Stepping Out or Staying In: Music for New Year’s Eve

Stepping Out or Staying in: a New Year’s Eve Music Playlist

With the thousands upon thousands of songs out there, this one is narrowed down to the anthems that embody the feeling of stepping out on New Year’s Eve.  We celebrate with feeling that time has stopped and we can dance and party as if the night will never end – but when it does (hopefully with a kiss), we know that tomorrow is really a new day. After all, “it’s just another New Year’s Eve…”

You don’t have to be going out to enjoy the music; kick up your heels with a glass of your favorite something and have yourself a private celebration of all you’ve come through this past year and ring in the next with a kick-ass attitude!

Stepping Out

Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk70wuIYBBE

Tonight Tonight – Genesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVaWFHKA7dg

Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGY4G7II6s

I’m coming out – Diana Ross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbYcte4ZEgQ

Celebration – Kool and the Gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

Raise Your Glass – Pink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNx-pCOmWPo

Good to be Alive (Hallelujah) – Andy Grammar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDu93pdyBDE

Happy – Pharrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

Born to Be Alive – Patrick Hernandez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UaJAnnipkY

1999 – Prince

Gonna Make You Sweat – C&C Music Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTGrV58wec

New Year’s Eve – Snoop Dogg feat. Marty James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqTjZ5zFzT4

Funky New Year – The Eagles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dGdrNP-NMk

This is the New Year – A Great Big World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27R_goWiAAU

Kids in America – Kim Wilde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGgdX8Zw9A

Get Down Tonight – KC and the Sunshine Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7RRLC5slLo

The Power – Snap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I

I Just Want to Celebrate – Rare Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKTahefBFA

Firework – Katy Perry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw

Here Comes the Hotstepper – Ini Kamoze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0N4twV28Mw

Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0

Everybody Have Fun Tonight – Wang Chung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXu6QmxpJE

Good Times – Chic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CycTQ29ikAA

Let The Good Times Roll – The Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BDBzgHXf64

Shiny Happy People – R.E.M.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ0vDAbF7s

Let’s Groove – Earth, Wind & Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMt_XPvoQY

Word Up – Cameo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA

No Parking on the Dance Floor – Midnight Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gomCkCbKHA4

This is How We Do It – Montell Jordan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVi8bJFIac8

Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo

Get Lucky – Daft Punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I

Feel Good Inc – Gorillaz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_in_BNJlg

Can You Feel It – Jackson Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTFqxG-ziI

All Night Long – Lionel Richie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAvFx3NxUM

Beautiful Life – Ace of Base
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh-07BzfgYY

I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA

We Are Young – Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6dMFF_yts

Party Rock Anthem – LMFA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8

Tik Tok – K$sha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6XpLQM2Cs

Party Train – The Gap Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFLyjyqdJVQ

Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) – Parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImI78s638hQ

Dance To The Music – Sly and the Family Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2PNlhvy8E

Let’s Get Started – Black Eyed Peas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqV7DB8Iwg

Dance Dance Dance (Yowzah Yowzah Yowsah) – Chic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsUxcDXQ2U

Don’t Stop the Music – Rihanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd8jh9QYfEs

Thanks For the Memories – Fall Out Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jx7SF65wbs

Best Day of My Life – American Authors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66j_BUCBMY

Love Runs Out – OneRepublic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWj0CiM8WU

The Final Countdown – Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

Last Dance – Donna Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqZY8P42pLo

Auld Lang Syne – Mariah Carey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aop6YF1Xqqg

What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE

 

Here we can slow it down for the couples who are choosing to stay in and take advantage of the longer night…

Staying In

Same Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar9Ip7pSqEg

Maybe Baby (New Year’s Day) – Sugarland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuhOuaGp5U

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve – Ella Fitzgerald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIcuK7wW8bU

All of Me – John Legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg

This Could Be the Night – Loverboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qa2Ol6BHd8

It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve – Barry Manilow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSt2td5wwyA

Tonight I Celebrate My Love – Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GOLnWz_Osc

Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Isreal Kamakawiwo’ole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k

Let’s Start the New Year Right – Bing Crosby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJF0W6jeHk

Happy New Year – Abba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km6i04BeCKs