If you’re going on a road trip it is absolutely essential that you have an awesome playlist! As a passionate road tripper, who’s been traveling in an RV with my parents and four siblings for the last 5 years, and music lover, going on a road trip without an awesome road trip playlist the worst packing mistake you could make.
I’ve put together a complete road trip playlist to last you til the end of time (or at least 9 hours). Below is the perfect road trip playlist divided into four parts whether you’re looking for happy music, chill background tunes, head-nodding jams, or classics sing-alongs!
I’ve included a link at the bottom so you can download this entire playlist on Spotify as well as each individual playlist.
Before you head out on that epic road trip, check out our other Road Trip Blogs:
- Road Trip Pack List
- How to Plan a Successful Road Trip
- Tips for Your First Camping or RV Trip
- 14 Tips For Your First Road Trip
- How To Road Trip on a Budget
- Essential RV Gadgets for Your RV
- Roadschooling Your Kids
The Perfect Road Trip Playlist
Happy Playlist
Songs to keep to the good vibes rolling
1. Buttercup – Jack Stauber
2. Shut Up And Dance – WALK THE MOON
3. Blisters In The Sun – Violent Femmes
4. Gone Daddy Gone – Violent Femmes
5. Everyday People – Sly & The Family Stone
6. Someday – The Strokes
7. One Of Us – New Politics
8. NBHD – Onerepublic
9. Good Life – Onerepublic
10. Life in Color – Onerepublic
11. Lucky – Jason Mraz
12. Midnight City – M83
13. Oxygen – Dirty Heads
14. I Don’t Care – Ed Sheeran (with Justin Bieber)
15. Dog Days Are Over – Florence And The Machine
16. When It Was Wrong – California Honeydrops
17. Cleopatra – The Lumineers
18. Burn The House Down – AJR
19. Everything Now – Arcade Fire
20. Ride – Twenty One Pilots
21. High Hopes – Panic! At The Disco
22. We Are Young – fun
23. The Walker – Fitz And The Tantrums
24. Wake Up – Arcade Fire
25. Upside Down – Jack Johnson
26. Starman – David Bowie
27. 9 to 5 – Dolly Partson
28. Faith – George Michael
29. Take It All Back 2.0 – Judah & The Lion
30. Unbelievers – Vampire Weekend
31. Might Be Right – White Reaper
32. Everybody Talks – Neon Trees
33. The Hype – Twenty One Pilots
34. Fool – Dan Luke and The Raid
35. The Underdog – Spoon
36. Safe And Sound – Capitol Cities
37. Best Day Of My Life – American Authors
38. My Life – Billy Joel
Jam On Playlist
Songs for when you’ve been driving for hours on end and to need a jump start
39. What’s Up- 4 Non Blondes
40. Back In Black – AC/DC
41. Like A Stone – Audioslave
42. E-Pro – Beck
43. Hard To Handle – The Black Crowes
44. Pump It – Black Eyed Peas
45. Dancing In The Dark – Bruce Springsteen
46. Come A Little Closer – Cage the Elephant
47. The Distance – Cake
48. What I Got – Sublime
49. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) –
50. The Kids Aren’t Alright – Fall Out Boy
51. This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race – Fall out Boy
52. Handlebars – Flobots
53. Best Of You – Foo Fighters
54. Sweet Child O’Mine – Guns N’ Roses
55. Choke – I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
56. Believer – Imagine Dragons
57. Overthinker – INZO
58. Gloria – The Lumineers
59. Float On – Modest Mouse
60. Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
61. Come As You Are – Nirvana
62. Feel It Still – Portugal. The Man
63. Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen
64. Creep – Radiohead
65. Sky Is The Limit – Rebelution
66. Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers
67. Dani California – Red Hot Chili Peppers
68. Paint It Black – The Rolling Stones
69. I Heard It Through The Grapevine – The Slits
70. Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
71. Best Friend – Sofi Tukker (Feat. NERVO, The Knocks, & Alli Ueno)
72. Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
73. Dream On – Aerosmith
74. Drive – Incubus