8th grade prom on June 18 and 5th grade on June19

Have you ever done a school dance????

If not, you better do your homework.......

Otherwise, the kids will hammer you with the big "You Suck"

Just a fore warning.

I bet it is too late now, but it is always good to get a request list for each school ahead of time.... I can do two schools in the same town and the music is totally different....

You would need to go farther back with the Promo Only I would think...

Put a request list out for them to sign up at the start of the dance, work off that... keep it as clean as you can for that age group...

Start off with what ever you want, leave out a piece of paper and let the kids go wild.... they will fill the sheet up for you.... just make sure you got it all...

I did a school dance two weeks ago and they give me an "Urban" dance song list.

When I started playing, they wanted country.

What's playing on the local hip-hop radio station? Play that, then go to itunes and make sure to have a good portion of the top 100, then get the clean versions of the top urban hits on itunes and you should be good.

Make sure to have some of the stand by's:

Jump on it - Mix a lot
Cotton eyed joe (cheesy as hell but everyone will dance to it)
Sandstorm (a good techno hit to get em moving)
Cha cha
Cupid shuffle
Baby got back
Thriller
2 step remix
Walk it out
Lean wit it
Crank that.....batman, jumprope, spongebob, spiderman
lollipop (clean version)
love in da club
My dougie
Move shake drop
it's going down
Ride a cowboy
macarena...


Don't forget the classics: (may not work depending on the crowd)

Mony mony
shout
staylin alive
YMCA.....



Sometimes I'll even tell them I have a new song that is so hot it hasn't even hit the radio yet...a new dance song like soulja boy...and they get to dance to it first here....then I play the hokey pokey....they ALWAYS dance to it as a nice little break from the rap.

Interact with them from the get go and you'll have them in your pocket!

Good luck!

kevwebny said:

I will take your advice thanks. I will use jbl eon g2s and two jbl 18inch powered subs and leave the good stuff at home the bose. Havent done a scool funtion since I was around 13 years old. I have done many holloween and birthday parties sweet 16 and such even block parties. Will there be many adults /parents at these functions?

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Dude heres what you need.
Here is Hot 97's Playlist report from mediabase for the week ending yesterday

Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
1 1 LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major 108 116 -8 7.391
6 2 LIL WAYNE A Milli 83 60 23 5.979
3 3 THE-DREAM I Luv Your Girl 76 98 -22 5.157
16 4 NE-YO Closer 73 26 47 5.202
5 5 USHER Love In This Club f/Y. Jeezy 73 68 5 5.055
24 6 ALICIA KEYS Teenage Love Affair 69 17 52 5.039
7 7 MAINO Hi Hater 60 56 4 4.433
2 8 JAY-Z I Know (f/Pharrell) 57 101 -44 3.907
4 9 KEYSHIA COLE Heaven Sent 53 80 -27 3.609
8 10 G UNIT Rider Pt. 2 46 39 7 3.320
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
9 11 USHER Love In This Club (Pt. 2) 39 36 3 2.786
11 12 YOUNG JEEZY Put On f/Kanye West 37 35 2 2.680
14 13 LIL WAYNE Got Money f/T-Pain 33 30 3 2.200
23 14 T.I. No Matter What 28 18 10 1.746
19 15 LLOYD Girls Around The.. f/Lil Wayne 27 24 3 1.971
15 16 KANYE WEST Homecoming f/Chris Martin 26 27 -1 1.958
30 17 G UNIT I Like The Way She Do It 23 11 12 1.591
18 18 GAME Game's Pain f/Keyshia Cole 23 24 -1 1.014
22 19 LIL WAYNE Mr. Carter f/Jay-Z 22 18 4 1.546
39 20 G UNIT Straight Outta Southside 18 7 11 1.177
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
13 21 MADONNA 4 Minutes 18 33 -15 1.216
10 22 CHRIS BROWN Take You Down 17 35 -18 1.153
32 23 USHER Moving Mountains 17 11 6 1.099
12 24 ASHANTI The Way That I Love You 16 33 -17 1.179
75 25 KARDINAL OFFISHALL Dangerous (f/Akon) 16 3 13 1.030
64 26 SHEEK LOUCH Good Love 13 4 9 0.895
34 27 BUSTA RHYMES We Made It f/ Linkin Park 12 8 4 0.443
26 28 JIM JONES Good Stuff 12 16 -4 0.845
- 29 LL COOL J Baby f/The-Dream 11 - 11 0.845
25 30 PLIES Bust It Baby (Part 2) f/Ne-Yo 11 17 -6 0.921
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
21 31 RICK ROSS Boss f/T-Pain 11 20 -9 0.645
66 32 T-PAIN Buy U A Drank...(f/Yung Joc) 11 4 7 0.824
84 33 ROBIN THICKE Magic 11 3 8 1.062
37 34 DAY26 Since You've Been Gone 10 7 3 0.325
38 35 FAT JOE Ain't Sayin' Nothin' f/Plies.. 10 7 3 0.754
51 36 MIMS This Is Why I'm Hot 9 5 4 0.790
31 37 NE-YO Go On Girl 9 11 -2 0.748
59 38 J. HOLIDAY Bed 8 4 4 0.540
28 39 RYAN LESLIE Addiction / ft. Cassie 8 14 -6 0.551
172 40 KARINA PASIAN 16 @ War 8 1 7 0.371
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
36 41 RED CAFE Paper Touchin 8 8 - 0.550
17 42 TREY SONGZ Last Time 8 25 -17 0.480
33 43 DANITY KANE Damaged 7 10 -3 0.557
29 44 JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown 7 14 -7 0.523
27 45 USHER Best Thing f/Jay-Z 7 15 -8 0.329
55 46 DING DONG Bad Man Forward Bad Man Pull.. 6 4 2 0.525
- 47 G UNIT I Get Down 6 - 6 0.312

Abbey Lane said:

I did a school dance two weeks ago and they give me an "Urban" dance song list.

When I started playing, they wanted country.

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Thats all good and everything but did anyone else notice he said harlem, that's a whole different beast then most of us are used to

kevwebny said:

iCDJ AND KNARDINI, JKCOMPUTER , CHUCK YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST thanks for all the advice. This forum is great because of guys like u. I am very grateful for this forum.

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I see where i rate around here............

Ours schools have been out since the end of May; why so late on school dances...:sqconfused:

Could be year round or summer programs.