Best songs to cheer you up
These uplifting songs will cheer you up, make you feel better, and energize you to move on and get things done.
Click on the links to read the inspiring, and sometimes insightful, lyrics or look them up on YouTube.
- Alessia Cara (Scars to Your Beautiful),
- All American Rejects (Move Along),
- Annette Hanshaw (Happy Days Are Here Again),
- Aretha Franklin (RESPECT),
- Beach Boys (Good Vibrations),
- Bill Withers (Lean On Me),
- Bing Crosby (Pennies From Heaven),
- Black Eyed Peas (I Gotta Feeling),
- Bob Marley (No Woman No Cry),
- Bobby McFerrin (Don’t Worry, Be Happy),
- Bruno Mars (You’re Beautiful Just The Way You Are),
- Christina Aguilera (Beautiful),
- Corey Hart (Never Surrender),
- Cyndi Lauper (True Colours),
- Depeche Mode (People are People, Somebody),
- Dick Van Dyke (Put On A Happy Face),
- Doors (Break on Through),
- Erasure (It Doesn’t Have to Be, Phantom Bride),
- Frank Sinatra (Blue Skies, For Once In My Life, You’re Nobody ‘Till Somebody Loves You, When You’re Smiling),
- Fred Astaire (Pick Yourself Up),
- Gene Kelly (Singin’ In The Rain),
- Genesis (It’s Gonna Get Better),
- Gloria Gaynor (I Will Survive),
- Gorillaz (Feel Good Inc.),
- Great Big Sea (Consequence Free, When I’m Up I Can’t Get Down),
- Green Day (Time Of Your Life),
- Harry Connick, Jr. (It Had To Be You, Just Like Me),
- Howard Jones (Bounce Right Back, Equality, Life in One Day, Specialty, Things Can Only Get Better),
- Inner City (Good Life),
- INXS (New Sensation),
- Isley Brothers (Shout),
- James Brown (I Feel Good),
- Jimmy Cliff (I Can See Clearly Now),
- Jimmy Eats World (The Middle – It Just Takes Some Time),
- John Legend (All of Me),
- John Lennon (Imagine),
- Justin Timberlake (Can’t Stop The Feeling),
- Katrina & The Waves (Walking on Sunshine),
- Katy Perry (Firework, Roar),
- Kelly Clarkson (Stronger),
- Killers (Everything Will Be Alright),
- Kool & The Gang (Celebration),
- La Roux (Bulletproof),
- Lady Gaga (Born This Way),
- Louis Armstrong (What A Wonderful World),
- Love Inc. (You’re A Superstar),
- Madonna (Holiday),
- McMaster & James (Thank You),
- Meghan Trainor (I Love Me, Me Too),
- Michael Bublé (Daddy’s Little Girl, Feeling Good – originally performed by Nina Simone),
- Monks (Johnny B. Rotten),
- Natasha Bedingfield (Unwritten),
- Pharrell Williams (Happy),
- Pink (F**kin’ Perfect),
- Prince (Let’s Go Crazy),
- Proclaimers (I’m On My Way),
- Queen (Don’t Stop Me Now, We Are The Champions),
- Randy Newman (You’ve Got a Friend In Me),
- Ren & Stimpy (Happy Happy Joy Joy),
- Sister Sledge (We Are Family),
- Smash Mouth (All Star),
- Survivor (Eye Of The Tiger),
- Taylor Swift (Shake It Off),
- Tears For Fears (Change, Shout),
- Thompson Twins (Lay Your Hands On Me),
- Trooper (We’re Here For A Good Time),
- U2 (Beautiful Day), and
- Wang Chung (Everybody Have Fun Tonight).