I’m going to be honest with you. I don’t know any wedding DJ in Seattle or across the country who will look back on 2018 and reminisce about how it was an amazing year for dance music. There just weren’t the big, universal hits that EVERYBODY knows and dances to (think “Uptown Funk,” think “Can’t Stop the Feeling.”) The biggest stars were probably Drake and Cardi B and I think their music isn’t universal enough to fill most dancefloors.

Maybe it’s a sign that our music consumption is changing and we all have our individual playlists and recommendations on streaming services. So we don’t have the common experience of hearing a song. Or maybe it’s a sign that the artists didn’t have the inspiration. (Justin Timberlake’s songs hardly made a dent on the charts.) Whatever the cause, wedding DJs all across the country are rooting for 2019 to be a lot better.

Nevertheless, there are some songs worth checking out. I put my Top 100ish on a Spotify Playlist. And here are roughly my Top 30: