| Vaundy | |||||||||||
| Alias: | Vaundy Engawa | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 2000 6, mf=yes | ||||||||||
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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".[1] He has released songs for multiple TV series, including "Hadaka no Yuusha" for Ranking of Kings and "Chainsaw Blood" for Chainsaw Man.[2] [3]
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.[4] [5] He released his debut album Strobo on May 27, 2020.[6] It peaked at number 5 on the Oricon Albums Chart.[7] A song from the album, titled "Tomoshibi", was used as the theme song for the 2020 drama Tokyo Love Story.[8]
He released the EP Hadaka no Yuusha on February 23, 2022. It included the song of the same name, which was used as the opening for the anime Ranking of Kings.[2] It peaked at number 6 on the Oricon charts.[9] He collaborated with singer Ado on the song "Backlight", which was used in the soundtrack of the movie .[10] On September 8–9, 2022, he performed two shows at the Nippon Budokan.[11] On October 12, he released the Chainsaw Man ending theme "Chainsaw Blood".[12] It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.[13] He performed on the 73rd Kōhaku Uta Gassen to end the year performing "Kaijū no Hana Uta" and "Omokage (co-performing with Milet, Aimer, Lilas Ikuta)".[14] 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.[15] [16] [17] 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.[18]
On November 15, 2023, he released his second album Replica.[19] His song, which features Cory Wong, was used as the ending theme song for the second season of the anime Spy × Family.[20] On December 3, 2023, it was revealed that would use Vaundy's latest song "Time Paradox" as the theme song of the film.[21] In June 2024, it was revealed that would be used as the theme song for the film .[22] In August 2024, his song "Gift" was also used as the ending theme song for the film.[23] In November 2024, it was revealed that will be used as the opening theme song for the anime Sakamoto Days.[24]
| Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN [25] | JPN Comb [26] | JPN Hot [27] | |||
| Strobo |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | |
| Replica |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| EP details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN [28] | JPN Comb [29] | |||
| Hadaka no Yuusha (裸の勇者; Naked Hero) |
| 6 | 5 | |
| Year | Peaks | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Comb | KOR [30] | ||||
| "Fukakouryoku" | 2020 | 42 | — | Strobo | |
| "Kaiju no Hanauta" | 5 | — | |||
| "Napori" | 24 | — | |||
| "Shiwaawase" | 2021 | 45 | — | Replica | |
| "Hana Uranai" | 33 | — | |||
| "Odoriko" | 20 | 79 | |||
| "Koikaze ni nosete" | 2022 | 26 | — | ||
| "Chainsaw Blood" | 14 | — | |||
| "Hitomi bore" | 50 | — | |||
| "Sonna Bitter na Hanashi" | 2023 | 22 | — | ||
| "Time Paradox" | 2024 | 6 | — | rowspan="4" | |
| "Homunculus" | 14 | — | |||
| "Gift" | — | ||||
| "Hashire Sakamoto" | 2025 | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||
| Year | Category | Nominee(s)/work(s) | Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTV Europe Music Awards | 2021 | Best Japanese Act | Vaundy | [31] | ||
| MTV Video Music Awards Japan | Best Visual Effects | "Shiwaawase" | [32] | |||
| MTV Video Music Awards Japan | 2022 | Artist of the Year | Vaundy | [33] |