Summer songs that get middle schoolers excited: Popular tracks you’ll want to listen to in your youth
When it comes to the most active season of the year, it’s definitely summer! Are you, a current junior high school student, making the most of your youth? With love, studies, and sports to give your all to, there are of course lots of fun times, but also tough and trying moments.
In this article, we’ve researched classic and popular summer songs that will fire up your middle school summer life.
Be sure to share them with your friends! It’s also great to listen with someone you like, or use as refreshing BGM for club activities or studying.
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Summer songs that excite middle schoolers: Popular tracks to soundtrack your youth (11–20)
sparkleFuji Kaze
A song that evokes a refreshing breeze and colors the summer of youth.
Released in January 2022, this track was featured in a Honda VEZEL commercial and captured the hearts of many.
It incorporates sounds inspired by ’80s and ’90s dance music, brimming with an energy that blows away the summer heat.
The lyrics, which convey hope for new days and a dialogue with oneself, are delivered through Fujii’s gentle vocals, touching our hearts.
It’s a song that will adorn your summer with sparkling memories.
StarmineDa-iCE
A perfect heart-thumping track by Da-iCE for the season when fireworks paint the night sky.
It’s ideal for soaking in summer memories.
The lyrics convey the importance of trying again and again.
This song celebrates the greatness of continuing to challenge yourself without fearing failure.
Released in August 2022, it also won the Excellence Award at the Japan Record Awards.
On TikTok, it became a massive hit, surpassing 500 million plays.
For making summer memories, chatting with friends, or taking a refreshing break between club activities and studying—this song is sure to accompany your youth.
Samama Festival!Mrs. GREEN APPLE
It’s an energetic track that feels like a summer festival turned into music.
Released in June 2016, it was also used as the theme song for a Nihon Kogakuin College commercial.
The lyrics capture the excitement of summer vacation, inspiring you to break free from boring routines and have as much fun as you can.
Its bursting melodies and rhythms are perfect as background music for hanging out with friends or going on family outings.
It’s sure to color your best summer memories—so give it a listen.
Starting Oversumika
The sweltering heat of summer and the cool breeze that blows through it—Starting Over paints a scene rich with seasonal atmosphere.
It’s the opening theme for the baseball anime MIX MEISEI STORY: Our Second Summer, Beyond the Sky, and it sings of the protagonist’s passion as he aims for Koshien alongside vivid summer imagery.
That makes it a great pick as a cheer song, too.
Also pay attention to how it builds toward the end, with choral parts coming in and a key change that lifts the excitement.
Drowning in summerBocchi
Bocchi is a four-piece rock band formed by members who came together through social media.
“Drowning in Summer,” the title track of their first EP released digitally, is a standout number with an intro that features a floating, airy guitar riff.
The lyrics depict a dazzling youth that, once past, never returns; if you’re a middle schooler experiencing youth in real time, you might feel its preciousness.
With a clear, sentimental melody that tightens the chest, it’s a rock tune overflowing with the uniquely bittersweet feeling of summer.
Tracing That Dream (Ballad Ver.)YOASOBI
YOASOBI’s “Tracing That Dream” is a song about a bittersweet summer romance.
Released in 2020 as a digital-only single, it was featured in a Daihatsu Taft commercial.
In March 2022, a ballad arrangement was surprise-released and used as the theme song for the film adaptation of the original novel “Drops of Dreams and Flowers of Stars.” Its warm, laid-back tempo gives it a different kind of charm from the original.
Be sure to invite someone you like to a fireworks festival and listen to it together!
Summer songs that get middle schoolers hyped: Popular tracks to soundtrack your youth (21–30)
Summer Love AdvisorySHISHAMO
SHISHAMO’s “Natsukoi Chuiho” is a song about a one-sided summer crush.
Even before its release, it was featured as the CM song for JTB’s “Kokoro Odoru Natsutabi” campaign, so many of you have probably heard it.
Based on past experiences, you become afraid of failure and timid in love… I’m sure many middle schoolers have that kind of unrequited crush.
A girl who keeps slamming the brakes on her heart because she doesn’t want to make mistakes and doesn’t want to move forward—her feelings are painfully relatable.
It’s a one-sided love song that you can only empathize with.
