[Middle School Students] Popular Western Music Ranking [By Generation]

Break Free feat. ZeddAriana Grande64rank/position

Ariana Grande – Break Free feat. Zedd (Audio)

A signature song by Ariana Grande, who is hugely popular among teenage girls around the world.

It’s uptempo and hard to pull off, but if you can sing it, you’ll definitely look like a diva just like Ariana.

If you’re a junior high school student who wants to sing Western pop in a cool way, this is an uplifting song you should definitely learn to sing.

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Bring Me The Horizon – Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd (Official Video)

Bring Me The Horizon are a British rock band.

Having absorbed everything from metalcore to electro, this track they released in June 2024 is a refreshing number that fuses high-velocity pop punk with post-hardcore.

The lyrics carry a message about overcoming trauma and pain by loving yourself rather than relying on others, making it a great way to start the morning on a positive note.

Featured on the album POST HUMAN: NeX GEn, it reached No.

41 on the UK charts.

Its up-tempo rhythm and anthemic chorus will instantly boost your energy before heading to school.

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Justin Bieber – Sorry (PURPOSE : The Movement)

This is a song by Justin Bieber, who is now incredibly popular.

He sings it casually, but the meaning carries a strong message to today’s youth.

It’s slower than I expected, so it’s easy to catch the words and feels like he’s speaking to you, which makes it a good study resource.

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Taylor Swift – Shake It Off

Taylor Swift’s hit song “Shake It Off.” Around this track, Taylor Swift began moving away from her country style and shifting toward pop, which has a larger market.

Every part of the song is wrapped in a bright, upbeat vibe.

Because the melody is simple, it might be a great match for Japanese listeners who tend to find complex melodies challenging.

In any case, it’s an exceptionally cheerful song, so it works well as entrance music or in any scene where you want to raise the energy level.

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Adele – Hello (Official Music Video)

Adele, who burst onto the scene like a comet and continues to captivate the world with her unparalleled voice, has created timeless masterpieces.

Though she is a singer admired by other famous artists as the best of the best, she surprisingly has relatively few albums, making each song all the more precious.

Waking up to her voice on a quiet morning is the very height of luxury.

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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Official Music Video)

This is a historic masterpiece by Nirvana that rewrote the music scene of the 1990s with nothing more than a power-chord riff blasted through heavily distorted guitars.

Kurt Cobain, who at the time was elevated as a spokesperson for the so-called Generation X, delivered screams that resonated powerfully with young people grappling with loneliness and frustration.

Because the band’s history—and the tragic events surrounding Kurt Cobain afterward—is so well known, people tend to approach the song with all kinds of preconceptions.

But I hope today’s middle schoolers will simply experience how straight-up cool the song itself is.

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Shawn Mendes – Stitches (Official Music Video)

A pop track released in 2015 by Shawn Mendes.

It reached the Top 10 on charts around the world and was nominated for the Teen Choice Awards.

In October 2016, it won Best Single at the BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards.