Vaundy


Vaundy is a Japanese musician. He started his career in 2019 by independently uploading online, before breaking out late in the year with the song "Tokyo Flash". He has released songs for multiple anime and live action TV series, most famously "Hadaka No Yusha" for Ranking of Kings and "Chainsaw Blood" for Chainsaw Man.

History

Vaundy got his start by releasing songs independently onto YouTube in 2019. He broke out in December of the same year with his song "Tokyo Flash". Following this success, he was selected as one of Spotify's "Early Noise 2020" artists, and was named a "Space Shower Retsuden New Force" artist for 2020. He released his debut album Strobo on May 27, 2020. It peaked at number 5 on the Oricon Albums Chart. A song from the album, titled "Tomoshibi", was used as the theme song for the 2020 drama Tokyo Love Story.
He released the EP Hadaka No Yusha on February 23, 2022. It included the song of the same name, which was used as the opening for the anime Ranking of Kings. It peaked at number 6 on the Oricon charts. He collaborated with singer Ado on the song "Backlight", which was used in the soundtrack of the movie One Piece Film: Red. On September 8–9, 2022, he performed two shows at the Nippon Budokan. On October 12, he released the Chainsaw Man ending theme "Chainsaw Blood". It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. He performed on the 73rd Kōhaku Uta Gassen to end the year performing "Kaijū no Hana Uta" and "Omokage ". This performance helped him reach 2nd on the Billboard Japan Top Artists chart, and the song he performed, "Kaijū no Hanauta", jumped to #3 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, later peaking at #2. On Billboard Japan's 2023 end of year artist charts, he was ranked #4, while "Kaijū no Hanauta" was ranked #3 on the year end Hot 100.
On November 15, 2023, he released his second album Replica. His song "Todome no Ichigeki", which features Cory Wong, was used as the ending theme song for the second season of the anime Spy × Family.
On December 3, 2023, it was revealed that Doraemon: Nobita's Earth Symphony would use Vaundy's latest song "Time Paradox" as the theme song of the film. In June 2024, it was revealed that "Homunculus" would be used as the theme song for the film My Hero Academia: You're Next. In August 2024, his song "Gift" was also used as the ending theme song for the film. In September 2024, was announced that "Fūjin" would be used as the ending theme song for the live action TV Drama "Light of My Lion". In November 2024, it was revealed that "Hashire Sakamoto" will be used as the opening theme song for the anime Sakamoto Days., and begin his biggest arena tour "FUSION", where he recorded the highest attendance at Saitama Super Arena over 2 days at 76,000 people. He announced his first 4 major city dome tour at the final show of his arena tour, becoming the youngest male solo artist to do so.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Demo albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Promotional singles

Other charted and certified songs

Guest appearances

Songwriting and production credits

All song credits are adapted from the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers's database unless stated otherwise.
SongYearArtistAlbumLyricistComposerArranger
"Sorrow"2020Takashi MatsuoUtautai
"Lemonade"2021Chilli Beans.Dancing Alone and Chilli Beans.
"Andron"2021Chilli Beans.Daydream and Chilli Beans.
"Omokage"2021Milet, Aimer, and Lilas Ikuta
"Madou Ito"2022Masaki SudaSpin
"It's Me"2022Chilli Beans.Chilli Beans.
"This Way"2022Chilli Beans.Chilli Beans.
"Backlight"2022AdoUta's Songs: One Piece Film Red
"Kubittake"2022YamaVersus the Night
"Rose"2023Chilli Beans.Mixtape
"Ibara"2023AdoZanmu
"Tōmei ni Naritai"2024Number iNo. I

Awards and nominations