British Music Artists List for a Wedding Playlist

In a tribute to the many Royal Weddings, I will showcase some of the greatest British wedding music artists perfect for any wedding around the world.

Play any or all of the following British music artists to have your own Royal Wedding.

Before we begin, please know that we did not list every great British wedding artist. You will only enjoy a few on the list below. Hopefully, you find a few hidden gems and give you ideas to have your very own Royal Wedding.

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Music Artists for a Royal Wedding

Ed Sheeran – Perfect
Released in 2017 on the album Divide

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I know we’ll be alright this time
Darling, just hold my hand
Be my girl, I’ll be your man
I see my future in your eyes

Coldplay – A Sky Full OF Stars
Released in 2014 on the album Ghost Stories

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

‘Cause you’re a sky, you’re a sky full of stars
Such a heavenly view
You’re such a heavenly view

Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
Released in 2014 on the album Uptown Special

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Girls, hit your hallelujah (ooh)
‘Cause uptown funk gon’ give it to you (ooh)
(‘Cause uptown funk gon’ give it to you)

James Blunt – Heart To Heart
Released in 2014 on the album Moon Landing

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I’ll come running, because
You and I won’t part ’til we die
You should know
We see eye to eye
Heart to heart

Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
Released in 2014 on the album X

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I’m thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are

Ellie Goulding – How Long Will I Love You
Released in 2013 on the album Halcyon Days

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

How long will I give to you?
As long as I live through you
However long you say
How long will I love you?

Disclosure feat. Sam Smith – Latch
Released in 2012 on the album Settle

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Now I’ve got you in my space
I won’t let go of you
Got you shackled in my embrace
I’m latching on to you

Paul McCartney – My Valentine
Released in 2012 on the album Kisses on the Bottom

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

As days and nights
Would pass me by
I tell myself that I was waiting for a sign
Then she appeared
A love so fine
My Valentine

Calvin Harris – Feel So Close
Released in 2011 on the album 18 Months

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I feel so close to you right now
It’s a force field
I wear my heart upon my sleeve, like a big deal
Your love pours down on me

Adele – Lovesong
Released in 2011 on the album 21

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you

Adele – Make You Feel My Love
Released in 2008 on the album 19

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue
I’d go crawling down the avenue
No, there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you feel my love

Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
Released in 2006 on the album Eyes Open

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see

Leona Lewis – Run
Released in 2004 on the album Final Straw

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you, dear

Dido – Thank You
Released in 2000 on the album No Angel

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And I want to thank you
For giving me the best day of my life
Oh, just to be with you
Is having the best day of my life

Sade – By Your Side
Released in 2000 on the album Lovers Rock

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You think I’d leave your side baby
You know me better than that
You think I’d leave you down when you’re down on your knees
I wouldn’t do that

Coldplay – Yellow
Released in 2000 on the album Parachutes

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know, you know I love you so

Phil Collins – You’ll Be In My Heart
Released in 1999 on the album Tarzan Soundtrack

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

‘Cause you’ll be in my heart
Yes, you’ll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more

The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
Released in 1997 on the album Urban Hymns

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, that’s life
Tryna make ends meet, tryna find somebody then you die
I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet

Robbie Williams – Angels
Released in 1997 on the album Life thru a Lens

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I know that life won’t break me
When I come to call
She won’t forsake me
I’m loving angels instead

Spice Girls – Wannabe
Released in 1996 on the album Spice

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

If you want my future
Forget my past
If you wanna get with me
Better make it fast

Spice Girls – 2 Become 1
Released in 1995 on the album Spice

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Be a little bit wiser baby
Put it on, put it on
‘Cause tonight is the night when two become one

Elton John – Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Released in 1994 on the album The Lion King Soundtrack

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are
It’s enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far

Pink Floyd – Coming Back to Life
Released in 1994 on the album The Division Bell

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life

Oasis – Slide Away
Released in 1994 on the album Definitely Maybe

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Two of a kind
We’ll find a way
To do what we’ve done
Let me be the one who shines with you
And we can slide away

Annie Lennox – Love Song for a Vampire
Released in 1993 on the album Bram Stoker’s Dracula Soundtrack

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Oh love, oh love, oh love
Be mine forever (be mine forever)

David Bowie – The Wedding Song
Released in 1993 on the album Black Tie White Noise

