Songs About Monday: The Best Monday Songs for Playlists, Trivia, and Starting the Week

Monday songs have a tough assignment. Friday gets the party, Saturday gets the fun, Sunday gets the feelings, and Monday gets the alarm clock. That makes Monday one of the most emotionally loaded days in music: hopeful for some, miserable for others, and suspiciously connected to coffee.

This list collects songs about Monday, songs with Monday in the title, and songs that use Monday as a mood, memory, warning, blues phrase, workweek reset, or pop-culture punchline. Some Monday songs are huge classics, including New Order’s Blue Monday, The Bangles’ Manic Monday, The Mamas & The Papas’ Monday, Monday, and The Boomtown Rats’ I Don’t Like Mondays.

Monday has a stronger pop-culture identity than most weekdays. Garfield hates it. Office workers fear it. Blues singers made it stormy. Pop bands made it manic. Dance clubs made it blue. That is a lot of responsibility for one square on the calendar.

Use this list for Monday playlists, trivia nights, radio segments, workweek music, coffee-shop background music, or any moment when the weekend has left the building and everyone is pretending to be fine.

Best Monday Songs for a Playlist

These are the strongest Monday songs to start with because they are recognizable, culturally useful, musically important, or closely tied to the day in the title. A good Monday playlist should include some misery, some motivation, some nostalgia, and at least one song that makes the calendar feel personally attacked.

Blue Monday – New Order
Manic Monday – The Bangles
Monday, Monday – The Mamas & The Papas
I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats
Rainy Days and Mondays – Carpenters
Come Monday – Jimmy Buffett
Blue Monday – Fats Domino
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) – T-Bone Walker
New Moon on Monday – Duran Duran
Monday Morning – Fleetwood Mac
Monday – Imagine Dragons
Except for Monday – Lorrie Morgan
Monday Morning Church – Alan Jackson
Long Monday – John Prine
I Don’t Have to Be Me (’Til Monday) – Steve Azar

Monday Songs with Big Pop-Culture Energy

Some Monday songs are bigger than the day itself. They connect to dance clubs, 1980s MTV, workplace dread, classic radio, internet jokes, and the long-running cultural belief that Monday is somehow personally responsible for everything.

Blue Monday – New Order
Manic Monday – The Bangles
I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats
Rainy Days and Mondays – Carpenters
Monday, Monday – The Mamas & The Papas
Blue Monday – Orgy
New Moon on Monday – Duran Duran
Monday – Imagine Dragons
Come Monday – Jimmy Buffett

Monday Blues Songs and “Blue Monday” Classics

Monday and the blues have been friends for a long time, which is probably bad news for Monday’s publicist. These songs lean into sadness, workweek weariness, and the old musical truth that if Monday is bad, Tuesday might not exactly be a parade either.

Blue Monday – Fats Domino
Blue Monday – New Order
Blue Monday – Orgy
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) – T-Bone Walker
Stormy Monday – Muddy Waters
Stormy Monday Blues – The Allman Brothers Band
Monday Morning Blues – Breathe
Gloomy Monday Morning – The Black Hollies
Lonely Monday Morning – Snow

Classic Rock, Pop, and New Wave Monday Songs

Classic rock and new wave gave Monday some of its most famous songs. These tracks cover everything from California folk-pop to synth-driven club music, early MTV drama, and a few Monday mornings that seem to need either therapy or a second cup of coffee.

Monday, Monday – The Mamas & The Papas
Monday, Monday – Jay & The Americans
Monday, Monday – Wilson Phillips
Blue Monday – New Order
New Moon on Monday – Duran Duran
Manic Monday – The Bangles
I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats
Monday Morning – Fleetwood Mac
Monday – The Jam
Monday – Wilco
Make It Till Monday – The Verve
Monday – Imagine Dragons
From Now On – Supertramp

Country Monday Songs

Country music understands Monday because country music understands work, regret, heartbreak, hangovers, church, trucks, second chances, and people saying “I’m fine” when they are absolutely not fine.

Come Monday – Jimmy Buffett
Come Next Monday – K.T. Oslin
Except for Monday – Lorrie Morgan
I Don’t Have to Be Me (’Til Monday) – Steve Azar
It Sure Is Monday – Mark Chesnutt
Monday Morning Church – Alan Jackson
Long Monday – John Prine
If It’s Monday Morning – Lee Hazlewood

Monday Morning Songs

Monday morning is its own emotional category. It can mean a fresh start, a rough return, a lonely commute, or a calendar reminder that nobody asked for. These songs fit the beginning-of-the-week mood especially well.

Monday Morning – Fleetwood Mac
Monday Morning – Death Cab for Cutie
Monday Morning – Melanie Fiona
Monday Morning Blues – Breathe
Monday Morning Church – Alan Jackson
Every Monday Morning Comes – Mike Seeger & Peggy Seeger
Gloomy Monday Morning – The Black Hollies
If It’s Monday Morning – Lee Hazlewood

Alternative, Indie, and College-Radio Monday Songs

Monday works well in alternative and indie songs because it already feels a little off-center. These tracks are useful for playlists that are less “good morning, sunshine” and more “let’s survive this with headphones.”

