Most Popular Wedding Songs for Your First Dance 2014

No dance will ever be as special or as important to your love story as the song you choose for your First Dance at your wedding. It’s sure to be meaningful, perhaps the first song you ever slow-danced to together during your earliest dating days, and the lyrics share with your wedding guests a very special message about what makes your love so strong.

Each year, wedding entertainers blog about the most popular wedding songs for the current year, and when you see those lists, you may be inspired to choose from among them…or, you might be an independent, alternative wedding couple who likes to depart from any ‘most popular’ list to choose a completely unexpected and original song for your First Dance.

Whichever your preference for using ‘top 10’ wedding lists for song choices, here are the most popular songs for the First Dance, as reported by the music streaming website Spotify, from their study of over 30,000 wedding-themed playlists and 12,000 single-track playlists on their site.

In order of ranking from this survey, here are the 2014 Top First Dance songs:

Etta James – At Last

Jason Mraz – I Won’t Give Up

Ray LaMontagne – You Are the Best Thing

John Legend – All of Me

Jack Johnson – Better Together

Christina Perri – A Thousand Years

Michael Bublé – Everything

Bright Eyes – First Day Of My Life

Brad Paisley – Then

Adele – Make You Feel My Love

 

Some additional popular First Dance wedding songs:

Sara Bareilles – I Choose You

Beyoncé – XO

Eric Clapton — Wonderful Tonight

Frank Sinatra — The Way You Look Tonight

Jason Mraz — I’m Yours

Lonestar – Amazed

 

When choosing your first dance song, be sure to read all of the official lyrics of the song online, and chat with your wedding band leader or wedding deejay, to be sure the love song you have in mind doesn’t actually have a negative connotation, like Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You,’ which is a song about a relationship ending.