The 20 best kids’ karaoke songs

That tone, that swagger, that beat.. all those horseys: The crossover hit is big with the shorties, who already know the lyrics – no need to look at the screen. You're going to sing this one ‘til you can't no more...’ or at least until the cowardz at Kidz Bop release their version of ‘Montero.’

This Tones and I tune came out of nowhere in 2020 to jump to the top of the dance charts around the world – this song will get your little ones dancing like a barrel full of... well, you know.

Will you laugh, will you dance? Will you live your life? Your little pequeño cantante will love belting out every la-la-la-la! And you'll appreciate that Marc Anthony wrote a legitimately good dance song.

The lyrics for this tune from The Lego Movie: The Second Part say it all: This song's gonna get stuck inside your, this song's gonna get stuck inside your, this song's get gonna stuck inside your head!

It really is as easy as 1-2-3, which is what makes this exuberant 50-year-old pop classic an ideal kids bop. Honestly, it’s a wonder that it hasn’t replaced the actual alphabet song yet. 

The completely infectious, feel-good anthem from Despicable Me is as irresistible to adults as it is to kids. We'll never pass up an opportunity to clap along with the sweet melody of one of the all-time great feel-good songs.

You can dance, you can jive, and most importantly, you can sing along to the ABBA hit. Kids will love attempting the high notes and perfecting the rhythm of this fan favorite from Sweden’s favorite holograms.

Taylor’s breakout pop anthem signaled her transition from country, and it remains the most kid-friendly of all her songs, at least in terms of ease of belting it out. There are much better T-Swift hits, but when it comes to karaoke night, it’s all about silly dancing and singing what you know as loud as possible. You can save your rendition of ‘Blank Space’ or ‘Willow’ for when you’re drinking with friends. 

Let's face it—this smash hit from Elsa, the queen of the cold, will most likely never thaw out. Frozen's ballad is arguably Disney's most irresistible sing-along, and you know your kids will never get sick of channelling Broadway legend Idina Menzel. Even Disney itself couldn’t dethrone this one... we tried to swap it with ‘Into the Unknown’ on the list and our computers iced over. 

Once this empowerment anthem gets stuck in your head, we wish you all the luck trying to get rid of it. ‘Boomerang's’ smart approach to school bullies will score extra points with parents who are joining in the jam session.  

The closer to the Yellows Submarine soundtrack – the title track of which is also a kiddie-karaoke banger – epitomizes the old Simpsons joke about the Fab Four being fixtures of CDs for babies. With its sing-songy ‘1-2-3-4 can I have a little more, 5-6-7-8-9-10 I love you’ it’s the perfect song for practicing the alphabet and counting while also getting kids to say adorable things. 

Toni Basil's smash hit is the perfect pep ralley cheer to get the crowd pumped. Kids love repetition (and thinking they're singing to a giant mouse). Parents love ’80s nostalgia. It's a win for everybody. 

‘Part of Your World’ scores extra points for its sweet factor, but there are few joys in parenting quite like hearing a kid try to get through the late, great Samuel E. Wright’s fast-paced calypso callout of various musically inclined sea animals, capping things off with a mighty ‘oh that blowfish blooooooooow!’

Look, your child was probably going to ask for sweets at some point anyway. Might as well make them work for it by singing this ‘80s classic. 

Make no mistake: Justin Timberlake will never be left out of a karaoke list. Sing, groove and hit those high notes as you rock out to the Trolls theme song. Make Poppy proud, kid.  

A decade after this sugar-disco confection migrated down from Canada and took over the world, the notion of actually talking to another human being on the telephone is a bit outmoded, but even Generation Tik Tok knows what comes after ‘I just met you/And this is craaaaazy.’ We stan the Queen of Kids Karaoke.

The Moana jam is easy enough to sing that even wrestler-turned-demigod Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson belted it out in the movie. Plus, it’s absolutely hilarious to hear kids tackle the Lin Manuel-Miranda-penned rap at the climax. 

Even your kids moved past Hannah Montana thanks to this jam. We're hopping off that plane at LAX with Miley and singing along to one of her catchiest tunes. Yes, we see you ‘nodding your head like, yeah’ (no judgment). 

K-Pez’s celebration of letting your freak flag fly is the pop star’s ultimate kids bop, even if the sound of kids belting out the ascending notes of the chorus might sound a bit like somebody threw a Roman candle into the fireplace. 

An earworm in the most parasitic sense of the term, this musical virus, first unleashed by a South Korean education company in 2016, seems designed specifically to drive parents insane. It’s brain-stabbingly repetitive, and its ‘educational’ value is highly suspect. (What’s the lesson here? That sharks will murder you no matter how young or infeebled they seem?) But y’know what? This ain’t about you, gramps. Let the little ones ‘doot doot doot’ themselves to exhaustion, and hope you can crank the white noise machine loud enough to drown the song out of your head to get to sleep.