung karaoke song was Mrs. GREEN APPLE's "lulu.," the opening theme for TV Anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2. Meanwhile, in the anime viewership ranking on subscription video streaming services, surveyed and compiled by GEM Partners Inc., a digital marketing service provider for the entertainment industry, TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 "Shibuya Incident Arc - Part 1" took the top spot after a close battle with "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2." By comparing both the streaming content viewership ranking and the karaoke ranking, we can unravel the trends of winter anime.
▽2026 Winter Anime Theme Song Ranking https://www.joysound.com/web/s/karaoke/feature/anime/ranking/2601
**【2026 Winter Anime Theme Song Karaoke Ranking】**
This season, major titles led the rankings, with both opening and ending themes from multiple works ranking within the top 10, clearly showing a synergistic effect between work popularity and artist popularity. The top-ranked song, TV Anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2 OP "lulu.," matched the world view of the anime with its clear sound and grand melody, receiving very high praise not only from anime fans but also becoming the most sung song this season due to the synergistic effect of Mrs. GREEN APPLE's popularity.
© Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe / Shogakukan / "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Production Committee
Furthermore, TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 "Shibuya Incident Arc - Part 1" showed consistent strength, with both its opening and ending themes ranking within the top 10. King Gnu's opening theme "AIZO" perfectly linked the "love and hate" (愛憎 - aizo) that expresses human emotions intertwined with love and hate, with the world view of "Shibuya Incident Arc," a game of life-or-death combat. Despite being a difficult song to sing at karaoke, its explosive feeling in the chorus and addictive melody gained popularity, ranking second!
© Gege Akutami / Shueisha・Jujutsu Kaisen Production Committee
And for "Oshi no Ko" Season 3, both the powerful and provocative opening theme "TEST ME" (4th place) by Chanmina and the delicate ending theme "Serenade" (3rd place) depicting Aqua's loneliness, ranked in the TOP 10, receiving strong support in both the work and music aspects.
© Aka Akasaka × Mengo Yokoyari / Shueisha・"Oshi no Ko" Production Committee
In addition, the rise of new artists was remarkable, with jo0ji for TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" ED, HANA for "Medalist" OP, and 13.3g for "Fate/strange Fake" ED, all three artists making their anime tie-up debut ranking within the TOP 10. It can also be said that this season, the synchronization between the anime's world view and the music became more visible as an evaluation axis, and the consistency of lyrics, visuals, and theme strongly influenced the number of times songs were sung.
**【2026 Winter Anime Streaming Content Viewership Ranking】**
In this season's streaming content viewership ranking, TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 "Shibuya Incident Arc - Part 1" ranked first with 2194pt, and "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2" ranked second with 2070pt. These two works showed an overwhelming popularity, with nearly three times the difference compared to "Golden Kamuy Final Chapter" (781pt) in third place.
Furthermore, in the top ranks of this ranking, all works from 1st to 7th place were either sequels or related works of existing IPs, such as "Vigilante." The so-called "wall of sequels" remains high, with only two completely new works, "The Dangers in My Heart" (8th place) and "Darwin's Incident" (9th place), making it into the TOP 10. This ranking clearly shows that the stable fan base of series works had an overwhelming presence in the streaming market this season.
On the other hand, in the karaoke ranking, the inherent appeal of the songs broke through this solid streaming ranking hierarchy. "Darwin's Incident," which ranked 9th in the viewership ranking, had its opening theme, Official Hige Dandism's "Make Me Wonder," rank 6th in the karaoke ranking, showing a stronger presence than its streaming rank. Also, the new work "Mayonaka Heart Tune," which was outside the streaming ranking, had its opening theme "Get Shot at the Moon" sung by Hoshimachi Suisei, rank 11th in karaoke.
This season, the most sung karaoke song was Mrs. GREEN APPLE's "lulu.," the opening theme for TV Anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2. Meanwhile, in the anime viewership ranking on subscription video streaming services, surveyed and compiled by GEM Partners Inc., a digital marketing service provider for the entertainment industry, TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 "Shibuya Incident Arc - Part 1" took the top spot after a close battle with "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2." By comparing both the streaming content viewership ranking and the karaoke ranking, we can unravel the trends of winter anime.
▽2026 Winter Anime Theme Song Ranking https://www.joysound.com/web/s/karaoke/feature/anime/ranking/2601
**【2026 Winter Anime Theme Song Karaoke Ranking】**
This season, major titles led the rankings, with both opening and ending themes from multiple works ranking within the top 10, clearly showing a synergistic effect between work popularity and artist popularity. The top-ranked song, TV Anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2 OP "lulu.," matched the world view of the anime with its clear sound and grand melody, receiving very high praise not only from anime fans but also becoming the most sung song this season due to the synergistic effect of Mrs. GREEN APPLE's popularity.
© Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe / Shogakukan / "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Production Committee
Furthermore, TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 "Shibuya Incident Arc - Part 1" showed consistent strength, with both its opening and ending themes ranking within the top 10. King Gnu's opening theme "AIZO" perfectly linked the "love and hate" (愛憎 - aizo) that expresses human emotions intertwined with love and hate, with the world view of "Shibuya Incident Arc," a game of life-or-death combat. Despite being a difficult song to sing at karaoke, its explosive feeling in the chorus and addictive melody gained popularity, ranking second!
© Gege Akutami / Shueisha・Jujutsu Kaisen Production Committee
And for "Oshi no Ko" Season 3, both the powerful and provocative opening theme "TEST ME" (4th place) by Chanmina and the delicate ending theme "Serenade" (3rd place) depicting Aqua's loneliness, ranked in the TOP 10, receiving strong support in both the work and music aspects.
© Aka Akasaka × Mengo Yokoyari / Shueisha・"Oshi no Ko" Production Committee
In addition, the rise of new artists was remarkable, with jo0ji for TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" ED, HANA for "Medalist" OP, and 13.3g for "Fate/strange Fake" ED, all three artists making their anime tie-up debut ranking within the TOP 10. It can also be said that this season, the synchronization between the anime's world view and the music became more visible as an evaluation axis, and the consistency of lyrics, visuals, and theme strongly influenced the number of times songs were sung.
**【2026 Winter Anime Streaming Content Viewership Ranking】**
In this season's streaming content viewership ranking, TV Anime "Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 "Shibuya Incident Arc - Part 1" ranked first with 2194pt, and "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2" ranked second with 2070pt. These two works showed an overwhelming popularity, with nearly three times the difference compared to "Golden Kamuy Final Chapter" (781pt) in third place.
Furthermore, in the top ranks of this ranking, all works from 1st to 7th place were either sequels or related works of existing IPs, such as "Vigilante." The so-called "wall of sequels" remains high, with only two completely new works, "The Dangers in My Heart" (8th place) and "Darwin's Incident" (9th place), making it into the TOP 10. This ranking clearly shows that the stable fan base of series works had an overwhelming presence in the streaming market this season.
On the other hand, in the karaoke ranking, the inherent appeal of the songs broke through this solid streaming ranking hierarchy. "Darwin's Incident," which ranked 9th in the viewership ranking, had its opening theme, Official Hige Dandism's "Make Me Wonder," rank 6th in the karaoke ranking, showing a stronger presence than its streaming rank. Also, the new work "Mayonaka Heart Tune," which was outside the streaming ranking, had its opening theme "Get Shot at the Moon" sung by Hoshimachi Suisei, rank 11th in karaoke.