Songs for a baritone voice

119 songs whose melody stays inside A2 to A4 from start to finish, out of 324 measured. Allow three semitones of transposition either way and it becomes 177.

Baritone is where most untrained male voices actually sit, and the list reflects that. If you have been told you are a bass because your low notes are good, look at how much more there is here than on the bass page. A voice is classified by where it lives, not by the lowest note it can reach on a good morning.

The list

Sorted by artist, showing 40 of 119. The two notes are where the melody spends its time, not the single highest and lowest note it touches.

SongArtistSits between
Does Your Mother KnowABBAG3 to G4
I'm a MarionetteABBAE4 to A4
Beautiful LifeAce of BaseB3 to A4
No ExcusesAlice in ChainsF3 to F#4
Takin Care of BusinessBachman-Turner OverdriveC4 to E4
Feel Like Makin' LoveBad CompanyG#3 to G#4
Ready For LoveBad CompanyA3 to A4
Run With The PackBad CompanyC4 to A4
One WeekBarenaked LadiesC#4 to A4
Baby I Love Your WayBig MountainE3 to F#4
Big ShotBilly JoelG3 to D4
The Longest TimeBilly JoelF3 to F4
What's My Age Againblink-182F#3 to F4
Bad MedicineBon JoviC#4 to A4
Dans l'eau de la claire FontaineBrassens GeorgesB3 to G4
Whiskey Under the BridgeBrooks & DunnE3 to F#4
The Thunder RollsBrooks GarthC3 to D4
I Got You (I Feel Good)Brown JamesG#3 to F4
HeavenBryan AdamsB3 to G4
Thought I'd Died and Gone to HeavenBryan AdamsB3 to A4
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)CarpentersA#3 to A4
Shoop Shoop SongCherC4 to A4
HigherCreedF#3 to E4
Hey TonightCreedence Clearwater RevivalB3 to G#4
Strong EnoughCrow SherylB3 to A4
Calling ElvisDire StraitsA3 to E4
NotoriousDuran DuranA3 to A4
Ordinary WorldDuran DuranG#3 to F#4
Love Will Keep Us AliveEaglesA3 to F#4
Tequila SunriseEaglesF#3 to C#4
Wasted TimeEaglesG3 to F4
Lucky ManEmerson, Lake & PalmerE3 to G4
Stop!ErasureD4 to G#4
DreamsFleetwood MacG3 to A4
Gold Dust WomanFleetwood MacB3 to F4
SaraFleetwood MacA3 to G4
What Is This Thing Called LoveFrank SinatraA2 to C4
Stupid GirlGarbageF#3 to F#4
A Trick of the TailGenesisE3 to D#4
(We're Gonna) Rock Around The ClockHaleyA3 to F4

See all 119, and set your own two notes

Check your low note before you trust this page

If you measured your bottom note on a laptop, it is probably wrong. A reader tested his own microphone in Audacity on 5 September 2026 and the waveform disappears entirely below C2. Most laptop and headset mics are voiced for speech, which sits above roughly 150Hz, and they roll off hard below it. That matters more on this page than anywhere else on the site, because everything here turns on where your low note actually is. A phone usually reaches lower than a laptop.

Why a voice type is a bad way to pick songs

A voice type is not a range. It is where your voice sits happily and where it changes gear, and two people called baritone can have their break in different places. A choir director put it to me more bluntly than that, and he was right. Using A2 to A4 as a filter is a starting point, not a verdict.

If you would rather work from your own two notes, the range test measures them in about a minute in the browser, then hands them straight to the full song list.

Where these numbers come from

They are read out of MIDI transcriptions from the Lakh MIDI Dataset, CC BY 4.0, by Colin Raffel. Human beings typed those melodies in by ear and about a fifth of the songs transcribed twice have versions that disagree by a whole octave. Only songs with two agreeing transcriptions and a range a voice can produce made it here. I also labelled all 214 acts by whether the lead singer is a man or a woman, and removed the 108 male-led songs sitting above B4, where no male pop singer spends a song. What is left still runs high on average for male voices, so a title here is a shortlist entry rather than a fact. The main page sets out the whole method.

Other voice types, bass, tenor, alto, mezzo-soprano, soprano.

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