How the Karaoke Songs bracket works
Best karaoke songs ranked without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Bohemian Rhapsody or Don't Stop Believin'? Livin' on a Prayer or Sweet Caroline? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 32 tracks in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 tracks in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same track can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Bohemian Rhapsody, Don't Stop Believin', Livin' on a Prayer and Sweet Caroline.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
Don't Stop Believin'
Journey
Livin' on a Prayer
Bon Jovi
Sweet Caroline
Neil Diamond
Mr. Brightside
The Killers
Dancing Queen
ABBA
I Want It That Way
Backstreet Boys
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler
Take Me Home, Country Roads
John Denver
Don't Stop Me Now
Queen
Build Me Up Buttercup
The Foundations
Since U Been Gone
Kelly Clarkson
Summer Nights
Grease
Bye Bye Bye
*NSYNC
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
Wannabe
Spice Girls
Somebody to Love
Queen
Hotel California
Eagles
Africa
Toto
Shake It Off
Taylor Swift
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
Shania Twain
Respect
Aretha Franklin
Uptown Funk
Bruno Mars
I Gotta Feeling
Black Eyed Peas
Hey Ya!
OutKast
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Marvin Gaye
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
Piano Man
Billy Joel
Wonderwall
Oasis
Under Pressure
Queen & David Bowie
Love Shack
The B-52's
Take On Me
a-ha
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 2 completed Karaoke Songs brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Livin' on a Prayer
5W - 0L · won 1 bracket
100%
win rate
- 2
Take On Me
4W - 1L · won 1 bracket
80%
win rate
- 3
Don't Stop Believin'
4W - 1L
80%
win rate
- 4
Somebody to Love
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 5
...Baby One More Time
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 6
Shake It Off
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 7
I Want It That Way
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 8
Since U Been Gone
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 9
Total Eclipse of the Heart
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 10
Don't Stop Me Now
2W - 2L
50%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Go with the track you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- 2The default run puts all 32 tracks in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Karaoke Songs bracket FAQ
How many tracks are in the Karaoke Songs bracket?
The pool holds 32 tracks. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which tracks are included?
Bohemian Rhapsody, Don't Stop Believin', Livin' on a Prayer, Sweet Caroline, Mr. Brightside, Dancing Queen, I Want It That Way, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Take Me Home, Country Roads, Don't Stop Me Now, Build Me Up Buttercup and Since U Been Gone, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the best karaoke songs ranked take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other track grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two tracks that never met. If you would rather place the tracks into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these tracks?
Every completed bracket feeds the Karaoke Songs community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own karaoke songs bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own tracks, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.