Playlist: Rock Halloween This Year!
Turn off the lights, crank up the speakers, and let the spirits of rock, pop, and funk rise from the grave, because Billboard just dropped its list of the Biggest Halloween Hits! They ranked these spine-tingling tracks by their Hot 100 chart peaks, weeks at the top, and overall scare factor.
Here are the Top 15, the ones guaranteed to make your jack-o-lantern groove:
- “Monster Mash” – Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers (#1): The graveyard smash that started it all.
- “Ghostbusters” – Ray Parker Jr. (#1): Who ya gonna call when the dance floor’s possessed?
- “Frankenstein” – Edgar Winter Group (#1): An instrumental so electrifying, even Dr. Frankenstein would head-bang.
- “The Monster” – Eminem ft. Rihanna (#1): Modern nightmares meet rap therapy.
- “On Our Own” – Bobby Brown (#2): From Ghostbusters 2, smooth as slime.
- “Somebody’s Watching Me” – Rockwell (#2): Still gives everyone privacy-paranoia chills.
- “Dark Lady” – Cher (#1): Tarot cards and murder never sounded so fabulous.
- “Black Cat” – Janet Jackson (#1): Purr-fectly fierce.
- “Devil with a Blue Dress On” – Mitch Ryder (#4): Dance with danger, Detroit-style.
- “Devil Inside” – INXS (#2): Temptation never rocked harder.
- “Demons” – Imagine Dragons (#6): Because sometimes, the monsters are us.
- “Spooky” – Classics IV (#3): Smooth, jazzy, and just a little haunted.
- “Devil Woman” – Cliff Richard (#6): She’ll curse your heart . . . and your playlist.
- “Bad Moon Rising” – CCR (#2): Werewolves beware!
- “Black Magic Woman” – Santana (#4): Guitar sorcery that still casts a spell.
So cue the fog machine — these hits are dying to be played. 💀
It’s Rocktober – Happy Halloween!
Doug O’Brien
