Dances curated
26
▲ sample of the full catalog
Era span
1990–2025
■ ’90s classics → today
YouTube links
52
▲ song + dance per entry, link-checked
Catalog revivals
4
▲ old songs a trend revived · oldest 1965
How the data flows
Research
Source sweep
Identify iconic dances ’90s→today across TikTok, YouTube, sitcoms & charts.
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Verify
Spotify / Apple Music
Confirm exact song title, primary artist & release year against official music DBs.
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Resolve links
YouTube Data API
Pin official audio + a dance demo; check every link is live and not region-locked.
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De-dupe
Schema QA
Normalize to the 9-field schema and reject duplicates before publish.
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Publish
Card system
Clean rows flow straight into your card-based system (Airtable / Notion / CMS).
Dances by category
Where each dance originated — platform or style.
Dances by era (decade)
Trend era — when each dance became prominent, not when the song was released.
Song source: contemporary vs. catalog revival
Trends keep pulling old songs back — Goo Goo Muck (1981), Pedro (1980), My Boo (1996).
Viral dances per year (social-media era)
The social-dance explosion — note the 2020 TikTok spike.
Curated dance catalog (sample)
| Dance / Trend | Song | Artist | Category | Era | Release |
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| The Macarena | Macarena | Los Del Rio | Pop / Club | 1996 | 1993 |
| The Carlton | It's Not Unusual | Tom Jones | TV / Sitcom | 1991 | 1965 |
| The Hammer Dance | U Can't Touch This | MC Hammer | Hip-Hop / Rap | 1990 | 1990 |
| Vogue | Vogue | Madonna | Pop / Club | 1990 | 1990 |
| The Tootsee Roll | Tootsee Roll | 69 Boyz | Hip-Hop / Rap | 1994 | 1994 |
| Cotton Eye Joe | Cotton Eye Joe | Rednex | Party / Line Dance | 1995 | 1994 |
| The Cha Cha Slide | Cha Cha Slide | DJ Casper (Mr. C the Slide Man) | Party / Line Dance | 2000 | 2000 |
| The Cupid Shuffle | Cupid Shuffle | Cupid | Party / Line Dance | 2007 | 2007 |
| Crank That (Soulja Boy) | Crank That (Soulja Boy) | Soulja Boy | Meme / Viral | 2007 | 2007 |
| Teach Me How to Dougie | Teach Me How to Dougie | Cali Swag District | Hip-Hop / Rap | 2010 | 2010 |
| The Shuffle (Party Rock) | Party Rock Anthem | LMFAO | Pop / Club | 2011 | 2011 |
| Gangnam Style | Gangnam Style | PSY | K-Pop | 2012 | 2012 |
| The Harlem Shake | Harlem Shake | Baauer | Meme / Viral | 2013 | 2012 |
| Watch Me (Whip / Nae Nae) | Watch Me (Whip / Nae Nae) | Silento | Hip-Hop / Rap | 2015 | 2015 |
| The Running Man Challenge | My Boo | Ghost Town DJs | Meme / Viral | 2016 | 1996 |
| Juju on That Beat | Juju on That Beat (TZ Anthem) | Zay Hilfigerrr & Zayion McCall | Meme / Viral | 2016 | 2016 |
| The Renegade | Lottery (Renegade) | K Camp | TikTok | 2019 | 2019 |
| Say So | Say So | Doja Cat | TikTok | 2020 | 2019 |
| Blinding Lights | Blinding Lights | The Weeknd | TikTok | 2020 | 2019 |
| Savage | Savage | Megan Thee Stallion | TikTok | 2020 | 2020 |
| Toosie Slide | Toosie Slide | Drake | TikTok | 2020 | 2020 |
| The Buss It Challenge | Buss It | Erica Banks | TikTok | 2021 | 2020 |
| Jiggle Jiggle | Jiggle Jiggle | Duke & Jones & Louis Theroux | TikTok | 2022 | 2022 |
| The Pedro Trend | Pedro | Jaxomy, Agatino Romero & Raffaella Carra | Meme / Viral | 2024 | 1980 |
| The Apple Dance | Apple | Charli XCX | TikTok | 2024 | 2024 |
| The Wednesday Trend | Goo Goo Muck | The Cramps | TikTok / Meme Dance | 2025 | 1981 |
Every row also carries song_youtube_link + dance_youtube_link — see the raw CSV below for the full 9-field schema. Creator credits (e.g. Jalaiah Harmon, Haley Sharpe, Kelley Heyer) are kept in each description per the cultural-context guideline.
