Massive List Of Songs to Wake Up To
With all the options available, who wants to wake up to a beeping alarm nowadays?
I know I don’t.
Mornings are hard enough for me as it is (I’m not a morning person), so I try to start my mind off right by waking up to the song of my choice. Right now my favorite way to do so is via the Sleep Bot app on Android. Not only does this beauty track the amount of sleep you are getting (my initial purpose for downloading it over a year ago), but it turns your entire phone to airplane mode while you’re asleep, provides tips to maximize your sleep, and best yet, allows you to wake up to the song of your choosing! What’s not to love?
I’m jumpy, so I tend to like to wake up to calmer songs. I’ll make a “Songs to Get Ready To” list shortly with more of the hype it up type tunes.
Here is a list of songs to wake up to:
- Closer
by Goapale
- You Might Win
by Kem
- On The Ocean
by K’Jon
- Nessun Dorma
by Luciano Pavarotti
- Orange Moon
by Erykah Badu (although I admit this one may make you go back to sleep LOL!)
- How Deeply I Need You
by Shekinah Glory
- Make You Feel My Love
by Adele
- Winter Song
by Sara Bereilles
- Good Morning
by John Legend
- Lovely Day
by Bill Withers (this is also the song hubby and I walked out to after our wedding ceremony)
- Lovely Day
by Beres Hammond
- November Rain
by Guns N’RosesEdited to add suggestions from the comment section!
- Good Morning by Mandisa
- Stronger by Mandisa
- Get By – Talib Kweli
- Makeda – Les Nubians
- Waka Waka – Shakira feat. Freshlyground
- Put Your Records On – Corrinne Bailey Rae
- Kiss– Prince
- Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
- With Long Life – Israel Houghton & New Breed
- Victory – Yolanda Adams
- Shackles – Mary Mary
- For Every Mountain – Kurt Carr Singers
- Barach You – Commissioned
- Stay Saved – Canton Jones
- Real – The Tommies
- All I Do Is Win – DJ Khaled
- When you Kiss Me – Shania Twain
- I Only Have Eyes for You – The Complexions
- Fly Me to The Moon – Tony Bennet
- Natural Mystic – Bob Marley
- Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix
- Sun is Shining – Bob Marley
- Highway 20 Ride – Zac Brown Band
- Like a Stone – Audioslave
- How Excellent
- Speak Lord
- I Need You to Survive – Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Choir
- Order My Steps
- In the Upper Room
- Alabaster Box – Cece Winans
- Get Up – Mary Mary
- When I Wake Up – Jill Scott
- Gotta Get Up – Jill Scott
- I Won’t Complain – Rev. Paul Jones
- Optimistic – Sounds of Blackness
- In the Morning – Mary Mary
- Rain On Me – Tamia
- Home – Brian McKnight
- Fill My Up – Casey J
- Greater – Mercy Me
- The Morning Papers – Prince
- Sweet Baby – Prince
- Jammin – Bob Marley
- In The Morning When I Rise
- For Your Glory Tasha Cobbs
- Smile Tasha Cobbs
- Break Every Chain Tasha Cobbs
- Fill Me Up Tasha Cobbs
- Made A Way – Travis Greene
- Intentional – Travis Greene
I would love to add to my list so let me know
What are some of your favorite songs to wake up to?
Roshini Cope
Roshini Cope, aka Glamazini, is a life coach and video creator who gained a following for her natural hair tutorials, which evolved into authentic personal stories of healing with a consistent dash of humor. She is a black woman healing helping other black women heal, expand their self-awareness, reclaim their joy, and create the life they want. Work with Roshini 🤎✨🤎
20 Comments
4evame
Nice. Although I don’t know most of these songs, I absolutely love the diversity of your playlist. This is a very good idea for I am very much a light sleeper, and at times, being jolted out of my sleep/dreams is not cool.
glamazini
I’m uber jumpy so the wake up songs have to ease in. Also my app allows me to modulate the volume over time. I do like 0-40% volume over 2 minutes.
BigTickles
Good Morning by Mandisa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnmWwudeqfM
I need to be jumpy because the little people wake up acting with so much energy I need to keep up.
Off topic – Are you watching Miss Representation on OWN tonight?
Here is the link
http://www.oprah.com/own-doc-club/Miss-Representation-Trailer
AND…when are we going to start talking about Oprah’s Life Class missy??? (just joking, but really…) 😉
glamazini
That Mandisa song would startle the living daylights out of me! LOL! That will have to be added to my “Songs to Get Ready To” list 🙂
I’m not watching Miss Representation, didn’t have any plans to specifically address Lifeclass topics unless I was inspired to. I am watching every day though 🙂
BigTickles
😉
Oh, I forgot to mention “Stronger” by Mandisa when you are having some down days. It picks me up when I go through my bouts. However, caution, it is upbeat.
