Floorfillers 80s Club Classics

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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. 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 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

Our eighth-best overall floor filler also makes its way onto our top five songs for danceability. Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic scored a remarkable 95.2 in this category.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. 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

Pop music, with its catchy hooks, cheerful melodies, and relatable lyrics, is the second-best genre for filling up a dance floor and accounts for 19 of the songs studied. This genre has the ability to captivate listeners from all over the globe and get them moving. 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.In fifth place was Happy by Pharrell Williams, scoring 92.9. This uplifting anthem was originally written for the film Despicable Me 2 but went on to achieve massive commercial success globally. The Floor Fillers with the Best Tempo

The best year for producing party-starting floor fillers was 2008. This year produced 5 of the classic anthems we studied:

May and Richard's wedding at Eastwell Manor July 2023

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