What is the most popular song to sing during karaoke?”
Karaoke started out in the clubs and bars of Japan, born out of the Japanese love of singing in front of people and has taken America by storm. Let’s face it – we all sing, it’s just that well, most of us would rather sing in private; whether it’s in the shower or the car, we just love to sing. Now most of us can’t carry a tune, but all of us want to be a star so we have found a new outlet, karaoke. It has become so popular in the bars, and at home, that there are now local, state and even national competitions for the brave ones. I love to sing in the shower myself, but would never do it in public. In this list are ten of the most popular pop songs to sing at a karaoke event. 1. Eye of the Tiger (Asia): Everyone remembers this from Rocky IV. 2. Beat It (Michael Jackson): Can you dance like Michael? 3. Complicated (Avril Lavigne): A quirky look at life but fun to sing. 4. Living on a Prayer (Bon Jovi):Song for the workin’ man. 5. Dancing Queen (ABBA): Oldie but a goodie! 6. Bohemian Rh
A thorough search of the internet will bring up blogs from various people offering their opinion or lists compiled by individuals or companies with their own agenda. Many are very critical of the songs that are sung most often because they’re tired of hearing the “same old songs”. Wicipedia photo Journey album cover The top 10 lists vary across the country, around the world and from year to year, but without someone actually tallying up the number of times songs are performed at karaoke shows, the results cannot be very accurate. Some KJs have karaoke software that stores the history for each singer which allows them to quickly retrieve a song during a show for their regular performers and to see which songs are sung most often. This software also indicates the dates and times and all other variables for all the songs in every performer’s history, but there isn’t a link to a main database for all this information to be stored and tabulated. As a result, any list of most popular karaoke
