Best Sports Bar Music - Top 10 Songs & 200 More For Your Playlist

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Fall is the season for all sorts of opportunities to get together and yell at your television. The World Series wraps up the long baseball season (congrats Giants!), football is in full swing, basketball is heating up and hockey is underway (in non-strike conditions, anyhow). There’s a little something for everyone, and Rockbot has created what may be the best sports bar music playlist with the most rowdy, anthemic and crowd-pleasing sports jams that fans continue to love.

What's the best sports bar music for your venue?

To easily play over 200 songs of the best sports bar music, download the "Roqbot For Business" music app for bars on iPhone, iPad or Android, and let your customers engage with the music from their phones!

We searched through our library of 7 million songs to find the best sports bar music in time for this perfect storm of sporting events. Anywhere you have people together to watch the game, these overplayed but popular fan favorites will not fail you. Here are the 10 most popular from our 200 total:

Best Sports Bar Music (Top 10 of 200):

  1. “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” – Hank Williams Jr. - This song is so appropriate that it became the theme to Monday Night Football for over 20 years.
  2. “We Are the Champions” – Queen - This one is for just about every winning team, ever. The best sports bar music playlist is incomplete without it.
  3. “Who Let the Dogs Out” – Baha Men - Obnoxious? Maybe if you're teams losing, but can’t you hear the crowd barking to this track when your team is on a roll?
  4. “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” – Steam - How a stadium full of fans says “adios” to the losing side.
  5. “This Is How We Do It” – Montell Jordan - The best sports bar music? This song is surprisingly fitting when your team is dominating.
  6. “Tubthumping” – Chumbawumba - Ready for a comeback? This one provides that motivation.
  7. “Song 2” – Blur - Nothing like a yell-a-long song to get the crowd and team pumped.
  8. “Party Up” – DMX - When the game-watching shifts into celebration mode, this revs you up for the ride.
  9. “Gonna Fly Now” – Bill Conti - Nothing like the theme from the ultimate winner movie “Rocky” to get you pumped.
  10. “Bad to the Bone” – George Thorogood & the Destroyers - Intimidate the other guys with some classic rock badness.

To play the list above and 190 more from our best sports bar music at your bar, just get the Roqbot For Business music app for bars on iPhone & Android. Tell us which songs your customers love or which ones we missed in the comments below!


Masen Ewald

Masen leads marketing at Rockbot, an all-in-one entertainment platform for restaurants and other businesses. He studied digital communication at Northwestern University, helped build the content marketing practice at the world's largest PR firm, and holds expertise is in mobile technology, customer engagement, and brand entertainment.