![]() ![]() ![]() “Hi Friend!” served as the friendly lead single for the Canadian EDM star’s fourth studio album, For Lack of a Better Name. It followed close behind “Super Bass” as her second solo top 10 on the Hot 100. Nicki Minaj is best known as a trailblazing female rapper, but “Starships” is a dance song through and through. This Alesso track incorporates a sample of Kylie Minogue’s “Get Outta My Way.” Listen here. “Dear Boy” is more of an Avicii deep cut, first released on his 2013 record True - which is famous for singles like “Wake Me Up” and “Hey Brother.” Listen here. No one could have predicted at the time that it would go on to hit the top 5 of the Hot 100 and give country artist Maren Morris her breakthrough into the top 40 pop landscape. One of the first people to ever hear this hit was Billboardjournalist Chris Martins, for whom Zedd played the track while it was still in the works. Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey - "The Middle". ![]() This track very appropriately samples Baby Bash’s 2003 single “Suga Suga.” Listen here. “Just Dance” spent nearly an entire year on the Hot 100 and topped the chart for three weeks, the first of five No 1s in the pop star’s lengthy career. Colby O'Donis - "Just Dance"įor a list of good songs to dance to, Lady Gaga’s debut single/breakout hit is honestly a no-brainer. This song - the title is an acronym for “I Don’t Give A F–k Or Sh-t” - was one of Francis’ breakout projects. “The Days” served as one half of the Swedish DJ’s two-song 2014 EP The Days / The Nights. When looking for songs that’ll make you want to dance, you really can’t go wrong with Avicii. Harris and Dua appeared together on The Graham Norton Show in 2018 for a rare live performance of “One Kiss” before sitting down for an interview, where they joked about how the former had previously “slid into the DMs” of the latter to inquire about working together on the song. This was the first of two collaborations between the Scottish DJ and Dua Lipa, with the pair going on to release “Potion” together in 2022 with Young Thug. This track marked both NYLA and Fuse ODG’s very first entry on the Hot 100. “All I Ask of You” is one of the most pop-forward songs from Skrillex, who made his name producing addictive dubstep tracks. Malinchak actually sampled Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “If This World Were Mine.” Listen here. This song was released in 2013, but if you sense that there’s a little bit of the 1960s sprinkled into it - you’re not wrong. Produced by Max Martin and Ali Payami, “Cool for the Summer” served as the lead single for Lovato’s fifth studio album, Confident. “It’s this idea that since you came into my life everything is different, and I didn’t know that it could be this different since you came into my life.” 12 on the Hot 100, “Starving” marked Grey’s first entry on the chart and is Hailee Steinfeld’s best-charting track to date. “’Starving’ is a song about sort of knowing someone, or getting to know that certain someone, to where even though you were somebody before that person came along, they have given you this whole new outlook on yourself and on life,” Steinfeld told Nylon of the song in 2016. From old school songs to modern day masterpieces, this list has something groovy for everybody, whether you love current pop hits, EDM originals from DJing geniuses like Dillon Francis, Skrillex and Calvin Harris, remixed versions of already dance-worthy tracks from Michael Jackson, Lizzo and Nelly or radio staples that make you feel a decade younger with just the push of a button.įrom A (Avicii) to Z (Zedd), keep reading to see Billboard‘s top 50 feel good jams that’ll bring a smile to your face and put a spring in your step. The act of dancing is a happy thing to do.”īillboard has the perfect playlist for the next time in your life a dance therapy session is warranted - meaning all you have to do is put on your earbuds, crank up the volume and shake it out. It can be something that you listen to on your own if you want, but really it’s something designed to make people happy, even if it’s a sad song. I mean, that’s why it’s important to a lot of people. “There’s not that many things that make me happy. “It’s important to me because it just makes me happy,” he told Fader. English DJ Jamie xx (who scored a song on this list) explained back in 2015 why he believes dancing to electronically charged music is essential. Basically, letting loose to a pulsing beat filled with major chords and bass drops is a form of self-care.ĭon’t believe it? Take it from the experts. Whether you’re grooving in your car, raising the roof at the club or tearing it up alone in your room, it’s been scientifically proven that moving to the beat releases dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins - aka, happy chemicals - in your brain. There are some problems in life that can only be solved by a dance party. ![]()
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