100 Best Halloween Party Songs

The best Halloween party songs all put together into playlists for your next Halloween party! Choose from playlists full of Halloween songs for adults and Halloween songs for kids or a mix of the two! It’s all of the Halloween songs you could ever need for Halloween night!

The Best Halloween Party Playlists

My family loves Halloween with all of its spooky fun, candy, costumes, and Halloween games! But one of the things that I’ve found lacking at most Halloween parties is a good playlist full of Halloween party songs.

For some reason, there are always great playlists full of the best Christmas songs but Halloween is sorely lacking. And I’m not talking about just the classics like Monster Mash but an actual curated playlist full of the best Halloween inspired songs out there!

So I went through and found the best Halloween songs I could find. And I’ve turned them into two Halloween playlists that you can just play at your upcoming party on the creepiest night of the year! Use them in haunted houses, as soundtracks to match your Halloween party theme, or just as background music!

There are two different playlists below – one that’s good for all ages and one that’s better for teens and adults. The teen and adult one does have some of the classic kid-friendly songs like Purple People Eater, but it also has more adult type songs like Demons by Imagine Dragons.

Adult Halloween Party Songs

This Halloween playlist is full of Halloween classics, Halloween themed music, and more! I went with all of the non-explicit options in my playlist just in case you still want to play this one for a family party, but some of the themes are a bit darker and spookier!

This list also includes a lot of the songs from the kids Halloween playlist (other than the Kidz Bop songs) since that one is full of family-friendly Halloween classics. They’re not all listed on this playlist again but they are on there when you play it, making this list of Halloween party songs a full collection!

It’s definitely what we’ll be playing at our Halloween party this year since it has all of the best songs for Halloween!

I created this play on Apple Music if you have an Apple Music account or just make your own version!

1. Time Warp (from the Rocky Horror Picture Show)
2. Pyscho Killer by Talking Heads
3. Black Magic Woman by Santana
4. Witchy Woman by the Eagles
5. Dead Man’s Party by Oingo Boingo
6. Monster by Lady Gaga
7. Stranger Things by Kygo and OneRepublic
8. Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
9. I Put a Spell On You by Nina Simone
10. This is Halloween by Marilyn Manson

11.  Ghost Town by Kanye West
12. Phantom of the Opera by Andrew LLoyd Webber
13. Haunted by Beyonce (aka Queen Bey)
14. Devil Woman by Cliff Richard
15. Scary Monsters by David Bowie
16. Ghost Riders in the Sky by Johnny Cash
17. Superstition by Stevie Wonder
18. Freaks Come Out at Night by Whodini
19. Main Theme from Friday the 13th
20. Zombie by the Cranberries

21. Paint It Black from Wednesday Soundtrack
22. Bad Guy by Billie Eilish
23. Demons by Imagine Dragons
24. Wolves by Selena Gomez
25. Walk like a Zombie by HorrorPops
26. True Blood by Justin Timberlake
27. Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
28. Disturbia by Rhianna (this is also on my playlist of the best running songs!)
29. Freakshow by Britney Spears
30. Seven Wonders by Fleetwood Mac
31. Pet Sematary by Ramones
32. I Put a Spell On You by Creedence Clearwater Revival
33. Little Ghost by The White Stripes
34. Hungry Like a Wolf by Duran Duran
35. Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
36. Howlin’ for You by The Black Keys
37. Sympathy for the Devil by The Black Keys
38. Ghost in the Machine by B.O.B.
39. Halloween theme song
40. Ghost Town by The Specials

41. Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell
42. Nightmare on Elm Street Theme song
43. Tales from the Crypt by Danny Elfman
44. Highway to Hell by AC/DC
45. Little Shop of Horrors theme song
46. X-Files theme song
47. The Shining theme song
48. Don’t Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult
49. I Did Something Bad by Taylor Swift
50. Stranger Things Theme song
51. Ghost by Justin Bieber
52. Spiders and Snakes by Jim Stafford
53. Abracadabra by Jim Miller Band
54. Season of the Witch by Donovan
55. Dracula’s Wedding by Outkast

56. Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics
57. Heathens by Twenty One Pilots
58. Dark Horse by Katy Perry
59. The Monster by Eminem
60. Monsters by All Time Low
61. Unholy by Sam Smith & Kim Petras
62. Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo
63. Bad Blood by Taylor Swift
64. Banana Boat (Day-O)
65. E.T. by Katy Perry
66. Maneater by Nelly Furtado
67. Sweet by Pyscho by Ava Max
68. Ghost by Ella Henderson
69. Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf
70. Creep by Radiohead

Kids Halloween Party Songs

This Halloween playlist is full of Halloween music that is more kid-friendly in both sound and nature. They’re less spooky and more not-so scary (think Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween party type “spooky.”). If it’s a fun song that’s Halloween themed, it’s on this list.

I didn’t go over the top childish (i.e., no Halloween Sharks by Pink Fong or CocoMelon’s Little Pumpkins song) just in case you want to use this song for a family party as well but did make it work for party guests of any age!

Since all of these songs are also included on the Halloween playlist above, I didn’t create a new playlist on Apple Music – you can just use the ones I linked to above and play from the section full of kids songs (they’re all together starting at Monster Mash).

1. Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Picket
2. Nightmare on My Street by DJ Jazzy Jeff, the Fresh Prince
3. Addams Family
4. Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley
5. I Put a Spell on You by Bette Middler (the Hocus Pocus version)
6. Witch Doctor by David Seville
7. This is Halloween (from The Nightmare Before Christmas)
8. Oogie Boogie’s Song (from the Nightmare Before Christmas)
9. Ghostbusters (who you gonna call… – this would be great to play while you’re doing this Halloween punch game!)
10. Spooky Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold
11. Thriller by Michael Jackson
12. Twilight Zone theme song
13. The Wobblin’ Goblin by Rosemary Clooney
14. Poor Unfortunate Souls from Little Mermaid
15. Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead by Barbara Streisand

16. Boo! For You Halloween by Genevivie Goings
17. Grim Grinning Ghosts (from the Haunted Mansion)
18. Disney Halloween Medley by Jon Cozart & Voctave
19. I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
20. Halloween Party by Kidz Bop
21. Harry Potter Prologue
22. The Human Bash by Billy Kelly (a parody of monster mash)
23. We Only Come Out At Night by Smashing Pumpkins
24. Dinner with Drac by John Zacherle
25. Rotten to the Core from The Descendants
26. Trick or Treat from Vampirina
27. Like the Zombies Do by Milo Manheim
28. Heffalumps and Woozles
29. Green Gobby Party
30. Calling All the Monsters by China Anne McClain

Whether you’re having a costume party or just a generic Halloween theme party, you should be able to find plenty of Halloween party songs for an entire day or night full of spooktacular fun!

More Halloween Party Ideas

If you haven’t planned out the rest of your party yet, here are some of our most popular Halloween party ideas that might help with planning! They’d work with any Halloween party theme!

• Halloween word search – a free printable Halloween word search that’s great for kids and teens!
• Halloween scavenger hunt – tons of free riddles and clues to send kids on a fun Halloween themed treasure hunt!
• Halloween would you rather – would you rather be a werewolf or a vampfire? Kid-friendly questions that will have everyone laughing themselves silly!
• Halloween family feud – a Halloween inspired version of the classic TV show, this one’s always a hit!
• Halloween punch – a delicious and somewhat spooky drink that’s fun for all ages!