First Dance Songs for I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You

As an experienced wedding DJ, I’ve assembled a list of songs for the spotlight first dance. Songs are selected by the meaning of the song and popular hits by today’s couples and other categorical groupings.

I have attended hundreds of weddings and have seen many first dances take place. This includes my own wedding to Tanya Tucker’s song “Two Sparrows In A Hurricane”. What song will play for your spotlight dance?

Dance Songs by Theme

Modern Romance

These songs represent a list of popular modern love songs chosen by many of today’s couples.

• All of Me – John Legend & Lindsey Stirling
• All the Way – Shane Smith & the Saints
• All Your’n – Tyler Childers
• Amazing – Teddy Swims
• Amen – John Adams
• Baby I’m Yours – Arctic Monkeys
• Beautiful Crazy – Luke Combs
• Better Together – Luke Combs
• Beyond – Leon Bridges
• Conversations In The Dark – John Legend
• Dance With You – Brett Young
• Find Someone Like You – Snoh Aalegra
• First Date (Acoustic) – Taylor Acorn
• Forever After All – Luke Combs
• From The Ground Up – Dan + Shay
• I Am Yours – Andy Grammer
• In Case You Didn’t Know – Brett Young
• In Your Love – Tyler Childers
• Joy of My Life – Chris Stapleton
• Life With You – Kelsey Hart
• Lifetime – Justin Bieber
• Love Someone – Lukas Graham
• Love You Anyway – Devon Gilfillian
• Love You Anyway – Luke Combs
• Lover – Taylor Swift
• Made For Me – Muni Long
• Made to Love You – Drew Angus
• My Best Friend – Tim McGraw
• My Person (Wedding Version) – Spencer Crandall
• Never Stop (Wedding Version) – SafetySuit
• Perfect – Ed Sheeran
• Perfect For Me – Bradley Marshall
• Pointless – Lewis Capaldi
• Promise to Love Her – Blane Howard
• Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur
• Sent From Heaven – Rahsaan Patterson
• Tennessee Whiskey – Chris Stapleton
• That’s What Love Is – Alexandra Kay
• Until I Found You – Stephen Sanchez
• You (Acoustic) – Dan + Shay

New

A list of newly released love songs you should consider for your first dance before they catch on!

• 10-90 – Muscadine Bloodline
• All I Want Is You – The Decemberists
• ALL MY LOVE – Coldplay
• Always You – Skip Ewing
• Fade Into You – Sponge
• Forever – Noah Kahan
• Forever To Me – Cole Swindell
• Invisible – Knox
• Last Lover – Tommee Profitt & Stanaj
• Let’s Fall In Love – Raheem DeVaughn
• Lose Her Forever – Jon Langston
• Lost in You (Remix) – Jade Novah & Kevin Ross
• Love Of My Life – Dean Lewis
• Seven Lions, SLANDER, & Dabin – First Time feat. Dylan Matthew
• Warrior – Jana Kramer
• Wondering Why – The Red Clay Strays

Classic Romance

Many love songs from the past are still popular today to play for first dances. Here are a few.

• Amazed – Lonestar
• At Last – Etta James
• Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flatts
• Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Presley
• Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Frankie Valli
• Everything – Mary J. Blige
• I Cross My Heart – George Strait
• I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith
• Stand By Me – Ben E. King
• The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
• Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

Duets

My list of love songs that feature a duet of two musicians performing a love song. This is a great way to highlight and dance to your first dance as a married couple.

• Anything For You (The Duet) – Ledisi & PJ Morton
• Best Part – H.E.R. feat. Daniel Caesar
• If You Love Her – Forest Blakk feat. Meghan Trainor
• Like I’m Gonna Lose You – Meghan Trainor feat. John Legend
• Never Til Now – Ashley Cooke, Brett Young
• Nobody But You – Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani
• Space In My Heart – Enrique Iglesias, Miranda Lambert
• Thank God – Kane Brown & Katelyn Brown
• The Rest of Our Life – Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
• You Are The Reason – Calum Scott & Leona Lewis

LGBTQ+

A list of love songs performed by artists part of the LGBTQ+ community and have a genderless reference to love.

• Biblical – Calum Scott
• Heaven – Calum Scott
• If There Was No You – Brandi Carlile
• Imagine (Acoustic) – Ben Platt
• Never Love You Enough – Chely Wright
• Sweet Symphony – Joy Oladokun, Chris Stapleton

Movies & TV

Even though it is only a couple of songs, these songs became massive hits from being featured in films or TV shows.

• A Thousand Years – Christina Perri (Twilight)
• I’ll Never Love Again – Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)

Unique

These songs are a list of non-traditional tracks to play for your dance that you can call uniquely yours because they are not played at most weddings.

• Best Friend – Pacific Skyway
• Dressed Up In White – Cal
• Evermore – Hollow Coves
• Forever From Now – Sheffield
• I GUESS I’M IN LOVE – Clinton Kane
• I Will Spend My Whole Life Loving You – I. Future & K. Grannis
• If I Didn’t Love You – Ben Abraham
• Luckiest Man – Clark Beckham

Upbeat and Fun

If you are one of those couples who want to add a bit of your fun personality to your dance or want to mix in an unexpected song with a romantic hit, this list is for you.

• Dancing Queen – ABBA
• I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Whitney Houston
• September – Earth, Wind & Fire
• Shut Up and Dance – Walk the Moon
• You Are The Best Thing – Ray Lamontagne

Written for a Dance

The following songs were written specifically for a first dance or at least a romantic dance in mind.

• Always Gonna Love You (First Dance Version) – Alana Springsteen
• First Dance – Hasan Green
• First Dancin’ – 2 Lane Summer
• Growing Old With You (First Dance Version) – Restless Road
• Lover (First Dance Remix) – Taylor Swift
• Spin You Around (1/24) – Morgan Wallen

DJs! Plan a First Dance Song by BPM and Key

(Click on the Song, Artist, Key and BPM column headers for sorting)

*BPM and key pulled from SongData.io

Spotify First Dance Playlist

Do you have a favorite first dance song? Please share your song below in the comments.

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