[For High School Students] A Collection of Friendship Songs to Give on Birthdays
If you’re a high school student, you might sometimes create a message video to celebrate a friend’s birthday.
Gathering past photos and collecting messages from everyone can be a bit of work, and many people also struggle with choosing the right background music.
So in this article, we’ll introduce friendship songs perfect for gifting on a birthday, especially for high schoolers.
We’ve picked songs with a variety of styles, so choose tracks that match the mood of the video you want to make.
Have fun creating your video while imagining how happy your friend will be when they watch your gift!
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A birthday song for high schoolers whose friendship is deepening (61–70)
BIRTHDAYkururi
BIRTHDAY, Quruli’s 14th single, released in 2005.
It’s a birthday song with a gentle melody that somehow feels nostalgic, making your heart flutter.
The first verse celebrates one’s own birthday, and the second verse celebrates someone else’s, softly depicting scenes from the day they were born.
It’s a simple truth, but this birthday song makes you feel that everyone has a birthday, and that there was someone who was truly happy on the day you were born.
Sweet Happy Birthdaytsuji ayano
Many of you may find yourselves soothed by Ayano Tsuji’s gentle voice.
She’s an artist whose lyrics, which make us notice small happinesses and the importance of love, really resonate.
Her song “Sweet Happy Birthday,” sung by Ayano Tsuji, is also very healing.
The song itself is about celebrating one’s own birthday, but when you give this song to a friend at school, I think it will touch their heart if they listen to it as if speaking to themselves.
Happy Happy Birthday!!naniwa danshi
Let me introduce a fun birthday song by Naniwa Danshi.
Included on their June 2024 album “+Alpha,” this track features lyrics full of surprises and love for someone special.
Its up-tempo melody and bouncy rhythm heighten the excitement of a birthday.
The festive sound crafted by Shun Kusakawa and Atsushi Shimada is wonderful, too.
It’s perfect for livening up a friend’s or partner’s birthday party—and it sounds like a blast to sing at karaoke.
It also makes great BGM when creating a birthday video on your smartphone.
It’s a song that lets you feel Naniwa Danshi’s positive energy.
Dear Sir or Madam, on this day when cherry blossoms fluttermafumafu
A heartwarming coming-of-age story by Mafumafu that vividly captures the emotion of spring as cherry blossoms dance in the air.
The song’s structure is striking, beginning with gentle piano melodies and unfolding into an exhilarating, fast-paced rhythm.
It delicately weaves universal themes of school-day memories, friendship, and farewells, highlighted by a warm vocal delivery that feels close to the listener’s heart.
Included on the album “Kagurairo Artifact,” released in October 2019, it was also used as the theme song for the website Shonen Janmaga Gakuen.
It’s a track to listen to when you want to feel the tender memories of student days, the arrival of spring, or when you’re going through a parting from someone important.
Happy birthdayKetsumeishi
For a birthday song I’d recommend to a high schooler who likes hip-hop, it has to be Ketsumeishi’s “Happy Birthday.” While there are lots of bright pop tunes and mellow songs that express gratitude for the past, I think celebrating a birthday through rap is a great idea! The song is about parents celebrating their child’s birth and saying thank you for being born, but it also works to tweak the lyrics—like changing it to “Thank you for meeting me”—to make a parody version.
Adding that originality makes it even more memorable.