Friendship songs to listen to in April: a curated selection of tracks themed around new encounters!
April marks the start of a new school and business year in Japan, and many people begin life in new environments like schools and workplaces.
It’s also a time when new relationships are formed, and when we find ourselves missing the people we used to spend time with.
In this article, we introduce friendship songs perfect for April.
From tracks that celebrate newly blossomed friendships to songs that think of friends far away, and spring-like tunes themed around cherry blossoms—these are all timeless pieces that are impossible not to get emotionally invested in.
May you find a song that stays close to your heart.
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Friendship songs to listen to in April: A carefully selected list of tracks themed around new encounters! (31–40)
GIVE ME FIVEAKB48
Released in 2012 as their 25th single, the song was also featured in various campaigns, including the Apaman Shop “Apaman 48 Campaign” commercial.
Unusually for AKB, it’s arranged for a band, and it drew attention for the members actually performing live at concerts.
Although it’s an up-tempo track, the contrast with its bittersweet lyrics gives it a distinctive character.
foreverBENI
This friendship is forever! BENI’s “Forever” is a bright, pop song about a friendship where both people truly feel that way.
The music video features Naomi Watanabe, who is close friends with BENI in private life as well.
Like the two of them gleefully goofing around in the video, being together with a friend like that makes you forget all the bad stuff.
Even if you’re physically far apart, the distance between your hearts will never grow.
This song reminds you of that feeling and is perfect for hyping up the time you spend with your friends!
eternityBENI
BENI’s “Eien” evokes a resolve to keep supporting our friends and doing our best together forever.
Released in 2012, the song was used as the theme for the drama “Honjitsu wa Taian Nari.” While the lyrics depict a couple pledging to be together eternally, it also makes you feel that friends, too, should help and encourage each other and stay close for what feels like eternity.
With a warm, spring-breeze-like melody, this is a song that makes you want to reaffirm your wish to remain close with friends bound by a bond as strong as that of spouses or couples.
KBUMP OF CHICKEN
It’s included on their second indie album, THE LIVING DEAD.
Owing to its popularity, it was also featured on the best-of album BUMP OF CHICKEN I <1999–2004>.
The lyrics tell a moving story about a lonely black cat and a man.
PinkieBUMP OF CHICKEN
This is a song that spins a delicate tale themed around cherry blossoms.
It beautifully portrays the determination to keep holding close the promises made with someone dear, even as time slips by.
From the intro, the gentle tone of the strings and the warm vocals of Motoo Fujiwara from BUMP OF CHICKEN seep into the heart, resulting in a piece that perfectly accompanies the cherry blossom season.
It was included as the coupling track to the single “HAPPY,” released in April 2010.
In the springtime, when anxieties and expectations about new environments mix together, this is a song that will gently give you a push forward.
Friendship songs to listen to in April. Carefully selected songs themed around new encounters! (41–50)
Rough MakerBUMP OF CHICKEN
It was released in 2000 as their second single and included as the coupling track to “Diamond.” The lyrics have a storytelling quality that leaves you feeling as if you’ve just finished a tale.
It’s a song about a friend who tries to make their downhearted friend laugh.
Song of a FriendBUMP OF CHICKEN
Released in 2011 as the 19th single, it was selected as the theme song for the Toho-distributed film Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops—Winged Angels, which premiered the same year.
The song expresses the feelings of someone awkward and unable to confess their true emotions—something many listeners may find relatable.