Songs that amp up Halloween: a roundup of perfect tracks for party BGM!
Halloween on October 31st gets more exciting every year.
Many people enjoy it in various ways, from dressing up in costumes to throwing parties.
In this article, we’ll introduce songs that will amp up your Halloween! We’ve selected tracks that will boost your Halloween mood—popular Halloween songs, tunes used at famous theme parks’ Halloween events, and numbers that match the Halloween atmosphere.
Spend an unforgettable Halloween with the best music!
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Songs that amp up the Halloween vibe. A roundup of perfect tracks for party BGM! (1–10)
Ghost AvenueEVE
Eve’s track, with its dark and addictive worldview, is a perfect fit for Halloween’s eerie vibe.
Set over a floaty, drifting beat, it paints the feelings of a young person wandering like a ghost through the night city.
The lyrics lay bare the sense of losing yourself under the weight of society’s expectations, echoing Halloween’s theme of dressing up and becoming someone different from your everyday self.
Released digitally in July 2025, the song’s ethereal cover art and music video also made waves, surpassing one million views shortly after release.
It’s a great BGM pick for a Halloween party when you want to unleash a different side of yourself!
Trick or BeatiamSHUM, meruna from wagamama.
As the official theme song for Huis Ten Bosch’s Haunted Halloween, iamSHUM teams up with Merna from WagamaMa for a dance track perfect for any Halloween party.
Released in October 2025, this energetic song paints a picture of costumed revelers breaking into dance to the beat on late-night streets.
Its exciting lyrics make you want to dance all night with friends in witch hats.
Blending iamSHUM’s signature EDM sound with the extraordinary vibe unique to Halloween and a catchy pop melody, the production is tailor-made to fire up any party venue.
Halloweenteam Autumn
This is a work by team Autumn, a seasonal unit born from the multimedia project Paradox Live.
It was included on the album “Paradox Live Seasonal Show” released in May 2025.
Set to a hip-hop beat, the song unfolds with motifs like wolves on a full-moon night and vampires scattered throughout.
Blending a mysterious yet festive vibe with a dark worldview, it’s truly a track made for Halloween.
Perfect for a costume party with friends or as background music for nighttime events.
Songs that hype up Halloween: a roundup of perfect tracks for party BGM! (11–20)
Happy HalloweenJunky
A Vocaloid track that gained attention as a TikTok commercial song.
Released by Junky in 2014, it was written specifically for FamilyMart’s “Miku LOVES Famima Campaign 4th.” Sprinkled with classic Halloween motifs like shouts of “trick or treat,” lanterns, and ghosts, it bursts forth with a four-on-the-floor beat and electro sound.
Play it as background music for a costume party or event, and the venue will instantly be wrapped in a Halloween mood.
It’s a song I’d recommend not only to Vocaloid fans but also to beginner dancers.
Mrs. Pumpkin’s Comical Dreamhachi
This is a work posted in 2009 by Kenshi Yonezu—who has since become a defining singer-songwriter of the J-POP scene after 2010—under his Vocaloid producer alias, Hachi.
Created in anticipation of Halloween, the track is characterized by a fantastical yet eerie worldview.
Its exhilarating tempo, paired with arrangements that employ off-kilter, irregular-meter-like sway and inventive noise, conjures a liminal atmosphere where dreams and reality seem to intersect.
Through the personified character of Mrs.
Pumpkin, the wry, intentionally ambiguous lyrics blur the line between the ordinary and the abnormal, offering a depth that invites varied interpretations from listeners.
How about picking it as a track to spice up your Halloween party?
Go Go Ghost ShipYonezu Kenshi
This track, included on the album diorama, is a landmark number released in 2012, the year Kenshi Yonezu began working under his own name.
Its unique sound blends experimental elements into a poppy, lively rhythm, giving it an addictive quality that makes you want to listen again and again.
The lyrics, which liken inner feelings of loneliness and alienation to ghosts, pair well with Halloween’s mysterious atmosphere.
The music video was released in February 2012 and has surpassed 38 million views on YouTube.
It’s a great pick not only as background music for a Halloween party, but also when you want to dress up and get hyped with friends.
chantAdo
This number from Ado, striking for its terrifying yet captivating beat, was released digitally in September 2023 as a collaboration track for Universal Studios Japan’s Halloween event, Halloween Horror Nights.
Its exotic EDM sound pairs perfectly with Ado’s powerful vocals.
The song became a hot topic, topping the Billboard Japan Streaming Songs chart for consecutive weeks.
It’s perfect not only as BGM for a Halloween party, but also for getting everyone hyped—you’ll want to dress up and dance to it!