Tenor, C3 to C5
Tenor is the highest of the common male voice types, and a lot of the male leads people want to sing at karaoke were written for it. That cuts both ways: plenty of songs suit you, and plenty sit right at the top of your voice in the original key. Every song here fits the conventional tenor span with room at the top, either as recorded or moved by five semitones or fewer, and none of them keeps the melody near your ceiling.
10 songs, 7 of them in the original key.
Songs that suit a tenor usually have a chorus that climbs into the upper middle of the voice and stays there, where a tenor sounds bright and a lower voice starts to strain. Many songs first recorded by female singers come down into tenor range with a key change of a few semitones, which is why they sit alongside the male leads below.
Original key, A-flat major
D#3 to A#4 in this key
Check it against your rangeOriginal key, A-flat major
D#3 to G#4 in this key
Check it against your rangeDown 4 semitones, to D# major
D#3 to A#4 in this key
Check it against your rangeOriginal key, A minor
E3 to G4 in this key
Check it against your rangeOriginal key, F-sharp minor
C#3 to A4 in this key
Check it against your rangeOriginal key, F minor
F3 to A#4 in this key
Check it against your rangeOriginal key, A major
E3 to F#4 in this key
Check it against your rangeOriginal key, A major
C#3 to A4 in this key
Check it against your rangeUp 2 semitones, to F# minor
C#3 to A4 in this key
Check it against your rangeDown 5 semitones, to F major
D3 to A#4 in this key
Check it against your rangeIf you are singing to a backing track you cannot transpose, start with the songs marked original key; those work as they are. For the rest, the key change is part of the answer, not a compromise. The other trap is the song you can sing once but not three times in a night: a melody that spends a long stretch high costs more than its top note suggests.
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How this list is made: every range is our estimate from the original studio recording, taken only from the entries in our song table we rate high confidence, not from a published score. A song is listed when its whole structural melody fits the textbook tenor span of C3 to C5 with two semitones spare at the top and one at the bottom, as recorded or with a key change of 5 semitones or fewer, and when the melody does not spend its time within two semitones of that ceiling. Voice-type spans are teaching labels; your own voice may sit higher or lower, so check a song against your measured range before you take a key to a rehearsal.