A lovely friendship song

Bright friendship songs recommended for high school students. A collection of hype-up tracks.

Editor-in-Chief, RAG MUSICHane Keisuke
Editor-in-chief of RAG MUSIC. JFC-certified fact-checker. After working in a music studio and handling wedding sound, joined the RAG MUSIC editorial team in 2016. Experienced with a variety of instruments: marching band in elementary school, clarinet in junior high school wind ensemble, and drums in a band from high school onward. Drawing on my own musical activities and the experience gained through my work, I produce daily articles, including various song introductions, features on music festivals around the country, and live reports. In music, I enjoy not only rock from Japan and abroad but, lately, a wide range of J-pop as well.

If you’re a high school student, you probably have plenty of chances to come across songs about friendship in your everyday life, right?

Of course, you might listen to them regularly or sing them at karaoke, and you might even use a friendship song as the BGM for a message video you send for a friend’s birthday.

In this article, we’ll introduce upbeat friendship songs that perfectly fit a variety of situations like these.

We’ve focused on tracks by artists who are currently trending as well as those popular among younger generations, so feel free to use this as a reference.

If you listen while reading the lyrics, you’ll have an easier time finding the song that’s just right for you!

Bright friendship songs recommended for high school students. A roundup of hype/energetic tracks (91–100)

Youth and a momentmakaroni enpitsu

Macaroni Enpitsu “Youth and a Moment” MV

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A heartwarming song that captures the casual brilliance and fleeting nature of youth.

With a driving melody and sentimental lyrics, it conveys the importance of everyday moments spent with friends and the joy of watching each other grow.

It tells us that the time shared with a bored-looking friend in the classroom after school will one day become a shining memory.

Released as a digital single in March 2019, it was later included on the album “season,” released in September of the same year.

It was also featured in a McDonald’s commercial and selected as the opening theme for TV Tokyo’s Drama 24 series “I Dreamed of That Girl.” As a work that vividly portrays the passion of teammates practicing together for sports festivals and the image of young people striving to cherish each moment, it is a song we hope many students will listen to.

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Beloved daysyangusukinii

Young Skinny – Oh, Beloved Days [Official Music Video]

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Young Skinny’s “Beloved Days” is a song about feelings for a dear friend—the kind of friend you want to stay with even if you can’t understand everything about each other.

It’s included on the 2023 EP If Only We Could Find Happiness in Anything.

At school, there are people you click with and people you don’t, and it’s hard to be close with everyone.

Still, even with someone whose hobbies differ from yours and whose opinions rarely align, you might catch an unguarded expression or simply feel an inexplicable vibe and find yourself liking them—and becoming friends.

This song heightens the desire to cherish friends like that forever.

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