30 Baby Announcement Songs to Welcome Your New Arrival

The baby is here, and now comes the good part: telling everyone. Whether the news goes out as a first photo post, a text to the family group chat, or a big sibling walking into Grandma's house in a "promoted to big sister" shirt, the right song carries the moment. Below are 30 real songs families use to announce a birth and welcome a newborn — plus one more idea: an original song written about your actual baby, with their name and birth date in the words, for $39.90, delivered in 24 to 48 hours.

Baby not here yet? You want our guide to pregnancy announcement songs instead — this page is for the day they arrive.

Jump to a section: For the announcement post & first photo · Classics about new life · Songs sung to the baby · From the parents · For siblings & grandparents

Quick picks

• The famous birth-announcement song: "Glory" — Jay-Z feat. B.I.C., released two days after his daughter's birth.
• For a soft first photo post: "A Thousand Years" — Christina Perri.
• The classic: "Isn't She Lovely" — Stevie Wonder, which opens with a real newborn's cry.
• For the big-sibling reveal: "You've Got a Friend in Me" — Randy Newman.
• With your baby's actual name in it: a custom welcome-to-the-world song, written about your baby, $39.90 in 24 to 48 hours.

Listen: "Welcome to the World, Little One"

This is what a custom baby announcement song sounds like. "Welcome to the World, Little One" is a hushed welcome-home lullaby about the first week with a newborn — the 3 a.m. feeds, the felt-star mobile, a whole house rearranging itself around seven pounds — built on the line "we've been waiting all our lives, it turns out." Songbond writes one like it about your baby, with the real name, the real date, and the real details of the day they arrived.

For the announcement post & first photo (1–6)

These are the songs that do the announcing — under the first photo carousel, the birth-stats card, or the coming-home video.

1. "Glory" — Jay-Z feat. B.I.C. Jay-Z released this two days after Blue Ivy Carter's birth in January 2012, with her actual cries on the track — it made her the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart. The gold standard for turning a birth announcement into a song.
2. "A Thousand Years" — Christina Perri. Written for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, but "I have loved you for a thousand years" reads like it was written for a first baby photo. The soft piano choice for a carousel of hospital pictures.
3. "Can't Help Falling in Love" — Elvis Presley. The 1961 classic from Blue Hawaii has soundtracked weddings for decades, and it works just as well the day you meet the newest person in your life. Countless gentle acoustic covers if you want an even softer take.
4. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" — Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. His 1993 ukulele medley with "What a Wonderful World" is one of the most-used songs under newborn slideshows — and the near-automatic pick for announcing a rainbow baby.
5. "First Day of My Life" — Bright Eyes. From 2005's I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning; the title line does the announcing for you. Hushed acoustic guitar that suits a quiet black-and-white first photo.
6. "Best Day of My Life" — American Authors. The 2013 singalong for a loud, confetti-style announcement — grinning parents, balloons, the works. If your reveal is joy at full volume, start here.

Classics about new life (7–12)

Songs everyone in the family already knows, all pointed at the same idea: a brand-new person just joined the world.

7. "Isn't She Lovely" — Stevie Wonder. Wonder wrote it in 1976 to celebrate the birth of his daughter Aisha and opened the track with a real newborn's cry. It has been the definitive welcome-a-baby-girl song ever since.
8. "Here Comes the Sun" — The Beatles. George Harrison's Abbey Road classic about light finally returning. Families lean on it for babies who arrived after long waits and hard seasons, which is why it shows up under so many birth posts.
9. "What a Wonderful World" — Louis Armstrong. The 1967 standard literally sings "I hear babies cry, I watch them grow." It plays like a grandparent's toast to a brand-new life.
10. "Three Little Birds" — Bob Marley & The Wailers. From 1977's Exodus. "Every little thing is gonna be alright" is the exact sentence every brand-new parent needs, and it has become a nursery staple.
11. "Danny's Song" — Loggins and Messina. Kenny Loggins wrote it as a gift for his brother Danny when Danny's son Colin was born; Anne Murray's 1973 cover made it a top-ten hit. A song literally written to celebrate a baby's arrival.
12. "You Are My Sunshine" — Jimmie Davis (standard). First recorded in 1939 and sung over cribs for generations since. Simple enough to hum at 3 a.m., familiar to every guest who meets the baby.

Songs sung to the baby (13–18)

Lullabies and near-lullabies — for the first night home, the rocking chair, and the video where the room finally goes quiet.

