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With Father’s Day coming up, it’s perhaps time to look at the ultimate dad dancing songs

First, a dad joke involving cryptocurrency:

Now that’s out of the way, we can look at this big of research commissioned by a British (surprise, right?) greeting card company. They got someone to scrape through Spotify playlists with the keywords “dad dancing” using a site called The Playlist Miner. And if you need help with your dad dance moves, go here.

RankTitleArtist
1AfricaTOTO
2Take on Mea-ha
3Mr. Blue SkyElectric Light Orchestra
4I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)Whitney Houston
5Brown Eyed GirlVan Morrison
6Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)Eurythmics
7Sweet CarolineNeil Diamond
8Hotel California – 2013 RemasteredEagles
9Go Your Own WayFleetwood Mac
10Billie JeanMichael Jackson

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