Raw source data
dances.csv — showing 12 of 26 rows. The dashboard above is computed from this file, untouched.
| dance_or_prompt | description | associated_song | associated_song_artist | category | song_era | song_release_year | song_youtube_link | dance_youtube_link |
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| The Macarena | A 90s dancefloor staple of arm placements and a hip twist; the Bayside Boys remix turned it into a global wedding-and-party phenomenon. | Macarena | Los Del Rio | Pop / Club | 1996 | 1993 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Macarena+Los+Del+Rio+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Macarena+dance |
| The Carlton | Alfonso Ribeiro's goofy, arms-swinging dance as Carlton Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, set to a Tom Jones classic. | It's Not Unusual | Tom Jones | TV / Sitcom | 1991 | 1965 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=It%27s+Not+Unusual+Tom+Jones+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Carlton+dance |
| The Hammer Dance | MC Hammer's frenetic side-to-side 'typewriter' footwork in parachute pants — an MTV-era signature move. | U Can't Touch This | MC Hammer | Hip-Hop / Rap | 1990 | 1990 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=U+Can%27t+Touch+This+MC+Hammer+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Hammer+Dance+dance |
| Vogue | Madonna brought the angular model-pose 'voguing' of Harlem's ballroom scene to the mainstream. | Vogue | Madonna | Pop / Club | 1990 | 1990 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Vogue+Madonna+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Vogue+dance |
| The Tootsee Roll | A 90s Miami-bass call-and-response line dance: 'slide to the left, slide to the right, one hop this time.' | Tootsee Roll | 69 Boyz | Hip-Hop / Rap | 1994 | 1994 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tootsee+Roll+69+Boyz+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Tootsee+Roll+dance |
| Cotton Eye Joe | A foot-stomping, knee-slapping hoedown-techno line dance that took over 90s school dances and skating rinks. | Cotton Eye Joe | Rednex | Party / Line Dance | 1995 | 1994 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cotton+Eye+Joe+Rednex+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cotton+Eye+Joe+dance |
| The Cha Cha Slide | The original call-and-response party line dance — 'clap your hands' and 'cha cha real smooth' — by Chicago's Mr. C the Slide Man. | Cha Cha Slide | DJ Casper (Mr. C the Slide Man) | Party / Line Dance | 2000 | 2000 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cha+Cha+Slide+DJ+Casper+%28Mr.+C+the+Slide+Man%29+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Cha+Cha+Slide+dance |
| The Cupid Shuffle | A four-wall line dance — 'to the right, to the left' — that became a wedding-reception standard. | Cupid Shuffle | Cupid | Party / Line Dance | 2007 | 2007 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cupid+Shuffle+Cupid+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Cupid+Shuffle+dance |
| Crank That (Soulja Boy) | One of the first internet-era dance crazes, spread through YouTube and Myspace with its 'Superman' move. | Crank That (Soulja Boy) | Soulja Boy | Meme / Viral | 2007 | 2007 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Crank+That+%28Soulja+Boy%29+Soulja+Boy+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Crank+That+%28Soulja+Boy%29+dance |
| Teach Me How to Dougie | A loose, swaying shoulder-and-arm dance from LA's Cali Swag District that gave the 'Dougie' its instructional anthem. | Teach Me How to Dougie | Cali Swag District | Hip-Hop / Rap | 2010 | 2010 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Teach+Me+How+to+Dougie+Cali+Swag+District+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Teach+Me+How+to+Dougie+dance |
| The Shuffle (Party Rock) | LMFAO's 'every day I'm shufflin'' kicked off a global Melbourne-shuffle craze in the EDM-pop boom. | Party Rock Anthem | LMFAO | Pop / Club | 2011 | 2011 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Party+Rock+Anthem+LMFAO+official+audio | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Shuffle+%28Party+Rock%29+dance |
| Gangnam Style | PSY's invisible-horse riding dance became the first YouTube video to pass a billion views. | Gangnam Style | PSY | K-Pop | 2012 | 2012 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gangnam+Style+dance |
How this works in production
This demo runs the curation + QA logic in-process so you can click it today. The production version is a repeatable research pipeline that keeps your card system fed:
Collect
Research + scrapers
Trend discovery from TikTok / YouTube / charts, every entry logged with its source.
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Validate
Spotify & YouTube APIs
Song / artist / year cross-checked; each YouTube link liveness- and region-tested.
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Publish
Airtable / Notion / CMS
Schema-clean, de-duped rows synced to your card-based system on a schedule.
Every row traces back to its source and re-verifies on demand — so links don’t rot and the catalog keeps growing through 2026.
Want the full catalog built out?
This sample is 26 entries in your exact schema. I can scale it to a few hundred verified dances — ’90s classics through 2026 trends — each link-checked and kept current in your card-based system.
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