What are the most banned wedding songs?

Getting your dance on is one of the most fun parts of a wedding reception, and what’s more important than the music? According to FiveThirtyEight, when they surveyed wedding DJs, these songs came up most often on the “Do Not Play” list:

SONG	MOST COMMON ARTIST*	SHARE OF WEDDINGS
1	Chicken Dance		23.1%
2	Cha-Cha Slide	DJ Casper	22.5
3	Macarena	Los Del Rio	17.6
4	Cupid Shuffle	Cupid	16.5
5	YMCA	Village People	15.4
6	Electric Boogie (Electric Slide)	Marcia Griffiths	12.6
7	Hokey Pokey		10.4
8	Wobble	V.I.C.	7.1
9	Happy	Pharrell Williams	5.5
	Shout	Isley Brothers	5.5
11	Love Shack	The B-52’s	4.9
12	We Are Family	Sister Sledge	4.4
13	Blurred Lines	Robin Thicke	3.8
	Celebration	Kool & The Gang	3.8
	Cotton Eye Joe	Rednex	3.8
	Dancing Queen	ABBA	3.8
	Don’t Stop Believin’	Journey	3.8
	Single Ladies	Beyoncé	3.8
	Sweet Caroline	Neil Diamond	3.8
	Turn Down for What	DJ Snake, Lil Jon	3.8
	Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)	Silentó	3.8
22	Hot in Herre	Nelly	2.7
	Mony Mony	Billy Idol	2.7
24	All About That Bass	Meghan Trainor	2.2
	Baby Got Back	Sir Mix-A-Lot	2.2
	Booti Call	Blackstreet	2.2
	Gangnam Style	Psy	2.2
	Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)	Big & Rich	2.2
	Stayin’ Alive	Bee Gees	2.2
	Sweet Home Alabama	Lynyrd Skynyrd	2.2
	Uptown Funk	Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars	2.2
	Wagon Wheel	Nathan Carter	2.2
	What Do You Mean?	Justin Bieber	2.2
34	All of Me	John Legend	1.6
	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen	1.6
	Brown Eyed Girl	Van Morrison	1.6
	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	1.6
	Footloose	Kenny Loggins	1.6
	Get Low	Lil Jon	1.6
	Hey Ya!	Outkast	1.6
	Hotline Bling	Drake	1.6
	I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor	1.6
	My Heart Will Go On	Celine Dion	1.6
	SexyBack	Justin Timberlake	1.6
	Shake It Off	Taylor Swift	1.6
	Sugar	Maroon 5	1.6
	Total Eclipse of the Heart	Bonnie Tyler	1.6
	You Shook Me All Night Long	AC/DC	1.6

Many couples opt to leave out songs with certain dances, songs with awkward or inappropriate lyrics. For many couples, banning a simple song is not enough, people are also opting to ban an artist completely. The most common artist that was banned in the case of this survey was Justin Bieber, being banned from approximately 6% of weddings!