The Ultimate Birthday Song Playlist

Ever since my daughter’s first birthday I’ve made a custom playlist for her party, and later for each of her little brother’s parties as well. I try to fit in as many birthday songs as possible and then fill in between the songs with a mix of other music – I like to end up with about 3 cds worth of music so that the playlist doesn’t repeat during the party.  Part of the fun is that the songs run through a range of musical styles and cultures and they don’t always sound like a ‘birthday’ song at first listen. My kids and our party guests now look forward to hearing this year’s special playlist, and we listen to the cds after the birthday is over as well.

Here is the playlist of birthday songs I’ve put together over the last 5 years – I’ve also put them into an iTunes playlist so that you can easily preview the songs, download the whole list or just the individual songs you’d like (click the button below to open the playlist in iTunes where you can preview or purchase the songs – disclosure: I will receive a small percentage of the purchase).

1. Happy Birthday (Countdown Kids)
2. Happy Birthday to You
3. Happy Birthday (to the birthday girl) (Ingrid DuMosch)
4. Happy Birthday (to the birthday boy) (Ingrid DuMosch)
5. Who’s Having a Birthday (Happy Crowd)
6. It’s Your Birthday (Justin Roberts)
7. It’s Your Birthday (Nina Storey)
8. Let’s Birthday (The Not-Its)
9. Birthday Bite (Recess Monkey)
10. Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder)
11. Birthday (The Beatles)
12. Happy Birthday (The Ting Tings)
13. Happy Birthday (New Kids on the Block)
14. Light it Up (Caspar Babypants)
15. Birthday (Kings of Leon)
16. Happy Birthday (Alan Cave)
17. Happy Birthday (Isis and the Wings of Isis)
18. Happy Birthday (reggae) (Delroy Wilson)
19. Hau’oli la Hanau (Happy Birthday) (Alicia Bay Laurel)
20. Happy Birthday (mariachi) (Mariachi Garibaldi)
21. Hoy Es Tu Cumpleanos (Nico & Morlunah)
22. Cumpleanos Feliz (Los Hijos del Rey)
23. Feliz Cumpleanos (Fulanito)
24. Zum Geburtstag (Original Alpen Oberkrainer)
25. Pen-blwydd Hapus (Bryn Fon)
26. Happy Birthday (Jingle Cats)

Do you know of other birthday songs that aren’t in this list? Please let me know in the comments – I’m always looking for more to add and birthday season is coming up around here!