The best karaoke and KTV bars in Singapore

Live your best life at the different HaveFun Karaoke outlets across the island. HaveFun Karaoke boasts 76 themed karaoke rooms, event spaces, movie screenings and live performances. Unleash your inner diva at the theatre projection karaoke rooms at the 313@Somerset outlet or have a drink or two at the three-in-one bistro, bar and karaoke at Safra Yishun. The space also offers handy packages including booze and snacks from $128 for six people and three hours of singing time.

For the ultimate party shindig, think Ziggy’s Karaoke Rooms and Cocktail Bar. With over 100,000 songs to belt some tunes, enjoy your night of luxury as you sit on plush velvet couches and sip on cocktails. The KTV joint also comes with private rooms, suites, late-night dining options and a full-fledged bar. Perfect for parties, the deluxe and VIP suites can accommodate up to 10 guests and come complete with a selection of party games, instruments and even a champagne pong table.

Croon your favourite K-Pop tunes in class at multi-entertainment habitat 82 Social House by Kommune. This place is an ultimate playground for adults – think wholesome Korean karaoke experience backed by the best sound system, exclusive Playstation 5 consoles, computer gaming lounges and a huge selection of board games. Enjoy a happy hour rate of $10 per hour for up to two people if you walk-in before 2pm. 

Unlike other karaoke venues, Teo Heng’s rates go by room sizes (per hour), making it fairly cheaper than other karaoke options. Choose from three types of rooms, the smallest allowing a maximum capacity of four people, the medium for six and the largest room for ten. While the song selection available here isn’t too spectacular, it does have a decent spectrum of genres making it perfect for a family get together. They range from classics for the oldies (we're talking Abba and The Carpenters) and relatively modern pop jams for the younger ones (think Avril Lavigne circa 2010). Each outlet also has a small snack section selling bags of chips and bottled water starting from a dollar each but feel free to bring your own food and drinks. Just make sure to clean up after yourselves once your K session is over.

The ultimate after-party spot, Skinny's Lounge has cheap drinks, a pool table, a beer pong table, riverside views and deeper inside the darkened bar, a KTV room awaits. A group minimum spend of $200 secures you the whole room for an hour – order the Pimm's Cup punch ($200), served out of a repurposed Carlsberg beer dispenser, when in doubt. 

If there was ever an award for the most Insta-worthy karaoke bar, K Star takes the cake. Conveniently located at Orchard Central, the karaoke bar houses 25 rooms, each vibrantly decorated according to different themes – there's an all-yellow room filled with plush toys that kids are sure to love, and a tropical-themed room with eye-catching flamingo wallpaper. Competitive room rates start at $20 per hour on weekdays, and K Star offers a comprehensive food and drink menu that ensures guests keep their energy levels up. After all, you can't exactly channel Beyoncé on an empty stomach. 

A Korea-styled karaoke, this unique place mixes board games into the equation alongside singing-out-loud. The games provided are mostly traditional Korean games that let you have a taste of its culture. Even the setting of the room and remote control with its Korean language manual and system may catch you off guard if you're a newbie, it does take some time to get used to.

Karaoke is a communal activity is usually done in a private room with some of your close friends and family but not at this joint. At Good Cheer 2, you can play a game of darts, have a drink and then belt out some tunes at the karaoke corner. It gets a bit noisy with so many things going on at the same time but that just makes the atmosphere merrier. 

Cash Studio has been around for quite some time now – and it shows. The décor wears thin at parts and their song selection system isn’t touchscreen. Lucky for us, their sound system, mics, TVs and song selection’s navigability – the most important elements of karaoke – all work well, which proves that old can still be good. People don’t just come to Cash Studio because it’s cheap, though. They come for the Daiichikosho-produced DAM karaoke systems, which have a pretty updated range of J-Pop, J-Rock, anime fare and more. One word of warning: if you want to use the DAM machines (which are programmed in Japanese and separate from the English-language song selection), know your hiragana and your katakana, or else you won’t stand a chance at using the system.

Harmony KTV's jaw-dropping offer of a 9-hour karaoke session for a flat rate of $12 per person is unbeatable. In that amount of time, you could watch Avengers: Endgame thrice over. Be warned, however: the dubious-looking exterior conceals a no-frills karaoke bar that doubles as a nightclub come 11pm. Harmony offers beer jugs for $20 each and the option of bringing your own non-alcoholic drinks for free. The booking process is equally flexible – all you have to do is drop a text at the number provided.