Big Sister & Big Brother Announcement Songs: 20 Picks

There are two announcements hiding in one piece of news: the moment you tell your kid they are about to be a big sister or big brother, and the moment they tell everyone else. Both deserve a soundtrack. Below are 20 real big sister announcement songs and big brother announcement songs — for the reveal video, the friendship montage, and the full promotion ceremony — plus one more idea: an original song about your actual kid, with their name and new title in the words, for $39.90, delivered in 24 to 48 hours. Announcing the pregnancy itself first? Start with our full guide to pregnancy announcement songs.

Jump to a section: For the reveal video with the big kid · Friendship anthems · Songs the sibling can sing along to · Sweet promotion-ceremony picks

Quick picks

• Best for the reveal video: "Baby Shark" — Pinkfong. Your announcer already knows the dance.
• The friendship classic: "We're Going to Be Friends" — The White Stripes.
• Best to sing together: "You Are My Sunshine."
• The tearjerker: "Never Grow Up" — Taylor Swift.
• With their actual name and new title: a custom "Big Sister Now" or "Big Brother Now" song, $39.90 in 24 to 48 hours.

Listen: "Big Sister Now"

This is what a big sibling reveal song sounds like when it is about the kid instead of the baby. "Big Sister Now" is a playful ukulele-and-handclaps anthem sung straight to the older kid: a family meeting where nobody is in trouble, a house vote — "the stuffed animals said yes" — and a chorus that hands over the new job: "that's a promotion, that's a crown." There is a brother version too: "Big Brother Now," the team-huddle take, where the news arrives as "a rookie on the roster." The custom version is written about your kid — their name, their stuffed animals, their exact brand of bossiness.

For the reveal video with the big kid (1–5)

These carry the two classic clips: filming the kid's face as they get the news, and the kid delivering the news to everyone else.

1. "Baby Shark" — Pinkfong. The reigning gag when a toddler delivers the announcement — one more little shark is on the way, and your announcer already knows the choreography. Instant, universal, zero explanation needed.
2. "Best Day of My Life" — American Authors. The 2013 stomp-and-clap singalong for a confetti-energy reveal — a kid jumping on the bed, a sign held upside down, grandparents losing it on a video call.
3. "Ho Hey" — The Lumineers. Those shouted "Hey!" hits from the 2012 folk-pop smash were made for cue-card edits: the big kid flips a new sign on every shout until the last one says what is coming.
4. "Isn't She Lovely" — Stevie Wonder. For when the scan says little sister. Wonder wrote it in 1976 to celebrate his newborn daughter, and it opens with a real baby's cry.
5. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" — John Lennon. The baby-brother mirror image — Lennon's 1980 song of pure wonder for his son Sean, gentle enough for a bedtime-lit reveal video.

Friendship anthems (6–11)

You have heard the first three of these under half the sibling-meets-baby videos on the internet — our baby announcement songs guide files them under the first-meeting photo. They are here for a different job: each one is a promise the big kid can make before the baby even arrives.

6. "We're Going to Be Friends" — The White Stripes. Less a soundtrack than a preview: Jack White's gentle 2001 schoolyard sketch is the next ten years — walking to school, show and tell, two kids against the world — in two soft minutes.
7. "You've Got a Friend in Me" — Randy Newman. Play the Toy Story theme as the big kid's oath of office. The title is the entire job description, sworn before the baby can even hold their head up.
8. "Count on Me" — Bruno Mars. The pledge song, whistled and breezy — and the chorus counts to three, which your small mathematician will point out immediately.
9. "Lean on Me" — Bill Withers. The 1972 No. 1 that turns siblinghood into a handshake deal: somebody to lean on, permanently, starting now.
10. "Brother" — NEEDTOBREATHE. The big-sibling job description in one line — "let me be your shelter." The 2014 anthem later topped Billboard's Christian chart as a duet with Gavin DeGraw.
11. "Sisters" — Irving Berlin. The 1954 wink from White Christmas — "never such devoted sisters" — perfect under a big-sister reveal with matching outfits and maximum sass.

Songs the sibling can sing along to (12–16)

Big sibling reveal songs land hardest when the big kid is the one singing. These five are simple enough to learn in an afternoon.

12. "You Are My Sunshine" — Jimmie Davis (standard). First recorded in 1939 and passed down ever since. Teach it to the big kid, point it at the bump, film everything.
13. "Happy" — Pharrell Williams. From Despicable Me 2, which means your announcer already claps in the right places. Room-brightening news deserves a room-brightening song.
14. "Can't Stop the Feeling!" — Justin Timberlake. The Trolls dance anthem — anyone under six supplies choreography unprompted. Built for the dance-party reveal.
15. "The More We Get Together" — traditional. The circle-time classic whose whole lyric is the point: the more people in this family, "the happier we'll be." Every toddler already knows it cold.
16. "Three Little Birds" — Bob Marley & The Wailers. Kids latch onto this chorus fast — and its promise that every little thing will be all right is a quiet gift to an almost-sibling who is not sure how to feel yet.

Sweet promotion-ceremony picks (17–20)

For the montage, the crowning photo, and the version of the video the grandparents will replay for years.

17. "Never Grow Up" — Taylor Swift. A lullaby about wanting to keep them little, from 2010's Speak Now — exactly the lump in your throat as you hand your first baby a big-kid title.
18. "I Hope You Dance" — Lee Ann Womack. The 2000 country classic that is one long blessing for the road ahead — and it works pointed at both of your kids at once.
19. "Humble and Kind" — Tim McGraw. Lori McKenna wrote it as a prayer for her own five kids, and it won the Grammy for Best Country Song. It plays like everything the big sibling will one day pass down.
20. "Forever Young" — Rod Stewart. Stewart's 1988 blessing for his own children — brave, kind, forever young — and the pick most likely to get the grandparents.

The lyrics

Common questions

What is a good song for a big sister announcement?

For a wink, "Sisters" from White Christmas; for sweetness, "We're Going to Be Friends" by The White Stripes; for a toddler-led reveal, "Baby Shark." If you want the song to be about your actual daughter, a custom "Big Sister Now" song sings her name and her promotion — so the announcement is her, not a borrowed chorus.

Is there a big brother version?

Yes. "Big Brother Now" is the team-huddle version of the same idea — big news at the family meeting, and suddenly there is "a rookie on the roster" who will copy everything he does. One custom sibling song covers both: pick the sister or brother version and we write it around your kid's name.

What is a big sibling promotion reveal?

It is the announcement framed as the older kid's promotion instead of the baby's debut: a promotion shirt or crown, a certificate, sometimes a full mock ceremony — with a song underneath it all. It works because it answers the question every older kid is silently asking: what happens to me? In a promotion reveal, the answer is: you move up.

How much does a custom big sibling song cost, and can it use their name?

A custom song from Songbond is $39.90 and arrives in 24 to 48 hours, with unlimited revisions. Their name is the point: you tell us what they are like — the bossed-around stuffed animals, the dinosaur collection, the question they keep asking at dinner — and we write "Big Sister Now" or "Big Brother Now" about them. They will request it in the car for years.

Promote them with a song that says their name

Every song above is about someone else's family. The one you play at the big moment can be about your kid — their name, their new title, the exact way they run the house. Have a custom "Big Sister Now" or "Big Brother Now" song written for $39.90, delivered in 24 to 48 hours, revised until it is right. It does the reveal, and then it stays their song. More ideas for the whole season live in our pregnancy and new baby gift collection.

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