Floorfillers 80s Club Classics

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Toxic by Britney Spears is another mesmerising anthem that is guaranteed to have all your guests rushing to the dance floor. This 2003 production not only achieved massive commercial success but also critical acclaim, earning Britney a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. I’m a DJ from Merseyside. I started out in 1975, but stopped for almost 20 years, between 1984 and the end of 2003, at which point I started again. Despite a strong danceability score, lower scores across positivity, tempo, and popularity drag down the overall floor filler score to 68.0, placing this anthem in eighth position. 9. Cha Cha Slide – DJ Casper

Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. 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. 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 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.

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NOW Music are proud to present the ultimate journey through the 80s’ biggest floor-fillers… NOW That’s What I Call 80s: Dancefloor. 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

Lusty without being raunchy, Michael tapped into the rhythms of sex and pushed his single into a place where coitus comes with a deeper attachment than the disco hit and run. As the song evolves, Michael’s supple tenor grips the melody like a bedpost and suggests an Elvis-esque desire. Needless to say, the stop-start arrangement—vocal forward and guitar cresting—was catnip for the gay clubs, high school dances, cruise ships and wedding planners. — Holly Gleason 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. In third place was Everytime We Touch by Cascada. This emotional and lively dance anthem gained another outstanding energy score of 96.4. 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. 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. MethodologyIn third place was Hey Ya! by Outkast, scoring 95.2 in positivity, followed by Wigfield‘s Saturday Night with 94. 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? 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 Initially, a seed list of over 80 notable floor fillers was first compiled from reputable articles and Spotify playlists. 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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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 is your DJ insurance policy. The one song that ensures a full dancefloor…usually dancing around a large pile of handbags! It’s the ultimate 80s pop floorfiller! 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

The best year for producing party-starting floor fillers was 2008. This year produced 5 of the classic anthems we studied: In fifth place, with a popularity score of 96.4, is the soulful and uplifting Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye. This position is shared with ABBA‘s iconic Dancing Queen. The Party Floor Fillers with the Highest Energy 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. The song that launched the phenomenon of strip mall tonk, “Boot Scoot Boogie” turned two journeymen songwriters into one of country’s biggest acts. Originally recorded by Texas swing icons Asleep at the Wheel, Tulsa club veteran Ronnie Dunn reclaimed his song for the duo he was putting together with Louisiana beer joint hit-writer Kix Brooks. 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