Popular Festival Songs Ranking [2025]
Songs with a festival theme enjoy enduring popularity in Japan.
This time, we’ve put together a ranking of popular festival tracks.
It features songs with a nostalgic vibe as well as tunes that capture the excitement of a festival.
They’re perfect as BGM for festivals, too.
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Popular Festival Song Rankings [2025] (91–100)
Yearning for the summer festival=LOVE99rank/position

While summer festivals are often seen as fun times spent with friends, many people also use these big events as a turning point to express their feelings.
This song depicts a love story tied to a summer festival, capturing the emotional movement and resolve of someone trying to confess their feelings.
The way the group sings in unison about their romantic determination conveys an image of friends cheering on someone’s love.
With its overall bright sound, the song evokes a sense of charging straight toward love and a powerful resolve.
After the FestivalTakuro Yoshida100rank/position
On the way home from a fun festival, you somehow end up feeling a little lonely, don’t you? Capturing that feeling perfectly is Takuro Yoshida’s song “After the Festival.” It’s included on his 1972 album “Genki Desu.” The melancholic, understated melody heightens that sense of loneliness.
The lyrics reflect on the emptiness that descends after the festivities and the indescribable irritation that follows, pondering how to shake it off.
This song offers comfort for that post-festival sadness that everyone—yourself included—has felt.






