Just Dance (series)

The Just Dance series is a series of rhythm-related video games developed and published by Ubisoft. Since 2009, at least one new installment has been added to the series every year until Just Dance 2023 Edition, where the game became live-service.
As well as the main series, there are also three other series: the Kids series, the Japanese series, and the Chinese series, as well as several special editions.
*Thus far, the main series comprises of , , 3, 4, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Edition, 2024 Edition, and 2025 Edition.
**Starting with , all installments are released as song packs/updates to the service.
*The Kids series comprises of , Kids 2, Disney Party, Kids 2014, and Disney Party 2. A separate Kids Mode is featured on Just Dance 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
*The Japanese series comprises of , Wii 2, Wii U, and Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Edition.
*The Chinese series comprises of Just Dance 2015 (Chinese Version), Now (Chinese Version), 2017 (Chinese Version), and .
==Gameplay==
The main gameplay of the franchise (main series, Japanese series, Kids series, Disney Party series and Experience series) is to try to copy what the coach is dancing, with a Wii Remote, PS Move Remote, Joy-Con (Nintendo Switch Controller), Smartphone, Kinect Camera or PlayStation Camera judging the player on their performance. With the Wii Remote, PS Move Remote, Joy-Con Controller or a Smartphone, it has to be held in the player's right hand for proper scoring. While gameplay has almost been the same in all games, some new features have been added to the series. (Duets, Trios, Dance Crews, etc.)
==Games==
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===Japanese Series===
===Chinese Games===
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===Mobile Apps===
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==Trivia==
*Not including spin-offs, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj are the most prolific artists, respectively having 16, 15, 12 and 11 songs in the main series. They are the only artists to make more than 10 appearances.
**Including artists with exactly 10 songs, this number gets bumped up to five, as Britney Spears has this amount of songs in the series.
**Counting from her first appearance in , Katy Perry has had at least one song in every game of the main series, with the exception of , (unless Swish Swish (World Cup Champion Version) is counted as a routine), , and .
**Counting from her first appearance in , Ariana Grande has had at least one song in every game of the main series, with the exception of and .
*The most recurring Ubisoft artist in the game is The Girly Team and The Sunlight Shakers (12), followed by Sweat Invaders and Groove Century (9), and Dancing Bros. (8).
*The following artists have had three of their songs in one game:
**Fatboy Slim had Body Movin’ (Fatboy Slim Remix), Rockafeller Skank, and Sympathy For The Devil (Fatboy Slim Remix) in .
**The Hit Crew had Here Comes the Hotstepper, Holiday, and Toxic in .
**Katy Perry had California Gurls, E.T., and Teenage Dream in special editions.
**Nicki Minaj was featured in Kissing Strangers, Side to Side, and Swish Swish in .
**When including original DLC's and exclusives, the following artists also have three of their songs in one game:
***Katy Perry also had I Kissed a Girl, Roar, and Waking Up in Vegas in 
***Pitbull had Can’t Get Enough, Feel This Moment, and Timber in .
***Ariana Grande had Bang Bang, Break Free, and Problem in .
***Sia had Cheap Thrills, The Greatest, and Titanium in .
***J Balvin was featured in Con Altura, I Like It, and X in .
* has produced the most entries of any single album, with 6.
*The NTSC cover for , , and are the only games so far to not feature any coaches on the front cover.
*Coaches have either a glove (short, long, or without fingers) on their left hand, a wristband on their left arm, or having something on their left arm being a different color than the other arm (except for the first game in the series) to instruct the players that they have to hold the required controller on their right hand (for controller-based platforms) and to serve as a reference point (for camera based platforms).
*Starting with some maps in and all maps in , coaches have their skin painted white (or occasionally another color if they will not have white skin in-game) for recording of the routines. 
**Since then, the main exception has been all maps for songs related to , for which the coaches are painted a natural skin tone that is turned into white skin in editing.
*The series holds the Guinness World Record for being the best-selling third party Wii game.
*The highest score that can be reached from onward is 13333.
**However, in Simon Says Mode and Party Master Mode, it is possible to exceed the limit.
*All of the main games, with the exception of the NTSC versions of , , and (all of which are rated E), have been rated E10+ by the ESRB, and 3 by PEGI.
*From to , the game covers in the PAL regions are very different from their NTSC counterparts.
*According to Alkis Arkgyriagis, the developer for , the concept for the game was derived from the Shake It TV mini game on .https://youtu.be/9I9uRYxKn2k?t=40
*On October 25, 2016, Ubisoft released a playlist with 18 songs which appeared in the series. It is available on various music platforms, such as iTunes, Spotify and Deezer.
**Some of the songs were edited, had some uncensored words or cut out other featuring artists completely.
* played a role in . In the movie, Akiko Glitter, (played by Christina Aguilera), has Gene and Jailbreak dance to Feel This Moment and Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go to progress out of the app.
**While Feel This Moment does not appear in , Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go) received an alternate routine as a result of the movie.
*On January 14, 2019, it was reported that Screen Gems was making a movie based on the franchise.https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01/14/just-dance-sonys-screen-gems-developing-movie-based-on-ubisoft-video-game
* will be featured in the upcoming theme park.:File:Img wod jd proof.png
*A -themed event was held in Idle Miner Tycoon game to celebrate the release of the new game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzUm7HLji-U
*From 2020 to June 2021, 30,712,529,644 Perfect moves were cumulatively achieved by Just Dancers.https://twitter.com/justdancegame/status/1403787992578379779
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