Crying Like a Church on Monday – New Radicals
Every Monday – Marvelous 3
Make It Till Monday – The Verve
Midwest Skies and Sleepy Mondays – Augustana
Monday – Wilco
Monday Comes Around – Switchfoot
Monday Morning – Death Cab for Cutie
Monday Monday Monday – Tegan and Sara
Permanent Monday – Jordin Sparks
She Left on a Monday – Bic Runga
The Happy Mondays – The Innocence Mission
Thank God It’s Monday – NOFX
St. Monday – Billy Bragg

R&B, Hip-Hop, and Dance Monday Songs

Monday is not always miserable. Sometimes it shows up in R&B, hip-hop, reggae, dance, and pop as a reset, a romantic marker, or a reminder that the week does not have to start boring.

Monday – Imagine Dragons
Monday Morning – Melanie Fiona
Monday Like a Friday – Andre Nickatina & Equipto
Monday Date – Louis Armstrong
Fell in Love on Monday – Fats Domino
Sunday Monday or Always – Frank Sinatra
Monday to Sunday – Alan Dale

Garfield, Workweek Dread, and the Monday Mood

Monday’s pop-culture reputation is almost comically bad. Garfield helped make “I hate Mondays” one of the most famous cartoon attitudes of modern life, but music had already been blaming Monday for years. Monday is the villain in a lot of songs because it represents responsibility, routine, school, work, and the end of whatever fun just happened.

That is why Monday playlists need more than one mood. A great Monday playlist can include a little dread, a little humor, a little motivation, a little blues, and at least one song that says, “Fine, we’re doing this.” Monday may be unpopular, but it has excellent branding.

Complete List of Songs About or Mentioning Monday

Blue Monday – Fats Domino
Blue Monday – New Order
Blue Monday – Orgy
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) – T-Bone Walker
Come Monday – Jimmy Buffett
Come Next Monday – K.T. Oslin
Crying Like a Church on Monday – New Radicals
Except for Monday – Lorrie Morgan
Every Monday – Marvelous 3
Every Monday Morning Comes – Mike Seeger & Peggy Seeger
Fell in Love on Monday – Fats Domino
From Now On – Supertramp
Gloomy Monday Morning – The Black Hollies
Goodbye Blue Monday – City Boy
Here’s Monday – Bonnie Tyler
I Don’t Have to Be Me (’Til Monday) – Steve Azar
I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats
I Don’t Like Mondays – Tori Amos
If It’s Monday Morning – Lee Hazlewood
It Might as Well Stay Monday from Now On – Cher
It Sure Is Monday – Mark Chesnutt
Lonely Monday Morning – Snow
Long Monday – John Prine
Make It Till Monday – The Verve
Manic Monday – The Bangles
Midwest Skies and Sleepy Mondays – Augustana
Monday – Imagine Dragons
Monday – The Jam
Monday – Wilco
Monday Again – Frankie Laine
Monday Comes Around – Switchfoot
Monday Date – Louis Armstrong
Monday Like a Friday – Andre Nickatina & Equipto
Monday, Monday – Jay & The Americans
Monday, Monday – The Mamas & The Papas
Monday, Monday – Wilson Phillips
Monday Monday Monday – Tegan and Sara
Monday Morning – Death Cab for Cutie
Monday Morning – Fleetwood Mac
Monday Morning – Melanie Fiona
Monday Morning Blues – Breathe
Monday Morning Church – Alan Jackson
Monday Songs – Nine Days
Monday to Sunday – Alan Dale
Monday’s Rain – Bee Gees
New Moon on Monday – Duran Duran
Permanent Monday – Jordin Sparks
Rainy Days and Mondays – Carpenters
She Left on a Monday – Bic Runga
St. Monday – Billy Bragg
Stormy Monday – Muddy Waters
Stormy Monday Blues – The Allman Brothers Band
Suddenly Monday – Melanie C
Sunday Monday or Always – Frank Sinatra
The Day Will Come Between Sunday and Monday – Kiki Dee
The Happy Mondays – The Innocence Mission
Thank God It’s Monday – NOFX

Monday Songs Trivia

New Order’s Blue Monday became one of the most important electronic dance records of the 1980s and is widely known as the best-selling 12-inch single ever.
Prince wrote Manic Monday, but The Bangles made it one of the most famous Monday songs in pop history.
The Mamas & The Papas’ Monday, Monday became a defining 1960s harmony-pop hit and remains one of the best-known songs named after the day.
The Boomtown Rats’ I Don’t Like Mondays came from a tragic real-life news story, so it should be understood as a serious song rather than a simple workweek complaint.
Carpenters’ Rainy Days and Mondays helped make Monday shorthand for melancholy long before modern “Sunday scaries” became a phrase.
Orgy’s cover of Blue Monday introduced the New Order song to many late-1990s rock and MTV viewers.
Jimmy Buffett’s Come Monday gives Monday a softer romantic meaning, which is rare. Monday should send flowers.
Imagine Dragons’ Monday flips the usual complaint and treats Monday as underrated, which is either optimism or excellent caffeine management.

Why Monday Songs Are So Popular

Monday songs work because the day already comes with a story. It can mean a fresh start, a rough return, a rainy mood, a hard commute, a breakup, a blues standard, or the beginning of another chance to get things right. That gives songwriters plenty to work with.

A strong Monday playlist should mix classics like Blue Monday, Manic Monday, Monday, Monday, Rainy Days and Mondays, and I Don’t Like Mondays with country, blues, alternative, and modern pop entries. Monday may not be the most loved day of the week, but it has one of the best soundtracks.