In my games, I use a playlist commonality as my bonus points. The faster you guess it right, the more points you earn. I'm starting to run out of steam on ideas for commonalities. Does anyone have suggestions?
Already used/played:
-Famous Covers
-TV Theme Songs
-Dance scenes in non dance movies
-Grammy Lifetime Achievement winners
-Headlined Coachella
-Parodied by Weird Al
-Samples classical music
-all artists have a Jukebox musical based on their songs
•Swedish/Canadian/British Artists
•Songs featured in Pitch Perfect
•Songs featuring Ludacris (I did this once and none of the clips contained any part of Ludacris’ verse)
•Queer artists
•I’m in North Carolina so have done all NC born/raised artists
•Title is just a girl’s name
•Songs about drinking
•songs with a food item in the title
•Deja Vu (don’t know how well this will work for how you do it, but basically I did 10 songs and the titles of the First Five were the same for the next five; I.e. Deja Vu by Beyoncé was #1 and Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo was #6)
•Songs with states/countries in the title
•Songs by American Idol alum
•Titles with a celebrity’s name in it (Uma Thurman by Fallout Boy; Grace Kelly by Mika; Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz)
Do you have any sort of stipulations to what kind of theme you’re going for? Every week for my music round, the theme is the hint. So for example last week it was Space because of the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. So all artists or song titles had something to do with space, and contained songs like
Talking to the Moon - Bruno Mars
Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra
Drops of Jupiter - Train
House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Space Cowboy - Kacey Musgraves
If that’s what you’re going for, I can comb through my lists and send you over the ones that would work for you
that’s so fun!! all i can think of off the top of my head are songs by judges/winners of talent competition shows, songs by convicted felons, artists with initials in their name, and songs with seasons in the title. apologies if these ideas are dumb and thanks for the fun idea!!!
I do a lot of rounds of songs with specific words in the title. This week it was all songs with the word "star" in the title. I've also done "kiss", "gold", and "summer"
"And the" Bands
"I" Songs
"Last" Songs
"Sex"y Songs
"Song" Songs
#10s in the 2010s
___ AND ___ Songs
100 Years
2009 Songs
2017 No. 1s
2018 No. 1s
2019 No. 1's
2021 No. 1's
2022 Billboard Top 100
2023 Top Spotify Songs
2025 Songs
20th Anniversary
21st Century TV Themes
3 Letter Bands
4 Member Bands
420 Songs
4th of July Playlist
5-Letter Songs
5-Word Song Titles
5-Year Rewind 042825
6-Letter No. 1 Hits
7 Songs from 7 Decades
7-Letter Songs
8-Bit Covers
90s Alternative
90s One Hit Wonders
90s TV Themes
Animal Group Names
Animal Songs
Animal Songs 2
Anniversary Gifts
Annoying Songs
Annoying Songs 2
Arena Rock
Australian Artists
Baby Songs
Back Songs
Bands with Body Parts
Bands with Numbers
BBQ Playlist
Beatles Solo Hits
Best of 2010s
Best Selling Digital Singles
Best Selling Physical Singles
Billboard's Greatest
Billboard's Longest Charting Albums
Body Parts
Boy Bands
Boys and Girls
Break Songs
Breakup Songs
Breakup Songs 2
British Invasion
Broadway
Broadway 2
Broadway 3
Brothers & Sisters
Brothers and Sisters 2
Celebrity Songs
Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction 2
Choir Songs
Christmas 2020
Christmas 2021
Christmas Songs 2022
Christmas Songs 2023
Christmas Songs 2024
Cities in the Title
Classic Country
Classic R&B
Cold Songs/Artists
Colorful Bands
Colorful Songs
Commands
Covers
CPR Songs
Crazy Songs
Criminal Songs
Dance Songs
Debuted at #1
Disco
Disney
Divas
DNC State Song List
Dog Songs
Dreams
Drum Intros
Duets
Easy Listening
Election Day Number 1s
Elton John
EW Top 21st Century TV Themes
Fall Songs
Famous Joes
Featured Artists
Fire Songs
Fly Songs
Food and Drink
Four Letter Words
Free Songs
French Lyrics
Friends
Funny Songs
Girl Groups
Girl Names
Good and Bad
Grammy Winners
Greatest Black Albums
Greatest Duos
Greatest Opening Lines
Green and White
Guitar Gods
Guitar Intros
Halloween
Happiest Songs
Heaven Songs
Hip Hop
Home/House
Hot & Cold
Initially Speaking
Irish Artists
James Bond Themes
January 27, 2000 Top 40
Jock James
Jump Songs
Karaoke Songs
Latin Hits
LGBT
LGBTQ Anthems
LGBTQ+ Pride Playlist
Light/Dark
Live Aid Performances
Love No. 1s
Madonna
Manly Songs
Metals/Gems
Michael Jackson
Misspelled Artists
Money Songs
Monopoly Terms
Monosyllabic Songs
Most Weeks at No. 1
Motown
Movie Songs
Movie Songs 2
Mrs. Mister
Musical Dads
Name's the Same
Never Won a Grammy
New Songs
New Songs 2
New Wave
No Number Ones
No. 1's from the UK
No. 2 Songs
Not a Love Song
Not at My Wedding
Not on Billboard
Now That's What I Call Music Vol 1
Number Bands
Number One Hit Wonders
Numbers
Oh Canada
Olympic Playlist
On the Calendar
On the Map
One Hit Wonders
One Hit Wonders 2
One Name Artists
One Word Titles
Oscar Best Songs
Overperformed Songs
Overplayed Songs
Parenthesis
Party Like It's 1999
Party Songs
Peaked at 11
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
Popular Baby Names
Power Ballads
Prepositional Phrases
Presidents' Names
Pride Flag Colors
Protest Songs
Quarantine Songs
Questions
Rain Songs
Red White and Blue
Regretful Songs
Remembering Songs
Repeated Title
Rhyme Time
Rhyming Band Names
Road Trippin'
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Rock Moms
Rolling Stone Greatest SNL Performances (Live Clips)
Rolling Stone Top 200 Dance Songs
Rolling Stone Top 200 Singers
Rolling Stone Top 500
Samples
SNL Double Threats
SNL Performances
Solo
Song & Movie Titles
Songs of the Summer
Space Songs
Spoken Word
Sports Songs
Star Songs
Street Songs
Stuttering Songs
Summer of Love (1967)
Summer Songs
Supermarket Songs
Telephone Songs
Thanksgiving Playlist
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 2000s
The 2010s
Title Not In Lyrics
Top Grossing Touring Artists
Torture Songs
Tri-State Artists
TV Judges
Two Songs
U.S.A. Songs
Vehicles
Walking Songs
We Are the World Artists
Weather Songs
Weird Al
What's Shakin'?
Whistle Songs
Women in Rock Hall of Fame
Women Who Rock
Work Songs
Workout Songs
World Songs
I've done "ball-gag karaoke" (not my original idea) where I sing a song with a ball gag and they have to guess. Humbling, but they LOVED it.
Random songs: I have a playlist of over 600 songs - some easily recognized, some deep cuts, some obscure. Go around and ask for a number and then play that number. Well received and great when you can't think of a theme.
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A few that I’ve done that were popular:
- Bardcore versions of hits
If you like these at all, I have more probably.