Music for middle school dances

[DJTroyT]

Middle School dances are all about Top 40/Pop. If you aren't prepared to play that, you shouldn't take the gig. You'll need to pepper a few 80s and 90s songs in there too, but you need to play One Direction, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, etc. because that's what they want to hear. Also, many of these kids are hoping to slow-dance, so you should be playing 2-3 slow songs per hour at least. I typically do 5-6 up-tempo songs and then 2 slow songs.

High School, at least in California, is more R&B and Hip Hop and some Pop. Anything EDM/Techno/etc. will clear the floor. In any schools around the Bay Area at least, only a handful of kids in any given school will listen to that, and they usually won't be attending the school dances. That's really music for 20-somethings in adult clubs. I get that it is great music to mix, but it's not the music that people hire most Mobile DJs to play.

[mwalz]

For sure. I have had good luck with top 40 for these younger age groups, and was just curious how club style music would go over.

Its about what they want to hear, which goes for any group. I can have the biggest light show but i won't mean nothing if they aren't in to the music.

[cerius]

Justin bebier songs