This is a list of songs that are typically played during graduation ceremonies. An example is the song "A Million Dreams" a song made by Artists: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Ziv Zaifman.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.Popular traditional graduation songs by country or region
- Europe: Gaudeamus Igitur
- Latin America: Triumphal March from Aida
- Japan: Hotaru no hikari (Uses the same tune as "Auld Lang Syne)."
- Japan: Aogeba tōtoshi.
- The Philippines: Triumphal March from Aida, Pomp and Circumstance Marches
- Taiwan: Auld Lang Syne
- US and Canada: Pomp and Circumstance Marches
- Sweden: Den blomstertid nu kommer, I denna ljuva sommartid, Studentsången
- Arab World: “Wehayat Albi” by Abdel Halim Hafez
Modern (20th century or later) graduation songs
- Graduation (Friends Forever), a song by Vitamin C
- Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) by Green Day
- 10nen Sakura, a song by the Japanese idol group AKB48 released in 2009.
- "Next In Line" by Afterimage
- Through the Years, a 1981 song by Kenny Rogers
- Goodbye to You by Michelle Branch, released in 2002
- "The Whispering Wind" (earlier billed as "Whistling Wind"), "The Last Rose", and "All Those Years Ago" by Michael Flatley, released in 1998, 2005, and 2011
- Santorini by Yanni
- ”When We Were Friends” a song by Adam Fecht and Elizabeth Swearingen released in 2018 has received over 500,000 hits on YouTube.
- Unwritten, a song by Natasha Bedingfield.
- Я смотрю на них by Tarakany!
- Giovinezza (graduation song), 1909 Italian student hymn
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