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A good wedding is all about two things. The first is the bar. If it’s a dry wedding, everyone’s going to talk about how miserable your wedding was. If your bar is stocked solely with beer and wine, people are going to say, “Great wedding, but it was beer and wine only.” Fully-stocked open bar? Attendees will exclusively talk about how much fun they had without any mention of the drink selection outside of maybe, “Fuck, I shouldn’t have had so much champagne.”
But the second attribute of a great wedding is great music. Everyone knows that a DJ is the easy move and a band takes you to the next level. A wedding is only as good as it’s music, which means you need to establish having either a killer live band or a DJ who just plays the hits. Luckily, Billboard made it a lot easier for DJs to see everything they need to play by compiling a list of the most popular wedding songs.
They took a poll of 37 DJs from around the nation and compiled a ranked list of the most-played wedding songs fro the last year. And as someone who has been to more than enough weddings over the past calendar year, I can confirm that these are indeed the most played songs and it’s not even close.
Per Billboard:
1. “Uptown Funk”, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars
2. “Shake It Off”, Taylor Swift
3. “Shut Up and Dance”, Walk the Moon
4. “Can’t Stop the Feeling”, Justin Timberlake
5. “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”, Whitney Houston
6. “September”, Earth, Wind & Fire
7. “Yeah!”, Usher feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris
8. “Don’t Stop Believin’”, Journey
9. “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”, Michael Jackson
10. “Shout”, The Isley Brothers
While this list clearly needs to replace some of the newer flash-in-the-pan songs with “Celebration” by Kool & The Gang and “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, each one of those songs guarantees that you’re going to pull your pants up, set your drink down, and hit the dance floor.
Either way, get used to hearing them all. Wedding season is in full swing and they’re about to be on repeat. .
[via Billboard]
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Shout should be number one.
Also, I don’t believe there has been a wedding since 2006 that hasn’t played Cupid Shuffle.
Can we debate that it should be Otis Day and the Knights not the Isley Bros?
Went to a wedding in May where the DJ, no joke, played three songs twice. It was my wedding. PGP.
Do you guys go to a lot of weddings that have a live band? I’m scanning my memory and aside from the awful string quartet at the ceremony of my buddies wedding last August (who also showed up to the rehearsal dinner uninvited causing members of the wedding party to have to eat at the bar), I think it has been all DJs for me.
Not really, I’m sure it is way more expensive, but the ones I have been to with a band have always been the most fun. Especially when they are an 80’s cover band.
Never been to a wedding and thought “wow that DJ was amazing”. Always gotta go with a band.
Get tired of hearing the same old shit and shitty songs that were popular a year ago but adults now think are popular.
I’m still waiting for the “Cotton Eye Joe” revival
Really feel like Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega should be on this list.