Top karaoke songs of 2020: What's the world been singing during COVID?

Silja Niemi -

Woah, it's certainly been a 2020 to remember. We've already experienced a global pandemic with countrywide lockdowns, worldwide protests emerging from police brutality, Australian wild fires, Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash, and we're only half way through. The second half better throw some good news at us!

However - not only negative things happened this year by far. The stay-home season got many of us to find resilience though music and singing. #Quarantinekaraoke has been populating social medias around the world, and singing at home has become a popular leisure time activity during the quarantine times.

We at Singa dug into our data to find out what has been sung during these unusual times.


1) Our favourite decade was the 90's.


From Celine Dion to Oasis and The Cranberries, we loved our 90's karaoke songs still in 2020. From the top 100, 27 were songs from the golden decade of grunge and pop royalties, while 21 were from 2010's, and 16 from the 1980's.

2) We love to sing Adele and Elvis.

Both Adele and Elvis Presley have 5 songs in the top 100 English songs sung at Singa during the first half of 2020.

3) Dance Monkey and Someone You Loved could be on their way to modern karaoke classics.


These mega hits by Tones and I and Lewis Capaldi are the only 2019-2020 songs that made it to the top 10, which is otherwise heavily populated by songs like Bohiemian Rhapsody, I Want it That Way, and Dancing Queen.

4) Well.. we're still far from the Shallow.


The most sung song of the first half of 2020 was Shallow.

So let's get to it. Here are the TOP 100 karaoke songs listed.

The Top 100 Karaoke Songs of 2020 (by far)


  1. Shallow - Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
  2. Dance Monkey - Tones and I
  3. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
  4. Always Remember Us this Way - Lady Gaga
  5. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
  6. Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
  7. Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi
  8. Dancing Queen - ABBA
  9. I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
  10. All Of Me - John Legend
  11. Wonderwall - Oasis
  12. Mamma Mia - ABBA
  13. Can You Feel the Love Tonight
  14. Hallelujah - Alexandra Burke
  15. My Way - Frank Sinatra
  16. Jolene - Dolly Parton
  17. Angels - Robbie Williams
  18. Africa - TOTO
  19. Still Loving You - Scorpions
  20. Take me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
  21. Zombie - The Cranberries
  22. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
  23. Rolling in the Deep - Adele
  24. Someone Like You - Adele
  25. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  26. Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
  27. Wannabe - Spice Girls
  28. Hotel California - Eagles
  29. Don't Stop Believing - Journey
  30. Wind of Change - Scorpions
  31. Piano Man - Billy Joel
  32. Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
  33. Hurt - Johnny Cash
  34. Bad Guy - Billie Eilish
  35. The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
  36. Stand by Me - Ben E. King
  37. Your Song - Elton John
  38. Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
  39. Let It Go - Idina Menzel
  40. I Will Always Love You - Whintey Houston
  41. Make You Feel My Love - Adele
  42. Wish You Were Here (Memorial Version) - Rednex
  43. Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden
  44. Perfect - Ed Sheeran
  45. Don't Stop me Now - Queen
  46. Let It Be - The Beatles
  47. Hello - Lionel Richie
  48. Lose Yourself - Eminem
  49. The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
  50. Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi

See 51 to 100 songs at Singa- and get singing!

Remains to be seen if the second half of 2020 will sound different - that's your call. Keep your spirits high with a song, keep singing karaoke!


The data is from Singa consumer app and over 800 restaurants, nightclubs, libraries, pubs, clubs, retirements homes who use Singa Business. The top list is based on most sung English language songs on Singa in 2020 (excluding Finnish songs.)