10 Dance Floor Fillers for Gen Z & Millennial Weddings (Sing-Along Edition)

Mico Entertainment | Calgary Wedding DJs

Sing-alongs are huge when it comes to packing a wedding dance floor and making the night memorable.

They have the potential to unite everyone instantly, including shy people who usually don't dance.

Tbh, a lot of Canadians don't really know "how to dance."

But we do know how to shout, we love belting out the lyrics together, and we'll rush to the dance floor when we hear these anthems.

It's easy to list 100 songs that could work, but it's tricky to narrow it down to 10 that will.

In my experience, these really are the top 10 singalongs that are guaranteed to fill wedding dance floors, especially for those in their 20s and 30s.

1. Shout – The Isley Brothers

A song from 1959 that brings all generations together.

I’ve played Shout at hundreds of weddings, and it works every single time. Kids, millennials, Gen Z, and people who were alive when it came out. Everybody loves it. Shout is one of my go-to opening tracks. Especially during the first few songs of the night, we want to keep everybody on the dance floor, and we don’t want to alienate the older guests. For this, Shout is pure gold.

2. I Want It That Way – Backstreet Boys

A 90s hit and late-night weapon that turns the dance floor into a giant karaoke session. This works best once people are already loosened up emotionally. People from every era will get around this one.

3. Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield /

   A Thousand Miles – Vanessa Carlton

I’m grouping these together because if people go crazy for one, then I like to follow it up with the other. Same energy, same era, both of these songs are peak. I wait until everybody is warm and fuzzy before I play these ones, usually later in the night. These two songs come up in a lot of my playlists, because they're just so good.

4. Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan

One of the newer songs that has already become a wedding classic. It gets all types of people screaming the lyrics at the top of their lungs. It’s theatrical, emotional, silly, dramatic — I think it’ll remain a wedding staple for years to come.

5. Taylor Swift

Love Story / Mine / You Belong With Me / Fate of Ophelia / Opalite... T Swift is usually either a must-play or a do-not-play for the couples I work with. It can be polarizing, but I'd say most people love it at weddings, myself included. I don't play T Swift in the car, but at weddings, I always look forward to it. These are some of the biggest wedding singalongs of our generation.

They start slow and then go hard when the chorus starts.

6. We Will Rock You – Queen

A stadium anthem that I use to change the tempo and bring everybody to the dance floor. Multi-generational magic. You know the drill: stomp-stomp-clap, stomp-stomp-clap, air guitar solo.

It's a high energy classic for Canadian weddings and especially hockey rock enjoyers.

7. Hollaback Girl – Gwen Stefani

Another stomp-and-clap anthem with a healthy amount of attitude. This came out when I was in grade 3 and it still hits like it came out yesterday. What’s nice about this one is you’ve got more flexibility with timing. People don’t need to be tipsy for this to work. It starts with such a bang that everybody recognizes it instantly.

8. Hero – Enrique Iglesias

Hero is hilarious. It’s a meme now, deeply embedded into the brains of multiple generations. Definitely a funny one, but it works extremely well. This is a late-night song though. You want people to already be kinda silly before dropping this one.

9. Party In The U.S.A. – Miley Cyrus

This is honestly still one of the safest and strongest wedding songs ever made.

You can play it almost any time.

It's actually so good.

10. Mr. Brightside – The Killers

Absolute classic. Perhaps the biggest wedding song of all time.

This is the kind of song that gets people sprinting back from the bar or washroom just to jump around screaming the lyrics with their friends.

Mr. Brightside isn’t just a Canadian thing. It’s a massive wedding anthem across the English speaking world.

I always save this one for the latter half, it's a great way to guarantee a packed dance floor.

Final Thoughts

I can think of 20 more really good ones off the top of my head. In fact, I’ve got my full singalong Spotify playlist you can check out right here.

Anybody can press play on popular songs. The trick is knowing when to play them, how to build momentum, and how to keep multiple generations connected. That is what I love to do as a wedding DJ.

If you're planning your wedding and want to work with a DJ who gets you and your people, feel free to get in touch.

— Mico