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Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s. It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit radio.
Apple Music Dance. Sometimes you want pop that channels big emotions and sometimes you just want it to move you—but there’s nothing that says you can’t have both. Here’s a mix of the best new and recent high-energy pop hits, packed with bright melodies and beats designed to raise the pulse and steer you toward the floor.
Listen to the 100 Most-Streamed Dance Songs playlist on Apple Music. 99 Songs. Duration: 5 hours, 23 minutes.
- Gloria Gaynor - "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974) Clifton Davis, part of Motown's team of songwriters, wrote "Never Can Say Goodbye," and it was first recorded by the Jackson 5 in 1970.
- Bee Gees - "You Should Be Dancing" (1976) The three #1 pop hit songs that the Bee Gees wrote and recorded specifically for the soundtrack for the hit film Saturday Night Fever helped bring disco squarely into the pop mainstream.
- Vicki Sue Robinson - "Turn the Beat Around" (1976) Vicki Sue Robinson's early performing career consisted of being mostly a bit player in Broadway shows and films.
- Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way" (1977) Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes first recorded "Don't Leave Me This Way." Legendary Philadelphia soul team Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff co-wrote the song, and it appeared on the 1975 Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes album Wake Up Everybody.
- Alesso feat. Zara Larsson, “Words” The creative collision of these Swedes culminated in a dance-pop single with clear staying power, so much so that it’d go on to spend 26 weeks on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart—and in good company, at that.
- Alison Wonderland, “Fear of Dying” Overthinking and anticipatory grief are a paradoxically sobering cocktail; take it from Alison Wonderland. The third single from her third studio album, Loner (which debuted at No. 3 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart), traces the arc of an all-consuming, anxiety-fueled panic rooted in the fear of loss.
- Aluna, Diplo & Durante, “Forget About Me” From her days singing electro-pop bursts with AlunaGeorge to demonstrating her equivalent production skills on her phenomenal 2020 debut solo LP Renaissance, Aluna’s output is vital to club culture, and in 2022 she continued that legacy via “Forget About Me.”
- Andrew Bayer & Kaleena Zanders, “Break the Rules” On “Break the Rules,” the final single from his expansive double album, Duality, Andrew Bayer taps the resplendent house vocalist Kaleena Zanders for one of her trademark anthemic performances, designed to break through even the most jaded listener’s sonic malaise.
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Dance-pop is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of pop music that evolved from Disco, circa 1981, that combines dance beats with a pop/R'n'B song structure. Because there is such an emphasis on fully-formed songs in dance-pop, it's often viewed as a separate class… read more
