floor-filler

British

noun

a dance recording that is so catchy and popular that everyone in the place where it is played wants to dance

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Zuckerberg sings with the help of Autotune on an acoustic reworking of the filthy floor-filler, which was originally a hit for Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz in 2003.

From BBC

If Drake hoped his house-influenced “Honestly, Nevermind” would be the floor-filler of the season, it just got wiped off the decks.

From Los Angeles Times

Israel earned the right to host this year's competition after winning last year's event in Lisbon with Netta's bumptious floor-filler Toy.

From BBC

Allen reveals how Delta 5’s cocktail of punk and funk was fuelled by “drinking ourselves silly at the Heaven and Hell nightclub, where Sylvester’s Mighty Real was a favourite floor-filler”.

From The Guardian

If you fed a songwriting algorithm the complete works of Chic, Kool & the Gang, and Earth, Wind & Fire, it’d spit out something much like Daft Punk’s floor-filler.

From Slate

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