Help me make a playlist for my 5 year old girl

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DD is 5 and has started to want to listen to ‘big girl songs’ as she calls them, basically trying to move on from Disney and nursery rhyme/childrens songs like banana banana meatball etc
So I’m trying to make a playlist for her of some good old girly cheesy pop that I think she’ll enjoy, and was looking for some extra input

So far I have:
Aqua - Barbie girl
Dance monkey (don’t know who sings this but she already knows this and loves it)
Spice Girls - Wannabe
Katy Perry - Roar
Meghan Trainor - Mother (again already knew this one)
Taylor Swift - Shake it off
…and that’s as far as I’ve got!

Anyone got any gems? I know I’m missing a whole world of girl groups…

Katy Perry - Firework

Little Mix- Butterfly

Taylor - Love Story, You Belong With Me

Jackson 5- ABC

Abba- Dancing Queen

Gangnam Style

Meghan Trainor - All About That Base

Look up the Pop Party CDs. They have songs like Oops I did it Again (Britney) , Baby (Justin Bieber) which will act as inspiration

My DD's favourite Spice Girl was Stop. Really easy to learn dance for the chorus (check the music video)

In my experience, kids love Bohemian Rhapsody

My DGS(5) loves George Ezra and The Prodigy 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

my kids love Los Del Rio- Macarena and Right Said Fred- deeply dippy!

My six year old loves Steps and SClub7

Trolls World Tour is the basis of quite a lot of playlists in our house!

Kids bop on YouTube might be your friend here.

Bewitched
SClub7

My DD liked Queen and AC/DC... Anything with a good beat.

George Ezra green green grass is an absolute fav on my 5 year old.

Girls just wanna have fun- Cyndi Lauper
Good 4 you - Olivia Rodrigo (my 6 year old is obsessed with this song on repeat!)
Waka Waka (this time for Africa)- Shakira (another one on repeat here!)
Want to want me - Jason Derulo
Can't stop the feeling - Justin Timberlake
Uptown funk with Bruno Mars- to be fair I don't know anyone this doesn't get dancing!

Need some S Club 7 and Steps in there
My favourites:
Bring It All Back, Reach, Don't Stop Movin'
5678, One For Sorrow, Stomp

Britney Spears - look at her first 2 albums some gems on there!
Little Mix - Wings

Songs with dance routines: Macarena, cha cha slide, 5678, Saturday night

Reach!

I like to Move It (move it…)

Happy

All faves of my five year old.

When dd started listening to big girl music she loved Belinda Carlisle and Mel C. McFly were quite popular, too.

Still for children but very fun: all kid’s albums by They might be giants.

Ah thank you so much for all these suggestions! I clearly had a total mind blank yesterday, how could I forget some of these?!
Me and DD had a fabulous dance and singalong in the car today, I’m not sure who was more into it tbh 😁

And omg @FatherJoseFernandez Deeply Dippy just took me right back and unlocked childhood memories I’d forgotten even existed! Thank you 😊

My 5 year old loves Pink, The interruptors, No Doubt and The Greatest Showman soundtrack. She also really loves Total Eclipse of the heart for some reason

If you're looking for more recent songs, ones my 5 year old likes are:

Head and Heart - Joel Corey and MnEk
Sunroof - Nicky Youre
Take you Dancing - Jason Derulo
Cake by the Ocean (clean version) - DNCE
HandClap - Fitz and the Tantrums
What do you mean? Justin Bieber
Stay (clean version) - bieber
Whistle - Jax Jones
Cha Cha Cha - Eurovision song
Give that wolf a banana - also Eurovision
Who the hell is Edgar - Eurovision
Solo - Blanka (Eurovision again)

Some good ones mentioned here! DD's current favourites are
Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen)
Wellerman Sea Shanty (the remix version)
Love Story (Taylor Swift)
Bad Habits (Ed)
Worldwide Party (Jojo Siwa)

And the Sing 1&2 soundtracks

Can you not just put the radio on?

Has your DD never listened to regular music before? My son is 4 and even just from listening to me play music he's developed a taste for groove armada/Leftfield/fela kuti/whatever takes his fancy (not expecting everyone to know who they are as we all have different tastes but, you get the gist, it's a mix!). He's had his own taste since he was quite little. I wouldn't limit to stuff like Barbie Girl and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun etc, and would mix it up a bit. There's so much incredible rich music out there that she will probably enjoy. Just listen to music together and ask her to tell you when she 'wants something on her playlist' (this is what we do!).

Alicia Keys- Girl on Fire
S Club 7
Steps
Rihanna- Umbrella, Diamonds
Selena Gomez - Who Says
Sia- Chandelier, Titanium
Madonna - Holiday
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful