AKB48 Graduation Songs, Entrance Ceremony Songs, and Popular Songs Ranking [2026]
As soon as the graduation ceremony ends, the entrance ceremony will be right around the corner.
You’re probably spending your days feeling restless, with anxiety and excitement all mixed together.
For all of you in that situation, here’s a ranked list of AKB48 songs that are perfect for the graduation and school entrance season!
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AKB48 Graduation Songs, Entrance Songs, and Popular Songs Ranking [2026] (11–20)
Be My Baby on the LipsAKB4816rank/position
A very fast-paced, powerful melody, and a bittersweet love song about someone who can’t quite find the courage to take a step forward.
Strictly speaking, it’s not a song about graduation, but since it was Minami Takahashi’s graduation single—she had supported AKB48 for many years—it can be considered a major milestone track.
Fortune Cookie in LoveAKB4817rank/position
As soon as this song starts playing, even people who don’t know AKB48 will feel like getting up and dancing—such a catchy hit number, “Koisuru Fortune Cookie.” AKB48 is a female idol group that began at a theater in Akihabara, and today they’ve released numerous hits as a nationally beloved idol group.
Among their hit songs, “Koisuru Fortune Cookie” is their 32nd single, with Rino Sashihara as the center.
Its dance sound, reminiscent of classic disco soul, makes it perfect as dance music.
Learn the choreography and try dancing to it at events and parties!
Graduation of Unrequited LoveAKB4818rank/position
Let me introduce an AKB48 number that marks the passage of time at graduation and portrays an unspoken one-sided love.
Released in March 2007 as part of Team K’s 3rd Stage “Nounai Paradise,” it’s a song that has been passed down in theater performances.
You can laugh within your circle of friends, yet say nothing in front of the person you like as graduation day draws near.
Those bittersweet feelings are carefully spun over a gentle, mid-tempo melody.
Rather than flashy production, the arrangement treasures the afterglow of the words, quietly seeping into the listener’s heart.
This work captures a moment of youth swaying between the fear that love might end unfulfilled and the desire to express your feelings anyway.
It’s a number we recommend not only to those about to graduate, but also to anyone who wants to remember who they were back then.