66 main pop ghoul bops that’ll make your Halloween playlist scream

When Scary-Britney Spears’ fang-tastic track from 2011 album Femme Fatale, once buried alive in the Japan only edition resurrected itself on streaming platforms last week (just in time for Halloween parties) I felt the ghost of inspiration possess me.

Naturally I had to conjure up a campy, creepy and scream worthy main pop ghoul playlist for the official Scene Spotify page.

I dove in skull-first (no bones about it) and picked mine and my boo’s brains because it’s officially spooky szn and we summoned 66 (obviously) spooktacular pop tracks that deserve a spot in your haunted headphones. We tried to dig up some deep cuts that most Halloween playlists ghost right past somehow! Don’t get me wrong, I’ll always raise a goblet of blood to Monster Mash, Thriller, and Ghostbusters but let’s be honest: most playlists are more trick than treat.

Some of these picks might be a bit of a stretch but if you hate fun, well just say you hate fun.

1.Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance

I couldn’t ghost this one, The Dead Dance simply had to be summoned. To be fair, Gaga’s Mayhem album is a graveyard of ghoulish gems (Disease, Zombieboy, Kill For Love, Die With a Smile-need I say more?) but there’s something eerily enchanting about TDD that makes it rise above the rest. It’s giving haunted ballroom, undead glam and full moon fever all at once.

2.Britney Spears - Scary

Scary being made widely accessible for the first time has given me life, and fans in the US are eating it up like candy corn at a haunted disco.

The track’s long awaited release couldn’t be more perfectly timed seeing as it's spooky season but also as Britney finds herself back in the headlines thanks to fresh tension with ex-husband Kevin Federline who’s stirred the cauldron by writing about her in his new book. The pop princess stays iconic, even when the ghosts of relationships past come knocking of course, it's Britney, Witch!

3.Rina Sawayama - This Hell

4.Nelly Furtardo - Maneater

5.Shakira - She Wolf

Wowowow Shakira truly unleashed the beast in 2009 with She Wolf, a timeless howl of a hit. It’s seductive, spooky and guaranteed to pack the dancefloor faster than a full moon transformation.

And if the crowd doesn’t join in with her iconic werewolf a-wooo, are they even alive?

6.Miley Cyrus - Psycho Killer

7.Slayyyter - CANNIBALISM!

8.Kesha - Cannibal

9.Bebe Rexha - Sacrifice

10.Rihanna - Disturbia

This 2008 classic still slays as a Halloween anthem. From the opening scream, Rihanna casts a spell of pure dancefloor mayhem.

That iconic hook bum-bum-be-dum-bum-bum-be-dum-bum hook is devilishly catchy, guaranteed to summon a pop fueled frenzy at any spooky soirée.

11.Selena Gomez, Marshmallow - Wolves

12.Lana Del Rey - Season Of The Witch

13.Kate Bush - Hammer Horror

14.Ava Max - Ghost

15.Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Wolf

16.Goldfrapp - Human

17.Katy Perry - E.T.

18.allSTARS - Things That Go Bump In The Night

19.Beyoncé - ALIEN SUPERSTAR

20.Olivia Rodrigo - vampire

21.Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl

22.Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

23.Kim Petras and Elvira - Turn Off The Light

24.Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream

25.Tove Lo - 2 Die 4

26.Allie X - Weird World

27.Doja Cat - demons

This track is a chaotic cauldron of chopped-up rap, eerie nursery-style lyrics, and feral vocal rasps-catchy and creepy in equal measure.

It’s Halloween party gold with a side of sass: crank the bass, unleash your inner demon and get freaky. Bonus points for the music video, which is scary AF.

28.Christina Aguilera - Haunted Heart

29.Billie Eilish - bury a friend

From bone chilling lyrics to a nightmare-fueled music video, Billie Eilish’s Bury a Friend is pure haunted pop perfection.

It doesn’t just shrieks creepy. A must add to any Halloween playlist that dares to go dark.

30.Madonna - Supernatural

31.MARINA - Living Dead

32.Grimes - Shinigami Eyes

33.The Pretty Reckless - Make Me Wanna Die

34.Kylie Minogue - Better The Devil You Know

35.Evanscence - Bring Me To Life

36.Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

37.Agnes - Here Comes The Night

38.Ariana Grande - supernatural

39.Jeffree Star - Get Away With Murder

40.Demi Lovato - BONES

41.Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound

42.BANKS - The Devil

43.Diana Vickers - The Boy Who Murdered Love

44.Marilyn Manson - This Is Halloween

45.SCARLET x Dolly Style - Haunted Disco

46.Dua Lipa - Hotter Than Hell

47.Siobhán Donaghy - Ghosts

48.Björk - Play Dead

49.Steps - Scared of the Dark

50.Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell

51.Janet Jackson - Black Cat

52.Cyndi Lauper - Oh, Dolores - From "The Horror of Dolores Roach"

53.No Doubt - Spiderwebs

54.Stevie Nicks - Beauty and the Beast

55.The Living Tombstone - Five Nights at Freddy's

56.Annie Lennox - Love Song for a Vampire

57.Adam Lambert - Ghost Town

58.Cher - Dark Lady

59.FKA twigs - Drums of Death

60.Sugababes - Freak Like Me

61.Brandi Carlile - Mama Werewolf

62.Olly Alexander - Sanctify

63.Eagles - Witchy Woman

64.Jessie Ware - Freak me Now (with Róisín Murphy)

65.SZA - Kill Bill

66.Aqua - Halloween