Is this the ultimate dinner party playlist?
Now that we’re getting into the holiday season, you might already have plans to have people over for a meal. A new UK survey (okay, it’s one of those patented British ads that masquerade as a scientific study) says it has come up with the ultimate dinner party playlist.
Lakeland, a site that deals with food, analyzed 250,000 songs on 2,000 different Spotify playlists. These are the songs that came up the most on bespoke dinner party playlists. This is the top 25. The full list can be found here. Knock yourself out.
# | TITLE | ARTIST | SCORE |
1 | Dreams | Fleetwood Mac | 134 |
2 | Into the Mystic | Van Morrison | 74 |
3 | Put Your Records On | Corinne Bailey Rae | 69 |
4 | At Last | Etta James | 68 |
5 | You Are the Best Thing | Ray LaMontagne | 64 |
6 | (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay | Otis Redding | 63 |
7 | Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison | 57 |
8 | Moondance | Van Morrison | 57 |
9 | Fast Car | Tracy Chapman | 53 |
10 | Lovely Day | Bill Withers | 50 |
11 | Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long, Long Time) | Elton John | 49 |
12 | I Say a Little Prayer | Aretha Franklin | 47 |
13 | Tiny Dancer | Elton John | 42 |
14 | Crazy Love | Van Morrison | 42 |
15 | Sunrise | Norah Jones | 42 |
16 | Ain’t No Sunshine | Bill Withers | 41 |
17 | Landslide | Fleetwood Mac | 40 |
18 | Watermelon Sugar | Harry Styles | 39 |
19 | Africa | TOTO | 39 |
20 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | 39 |
21 | As It Was | Harry Styles | 37 |
22 | Gypsy | Fleetwood Mac | 37 |
23 | A Sunday Kind Of Love | Etta James | 37 |
24 | Don’t Know Why | Norah Jones | 37 |
25 | Beyond the Sea | Bobby Darin | 36 |
It is the musical equivalent of tryptophan, if that’s what you were going for.
Has anyone compiled an actual playlist of these songs on Spotify or Apple Music. Not that I see.