60 Best Disco Songs For Weddings

2020

 
These are the Best Disco Songs for Weddings to get people on the dance floor! Disco derives itself from the soul, funk and Latin styles of music. Disco music is considered a form, genre, of dance music. DJs in New York City in the 1960s began overlaying prerecorded music with live music as well as mixing two or three records together at once. This sound became so popular that recording artists began composing these extended grooves and dance beats in the studios.

Disco music became popular to play in most nightclubs by the early 1970s. As Best Disco Songs became more popular and the dominant dance style music, the disco style clubs were called as a discotheque. Donna Summer quickly rose to be the most popular and well-known disco artist. Donna Summer eventually claimed the title “The Queen of Disco”.

Popular disco-themed movies helped propitiate spark the popularity of disco music with Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It’s Friday. These movies made superstars out of the Bee Gees and subsequently K.C. & The Sunshine Band.

Due to the vast popularity of disco, there were many backlashes from rock music supporters, many blue color workers, and those that were just plain tired of the fads. Fads as a result of disco music included the mirror ball, lit dance floors, afros, and leisure suits. A promotional night at Cominsky Park in Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox, took place in July 1979. Disco Demolition Night was about blowing up a crate of disco records provided by the crowd on the field.

However, a near-riot ensued after the explosion with a mere 90,000 people in attendance. In the 1980s, disco was seen as a negative term. So disco eventually transformed into being known as dance music. Best Disco Songs paved the way for new forms of dance music such as house, electronica, and techno.

Top 10 Disco Songs (as calculated by popular downloads on Amazon)

1. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
2. You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees
3. Disco Inferno – The Trammps
4. Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
5. Tragedy – Bee Gees
6. Y.M.C.A. – Village People
7. Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
8. We Are Family – Sister Sledge
9. Night Fever – Bee Gees
10. Last Dance – Donna Summer

Disco Songs

Disco song list curated by Matthew Campbell
Last Updated: June 23, 2020

Album	Artist	Song	Info	Amazon Link
	ABBA	Dancing Queen	1976, Arrival
	ABBA	Take A Chance On Me	1978, ABBA: The Album
	Amii Stewart	Knock On Wood	1979,Knock On Wood
	Anita Ward	Ring My Bell	1979, Songs of Love
	Barry Manilow	Copacabana	1978, Even Now
	Bee Gees	Jive Talkin'	1975, Main Course
	Bee Gees	Night Fever	1978, Saturday Night Fever
	Bee Gees	Nights On Broadway	1975, Main Course
	Bee Gees	Stayin’ Alive	1977, Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
	Bee Gees	Tragedy	1979, Spirits Having Flown
	Bee Gees	You Should Be Dancing	1976, Children of the World
	Brass Construction	Movin’	1976, Brass Construction
	Carl Carlton	Everlasting Love	1974, Everlasting Love
	Carl Douglas	Kung Fu Fighting	1974, Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs
	Cheryl Lynn	Got To Be Real	1978, Cheryl Lynn
	Chic	Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)	1977, Dance, Dance, Dance
	Chic	Everybody Dance	1978, Chic
	Chic	Good Times	1979, Risqué
	Chic	Le Freak	1978, C’est Chic
	Diana Ross	Love Hangover	1976, Diana Ross
	Donna Summer	Bad Girls	1979, Bad Girls
	Donna Summer	Hot Stuff	1979, Bad Girls
	Donna Summer	I Feel Love	1977, I Remember Yesterday
	Donna Summer	Last Dance	1978, Thank God It’s Friday
	Donna Summer	Love To Love You Baby	1975, Love to Love You Baby
	Ebonys	You're The Reason Why	1971, Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia
	Gap Band	You Dropped A Bomb On Me	1982, Gap Band IV
	Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive	1978, Love Tracks
	John Paul Young	Love Is In The Air	1977, Love Is in the Air
	KC & The Sunshine Band	(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty	1976, Part 3
	KC & The Sunshine Band	Get Down Tonight	1975, KC and the Sunshine Band
	KC & The Sunshine Band	That’s The Way I Like It	1975, KC and the Sunshine Band
	Kool & The Gang	Celebration	1980, Celebrate!
	Kool & The Gang	Ladies Night	1979, Ladies’ Night
	Lipps Inc.	Funkytown	1980, Mouth to Mouth
	Lou Rawls	You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine	1976, All Things in Time
	McFadden & Whitehead	Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now	1979, McFadden & Whitehead
	Meco	Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band	1977, Music Inspired By Star Wars And Other Galactic Funk
	Mfsb Feat. The Three Degrees	T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)	1974, Love is the Message
	Michael Jackson	Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough	1979, Off the Wall
	Michael Jackson	P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)	1983, Thriller
	O’Jays	Love Train	1972, Back Stabbers
	Patti LaBelle	If Only You Knew	1973, I'm in Love Again
	Patti Labelle	Lady Marmalade	1974, Nightbirds
	Peaches & Herb	Shake Your Groove Thing	1978, 2 Hot
	Rhythm Heritage	Theme From S.W.A.T.	1975, Disco-Fied
	Rick James	Super Freak	1981, Street Songs
	Sister Sledge	B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Baby)	1983, Bet Cha Say That to All the Girls
	Sister Sledge	We Are Family	1979, We Are Family
	Sly & The Family Stone	Dance To The Music	1968, Sly and the Family Stone
	Spinners	The Rubberband Man	1976, Happiness Is Being with the Spinners
	Sylvers	Boogie Fever	1975, Showcase
	Sylvester	You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)	1978, Step II
	Taste Of Honey	Boogie Oogie Oogie	1978, A Taste of Honey
	Tavares	Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel	1976, Sky High!
	Thelma Houston	Don’t Leave Me This Way	1976, Any Way You Like It
	Trammps	Disco Inferno	1976, Disco Inferno
	Van McCoy	The Hustle	1975, Disco Baby
	Vicki Sue Robinson	Turn The Beat Around	1976, Never Gonna Let You Go
	Village People	Macho Man	1978, Macho Man
	Village People	Y.M.C.A.	1978, Cruisin’
	Weather Girls	It’s Raining Men	1982, Success
	Wild Cherry	Play That Funky Music	1976, Wild Cherry

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