As shared on April 28, 2025, YOASOBI made history as the first musical act in Japanese history to receive a Double Diamond streaming certification for the duo’s song “Yoru ni Kakeru (Into The Night).” The Recording Industry Association of Japan announced it had reached the milestone in March via an X (formerly Twitter) post. You can read a translation of its statement and YOASOBI’s response below,

“March 2025 – Streaming Certifications 🔔
#YOASOBI – ‘Yoru ni Kakeru/Into The Night’ has become the first streaming certified work in history to receive Double Diamond certification (cumulative plays of over 1 billion times)!
Starting this month, we will be introducing the new certification rank: ‘Double Diamond.’
We have received a comment from YOASOBI ♬“

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Following “Yoru ni Kakeru’s” certification, YOASOBI said, “We’re so thankful for being the first Japanese artist to receive the Double Diamond certification. We’re truly happy that so many people are still listening to our debut song ‘Yoru ni Kakeru,’ released five years ago. We’ll continue to aim for even greater heights and work to deliver our music to more people, so we hope you’ll continue to support us.“

The RIAJ announced that “Yoru ni Kakeru” first hit the Diamond streaming certification in September 2021 and was similarly the first Japanese song to do it. This latest Diamond accolade follows “Gunjou” in July 2023, “Kaibutsu” in November 2023, and “Idol” in January 2024.

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YOASOBI’s Double Diamond certification adds to the duo’s stature as one of the faces of J-pop, especially in a global sense. Nevertheless, composer Ayase and vocalist Ikura shared that they don’t stress too much about the pressure that might bring. Ayase said, “And as a Japanese artist, we broke a lot of new records, and we had our Asia tour, our USA tour, and as a Japanese, we’ve achieved a lot to be proud of. But in Japan, there are many other amazing artists besides ourselves. And, we have a sort of confidence within ourselves that ‘We’re the best in Japan!’ However, there are other artists who have the same amount of passion as we do. And they’re really cool!“

He continued, “‘We need to lift up J-pop or it’s going to fail?’ There’s no responsibility like that. If anything, we have to perform so as not to lose to these amazing artists.” Ikura added her desire to continue to share J-pop with the world.

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YOASOBI’s “Yoru ni Kakeru” was first released on November 16, 2019. In line with the group’s theme of turning stories into songs, the song adapted Thanatos no Yuuwaku (An Invitation from Thanatos) by Mayo Hoshino. Readers can check out the official English translation here by Emily Balistrieri and arranged by TranNet KK.

Source: Riaj X (formerly Twitter)
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