[July Karaoke Songs] Carefully selected summer classics and popular Japanese summer hits!
July marks the end of the rainy season and the arrival of full-on summer!
It’s an exciting time with lots of events like summer festivals and music fests.
In this article, we’ll introduce songs you’ll want to sing at karaoke in July.
We’ve picked out especially recommended hit songs from among refreshing, high-energy tracks and powerful tunes—perfect for the hot summer.
Of course, heading to the beach or the pool is great, but on days when the heat makes you think “Going outside is dangerous!”, why not enjoy karaoke indoors with the air conditioning on?
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[July Karaoke Songs] Carefully Selected Classic Summer Hits and Popular Japanese Summer Songs! (71–80)
Island SongTHE BOOM
Released in 1992 as a track on THE BOOM’s album and then as a single the following year, it became a huge hit! It won the Best Song Award at the Japan Record Awards and even led to an appearance on the Kohaku Uta Gassen, making it the song that put THE BOOM on the map.
Although THE BOOM’s members are not from Okinawa, this is a meaningful and wonderful song that conveys the realities of Okinawa and the horrors of war to future generations, and it will continue to be loved.
It’s a passionate karaoke song that lets you feel many kinds of summer as you imagine Okinawa’s history and its beautiful sea.
A-E-U-ITHE ORAL CIGARETTES
THE ORAL CIGARETTES have done many tie-ins, including the theme song for the film Ajin and the ending theme for the anime Sagrada Reset.
Their exhilarating song that blows away the rainy-season gloom is A-E-U-I.
The opening guitar riff is striking, but more than anything, the repeated phrase of the title “A-E-U-I” sticks in your head after just one listen! And the lyrical worldview that treats romance as a momentary fiction is so very them.
It’s a song you’ll definitely want someone to sing at karaoke if you’re going with a teen or twenties crowd!
Swayed by a ponytailThis is LAST
This is LAST often names their albums and singles with striking phrases like “Whatever, I don’t care, I don’t know” and “When you grow up someday.” Their song “Swayed by Your Ponytail” is another heart-fluttering track.
To put it more explicitly, it’s like saying, “My heart is being swayed by your ponytail.” The setting is July.
Lyrics like “It ended as unrequited love, but still…” are the very essence of youth.
It’s a song that resonates with everyone, making you think, “I wish I had a love like that, too.”
[Karaoke Songs for July] Carefully Selected Summer Classics and Popular Japanese Summer Songs! (81–90)
summer festivalWhiteberry
Natsu Matsuri, which is also a signature song of the all-girl band Whiteberry that disbanded in 2004.
Originally released in 1990 as a track by JITTERIN’JINN, it was covered by Whiteberry and released in 2000.
It became a major hit after being featured as a tie-in song for TV dramas and commercials.
Packed to the brim with vivid summer scenes, it’s a karaoke favorite that instantly boosts the mood for the full-on summer season ahead.
beetle (specifically, a rhinoceros beetle)aiko
When it comes to summer songs by Aiko, the singer-songwriter from Osaka, it has to be Kabutomushi.
Her voice, which conveys both gentleness and strength, is truly wonderful.
The lyrics, which describe being drawn to a loved one’s indescribable aura and liken oneself to a rhinoceros beetle, distill a faint, bittersweet maiden’s heart into something rich and poignant.
Whether you’re in love right now or your romance is a distant memory, I hope you’ll sing it while savoring the lyrics!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!Androp
The rock band androp has been steadily gaining popularity since their 2011 debut album, “anew.” Their 2015 release “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!” was also featured in a commercial for the soda Mitsuya Cider, and it’s an irresistibly refreshing track that pops and fizzes just like a sparkling cider.
With an upbeat groove that makes your body move as you sing along, this is a must-play—especially when you want to hype up a crowd!
Ms. Hanako on a high pedestalback number
When it comes to back number’s summer unrequited love songs, “Takane no Hanako-san” is the one.
As the title suggests, the person he falls for is a flower on a high peak—completely out of reach.
The song portrays a man’s feelings as he half-gives up on making such an unattainable woman notice him, yet still harbors a faint hope somewhere in his heart.
Unlike many unrequited love songs that are ballads, this one is upbeat.
It’s a karaoke crowd-pleaser and popular with both men and women.
If you’re heading to karaoke in the summer, make sure to master this track!
