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At the top of our list of the best dance floor fillers ever made is We Like To Party! (The Vengabus). This iconic dance-pop anthem by Vengaboys was created in 1998 and has been filling up dance floors ever since. Well, lemme tell ya now: With that piano slide and a bassline that just can’t be beat, this one’s a shoe-in. We’ve never met a human being who will admit to disliking this song (that’s your cue to take to the comments section if you exist, you poor, misguided souls), and for good reason; no matter how many times we hear this one, it simply doesn’t get old. — Bonnie Stiernberg This hit received an excellent total score of 78, scoring highest in positivity (94.2) and lowest in tempo (2.4). 4. Wannabe – Spice Girls The best year for producing party-starting floor fillers was 2008. This year produced 5 of the classic anthems we studied: PSY’s “Gangam Style” took over the internet in 2012; the video even broke YouTube’s view counter. But that Christmas, as 50 drunk Iranians were dancing to it in my living room and my uncle Kaveh sang along in stupor, I realized the song had broken through the internet and become so much more than a meme. That holiday season, “Gangnam Style,” along with a steady flow of alcohol, tightened the bond with my extended family. And that is the power of a true dance floor classic. — Sarra Sedghi

In fourth place was Shake It Off by Taylor Swift, scoring 95.2, followed by Happy by Pharrell Williams with 94. The Best Year for Floor Fillers ABBA started what I suppose is a long tradition of Swedish songwriters controlling the zeitgeist of American popular music. (Max Martin now has the most Billboard No 1 hits of anyone outside of The Beatles). In the spirit of pop music’s transient nature, most of ABBA’s songs have faded into the temporal tapestry…or rather, they’re now better known as show tunes, thanks to the astounding success of Mamma Mia! on Broadway. But “Dancing Queen” has endured, perhaps because everyone from Bobby Moynihan’s drunk uncle to your adorable six-year-old cousin can sing along to its chorus. There’s a swagger to the bass line, and the strings lead feels like it’s been etched into our culture by the violin bow. — Zach Blumenfeld Subsequently, each song in our playlist was located on Spotify, and the Spotify API was employed to gather data on their popularity, danceability, valence (positivity), energy, and tempo. More than 25 years since it was first played in 1996, Wannabe by Spice Girls remains one of the best dance floor fillers ever created. Peter Andre‘s 1995 hit Mysterious Girl is no stranger to getting people on the dance floor. On top of the catchy melody and bouncy rhythm, the tempo of this song is just right to get people dancing, achieving a score of 96.4.In third place was Everytime We Touch by Cascada. This emotional and lively dance anthem gained another outstanding energy score of 96.4. With this in mind, it’s no surprise that Toxic is second place on the list of the best floor fillers ever made, scoring 80.5. This dance floor classic earned its highest scores in positivity and tempo at 86.9. 3. Hey Ya! – Outkast The feel good charm of “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” is like the Disney of dance music. this Brit-pop nugget was so squeaky clean and adorable that it made the duo of George Michael and Andrew Ridgely a stadium-sized headliner on their first American tour. Still, though, everyone from little kids to old ladies turn up this song when it comes on, hurling themselves at dance floors to do the jitterbug. — Holly Gleason The 1990s achieved the highest average score of 53.9. This was followed incredibly closely by the 2010s with 52.7, then the 1980s with 49.4. Methodology

All songs were awarded a score out of 100 for each of these categories. We were then able to allocate a ‘floor filler score’ based on these findings to reveal the best dance floor fillers ever made. The 10 Best Dance Floor Fillers Ever Made Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. In third place was Hey Ya! by Outkast, scoring 95.2 in positivity, followed by Wigfield‘s Saturday Night with 94.

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Taking fifth spot on our list was Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) by Mark Ronson, with a score of 94.0. Which are the Most Popular Floor Fillers? How do people decide a once-dead genre is cool again? Or, at least, when does it stop inducing cringes and start inducing nostalgia fever? I wasn’t around when disco died in the early ‘80s and I don’t know why it became listenable again in the late ‘90s, but “I Will Survive” had to be one of the first 45’s dusted off, because it is the Platonic form of disco. The song combines Gloria Gaynor’s soaring vocals with one of the more singable melodies ever concocted, lays the mixture over a classic hi-hat-heavy beat and tasteful orchestral flourishes, and ends up with a bombastic anthem to self-respect—which serves to encourage even the worst of dancers to strut their stuff. “At first I was afraid, I was petrified,” they think to themselves…but now they will survive even the worst embarrassment on the dance floor. — Zach Blumenfeld The lists below contain the top tunes played at Wigan Pier and Legend in Manchester as well as The Stars Bar in Huddersfield, The Exit, Berties and The Haçienda in Manchester plus the many all-dayers throughout the north and the midlands.

We’re Going to Ibiza is the second song from Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys to enter our top 10 best dance floor fillers ever. With its bouncy melody and sing-a-long chorus, this song has the power to fill a dancefloor after the first few beats. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. Released: 22nd April 2022. NOW Music are proud to present the ultimate journey through the 80s’ biggest floor-fillers… NOW That’s What I Call 80s: Dancefloor. NOW Music are proud to present the ultimate journey through the 80s’ biggest floor-fillers… NOW That’s What I Call 80s: Dancefloor. While looking at trends across the years, we were also able to determine which decade boasts the most songs guaranteed to fill the dance floor. We did this by further analysing the data and dividing it into different decades. We then calculated the average floor filler score for each decade as a measure of comparison.

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This iconic dance floor sensation achieved an overall floor filler score of 66.4 and its highest figure was, of course, in danceability where it scored 92.9. 10. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) – Whitney Houston I don’t intend this to be a DJ blog as such, but more a blog by someone who happens to be a DJ – a place where personal emphasis takes precedence over professional, although, as I’ve already explained, the two aspects are, of course, inescapably entwined.

With attention-grabbing lyrics and a catchy chorus, this song slides into fourth place, scoring 76.0. Wannabe earned its highest score in danceability, at 84.5, followed by positivity at 82.1. 5. Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) – Mark Ronson This dance is so easy. In all of 11 steps even the most left-footed of dancers can fit in with the masses. In this case, the dance probably usurps the popularity of the song itself—a repetitive, moderate-tempo, clave-led dance hit. — Hilary Saunders

I don’t care who you are; I already know two things about you: 1. You have heard “Hey Ya!” by Outkast at least once, but, realistically at least 1,000 times, and 2. You will dance to it. It’s just science. You don’t even have to be a good dancer! As long as you can shake it like a Polaroid picture, you’ll be doing alrightalrightalrightalrightalrightalright. This song is the great equalizer—proof that even the least cool among us are capable of being ice cold. — Bonnie Stiernberg