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I will be doing one hour karaoke/half hour dance music on New Years Eve.

Help me make a playlist of hi-energy music guaranteed to fill the dancefloor. I will delete some songs from the list and add some of yours. Venue: Family Restaurant. Patrons: 16 – 70 yrs old.

1. Let’s Groove Tonight - Earth, Wind & Fire
2. I Gotta feeling – Black Eyed Peas
3. Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
4. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
5. Super Freak – Rick James
6. Boot Scootin’ Boogie – Brooks & Dunn
7. Shake Your Booty – KC & The Sunshine Band
8. I Know You Want Me – Pitbull
9. Poker Face – Lady Gaga
10. Corazon Espinado – Mana/Santana
11. Shake Your Body Down To The Ground – Michael Jackson
12. Hot Hot Hot – Bruce Poindexter
13. Down – Jay Sean
14. Boogie Oogie Oogie – A Taste Of Honey
15. Ladies Night – Kool & The Gang
16. Get Down On It – Kool & The Gang
17. Holiday – Madonna
18. Freak Show On The Dancefloor – Bar-Kays
19. No Parking On The Dancefloor – Midnight Star
20. Electric Boogie/Electric Slide – Marcia Griffith
21. Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson
22. Suds In The Bucket – Sara Evans

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

Anything Lady Gaga of course
"I Gotta Feelin" and "Imma Be" Black Eyed Peas
"Fire Burnin" and "Take You There" Sean Kingston
"Like a G6" Far East Movement
"- Tok" "Your Love Is My Drug" "Take it off" all by Ke$ha
"Dirty Picture" Taio Cruz and Ke$ha
"My First Kiss" 3OH!3 and Ke$ha
"Party In the USA" Miley Cyrus

That'll get u started. I'll try to post more if I think of more.

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"This Is Your Night" Amber
"Girlfriend" Avril Lavigne
"Love Shack" B52s
"Single Ladies" Beyonce
"Save A Horse Ride a Cowboy" Big and Rich
"Bad Touch" Bloodhound Gang
"Jump Jive n Wail" Brian Setzer Orchestra
"Womanizer" "Circus" "Outrageous" Britney Spears
"Everytime We touch" Cascada

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"Good Girls Go Bad" Cobra Starship
"Sandstorm" Darude
"Groove is in the Heart" Deee-lite
"Blue" Eiffel 65
"I Like It" Enrique Iglesias
"Thriller" "Bad" "Beat It" Michael Jackson
"Right Round" "Sugar" "Low" Flo Rida
"I will Survive" gloria Gaynor

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"K-Jay"
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For the very little dance music I run I just go with the disco era.

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Good luck ...After midnight...after Auld lang syne...Go Cheesy......get a Conga line going.......then a bit of "Cha Cha Slide"......There's loads of UK tunes that probably wouldn't have the same effect in the US...IE "Saturday Night" by Whigfield...But anything that gets em doing a special dance is a must

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Thanks, Dave. After midnight, I intend to slow it down a bit. I'll be so tired by then, the crowd starts thinning out. Still a lot of decorations to take down, by 1:30 I hope I'm out the door and headed home.

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

If you have the time, when I'm looking for new and fresh stuff, I go to Rhapsody, plug in one artist I know for sure has some good dance stuff (e.g. Usher), listen to their stuff, look to the right and see who is similar...you can spend hours doing that, but I have found some really, really interesting stuff that way.

I have playlists of dance tunes and most of what I use is already listed in this thread.

BTW, Enrique Iglesia's "I Like It" is a great tune...

I gotta feeling hasn't run its course yet? I'm sorry, but so darn redundant. I try to stay away from this year's 'has beens' and stay more current.
Even Kesha - Tok has been booted from my playlist until it's acceptable to bring it back. Party in The USA is kinda in the gray area, but it's destined to be a party favorite.
Depending on your crowd, Cee Lo Green's F&CK YOU has never gone wrong for me. Surprisingly, many people haven't even heard it yet.
Bust A Move is a good one for all generations. That I don't think I saw up there.