Afua
CLOSER is the Truth, the light.. and you know.. the best song ever. It reminds you to never give up hope and faith!!!
11. Just to get by – Talib Kweli
12. Makeda – Les Nubians
13. Higher – Jill Scott/Kirk Franklin
14 – Waka Waka – 2010 world cup song with shakira
15. Put your records on – Corrinne bailey rae
16. Kiss or let’s get crazy – Prince
17. Ghana – Hugh Masekela
More to come…
glamazini
Great choices, thanks for sharing! They are definitely more upbeat that I could wake up to but I’ll definitely be adding these to my “Songs to Get Ready To” list. 🙂
Jo-Ann
I LOVE CLOSER!!!!!!!!!! I CAN LISTEN TO THAT SONG AL DAY, EVERYDAY. I’ll check out the others and hopefully find new favs 😉
glamazini
Closer is like THE song!
cindy
1.With long Life-Isreal and New Breed
2.Victory-Yolanda Adams
3.Shackels-Mary Mary
4.For Every Mountain-Kurt Carr Singers
5.Barach You-Commissioned
6.Stay Saved-Canton Jones
7.Real-The Tommies
8.Order My Steps-Helen Baylor
9.Listen-Trin i tee 5-7
10.He Reigns-The Gospel soundtrack
glamazini
I could do some of these as wake up songs, but others would have to be for getting ready since I startle easily.
VirtuousKween
I would totally sleep through Closer. I love the song but I need something to SCARE me out of bed. LOL I would have the song…”All I Do Is Win” by DJ Khaled. That song would make roll out of bed and jump to my grind!
glamazini
I cannot do “scared out of bed”. You’re jumping ahead because All I Do Is Win is on my get ready list :).
Tanya
Love Adele! Pavarotti is always a yes. But November Rain?! Don’t get me wrong. I used to love me some G&R back in the day (Woah, woah woah, sweet child of mi-yine!), but I don’t think I’d want to wake up to them, lol!
glamazini
:O
Is that hate for one of my FAVORITE songs I read?! O_O
Tanya
I Sowwy. Just saying. Like I said, I used to love me some Guns and Roses. ;-D That particular song is just a little heavy for me at 5:30 am. But then, it is on your list, not mine, so I can’t say too much. Loved some of the others, though! ;-D
Ofthecomely
I don’t have a wake up playlist. I have work out playlists and playlists to fall asleep to, but it sounds like a good idea so I’m going to try it with:
1.) How Great Thou Art
2.) Shania Twain- When you Kiss Me
3.) I Only Have Eyes for You- The Complexions- A Bronx Tale version
4. ) Fly Me to The Moon- Tony Bennet
5.) Goodbye My Lover- James Blunt
6.) Natural Mystic- Bob Marley
7.) Little Wing – Hendrix
8.) Sun is Shining- Bob Marley
9.) Highway 20 Ride- Zac Brown Band
10.) Miguel- Sure Thing
11.) Like a Stone- Audioslave
glamazini
I find all soca music perfect for working out.
Me
Well, I’m a very heavy sleeper so most of my songs are meant to energize me out of bed. Plus I try to stick with gospel because I’m bad at daily prayer, so this is one way I make up for it by trying to start the day off with positive messages. And finally, lately I’ve preferred the less gospel-y gospel songs–i.e. songs that don’t really come off as gospel unless you listen to the lyrics, so I’m giving you my list of the CD I’ve been waking up to for the past 4+ years, and the mix I’ve been putting together for my soon to come morning inspiration.
Old CD (the titles may be totally wrong):
We Fall Down (but we get up)
How Excellent
Speak Lord
He’s Not on His Knees Yet
I Need You to Survive
Order My Steps
In the Upper Room
He’s Never Failed Me Yet
Alabaster Box
Open My Heart
God’s Got it All in Control
I Need You Now
Still I Rise
99 & a Half
Take My Hand Precious Lord
New CD contenders:
Get Up – Mary Mary
When I Wake Up – Jill Scott
Gotta Get Up – Jill Scott
I Won’t Complain – Rev. Paul Jones
Optimistic – Sounds of Blackness
In the Morning – Mary Mary
God Has Smiled on Me – Mary Mary
Rain On Me – Tamia
You Will Know – Stevie Wonder
Home – Brian McKnight
glamazini
I used to do Speak Lord too! Great song to wake up to. There is NO WAY I could do Get Up by Mary Mary, I would jump out the bed and stick to the ceiling! LOL!