13. "Baby Mine" — from Dumbo (1941). Frank Churchill and Ned Washington's mother-to-baby lullaby, later covered by Bette Midler and Alison Krauss. Made for the first night home.
14. "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" — Billy Joel. Written for his young daughter Alexa Ray on 1993's River of Dreams — a father's promise sung straight to a child, and one of the most tender things he ever recorded.
15. "You'll Be in My Heart" — Phil Collins. Collins began it as a lullaby for his daughter Lily before it became Tarzan's Oscar-winning centerpiece. A vow of protection from parent to newborn.
16. "Sweet Baby James" — James Taylor. Taylor dreamed this "cowboy lullaby" up on the drive to meet his brand-new nephew and namesake, baby James. For the first long rock in the nursery chair.
17. "Golden Slumbers" — The Beatles. Paul McCartney set a centuries-old lullaby poem to music on Abbey Road. Two minutes of pure hush before the kettle goes back on.
18. "Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)" — The Chicks. Radney Foster wrote it as a bedtime lullaby for his little boy; The Chicks' 2002 recording on Home, all rocket ships and sweet dreams, became the definitive version. Especially lovely for baby boys.

From the parents (19–24)

Songs real artists wrote about their own new babies — proof that when a child arrives, even professionals reach for a song.

19. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" — John Lennon. Written for his son Sean on 1980's Double Fantasy, all reassurance and wonder at a new little person. The template for every song a parent has written since.
20. "Sweetest Devotion" — Adele. The closing track of 25 is about her son Angelo, whose little voice bookends the song. "My life is now about someone else," she said of it — the exact feeling of week one.
21. "The Mother" — Brandi Carlile. Carlile names her daughter Evangeline outright in this 2018 ballad about everything that changes the day a baby arrives. Devastating in the best way.
22. "Gracie" — Ben Folds. Written for his daughter on 2005's Songs for Silverman, right down to the delivery-room opening line. Quiet, specific, plainspoken tenderness.
23. "My Little Girl" — Tim McGraw. McGraw co-wrote it with Tom Douglas for 2006's Flicka — the first single he ever had a hand in writing, shaped by raising three daughters. For dads announcing a girl.
24. "It Won't Be Like This for Long" — Darius Rucker. The first verse is set in exactly your week: a crying newborn and two exhausted parents being reminded that this stage is short. A tearjerker for the one-week-old post.

For siblings & grandparents meeting the baby (25–30)

For the photo of the big sister's first hold, and the video of Grandpa meeting his grandchild through happy tears.

25. "You've Got a Friend in Me" — Randy Newman. The Toy Story theme doubles perfectly as a big-sibling anthem. Put it under the first-meeting photo and watch the comments flood in.
26. "Count on Me" — Bruno Mars. A breezy, whistled promise to show up — a natural soundtrack for introducing the baby to their big brother or sister.
27. "We're Going to Be Friends" — The White Stripes. Jack White's gentle schoolyard sketch from 2001's White Blood Cells is a favorite under sibling-meets-baby videos. Sweetness with zero syrup.
28. "Sunrise, Sunset" — from Fiddler on the Roof. The 1964 Bock and Harnick standard about children growing before you can blink — grandparents have cried to it for sixty years. For the four-generations photo.
29. "My Wish" — Rascal Flatts. The 2006 hit is one long blessing for a child's road ahead, which is why grandparents keep claiming it. Works for christenings and naming days too.
30. "The Circle Game" — Joni Mitchell. From 1970's Ladies of the Canyon, a child grows up season by season inside the song. Give this one to the brand-new grandparents.

The lyrics

Common questions

What song should I use to announce a baby's birth?

Pick by the moment. For a photo post, soft and lyric-forward works best — "A Thousand Years" or "First Day of My Life." For a classic that every generation recognizes, "Isn't She Lovely." Jay-Z set the famous precedent with "Glory," released two days after his daughter's birth — and that is the model a custom song follows: a song about your baby, with their name and birth date in the words, so the song itself is the announcement.

What song works for the first baby photo post?

Slow, warm, and instantly familiar: "A Thousand Years," Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," or "Can't Help Falling in Love." If your announcement is big and loud rather than misty, flip it to "Best Day of My Life." The song sets the tone before anyone reads the caption, so match it to the photo you chose.

What are classic welcome-baby songs?

The four that show up on nearly every welcome-baby playlist: "Isn't She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder wrote it for his newborn daughter), "What a Wonderful World," "Here Comes the Sun," and "You Are My Sunshine." Between them they cover joy, relief, and the sing-it-over-the-crib factor, and every grandparent in the room will know the words.

How much does a custom baby song cost?

A custom song from Songbond is $39.90 and arrives in 24 to 48 hours, with unlimited revisions until it is right. You fill out a short questionnaire — the baby's name, the birth date, the details of the day they arrived — and we write and record an original song about your new arrival. Families use it as the announcement post itself, then keep it as the baby's song for life.

Announce them with a song that says their name

Every song above is about somebody else's baby. The one you play when you announce yours can be about them — their name, their birth date, the 3 a.m. feeds and the tiny hospital bracelet. Have a custom welcome-to-the-world song written for your baby for $39.90, delivered in 24 to 48 hours, revised until it is perfect. Announcing someone else's news — a grandchild, a niece, a best friend's baby? A custom song for any occasion works the same way.

From the same series: songs for a new mom and first-time grandparent songs.