Enjoy the May 2022 edition of “Behind the Wedding Music,” a resource to help build wedding playlists for DJs. Each month we will highlight new songs and include a line of song lyrics, a description of the song’s emotional profile, and a few fun facts — designed to help you advise a wedding couple if they’re looking for something fresh in their playlist.
A few newly released wedding songs from April 2022:
SOFI TUKKER
April 29, 2022
A cover of the classic Louis Armstrong song with the use of song jazz chords and a reworked melody.
Notable Lyrics: “The bright blessed day / The dark sacred night / And I think to myself / What a wonderful world”
Fun Facts: The song was featured on Apple Music’s Carols Covered. Each year Apple Music commissions a collection of holiday songs reimagined by contemporary music artists.
Calum Scott
April 29, 2022
The describes a feeling of falling in love with the concept of an unimaginable paradise.
Notable Lyrics: “If everyone had a love like us / They wouldn’t call that place above / Heaven”
Fun Facts: The song will be released on his new album “Bridges” scheduled for a June 17 release date. The album will also feature the previously released wedding song “Biblical”.
Alexandra Kay
April 29, 2022
Kay describes the song as being about all of the ups and downs leading up to your “I Do.”
Notable Lyrics: “But we’ll always know / When the rain won’t seem to quit / Darlin take my hand, and we’ll slow dance through all of it / Cause that’s what love is”
Fun Facts: When Kay was planning her wedding day and looking for the best wedding songs to play, she couldn’t find one that accurately told her and Indiana’s love story. That’s when she set out to write a wedding song herself, and “That’s What Love Is” was written.
Ron Pope and Caroline Spence
August 29, 2022
A cover to the hit song by Mazzy Star that you get more of a closeness to the lyrics.
Notable Lyrics: “You put your hands into your head / A million smiles cover your heart / Fade into you”
Fade into you”
Fun Facts:The song is on his April release “It’s Gonna Be a Long Night – EP” which also features a Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” cover.
Pitbull, Zac Brown
April 29, 2022
A collaboration of Latin and Country superstars on one energetic party hit.
Notable Lyrics: “Get lost with me tonight / We going / High as a mother (Woo) / Nothing’s gonna stop us now”
Fun Facts: The song will be featured on Pitbull’s forthcoming 12th studio album, ‘Timeless’, due out later in 2022. Mr. Worldwide starts a 50-date Can’t Stop Us Now Tour of North America, which kicks off in North Carolina in July.
Psy, prod., SUGA of BTS
April 29, 2022
A catchy dance tune that will have K-pop fans on the dance floor.
Notable Lyrics: [English] “On your mark, get ready (Go), set, go (Oh) / That, that, I like that (Like that) / Feeling good”
Fun Facts: Psy has the comeback party single of the year thus far. His last hit, “Gangnam Style”, was released in 2013 and his first official single in 5 years. Suga wrote, produced, performed on the single, and is featured in the music video.
This is Us Cast, Mandy Moore
April 20, 2022
The song was performed on an episode of This Is Us TV show Season 6. Rebecca (Mandy Moore) plays “The Forever Now” for Kate (Chrissy Metz) at her wedding reception.
Notable Lyrics: “The years can be counted in seconds / And that’s fine with me / ‘Cause I get this moment with you / Forever now”
Fun Facts: The show is in its final season and will air the series finale on May 24th. Mandy did not prerecord the track in a studio. “The Forever Now” recording was captured on set as she performed for the camera.
Lizzo
April 13, 2022
A new dance tune bringing in influences of funk and disco.
Notable Lyrics: “Turn up the music, let’s celebrate (alright) / I got a feelin’ I’m gon’ be okay / Okay (okay), alright / It’s about damn time”
Fun Facts: Lizzo’s new album “Special” will drop on July 15. Check out her performance as both host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” on April 16. Lizzo’s last album was in 2019 with “Cuz I Love You”. The album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and spent 127 weeks on the chart.
Lauv
April 8, 2022
A midtempo song to set the mood of love during cocktail hour.
Notable Lyrics: “I’m so in love, I’m so in love / I don’t ever wanna stop this ride that we’re on / I don’t ever wanna say goodbye”
Fun Facts: Lauv wrote the song after realizing he was in love with his girlfriend Sophie Cates. Watch the music video as it features Cates. The song will be released on his ‘All 4 Nothing’ album set for August. Lauv will embark on a North American tour in August and September.
Ashley Cooke, Brett Young
April 1, 2022
A duet love song created for a wedding story to accent the first dance or as a ceremony song.
Notable Lyrics: “Never ’til we danced ’til closin’ time / Never ’til you proved me wrong / ‘Bout the kind of love you fall so hard / You never hit the ground / Never ’til now”
Fun Facts: The song was first released with only Cooke and quickly amassed more than 13 million streams. She’s on the verge of 1 million followers and 13 million likes on TikTok.
Las Vegas-based Matthew Campbell is the founder of My Wedding Songs.
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