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Heaven is smiling down, heaven’s girl in a wedding gown
I’m gonna be so good, just like a good boy should
I’m gonna change my ways
Angel for life

UB40 – (I Can’t Help) Falling in Love With You
Released in 1993 on the album Promises and Lies

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Take my hand take my whole life too
But I can’t help falling in love with you

Sting – Fields Of Gold
Released in 1993 on the album Ten Summoner’s Tales

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Will you stay with me?
Will you be my love?
Upon the fields of barley
We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold

Duran Duran – Ordinary World
Released in 1992 on the album Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

The Cure – Pictures of You
Released in 1990 on the album Disintegration

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I could have held on to your heart
If only I’d thought of the right words
I wouldn’t be breaking apart all my pictures of you

Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind of Love
Released in 1988 on the album Buster Soundtrack

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

When I’m in your arms
Nothing seems to matter
My whole world could shatter, I don’t care
Wouldn’t you agree
Baby, you and me got a groovy kind of love

The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Released in 1987 on the album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I had to make her glow
“Why are you so far away?”, she said
“Why won’t you ever know that I’m in love with you
That I’m in love with you?”

George Michael – Faith
Released in 1987 on the album Faith

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Oh, when that love comes down without devotion
Well, it takes a strong man, baby
But I’m showin’ you the door
‘Cause I gotta have faith

Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Released in 1987 on the album Hysteria

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C’mon, fire me up

Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet
Released in 1981 on the album Making Movies

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Find a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
He says something like, “You and me, babe, how about it?”

Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Released in 1979 on the album The Game

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I just can’t handle it
This thing called love
I must get ’round to it
I ain’t ready
Crazy little thing called love

Led Zeppelin – All My Love
Released in 1979 on the album In Through the Out Door

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find
He is a feather in the wind, oh
All of my love, all of my love, oh
All of my love to you

Genesis – Follow You Follow Me
Released in 1978 on the album …And Then There Were Three…

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I will follow you will you follow me
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you will you stay with me
Just one single tear in each passing year there will be

Fleetwood Mac – Songbird
Released in 1977 on the album Rumours

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you
Like never before

Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
Released in 1977 on the album Slowhand

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

This beautiful lady
That’s walking around with me
And then she asks me, “Do you feel alright?”
And I say, “Yes, I feel wonderful tonight”

David Bowie – Heroes
Released in 1977 on the album David Bowie

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day

Queen – You’re My Best Friend
Released in 1976 on the album A Night at the Opera

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You’re my only one
And I love the things
I really love the things that you do
Oh, you’re my best friend

Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
Released in 1975 on the album Fleetwood Mac

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin’ ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?

Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Released in 1975 on the album Wish You Were Here

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond

The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
Released in 1971 on the album Sticky Fingers

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You know who I am
You know I can’t let you
Slide through my hands
Wild horses
Couldn’t drag me away

The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
Released in 1971 on the album Sticky Fingers

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Lady of the house wond’ring where it’s gonna stop
House boy knows that he’s doing alright
You shoulda heard him just around midnight

Elton John – Your Song
Released in 1970 on the album Elton John

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I know it’s not much, but it’s the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one’s for you

The Beatles – Two Of Us
Released in 1970 on the album Let It Be

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You and I have memories
Longer than the road
That stretches out ahead

Paul McCartney – Maybe I’m Amazed
Released in 1970 on the album McCartney

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Maybe I’m amazed at the way you’re with me all the time
And maybe I’m afraid of the way I leave you
Maybe I’m amazed at the way you help me sing my song
You right me when I’m wrong
Maybe I’m amazed at the way I really need you

Led Zeppelin – Thank You
Released in 1969 on the album Led Zeppelin II

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And so, today my world it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles
Thanks to you, it will be done
For you to me are the only one

The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
Released in 1967 as a single

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

No one you can save that can’t be saved
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time
It’s easy
All you need is love

The Beatles – In My Life
Released in 1965 on the album Rubber Soul

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more

The Kinks – You Really Got Me
Released in 1964 as a single

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Girl, you really got me goin’
You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can’t sleep at night

The Beatles – Twist and Shout
Released in 1963 on the album Please Please Me

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You know you twist, little girl
You know you twist so fine
Come on and twist a little closer now
And let me know that you’re mine

Do you have a favorite wedding song by a British artist? Please share your song below in the comments.