50 Best Fairycore Songs for IG Reels & Stories

Best Fairycore Tracks for Instagram Reels and Stories

There’s a strange sweetness that comes with fairycore. It’s not exactly whimsical, not entirely melancholy, but something caught between both. You feel it in soft vocals that float a little too high, or in acoustic strums that sound like they’re sneaking out of an old woodland cottage. The songs lean into the unreal and the delicate, where synths blur into flutes and lyrics half-whisper like they were meant for a secret. Some of them may not be literally tied to forests or wings, but the atmosphere still carries that glow.

Fairycore isn’t glitter and wings pasted onto playlists. It’s the hush that sneaks in after midnight when a party finally quiets down. It’s the sun hitting a patch of moss, or that fleeting moment where a song’s bridge feels like it should play under soft focus camera work. The tracks that work here feel slightly off-center, dreamy without fully floating away. They pull from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs in ways that surprise you. It’s less about labels and more about the textures that hit the mood right.

The energy doesn’t stay in one place either. Some tracks drift slow, almost too fragile to carry, while others move with a pulse sharp enough to break the haze. There are choruses that hum like lullabies and others that twist into something stranger, all still hanging inside that fairycore spell. These are the songs that end up on Stories when someone is walking under trees, or when a random filter turns your face into something out of a dream. Here are the best fairycore songs for Instagram reels and stories.

1. 'Somewhere Only We Know' by Keane

2. 'Willow' by Taylor Swift

3. 'A Sky Full of Stars' by Coldplay

4. 'Into the Mystic' by Van Morrison

5. 'Lovely Day' by Bill Withers

6. 'Honey' by The Marias

7. 'Enchanted' by Taylor Swift

8. 'Flicker' by Lord Huron

9. 'Cosmic Love' by Florence + The Machine

10. 'Fairytale' by Sara Bareilles

11. 'Strawberry' by Chloe Moriondo

12. 'Cherry Wine' by Hozier

13. 'Dreams' by Fleetwood Mac

14. 'Golden' by Harry Styles

15. 'Young and Beautiful' by Lana Del Rey

16. 'The Sun Will Rise' by The Last Morrell

17. 'Ophelia' by The Lumineers

18. 'My Kinda Love' by Sam Smith

19. 'Sweet Nothing' by Taylor Swift

20. 'Here Comes the Sun' by The Beatles

21. 'Wildest Dreams' by Taylor Swift

22. 'To Be Alone with You' by Sufjan Stevens

23. 'Somewhere' by Priscilla Hernández

24. 'Little Talks' by Of Monsters and Men

25. 'Chateau' by Angus & Julia Stone

26. 'I Do Adore' by Mindy Gledhill

27. 'Home' by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

28. 'Riverside' by Agnes Obel

29. 'Only Time' by Enya

30. 'The Sound of Silence' by Simon & Garfunkel

31. 'I Got You, Honey' by Ocie Elliott

32. 'The Less I Know The Better' by Tame Impala

33. 'Here's to a New Day' by The Magic Lantern

34. 'Orinoco Flow' by Enya

35. 'The Woods' by Hollow Coves

36. 'The Wind' by Cat Stevens

37. 'Fireflies' by Owl City

38. 'Walking on a Dream' by Empire of the Sun

39. 'Hideaway' by Daya

40. 'Closer' by Oh My Girl

41. 'In Perfect Harmony' by Within Temptation

42. 'The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac

43. 'Forest' by TXT

44. 'Dreamcatcher' by Jaymes Young

45. 'Golden Hour' by JVKE

46. 'Falling' by Harry Styles

47. 'Cardigan' by Taylor Swift

48. 'Let It Be' by The Beatles

49. 'I'll Be There' by Oh My Girl

50. 'Lost' by Frank Ocean