I wish I can include Cee Lo Green's "F**k You" in my playlist. It's a good upbeat dance song, except the lyrics are explicit. Song is so good it was nominated for the Grammy's record and song of the year. It was released on PopHits Monthly December Pop Edition. Didn't make it in my song book either due to suggestive language.

If I play that song grandpa and grandma with kids in tow will be out the door in a flash, but before they do gramps willl come to me first and curse at me, like "F*** You for playing that song".

For the benefit of those who haven't heard it yet, here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

Honestly, not a lot of the new stuff (this year, last year) well light up the floor. Poker Face-Lady Gaga OMG- Usher.

Some old tried and true--- worked well for me last night at a last minute gig:

Whoomp (There It Is) - Tag Team
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Jump Around - House of Pain
Baby Got Back - Sir Mix Alot
Shout - Lloyd Williams (Animal House version)
Strokin' - Clarence Carter
Cha Cha Slide - DJ Casper
Cupid Shuffle - Cupid
Macarena - Los del Rio (yeah, still works)
Summer Lovin' (grease medley) - Olivia Newton John and John Travolta
Stayin' Alive (remix) - N-Trance
YMCA - Village People (works well late with drunks)
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Gettin Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Boom! Shake the Room - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Pony - Ginuwine
Here Comes the Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature
C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train) - Quad City DJ's
Shoop - Salt-N-Pepa
This DJ - Warren G
Tootsee Roll - 69 Boyz
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Brick House - Commodores
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band
That's the Way (I Like It) - KC and the Sunshine Band
Boogie Shoes - KC and the Sunshine Band
(Shake, Shake, Shake ) Shake Your Booty - KC and the Sunshine Band
I'm Your Boogie Man - KC and the Sunshine Band
Celebration - KC and the Sunshine Band
Funky Town - Lipps Inc
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart


Those songs should be in every DJ's library. There are others and you wouldn't want to play all these every night but you can't go wrong. Typically, newer stuff earlier then switch to the proven oldies! Read the crowd.

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SBI has the clean version of "F**k You" called "Forget You" on their website. They offer clean versions for a lot of the explicit language songs.

I have the "Forget You" version and depending on the audience and venue, the person who sings it will either say "Forget" you or the other. I had someone pretty well demand that I sing it the other night - "Oh gosh, I don't even KNOW it yet." Yah right.

Speaking of Warren G, Regulate works for me too, as well as Rapper's Delight ~ Sugarhill Gang. I LOVE throwbacks, so I put in the occasional TV Theme, like Laverne & Shirley, or Reading Rainbow. People get a kick out of that stuff.

This is the karaoke forum....... move this dance crap to the lounge....

Hey he's nobody..... continue on with some dance music......also, if I sing a song, and people get up and dance.....I feel that's quite a complement, so what's some good sings, that can get people up dancing......like "cotton-eyed joe" & "wonderful tonight"?

One possibility for folk music, New Years Eve Party is to hire a DJ to perform at the party. It is a good choice because they tend to play a wide variety of dance music and is a master at reading the audience and what kind of music to appeal to them. Encourage public participation is another advantage of hiring a DJ. noise power should be considered a DJ. DJ has to decide whether to sign the agreement to ensure, in accordance with the rules.

Natasha2010. Let me get this straight. Are you saying that dj's are better than kj's because "they play a wide variety of dance music and is a master at reading the audience & they know what kind of music to play?" "Dj's can encourage crowd participation because of the noise power?

Well, excuuuussse meee! I'm in the wrong business! . Sorry, I'm just teasing you.
But kidding aside, to quote someone I can't remember who / "You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts". Cheers!

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

heh heh.....I might be nobody, but at least I don't have naked pictures of myself... .you're going to freak out Jian....you are one sick puppy.....

It's ok to dance at karaoke. I play filler music in between and sometimes people dance. If you are gonna be negative, leave!

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