CLUB BROADWAY
Hottest 100 Showtunes
On Saturday 6th January we counted down the Hottest 100 Showtunes, as voted by YOU!
Over 700 people joined us at The Greenwood in Sydney for the live event.
The Club Broadway creator and emcee DJ Dan Murphy counted us down to #1 with a crowd who sang along from start to finish.
Drumroll please…
Here are all the results of our first ever Hottest 100 Showtunes poll!
Total number of votes received:
1,357
Total number of showtunes voted for:
443
Total number of musicals voted for:
168
Top 10 musicals with the most total votes:
1 - Wicked (9.4%)
2 - Hamilton (8.3%)
3 - Six (6.9%)
4 - Les Misérables (6.0%)
5 - Rent (4.9%)
6 - Chicago (4.4%)
7 - Hairspray (3.5%)
8 - Heathers (2.6%)
9 - Dear Evan Hansen (2.4%)
10 - Moulin Rouge (1.8%)
These musicals combined received more than 50% of the total of all votes cast.
Top 10 musicals with the most number of songs voted for:
1 - Hamilton (21)
2 - Wicked (10)
3 - Les Misérables (9)
4 - Mamma Mia (9)
5 - Six (9)
6 - Hairspray (8)
7 - Heathers (8)
8 - Moulin Rouge (8)
9 - Mean Girls (7)
10 - Rent (7)
There were 96 songs voted from these musicals in total.
The songs from these musicals made up over over 57% of all songs voted for.
Hottest 100 Showtunes
TOP 10
Drumroll please…
Here are the Top 10 showtunes as voted by YOU!
1
Defying Gravity
WICKED
2
One Day More
LES MISÉRABLES
3
Seasons Of Love
RENT
4
Cell Block Tango
CHICAGO
5
You Can’t Stop The Beat
HAIRSPRAY
6
Satisfied
HAMILTON
7
Six
SIX
8
All That Jazz
CHICAGO
9
Take Me Or Leave Me
RENT
10
Don’t Lose Ur Head
SIX
Your #1 Showtune ‘Defying Gravity’ received more than 2.3 times as many votes as
#2 ‘One Day More.’
In fact, ‘Defying Gravity’ received almost as many votes as
#2 ‘One Day More’
#3 ‘Seasons Of Love’
and #4 ‘Cell Block Tango’
combined.
‘Defying Gravity’ received a whopping 6.5% of all the votes cast.
Hottest 100 Showtunes
The Full List
1
Defying Gravity
WICKED
2
One Day More
LES MISÉRABLES
3
Seasons Of Love
RENT
4
Cell Block Tango
CHICAGO
5
You Can't Stop The Beat
HAIRSPRAY
6
Satisfied
HAMILTON
7
Six
SIX
8
All That Jazz
CHICAGO
9
Take Me Or Leave Me
RENT
10
Don't Lose Ur Head
SIX
11
Ex Wives
SIX
12
Popular
WICKED
13
On My Own
LES MISÉRABLES
14
Do You Hear The People Sing
LES MISÉRABLES
15
Dead Girl Walking
HEATHERS
16
This Is Me
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
17
Waving Through A Window
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
18
Candy Store
HEATHERS
19
Time Warp
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
20
Wait For It
HAMILTON
21
Elephant Love Medley
MOULIN ROUGE
22
She Used To Be Mine
WAITRESS
23
The Room Where It Happens
HAMILTON
24
You Will Be Found
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
25
You'll Be Back
HAMILTON
26
Alexander Hamilton
HAMILTON
27
Don't Rain On My Parade
FUNNY GIRL
28
Suddenly Seymour
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
29
All You Wanna Do
SIX
30
So Much Better
LEGALLY BLONDE
31
Hello!
BOOK OF MORMON
32
Omigod You Guys
LEGALLY BLONDE
33
Schuyler Sisters
HAMILTON
34
Wait For Me
HADESTOWN
35
America
WEST SIDE STORY
36
And I'm Telling You
DREAMGIRLS
37
For Good
WICKED
38
Get Down
SIX
39
I Believe
THE BOOK OF MORMON
40
Let It Go
FROZEN
41
Me And The Sky
COME FROM AWAY
42
One Night In Bangkok
CHESS
43
The Phantom Of The Opera
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
44
30/90
TICK, TICK… BOOM!
45
Cabaret
CABARET
46
Do Re Mi
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
47
El Tango De Roxanne
MOULIN ROUGE
48
Maybe This Time
CABARET
49
My Shot
HAMILTON
50
No Way
SIX
51
Summer Nights
GREASE
52
Being Alive
COMPANY
53
Big Spender
SWEET CHARITY
54
How Far I'll Go
MOANA
55
La Vie Bohème
RENT
56
Raise You Up / Just Be
KINKY BOOTS
57
Revolting Children
MATILDA
58
Say My Name
BEETLEJUICE
59
Sincerely Me
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
60
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
MARY POPPINS
61
Sweet Transvestite
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
62
The Wizard And I
WICKED
63
World Burn
MEAN GIRLS
64
Dancing Queen
MAMMA MIA
65
Good Morning Baltimore
HAIRSPRAY
66
Greased Lightning
GREASE
67
Haus of Holbein
SIX
68
Helpless
HAMILTON
69
I Am What I Am
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
70
I Dreamed A Dream
LES MISÉRABLES
71
I'd Rather Be Me
MEAN GIRLS
72
Independently Owned
SHUCKED
73
Last Night Of The World
MISS SAIGON
74
Part Of Your World
THE LITTLE MERMAID
75
When I Grow Up
MATILDA
76
38 Planes (Reprise) / Somewhere In The Middle Of Nowhere
COME FROM AWAY
77
American Idiot
AMERICAN IDIOT
78
Anything Goes
ANYTHING GOES
79
Bad Idea
WAITRESS
80
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
LION KING
81
Dancing Through Life
WICKED
82
Dead Mom
BEETLEJUICE
83
Everyone's A Little Bit Racist
AVENUE Q
84
From Now On
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
85
Go Go Go
JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT
86
Hard To Be The Bard
SOMETHING ROTTEN
87
Hopelessly Devoted To You
GREASE
88
I Could Have Danced All Night
MY FAIR LADY
89
I Have Confidence
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
90
I Say No
HEATHERS
91
I'll Make A Man Out Of You
MULAN
92
Let Me Be Your Star
SMASH
93
Livin' It Up On Top
HADESTOWN
94
Meet The Plastics
MEAN GIRLS
95
The Music Of The Night
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
96
My Favourite Things
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
97
One
A CHORUS LINE
98
Out Tonight
RENT
99
The Point Of No Return
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
100
Rose's Turn
GYPSY
101
Run And Tell That
HAIRSPRAY
102
Singin' In The Rain
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
103
Skid Row
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
104
Stars
LES MISÉRABLES
105
Superstar
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
106
Sydney
MURIEL’S WEDDING
107
The Greatest Show
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
108
There Are Worse Things I Could Do
GREASE
109
There! Right There!
LEGALLY BLONDE
110
Way Down
HADESTOWN
111
We Both Reached For The Gun
CHICAGO
112
Welcome To The Rock
COME FROM AWAY
113
Yorktown (When The World Turned Upside Down)
HAMILTON
There you have it - your Hottest 100 Showtunes!
Yes, we went all the way up to #113 as the last few songs received the same amount of votes… and we didn’t want to leave anyone out!
Thank you to all who voted, and to everyone who came along in person to our special live event!
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Listen to the Hottest 100 Showtunes on our exclusive playlist on Spotify!
