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When it comes to summer, you just want to crank up some uplifting tunes and get pumped, right?
Here’s a special feature of energizing summer songs just for you.
We’ve picked out a variety of summer tracks—from the latest releases to timeless oldies and hit songs.
Packed with high-energy songs that will elevate your summer mood and dance numbers that will make you want to move, this lineup is sure to get you excited!
They’re also perfect companions for a drive.
Let’s make wonderful summer memories with these feel-good summer songs!
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[Turn Up the Summer] A Lively, Uplifting J-POP Summer Songs Special! [2026] (1–10)
Glaring Summernaniwa danshi
A dazzling, sun-bright summer anthem has arrived! This track was pre-released as a digital single in June 2025.
Its choreography, which blends summery vibes with disco, is a major highlight, showcasing high-energy dance perfectly suited for midsummer in both the intro and the chorus.
The song has also been featured in a ROUND1 commercial and is slated to be included on the album “BON BON VOYAGE,” set for release in July.
It’s perfect for hyping things up at the beach with friends or as the soundtrack to your summer memories!
Blue Hawaii Lemon≒JOY
A track has arrived with an exhilarating melody that feels like it draws you into the bright summer sky! It’s the 3rd single by ≒JOY, produced by Rino Sashihara, set for release in June 2025.
This work uses shaved ice—melting as fleetingly as soft snow—as its motif, expressing a sweet-and-sour yet slightly bittersweet feeling of first love.
The music video’s theme of a “summer escapade” evokes both the sparkle of youth and a touch of grown-up poise, sure to captivate listeners.
In the past, the group has even topped music charts with songs like “Gymnasium Disco.” Roll down the car windows and let the wind in as you listen—your mood will soar for sure! It’s the perfect soundtrack to make those summer moments with friends shine even brighter.
lilacMrs. GREEN APPLE
This song packs a sense of exhilarating, fast-paced guitar rock with the bittersweetness of youth.
It was selected as the opening theme for the TV Tokyo anime “Oblivion Battery” in April 2024, marking Mrs.
GREEN APPLE’s first anime tie-in in about five years.
Created by Motoki Ohmori with the feeling of an answer song to “Ao to Natsu,” the track features striking, technically intricate guitar riffs that signal a return to the band’s roots.
The lyrics explore the finiteness of life, the struggles of adolescence, and the importance of loving one’s imperfect self.
It’s a refreshingly uplifting song, perfect for those who want to get fired up at summer festivals or reminisce about their youth.
Drowning in summerBocchi
What Bocchi, surging through the scene with a youthfully vibrant sound, has delivered is a track that contemplates the passing summer.
The song evokes a bittersweet yet beautiful landscape, like a summer twilight.
Its emotional guitar lines and vocals that seem to speak directly to the heart gently—yet powerfully—stir the listener’s feelings.
While it accompanies the sentimental mood of summer’s end, it also wraps you in a curious sense of uplift that gives quiet courage to step into tomorrow.
The track is the title song of their first EP, “Drowning in Summer,” released in June 2023, and its music video, with over 650,000 views on YouTube, garnered major attention.
It’s the kind of song that will make your heart swell when you want to sink into a slightly nostalgic mood on a late-summer drive, or when you’re alone at night, quietly reflecting on memories.
SUMMER LIONflumpool
It’s an energetic, summer-perfect number that makes your heart leap just by listening—like the blazing midsummer sun.
flumpool’s latest captures the very image of a powerful lion, brimming with vitality and a spirit of adventure.
The lyrics speak of “liberation” from a closed-off heart, and a singular passion that pursues someone the way a sunflower seeks the sun.
From that, you can feel the strength that comes from being in love and the boundless possibilities of the future.
Released in July 2024, the song vividly colored the story as the opening theme for the drama “Hidamari ga Kikoeru.” It also marks flumpool’s 15th anniversary and is included on their album “Shape the water.” Perfect for a summer drive, it’s a track that gently gives you a push when you’re ready to take a step forward.
Good job, summer!NEW!HALCALI
A summery tune where laid-back raps from the duo glide comfortably over a tropical, languid beat.
The lyrics capture the bittersweetness of summer’s end and a faint flutter of romance, letting you sink into a sentimental mood just by listening.
Included on their first album “Halcali Bacon,” released in September 2003, this hidden gem managed to stay on the Oricon charts for 20 weeks despite never being released as a single.
The track produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka of Fantastic Plastic Machine is outstanding as well—no wonder it drew renewed attention, becoming a global viral hit on social media with dance videos from 2025 onward.
Give it a spin during a sunset drive or on a long night when you want to reminisce about summer, and let your body sway gently to the groove.
Summer of LoveHirai Dai
Delivered in May 2025 by Dai Hirai, this is a track that lifts the heart along with the summer sunshine.
Created to coincide with the beach festival he hosts, it’s the third installment in a series of four consecutive digital singles.
In an instant, it whisks listeners away to those peak summer moments that feel like they could last forever.
The surf music woven from gentle acoustic guitar and ukulele tones offers a comfort that’s quintessentially Dai Hirai.
This work seems to sonically capture the sparkle of summer—savoring the “now” with all your might, with neither beginning nor end.
Speaking of Dai Hirai, he has crafted many moving songs, including THE GIFT, widely known as the theme for the film Doraemon: Nobita’s Chronicle of the Moon Exploration.
It’s perfect not only for summer drives, but also for time with friends on the beach, or for moments when you want to soak in a solitary summer sunset.
Give it a listen and your body will start to move naturally—energy and smiles welling up—a true summer tune.