Songs that junior high school students like. Classic and popular Japanese hits.
Once you’re in junior high school, you naturally start listening to all kinds of music—not just the songs that hit the charts, but also tracks you discover through your family and friends!
I’m sure many of you feel like, “I want to discover new music!” or “I want to keep up with my friends’ music conversations!”
So in this article, we’ll introduce a collection of songs from buzzworthy artists in recent years, as well as tracks by artists who are staples in the J-POP scene.
We’ve gathered songs you’ll definitely want to hear as a junior high student, including tracks trending on TikTok and anime theme songs.
Listen to the songs we’re about to introduce, and share them with your friends too!
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Songs middle school students like: classic and popular Japanese hits (61–70)
Snow SmileBUMP OF CHICKEN
A single released in 2002 by the popular rock band BUMP OF CHICKEN.
From the intro’s guitar arpeggios, it draws listeners into a slightly fantastical world.
The image is a snowy landscape of pure white, with lovers walking through it.
While BUMP has many rock numbers, “Snow Smile” is a gentle love song.
CHE.R.RYYUI
A single released in 2007 by singer-songwriter YUI.
It was a time before smartphones became widespread.
Teens exchanged emails with the people they liked using flip phones.
Since you couldn’t trade messages instantly like on LINE, you’d wait nervously for a reply from the other person.
The song expresses a girl’s feelings of love conveyed through emails.
Apply false eyelasheskyarī pamyu pamyu
A single released in 2012 by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, who is globally popular as an artist.
It’s one of her signature songs.
The lyrics celebrate the power of fashion and makeup, telling a story in which putting on false eyelashes makes the world change dramatically.
The music video is packed with Kyary’s dreamy-cute aesthetic.
Many people were probably drawn into her world through this song.
That’s not it.Mōningu Musume ’16
It’s a triple A-side single released by Morning Musume ’16 in 2016.
The song expresses the frustration of teenage girls at being judged solely by their appearance.
Tsunku♂, the creator of Morning Musume, said that when making this song he focused on the gap between one member’s looks and her true self.
Surely, it also carries a desire to tell adults who make assumptions based only on what they see, “That’s not who I am.”
Naughty SunORANGE RANGE
A single released in 2007 by ORANGE RANGE, a five-member band from Okinawa.
It was the opening song for the drama “Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise.” The drama featured many hugely popular actors, including Maki Horikita, Shun Oguri, Toma Ikuta, and Hiro Mizushima.
It’s based on a story where the heroine sneaks into an all-boys school.
The song expresses the intense romantic feelings of teenage boys.