Floorfillers 80s Club Classics

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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. We Like To Party! achieved an exceptional overall score of 81.7 out of a possible 100, scoring highest in positivity (98.8). 2. Toxic – Britney Spears The final song to make its way onto our top ten best dance floor fillers is I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) by Whitney Houston. This song has been moving hearts and inspiring dance floors since 1987 when it was first released. To this day, the catchy song remains a timeless anthem that is guaranteed to get people moving.

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

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! Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. 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 In third place was Hey Ya! by Outkast, scoring 95.2 in positivity, followed by Wigfield‘s Saturday Night with 94. Initially, a seed list of over 80 notable floor fillers was first compiled from reputable articles and Spotify playlists.

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. 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.

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 Hey Ya! by Outkast is a vibrant pop-hip-hop fusion that took the world by storm upon its release in 2003 and continues to do so 20 years on. The song’s exuberant energy features infectious handclaps, lively guitar riffs, and an upbeat melody.