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# Enjoy Hypebot’s Thanksgiving Playlist 2025
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/thanksgiving-playlist-2025/
- Published: 2025-11-27T13:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-27T13:10:56.000Z
- Description: At a time when discussing politics, morality, lifestyle and just about anything else around the Thanksgiving table is fraught with danger, music remains a relatively safe topic. In that spirit, we bring you our Thanksgiving Playlist 2025 Edition.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, music, music industry, musician, musicians, playlist, Thanksgiving, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

At a time when discussing politics, morality, lifestyle and just about anything else around the **Thanksgiving** table is fraught with danger, music remains a relatively safe topic. In that spirit, we bring you our Thanksgiving Playlist 2025 Edition.

As **Bono of U2 [said](https://www.u2.com/news/title/music-can-pull-people-together/news/?ref=hypebot.com),** “Music can pull people together as surely as politics can pull people apart.” And as songstress **Ella Fitzgerald** said: “Music is the universal language… it brings people closer together.”

With that lofty goal, **we diverge from our regular music industry programing to bring you Hypebot’s Thanksgiving Playlist** filled with ecletic songs about giving thanks and reasons to be thankful.

But first, our personal Thanksgiving Playlist favorites…

**Bruce Houghton**: “As my friend **Solomon Burke** sang, now more than ever ‘I Need A Holiday.’ And if those I’m spending the day with can’t move to **Kool In The Gang’s** ‘Celebration,’ they won’t be invited back next year.

As for my favorites, **Joni Mitchell’s** ‘River’ and **Van Morrison’s** ‘Glad Tidings’ may be more about Christmas, but they also capture the many complex emotions swirling around Thanksgiving incredibly well.”

**Jeremy Young**: “We’ve done playlists in the past that were more literally tied to the **[themes of Thanksgiving, cooking, and family](https://www.hypebot.com/best-thanksgiving-playlist-songs-to-set-the-mood/)**, but this year, with everything feeling so divided these days, we wanted to pick songs that *elevate* us and bring us together.

So many of these tracks are just the best at getting you out of your seat and out of your tryptophan coma: like **Cheryl Lynn’s** ‘Got to be Real,’ **Lionel Richie’s** ‘All Night Long,’ and of course, **Earth, Wind & Fire’s** ‘September’ (widely considered the happiest song of all time!). To me, this holiday is all about celebrating joy.”

***Bruce Houghton*** *is Founder & Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/), Senior Advisor at [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com), a [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) professor and founder of Skyline Artists.*