Top 20 Catchiest Songs from Modern Movie Musicals

The catchiest songs from modern movie musicals made Broadway envious. Our countdown includes "Rent," "La La Land," "The Greatest Showman," and more! What do YOU think is the catchiest modern movie musical song? Let us know in the comments!

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[reganpierce]

I don’t think there was a bad song in The Greatest Showman.

[erinlefevers]

Zac Efron proving himself as a modern musical king. Shame The Other Side wasn't on the list.

[zamyafields]

"You Can't Stop the Beat"
"That's How You Know"
"Rewrite the Stars"

[CommanderKol]

Kind of surprised Les Misérables didn't have a single song on here... There were some excellent renditions in the movie version from 2012.

[fanchon]

WatchMojo: "We're looking at movies from 1985 to today"
Also WatchMojo: includes Fame from 1980

[rosiequartzie]

If they included "In The Heights", I think the best ones for this list are "In The Heights", "96, 000", and "Carnaval de Barrio". I just saw it yesterday and I already consider it one of the best Musical Adaptations of all time 🤩👏

[AnnArborInConcert]

Love that Zac Efron appears in at least 3 of these nominees. He may not be seen as a true musical leading man but he does such a great job in all the shows mentioned here. And a huge shout out to Pasek and Paul for two appearances here!!

[trinaq]

I love how Andrew Rannells is 42 years old, yet he has tons of energy in "Love Thy Neighbour", and single handedly abolishes the teen's hypocrisy!

[MissCristinaLee]

I am so very surprised honestly that nothing from Burlesque was on here. The movie may have not been all that good but you can’t deny “Express” and “Show Me How You Burlesque” are super catchy

[Excalibur-Sonic]

I still love High School Musical, the Newsies, Enchanted and Hairspray.

My grandpa and I saw The Greatest Show on impulse seeing Jackman was in it. I was blown away by the first song. I still love this soundtrack today!!

[colinmarshall]

greatest Showman is BY FAR the best modern musical and ought to be number one hands down. I realise its only an opinion but seriously, Hugh Jackman, Zac Effron and all the rest of the cast are extremely mind blowing. The songs are all sublime and i cannot get enough of it. Have i mentioned the brilliant story yet? No, i have not which is fabulous. Hence me saying, in my opinion at least, it really ought to be first, no question.

[shreyasuresh]

'Never Enough' from The Greatest Showman is extremely underrated and it is sad to see that people don't appreciate it

[annaspivey]

Them: We’re only doing songs from movie musicals in 1985 or later
Also Them: #14... “Fame (1980)”

[deefoxwinter]

All the songs From the Greatest showman are Epic

[AudreyC]

The Greatest Showman is the only musical that I actually really like. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Everything about it was great and the songs...such a pleasure to listen to! 😍🎵🎶

[arianna]

I IMMEDIATELY CLICKED WHEN I SAW THE GREATEST SHOWMAN IN THE THUMBNAIL

[Pablorcct]

Hugh Jackman singing The Greatest Show at the Brit's is the best opening on a ceremony awards history

[gulf]

I love La La Land but “You can’t stop the beat” is definitely the #1. Now I’m going to have the song in my head all night

[missmusic]

Thank you so much!! Finally someone includes Newsies (the movie!) in his ranking. It’s such an underrated movie, especially because it‘s Disney and nobody knows it / thinks it is bad.
I love all of the songs so much, finally they get what they deserve❤️

[TravisVane]

WatchMojo: "Let's make a Top 20 list of catchiest songs from musicals"
Also WatchMojo: "Let's feature 3 movie in which Zac Efron is a main cast"
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