Songs to use in the memory movie. Let’s look back on our memories before graduation!
Memory movies made by stitching together lots of photos and videos are often given for moments overflowing with feelings for someone special.
There are memory movies that look back on travel memories or on a year spent with your partner for an anniversary, but the most commonly made memory movies are probably the ones that reflect on school life before graduation, right?
In this article, we’ll introduce songs that are perfect for memory movies that look back on student life!
Along with tracks themed around friendship, try using songs that sing about meeting someone important in your memory movie.
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Songs I want to use for a memory video. Let’s look back on our memories before graduation! (31–40)
We againSG
A graduation song filled with memories and warmth that’s been drawing attention is the work of SG.
Looking back on the carefree days, the gentle melody that embraces partings and the feelings that follow warms the heart.
The lyrics, full of strength to move forward and hope for reunion, have comforted many people as a piece that stays close at life’s important milestones.
Since November 2024, it has also been featured in CalorieMate’s exam-support commercial, adding new appeal with a concert band arrangement.
This work was produced with the cooperation of the Hanazono Tokuei High School Wind Ensemble, and the music created together with the students delivers a moving resonance that transcends generations.
It is a fitting song to gently nudge you forward at graduations, farewell parties, and moments of parting with someone important.
Homeward Road in MarchHirai Dai
Dai Hirai is a popular singer-songwriter known for his organic style rooted in surf music.
Released digitally in February 2022, this work is a ballad characterized by an emotional sound woven by piano and strings.
It delicately portrays the complex feelings that mix the sorrow of parting with the resolve to face the future, felt on a familiar way home.
Many listeners will likely be moved by its message: even though you’re closer to your dream, tears overflow because you realize how precious the days spent with your friends were.
Also included on the best album LOVE＋PEACE, this song gently embraces the bittersweet emotions of graduation season.
Give it a listen as a track perfect for memory videos on TikTok or to encourage those taking a new step forward.
YELLikimonogakari
YELL portrays farewell words not as something sad, but as a promise to soar into the future.
Released in September 2009, it is a single by Ikimonogakari, the musical group known for Kiyoe Yoshioka’s clear, expansive vocals.
Loved as the set piece for the NHK All-Japan School Music Competition’s junior high division, the song speaks to the importance of starting to walk on your own feet while facing loneliness and anxiety.
Holding the days spent together in your heart, the lyrics convey the resolve to set off on separate paths, gently accompanying the tears and smiles of graduation season.
This piece adds a moving touch to school-life memory videos—woven from countless photos with friends from club activities, school trips, and more—so be sure to give it a listen.
FarewellSEKAI NO OWARI
SEKAI NO OWARI’s new song “Saraba,” which began streaming on April 19, 2023, is included on their 17th single released on June 28.
It has also become familiar as the theme song for Fuji TV’s Wednesday drama “My Ex-Boyfriend’s Wedding” (Watashi no Oyome-kun) and is drawing attention as a track that colors various moments of school life.
Its lively rhythm and lyrics that evoke the strength to keep moving forward are sure to stir the hearts of graduating students embarking on a new chapter.
The message of staying positive no matter what gives you the courage to take a step into the future.
road; way; path; street; route; Tao (in philosophy)EXILE
An emotional ballad depicting encounters and farewells in special places.
It’s a song by EXILE, a group that captivates fans with a style fusing dance and vocals.
Released as a single in February 2007, it is also included on the album “EXILE EVOLUTION.” It was used as a theme song for NTV’s “Ongaku Senshi MUSIC FIGHTER,” and is also known for becoming the 1,000th number-one song in Oricon chart history.
Its lyrics, which make you realize how precious everyday life truly is, likely resonate deeply with students on the verge of graduation.
Having also become a staple choral piece, this classic is sure to move audiences to tears when set to a memory video stitched together with smiling photos of friends.
Songs to use for a memory movie. Let’s look back on our memories before graduation! (41–50)
I won’t forget who you are now.Naoto Intiraymi
“I Won’t Forget Who You Are Now” portrays farewells with friends and lovers who have always been by your side.
It was released in 2011 by Naoto Inti Raymi, a singer-songwriter known for his borderless music.
The song celebrates the joy and gratitude of meeting someone special at the close of school days filled with memories.
Its warm sound, which gently embraces feelings of loneliness and heartache, will stay close to your heart.
Give it a listen to add color to a school-life-themed memory video.
Spring Dayaimyon
A spring tale woven with kindness and bittersweetness.
Aimyon’s delicate vocals color the memories of our school days.
Written as the theme song for a TBS drama and released in November 2021, the track became a major hit, surpassing 100 million streams.
Its lyrics, which express feelings that are hard to convey precisely because someone is so close, resonate with students on the verge of graduation.
It’s the perfect song to soundtrack a spring day of making memories—lingering over farewells with friends while holding hopes for new encounters.