I was thinking while eating my Crab Cake BLT and fries/cole slaw at lunch today what were my MOST PLAYED SONGS at events through out my DJ Career. By the way, my lunch was delicious today! 
Anyway, what would you say are the Top Five most played songs that you have played at events since you started. Try thinking of the popular songs you played so much in your earlier days compared to now. Don't just focus on the last 5 or 10 years.
I thought for a while about it, and I came up with these songs for me.
1. Kool and the Gang - Celebration (I played it so much back in the 2000s, and still play it at probably 20% of my events today.
2. Earth Wind and Fire - September - I believe this song is just going to stick around forever at this point. Been playing it since my Dad taught me how to DJ.
3. Don't Stop Till you Get Enough - Michael Jackson - Been playing it since I began. I was always a big MJ fan so that may have had an impact on me playing this song so often.
4. Whitney Houston - I wanna dance with Somebody - This song really was not that popular in the 2000s, it was on the top 200 back then, but it wasn't in the top 10 or 20 songs. It really had a HUGE Resurgence when Whitney died in 2012, and it has not stopped being so popular since then yet!
5. DJ Casper - Cha Cha Slide - With this one, I know for a fact it has been played at 50% if not more of all my events since it was released in August of 2000. 2023 is actually the first year I have had where it has not been played at 50% of my events so far.
Honorable mentions off the top of my head...If I thought to create a top 20 most played ever list, Billie Jean would be somewhere on it towards the bottom, and Uptown Funk would for sure be on it. Nelly Hot in Here would be on it. Usher - Yeah, Cupid Shuffle would be on it. Sweet Caroline, JT - Sexyback, and Dancing Queen would be somewhere on it.
Wobble might make the top 20. I still play it at like 20% of my events
Electric Slide was HUGE in the 2000s at events...I only play it maybe twice a year in the last 5 or so years though.
Shup up and Dance with Me is in a lot of my videos since I started making videos...that might be a top 20 contender.
Danza Kuduro has been so popular since it came out. Pitbull and Kesha - Timber is another contender. Pitbull - Fireball.
Thriller was played A LOT years ago, but I hardly play it over the last 4 or 5 years. Maybe it might be on there.
In my earlier days I played a lot of Bee Gees, and Beatles. It would be cool if I kept a digital count of all the songs I have played at events, and how many lifetime plays each song has between all my events. Would be very cool if I had kept that kind of data since day 1.
Anyway, what would you say are the Top Five most played songs that you have played at events since you started. Try thinking of the popular songs you played so much in your earlier days compared to now. Don't just focus on the last 5 or 10 years.
I thought for a while about it, and I came up with these songs for me.
1. Kool and the Gang - Celebration (I played it so much back in the 2000s, and still play it at probably 20% of my events today.
2. Earth Wind and Fire - September - I believe this song is just going to stick around forever at this point. Been playing it since my Dad taught me how to DJ.
3. Don't Stop Till you Get Enough - Michael Jackson - Been playing it since I began. I was always a big MJ fan so that may have had an impact on me playing this song so often.
4. Whitney Houston - I wanna dance with Somebody - This song really was not that popular in the 2000s, it was on the top 200 back then, but it wasn't in the top 10 or 20 songs. It really had a HUGE Resurgence when Whitney died in 2012, and it has not stopped being so popular since then yet!
5. DJ Casper - Cha Cha Slide - With this one, I know for a fact it has been played at 50% if not more of all my events since it was released in August of 2000. 2023 is actually the first year I have had where it has not been played at 50% of my events so far.
Honorable mentions off the top of my head...If I thought to create a top 20 most played ever list, Billie Jean would be somewhere on it towards the bottom, and Uptown Funk would for sure be on it. Nelly Hot in Here would be on it. Usher - Yeah, Cupid Shuffle would be on it. Sweet Caroline, JT - Sexyback, and Dancing Queen would be somewhere on it.
Wobble might make the top 20. I still play it at like 20% of my events
Electric Slide was HUGE in the 2000s at events...I only play it maybe twice a year in the last 5 or so years though.
Shup up and Dance with Me is in a lot of my videos since I started making videos...that might be a top 20 contender.
Danza Kuduro has been so popular since it came out. Pitbull and Kesha - Timber is another contender. Pitbull - Fireball.
Thriller was played A LOT years ago, but I hardly play it over the last 4 or 5 years. Maybe it might be on there.
In my earlier days I played a lot of Bee Gees, and Beatles. It would be cool if I kept a digital count of all the songs I have played at events, and how many lifetime plays each song has between all my events. Would be very cool if I had kept that kind of data since day 1.
