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50 Best Blizzard Songs for IG Reels & Stories

Updated on September 14, 2025
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Carson suffers from a serious case of melophilia. Geeking out on her favorite music artists is her guilty pleasure.

Best Songs for Blizzard Vibes on Instagram Reels and Stories

There’s a strange kind of stillness when the snow piles too high and the world feels locked in place. It’s not peace exactly, not fear either, but something caught in between. The streets go quiet, windows glow faintly, and you hear your own breath in the cold air. That’s when the right track cuts through, rattling inside the headphones or floating out of someone’s Story. These aren’t neat little winter jingles. They’re heavier, slower, sometimes cracked at the edges, carrying that restless energy that comes when nature forces everything to pause.

Blizzards don’t feel cinematic in the clean way people pretend. They’re messy, dark, and endless, and the soundtrack mirrors that weight. A storm like this can make even the warmest chorus sound lonely, or turn a bass line into something that rumbles like the sky itself. You’ll find pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that spin into this mood, even when they aren’t literally tied to snow. That’s the thing with music—it slips into a space, makes sense of it, then leaves you sitting in the middle of the chaos with nothing to hold onto but the sound.

The storm keeps people inside, forces long stretches of silence broken by the scrape of shovels or the hum of heaters, and that’s where these tracks land. Some lean into the chill, others fight against it, and a few simply live in the weird in-between where time drags. They won’t all talk snowstorms by name, but they carry the pulse of nights that refuse to let up. Here are the best blizzard songs for Instagram reels and stories.

Top 10 Winter Instagram Songs

1. 'The Blizzard' by Johnny Cash

2. 'Don't Eat The Yellow Snow' by Frank Zappa

3. 'Wintertime Love' by The Doors

4. 'A Hazy Shade of Winter' by The Bangles

5. 'Coldest Winter' by Kanye West

6. 'Snowblind' by Black Sabbath

7. 'Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

8. 'Winter' by The Rolling Stones

9. 'Let It Go' by Idina Menzel

10. 'White Winter Hymnal' by Fleet Foxes

Best Winter Weather Music #11 to 20

11. 'Snow (Hey Oh)' by Red Hot Chili Peppers

12. 'Sweater Weather' by The Neighbourhood

13. 'Cold' by Annie Lennox

14. 'January Hymn' by The Decemberists

15. 'Winter' by Tori Amos

16. 'Snowbound' by Donald Fagen

17. 'Winterlude' by Bob Dylan

18. 'My December' by Linkin Park

19. 'Angel in the Snow' by Elliott Smith

20. 'The Sound of Winter' by The Killers

Top Instagram Blizzard Music #21 to 30

21. 'While I Shovel the Snow' by The Walkmen

22. 'First Snow' by Emancipator

23. 'California Dreamin'' by The Mamas & The Papas

24. 'Cold as Ice' by Foreigner

25. 'Trapped Under Ice' by Metallica

26. 'I'm Cold' by Guided By Voices

27. 'Valley Winter Song' by Fountains of Wayne

28. 'A Winter's Tale' by Queen

29. 'Snowbird' by Anne Murray

30. 'Sister Winter' by Joseph Arthur

Instagram Reels Winter Songs #31 to 40

31. 'Winter Things' by Ariana Grande

32. 'Snow Is Falling in Manhattan' by Purple Mountains

33. 'Winter Sound' by Of Monsters and Men

34. 'The Snowman' by Sia

35. 'Hole in the Sky' by Black Sabbath

36. 'Love Like Winter' by AFI

37. 'Velvet Snow' by The Weeknd

38. 'The Ice of Boston' by The Dismemberment Plan

39. 'Cold' by Chris Stapleton

40. 'Winter' by Khalid

Cold Weather Songs for Instagram #41 to 50

41. 'Winter Song' by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson

42. 'The Northern Cold' by Woods of Ypres

43. 'Winterlong' by Neil Young

44. 'Winter's Coming' by The Head and the Heart

45. 'Cold Rain and Snow' by Grateful Dead

46. 'I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm' by Frank Sinatra

47. 'Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out' by Bruce Springsteen

48. 'Snowfall' by The Cocteau Twins

49. 'Chasing the Sun' by Billy Strings

50. 'Forever Winter' by Taylor Swift

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