Where ZEN's music has travelled. Numbers from TuneCore Japan's milestones and charts, and from YouTube Studio, with the original screens shown below.
Heard in other people's videos
UGC means videos made by listeners and creators. These are plays of ZEN's pieces in user-generated and short videos, as counted by TuneCore (milestones reached in October and November 2026).
- Pulse of the Universe (宇宙の鼓動) — 50 million+ — TuneCore milestone
- Drops of Sunlight (太陽のしずく) — 20 million+ — TuneCore milestone
- A Gentle Song (やさしい歌) — 10 million+ — TuneCore milestone
- Sunny Spot (陽だまり) — 3 million+ — TuneCore milestone
- Path Where Awareness is Born (気づきが生まれる道) — 2 million+ — TuneCore milestone
- May All Lives Shine -IYASAKA- (orchestral version) — 1 million+ — TuneCore milestone
- Toward Tomorrow (あしたへ) — 10 thousand+ — TuneCore milestone
- News on the Flower Wind (花風の便り, piano solo) — 10 thousand+ — TuneCore milestone
- Whispers of the Sky (天空のささやき) — 10 thousand+ — TuneCore milestone
On the charts
New Age charts on iTunes Store and Apple Music, as recorded by TuneCore Japan.
- Drops of Sunlight — No. 1 in Australia (July 2023) and Taiwan (March 2023); No. 2 in Japan (May 2024) and Vietnam (March 2025)
- A Gentle Song — No. 1 in Kazakhstan (April 2020); No. 2 in Japan (May 2026)
- The Summer I Met You — No. 1 in Thailand (June 2020)
- Sakura Season — No. 1 in Kazakhstan (April 2020)
- Piano Sketch (Wandering Japan) — No. 2 on the New Age Albums chart in Japan (June 2026) and Canada (February 2023); on Apple Music's New Age Albums chart in more than twenty countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines
- A Gentle Song is also on a Spotify study playlist in Turkey
Seven years of releases, and over 100 million views in 28 days
ZEN has been releasing piano music since 2019. Across the 28 days from 17 February to 16 March 2026, ZEN's music was viewed 101,474,091 times on YouTube, largely through its use in short videos. From 1 January to 6 November 2026 the total is 367,368,407 views. These figures are YouTube Studio's "Total reach": views of the official artist channel plus views of other channels' videos that use ZEN's music. The screens below are the original YouTube Studio reports.


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Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube · TuneCore artist page · Albums
Milestones show thresholds reached, not exact totals. Figures are as reported by TuneCore Japan, YouTube Studio and the platforms.


