Strictly’s Class of 2023 are off to Blackpool, always a landmark week for couples who make it.  With the iconic setting of the Tower Ballroom come some super iconic tunes. When have the 7 tracks the couples are stepping out to made a previous appearance on the Show?

With Moon River making its sixth appearance on the Show in Movie Week, along with a fifth Samba outing for Barry Manilow’s Copacabana this weekend, we look back at some of the most frequently used musical tracks for routines on Strictly Come Dancing. Which one is Strictly’s Top of the Bops?

Here at StrictlyDB, we wanted to take a whistlestop tour of if, and when, the tunes selected for the couples’ Week 2 dances have previously made an appearance on the show, and how earlier contestants fared. Will it reveal anything about Saturday night’s potential scores?

In anticipation of Series 21, we take a look back to December 2020 when Covid scuppered the usual Strictly Christmas Special, and instead a show was broadcast counting down the top 25 most memorable routines in Strictly history to that point, which had been voted for online by the public.

To date Christmas Special Professionals have consisted of those that suffered an early elimination in that year’s Series or (even worse) hadn’t been partnered with a celebrity at all. Here we look back at previous Specials, to see whether a Christmas appearance led to bigger and better things the following year.

The recent 1000th ten awarded to Fleur & Vito encouraged us to look back at some of the landmark routines that have also received tens on the show…

‘Hit the Road Jack’ – jived to by Tyler & Dianne on week 2 of Season 20 (2022) – is the third appearance for the song on the show.