Help me put a playlist together please!

[AlaskaElfForGin]

So far I've got plenty of 80s/90s stuff but I need suggestions and some more modern stuff too. It's for a fairly wide range of ages and it's for day to evening family event.

Help!

Some kind of family celebration?
Dancing or just listening?

link

My son who is 9 loves...Dance Monkey, and Old Town Road! Not sure how many 9 yo's you're catering for though!

Dancing or just listening?

Probably both!! It's a New Year family party at the weekend.

Oh and no sweaty stuff. I don't want to give my grandma a funny turn. 😂

*sweary, not sweaty!

For something that will appeal from disco divas to the modern day, I'd suggest "Juice" by Lizzo.
Even if you've never heard it before you can dance to it.

Is it worth finding out songs that mean a lot to the participants?

Only saying that because I heard "Perfect" by Fairground Attraction last night and it was the first time in a long time that OH and got up and danced in the sitting room*

*It counts as dancing if one partner me is dragging the other one away from viewing "Geek Magazine for People Who Love Facts" and skipping around the other like they were a maypole, doesn't it?

Wham - Wake me up
ABBA - Dancing Queen
Nolan sisters - in the mood for dancing
Girls just want to have fun - Cyndi Lauder
Thriller -michael jackson
Night fever - Bee gees
Come on Eileen - Dexys midnight runners
Uptown girl - billy Joel
Sweet child of mine - guns and roses
Call me maybe - Carly Rae jackson
Take on me - aha

So you want more modern stuff, right?

Killers, Clean Bandit, Radiohead, Pharrel Williams, Coldplay, James (the timeless) Taylor, Khalid, BTS, Florence & the Machine, Jack Johnson, Lewis Capaldi, Nickelback, Train, Travis, Ocean Colour Scene, Panic! at the Disco, Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra (yeah I know awful band name, but the music can be good).

From the last decade:

Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars
I don't feel like dancing - Scissor Sisters
We Are Young - Fun.
Satisfied/Bright Lights Big City/Forget You - Cee Lo Green
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Wake Me Up - Aviici
Afterglow - Wilkinson
Valerie - Mark Ronson/Amy Winehouse