List of graduation songs

This is a list of songs that are typically played during graduation ceremonies.

Popular traditional graduation songs by country or region

• Europe: "Gaudeamus Igitur" or "Farandole from L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2"
• Latin America: "Triumphal March from Aida"
• Japan: "Hotaru no hikari" (Uses the same tune as "Auld Lang Syne), "Aogeba tōtoshi", "Tabidachi no Hi ni"
• The Philippines: "Triumphal March from Aida", "Pomp and Circumstance Marches" and "Farandole from L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2"
• Taiwan: "Auld Lang Syne"
• US and Canada: "Pomp and Circumstance Marches"
• Sweden: "Den blomstertid nu kommer", "I denna ljuva sommartid", "StudentsÃ¥ngen"
• Russia: "March from The Nutcracker"
• 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
• "Ingatlah Hari Ini" (Remember This Day), by Indonesian Pop Group Project Pop

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