Group and Line Dance Songs

Group dance songs and line dance songs are played at wedding receptions to get people on the dance floor in a group dance. Group dance songs are also known as audience participation songs. Group songs played can invoke a conga line, a train line, rows of line dancing, circles of the Hokey Pokey, hand signaling Y.M.C.A. and much more. Bridal couples must decide the mood they want at their wedding reception. Some bridal couples may see group dance songs as cheezy or overplayed at wedding receptions.

Song	Artist	Format	Lyrics	iTunes	Amazon
5, 6, 7, 8	Steps	Dance
Achy Breaky Heart	Billy Ray Cyrus	Country
Boot Scootin' Boogie	Brooks & Dunn	Country
Bunny Hop	Ray Anthony	Oldies	- -
Cha Cha Slide	DJ Casper	Dance
Chattahoochee	Alan Jackson	Country
Chicken Dance	Emeralds	Oldies	- -
C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)	Quad City DJ's	Dance
Conga	Miami Sound Machine	Dance
Cotton Eye Joe	Rednex	Dance
Crank That	Soulja Boy	Rap
Cupid Shuffle	Cupid	Dance
Electric Slide	Marcia Griffiths	Dance
Forever	Chris Brown	Dance
Gangnam Style	Psy	Dance
Hokey Pokey	Ray Anthony	Oldies
Limbo Rock	Chubby Checker	Oldies
Macarena	Los Del Rio	Dance
Mony Mony	Billy Idol	Rock
Party Train	The Gap Band	R&B
Personal Jesus	Depeche Mode	Rock
Shout	The Isley Brothers	Oldies
Stayin' Alive	Bee Gees	Disco
Swamp Thing	The Grid	Dance
Sweet Caroline	Neil Diamond	Rock
Teach Me How to Dougie	Cali Swag District	Rap
The Hustle	Van McCoy	Disco
The Loco-motion	Grand Funk Railroad	Rock
The Loco-Motion	Little Eva	Oldies
The Stroll	The Diamonds	Oldies
The Twist	Chubby Checker	Oldies
Thriller	Michael Jackson	Dance
Time Warp	Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast	Dance
Tootsee Roll	69 Boyz	Rap
Twist & Shout	The Beatles	Oldies
Watermelon Crawl	Tracy Byrd	Country
Willie & The Hand Jive	Johnny Otis	Oldies
Wobble	V.I.C.	Rap
YMCA	Village People	Disco

There are many country songs music entertainers can play at weddings that the guests at wedding receptions would know as line dance songs. However, our most popular country line dance songs are Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus, Boot Scootin' Boogie by Brooks & Dunn, Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson and Watermelon Crawl by Tracy Bird. Popular pop radio songs have created dance crazes also. These songs include Macarena by Los Del Rio, Cha Cha Slide by DJ Casper, Electric Slide by Marcia Griffiths and the The Twist by Chubby Checker.

Songs that will entice a group conga line or train line include C'mon N' Ride It (The Train) by Quad City DJ's, Conga by Miami Sound Machine, The Loco-motion by Grand Funk Railroad, and The Locomotion by Little Eva. Another activity at more casual or upbeat wedding receptions is the limbo. We added the most popular limbo song, Limbo Rock by Chubby Checker, below. However, if the bridal couple wants a lengthy limbo line at their wedding reception, be sure to check out our long list of best limbo songs.

Certain popular songs fill dance floors as they promote group activies. Example songs would be the Y.M.C.A. by the Village People - hand gesturing the letters YMCA, Shout by the Isley Brothers - shouting and raising hands, Willie & The Hand Jive by Johnny Otis - a routined hand jive. Lastly, we would recommend a group line with men on one side and women on the other. Then, each couple goes through the line under everone's hands. This activity is done to the song The Stroll by The Diamonds.

A current popular thing to do at weddings is to have a choreographered dance with a group of people. For this you would select your own songs. However, we have seen routined dances to Forever by Chris Brown and Thriller by Michael Jackson on YouTube. Old-time kid songs are also very popular to fill the dance floor at wedding receptions. These songs include the Hokey Pokey, the Chicken Dance and the Bunny Hop.

Being former wedding DJs, we've calculated a list of our favorite group dance songs and line dance songs. If you have a special song that you think should be added to our list, please add your song suggestion through the comment section below. Be sure to also check out the song lyric link to find song relevance to what you want for in your song choice. Once decided, we provided a link to iTunes to purchase and Amazon.com to purchase and listen to a sample of each song.