Love songs you want to listen to in summer. Love songs that color the summer.
Summer is the season when romance heats up!
With plans to go out with someone you like—to the beach, on drives, to festivals, and fireworks displays—many of you are probably gearing up to confess your feelings.
In this article, we’ve gathered love songs to cheer on your summer romance.
From classic summer love songs to tracks themed around fireworks and the sea, and even bittersweet tunes about unforgettable love that lingers into adulthood, we’re introducing a variety.
Turn up the mood with summer love songs, and enjoy summer and love to the fullest!
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Love songs to listen to in summer. Summer-coloring love songs (131–140)
fireworksJam9
It’s a heartbreak number packed with the bittersweet feeling of summer, recalling the fireworks you once watched with an ex.
The song is by Jam9, a music unit based in Shizuoka Prefecture, and it was released as a digital single in 2012.
The tune itself is catchy and easy to get into, but the lyrics really hit home.
Do you find yourself thinking about someone you used to date every time summer comes around? This song might gently sit by your side.
A Midsummer Morning’s DreamLyrical Lily
It’s a pop song that captures the fleeting yet beautiful moment of first love.
Performed by Lyrical Lily, a music unit from the multimedia project D4DJ, it was released digitally in August 2023.
Beginning with the freshness of a morning breeze and shifting to the image of a grand flower blooming in the night sky, the scene-setting resonates deeply.
The gentle, harmonious blend of the melody line and vocals is exquisite, evoking listeners’ summer memories.
cotton candyback number
This is a song that portrays the feelings of a summer festival romance.
It’s back number’s sixth single, released in July 2012, and was used as the opening theme for TBS’s “COUNT DOWN TV.” You can really feel the protagonist’s excitement as he spends time with his girlfriend in a yukata.
The warm vocals and melody are striking, evoking bittersweet memories of youth.
It’s the kind of track that would resonate even more deeply when listened to while gazing up at the night sky.
miraclemiwa
It’s the perfect song for fireworks that color the summer night sky.
Released in April 2013, this track was also featured in Shiseido’s SEA BREEZE commercial, leaving a lasting impression on many people.
With Miwa’s bright and refreshing vocals, it beautifully captures the heart-fluttering feelings of a summer romance.
The lyrics depict budding love under shining sunlight and the fleeting nature of summer that passes in an instant.
It’s an ideal song for reminiscing or playing as background music while gazing up at fireworks.
HANABIikimonogakari
Ikimonogakari’s “HANABI” turns up the heat on summer romance like blazing fireworks.
Released in 2006, the song was used as an ending theme for the anime BLEACH.
Its fast-paced, driving melody seems to amplify the intensity of summer itself.
The lyrics tell of fireworks that can’t be watched together—yet—paired with a wish that, until the day they can, their feelings never cool.
Youthful love believes straight ahead in each other and in a future whose shape can’t yet be seen.
It’s a track that conveys not only the heat of fireworks, but also the lingering bittersweetness that follows.
Raindrops and FireworksKobukuro
A summer song by Kobukuro inspired by the Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival held in the rain.
It portrays the protagonist’s bittersweet feelings as they wait for someone they love at the fireworks, with vivid, realistic imagery.
Included on the album “QUARTER CENTURY,” released in September 2024, and distributed digitally in July, this track is perfect for anyone who can’t let go of an unfulfilled love or wants to move past sad memories and take a step forward.
Although it’s a song about heartbreak, it’s nice that it doesn’t feel too melancholy when you listen to it.
Summer loveShido
Summer memories get etched into our hearts along with fireworks, don’t they? This is a single by SID, released in July 2007.
It was used as the ending theme for TV Asahi’s program “Squeez!” The lyrics sing of unrequited love, and the song’s arrangement is striking for the delicacy that shines through its visual kei intensity.
Mao’s vocals are sure to make your heart skip a beat.
Give this track a listen and let it launch summer-love fireworks in your heart.