Stop the World may refer to:

• Stop the World, a 1989 album by Ghost Dance
• Stop the World (Riddlin' Kids album), 2004
• Stop the World (Right Said Fred album), 2011
• Stop the World (Aranda album), 2012

• "Stop the World", a 1989 song by British rock band Big Big Sun from their album of the same name (the song hit number 50 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart)
• "Stop the World" (The Screaming Jets song), from the 1991 album All for One
• "Stop the World" (Extreme song), from the 1992 album III Sides to Every Story
• "Stop the World", a song by Goo Goo Dolls from their 1993 album Superstar Car Wash
• "Stop the World", a song by The Clash from their 1994 compilation album Super Black Market Clash
• "Stop the World", a song by Krokus from their 1995 album To Rock or Not to Be
• "Stop the World", a song by Demi Lovato from her 2009 album Here We Go Again
• "Stop the World" (The Big Pink song), released as a single in 2009

• Stop-the-world, a kind of garbage collector in computer science

• Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (disambiguation)