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It has been 1 year for me doing karaoke now. If I counted correctly it has been 60 shows in 7 different venues (only 2 venues are regular shows, others were special events)

Stats may be off a bit due to restarts of songs that may have gotten recounted (about 1 a show average)

Total songs sung:3565
Average songs per show 59 (shows were between 3 and 8 hours, most about 3)

Total unique songs:1305
Different performers :810
(estimate as some performers have changed their name that they sign up under on different nights and some common names are different people, and duets are included in the list)

Most sung artists:
sung dif songs artist
171 41 Bowie, David
83 18 Smiths, The
70 12 R.E.M.
60 30 Beatles, The
49 6 Idol, Billy
47 6 Pulp
42 3 Martin, Dean
36 6 Talking Heads, The
35 10 Diamond, Neil
33 4 Journey
33 11 Rolling Stones, The
31 7 Queen
30 8 U2
27 12 Sinatra, Frank
26 4 Clash, The
26 13 Joel, Billy
25 4 Cash, Johnny
24 3 Belafonte, Harry
23 9 Abba
23 4 Pet Shop Boys, The
23 2 Violent Femmes
23 4 Wonder, Stevie
22 3 A Ha
22 6 Cure, The
22 2 Jefferson Airplane
22 7 Prince
21 5 Doors, The
20 3 Springsteen, Bruce
19 5 Gang of Four
19 1 Tyler, Bonnie
18 7 Hall And Oates
18 10 John, Elton
17 5 Benatar, Pat
17 4 Guns 'N Roses
17 1 Modern English
17 2 Newton_John, Olivia & John Travolta
16 9 Depeche Mode
16 10 Madonna
15 2 Bjork
15 10 Blondie
15 4 Coldplay
15 6 Guns N' Roses
15 2 Joplin, Janis
15 1 Mr. Mister
15 4 Radiohead
15 6 Simon & Garfunkel
15 4 Tears For Fears


most sung songs
sung song/artist
29 You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - Martin, Dean
29 Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
26 Rebel Yell - Idol, Billy
21 Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
20 White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
20 For Once In My Life - Wonder, Stevie
19 Common People - Pulp
19 Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Tyler, Bonnie
17 I Melt With You - Modern English
16 Summer Nights - Newton_John, Olivia & John Travolta
16 Space Oddity - Bowie, David
16 Like A Friend - Pulp
16 Let's Dance - Bowie, David
15 Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
15 London Calling - Clash, The
14 Me and Bobby McGee - Joplin, Janis
14 Blue Jean - David Bowie
14 How Soon Is Now - Smiths, The
14 Gloria - Branigan, Laura
14 Born To Run - Springsteen, Bruce
14 Its so quiet - Bjork
13 Turn The Page - Seger, Bob
13 Gloria - Smith, Patti
13 Proud Mary - Turner, Tina & Ike
13 Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
13 China Girl - Bowie, David
12 AIN'T THAT A KICK IN THE HEAD (1962) - Martin, Dean
12 Ask - Smiths, The
12 Ring Of Fire - Cash, Johnny
12 Take Me On - A Ha
12 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
12 Just Like Heaven - Cure, The
12 You Ain't Woman Enough - Lynn, Loretta
12 One I Love The, - R.E.M.
12 99 Red Balloons - Nena *(+2 times in German)
11 Matilda Matilda - Belafonte, Harry
11 These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Sinatra, Nancy
11 Folsom Prison Blues - Cash, Johnny
11 Redemption Song - Marley, Bob
11 Aqualung - Jethro Tull
11 White Wedding - Idol, Billy
11 Gone Daddy Gone - Barkley, Gnarls
11 What's Up - Four Non Blondes
10 Harborcoat - R.E.M.
10 Trouble - Coldplay
10 Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Diamond, Neil
10 Paradise City - Guns 'N Roses
10 Unhappy Birthday - Smiths, The
10 Kiss Off - Violent Femmes
10 Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
10 Life During Wartime - Talking Heads, The
10 Jump In The Line - Belafonte, Harry
10 A Town Called Malice - Jam, The
10 Moonage Daydream - Bowie, David

Seven venues and David Bowie being the most sung artist is a very unusual stat. No B52s in Athens (their home town), not even "Love Shack," is also a very unusual stat.

I'm not familiar with "Common People" either. Love this forum... getting an education here.

(.........heads to Youtube>>>>>>>>>)

B52s got sung just not enough to make the list...

4 times for Rock lobster,
3 times Love shack
2 times for private idaho...

The B52s (Fred and Cindy) did sing karaoke at the main bar where I do karaoke now 3 weeks in a row a couple months before I started, but they mainly live in NY now.

REM may get less play than otherwise because a lot of people don't sing their songs when members are at the show (but they don't sing).....

Thanks for posting this interesting and valuable info!!!

Wow, about 15 of your top songs get sung on occasion to regular in my club. NEVER or very rare is to hear any Dean Martin or the standards like that, unless it's an old school karaoke singer.

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nearly all of my singers are in their 20s-30s (and a few gezers in their low 40s like me)

Most of the old stuff is actually sung by a few people far to young to have heard it when it came out.

So your most sung song of all, "You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You, " sung by singers under 40? Wow. That would be really extraordinary.

The only Dean Martin song I've ever had sung by this age group is "That's Amore" which I believe was in a comedy. That's how they knew the song at all.

Must be a coastal thing, huh Bill? I wondered how these kids knew That's Amore. Fascinating to me the titles on the above list and how different our most commonly sung songs are.

Yeah Karen I think it was "Mystic Pizza" (the "big pizza pie" connection) but that's off the top of my head without googling it. Anyone?

And I can only recall one Bowie song done in my room at all this year. "China Girl" I believe. I remember it because it stuck out. And my group is mostly young like Dr. Fred's. But Bowie (one would think) would also be sung mostly by people over 40.

And Dean Martin by seniors!

Interesting list. It is neat to see the differences from what I'm used to.

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Hmmm...the only song on that list I have actually sung is "These Boots Were Made for Walkin'", including once for live band karaoke. Some of the others, I've heard people sing but haven't done 'em myself.

I've sung the B-52's song "Roam", and one kj said I was the first person she had heard sing it for karaoke. (I love when that happens!)

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By coincidence Laura I had a gal sing "Roam" last Saturday. And yeah it practically never gets done.

A refreshing break from "Love Shack." For the room and for me. Put a smile on my face too.

As for Dr. Fred's list, if you take out all the Bowie, Dean Martin, Harry Belafonte, Pulp, Smiths, and REM it looks somewhat like things that get sung at least a little in my place.

Edit: But since we have the same age group, the most surprising thing to me about this list is what's missing.... RHCP, Sublime, Morrisette, Etheridge, No Doubt, Godsmack, Pink... none of the the staples of my room are in the list at all. And that's not even getting into the country stuff... Big&Rich, Miranda Lambert, Gretchen Wilson, etc. A big difference between an East Coast college town and a blue-collar Pacific Northwest one I suppose.

This is good info for those of us building a library from scratch..

Thanks Fred Ron

Just be cautious that I am pretty sure that only 10 or less of my top 50 songs are popular at another karaoke gig that I used to regularly frequent as a singer, and half may never have been sung there.

I understand Fred, and who knows, maybe some others might post their most sung artists, or songs.

Everyone needs to hear the William Shatner cover!

so funny you mentioned that. I have a guy who does a William Shatner impersonation while singing.

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