The Offbeat Generation | by Giovanni Gonzo

THE OFFBEAT GENERATION

THE OFFBEAT GENERATION Giovanni Fedel Gonzo Project: Speed up, slow down Unibz, summer semester 2018

The human frequency Human beings can distinguish a range of tempos from around 40 to 300 beats per minute. When the pulse slows below 40 bpm, we may not be able to identify or recall a discernible pattern. When it goes faster than 300 bpm, repetitions start to blur into a continuous tone. In between 40 and 300 bpm, there’s a lot of real estate for us to play around in. The history of popular music, however, suggests that we mostly enjoy a relatively narrow range of tempos. From the 1940s until our current decade, the average tempo of our most popular songs fluctuated no more than 5 bpm, hovering between 117 bpm to 122 bpm. Hits between 1976 and 1984 displayed rather mono-rhythmic qualities, with few year averages drifting above or below the golden mark. Dirk Moelants, a musicologist and assistant at the department of musicology at The University of Ghent, argues that a ‘preferred tempo’ around 120 bpm is a part of our biology.

The results of several isolated experiments that asked participants to tap fingers, walk, or applaud at their own tempo, showed participants moving naturally at a tempo of around 120 bpm.

Source: The Resonant Human: The Science of How Tempo Affects Us www. sonicscoop.com

Tempo and emotion Slow music, generally, makes us feel sad. Fast music tends to make us happier, unless it is in a minor mode or rhythmically fragmented, in which case it can inspire fear. These concepts are generally accepted these days, but until psychologist Kate Hevner Mueller began conducting experiments in the 1930s, we had no real proof of just how profound this effect is. Mueller asked her participants to express their emotions regarding different pieces of music in which only one defining characteristic such as pitch, mode, or tempo had changed. She concluded that tempo influenced our emotions more than any other characteristic. Over 60 years later, Lise Gagnon and Isabelle Peretz of the University of Montreal performed similar experiments isolating and changing individual musical characteristics and reached the same conclusion: “The results confirm that both mode and tempo determine “happy-sad” judgments in isolation, with the tempo being more salient, even when tempo salience was adjusted.” Emotional response to changing tempos may explain why we don’t always pre-

fer our “preferred” tempo: Human emotions range all over the map. If the constant, 120 bpm average of charting pop hits represents our platonic ideal of natural balance, then tempos far above or below that range represent the rest of the roller-coaster ride we call ‘life’.

120 bpm is our safe place, and the further we get from it tempo-wise, the more volatile we become.

Source: The Resonant Human: The Science of How Tempo Affects Us www. sonicscoop.com

Invisible relations In this research I analyzed the bpm of each year’s 10 most llistened songs from 1941 to 2017. Every year seemed to have a very clear average tempo by itself wich was in some cases very different from the year before and the one after.

In this perspective it made sense to calculate the average bpm and continue working with just one number that could represent that specific year’s ‘preferred tempo’. The whole process might seem to be pointless since we know that humans always tend to enjoy the 120 bpm golden mark with very little variations. When we look at the results of this analysis though, the outcome is not what we would expect. We can clearly see that for a very long period (from the 60s to 2010) songs used to have very similar bpms, around the 120 line with small exceptions. Before and after that though it all gets slower. In the 40s for example the preferred tempo was between 90 and 110 bpms. Surprisingly the last 5 years aswell seem to be much slower than the average. To sum up, nowadays we tend to appreciate songs that are much slower than the ones we have been

listening in the last 50 years, and we like music that has the same rhythmical qualities of music produced in the 40s. At this point it comes pretty natural to ask ourselves wether this collective taste is random or not. Sometimes it looks like there is no relation between a certain period, an event or a trend, and the bpm value calculated in the research.

Other times though, the relation seems to be totally there in a surprising way.

76 years overview In this graph we can see how music used to be very slow in the 40s, how it suddenly all changed, how it seemed to be stable at some point and how it became really slow again in the days we are living now.

130 bpm

120 bpm

110 bpm

100 bpm

2011

2001

1991

1981

1971

1961

1951

1941

90 bpm

1941

Glenn Miller

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Sammy Kaye

Daddy

Artie Shaw

Stardust

Andrews Sisters

bpm

110

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Jimmy Dorsey

Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)

Jimmy Dorsey

Green Eyes

Glenn Miller

Elmer’s Tune

Duke Ellington Take The ‘A’ Train Billie Holiday Jimmy Dorsey

God Bless the Child Maria Elena

1942

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Moonlight Cocktail

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Kalamazoo

Tommy Dorsey Bing Crosby

White Christmas

Harry James

I Had the Craziest Dream

Harry James

Sleepy Lagoon

Jimmy Dorsey

bpm

90

There Are Such Things

Kay Kyser

Tangerine

Jingle Jangle Jingle

Woody Herman

Blues in the Night

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

A String of Pearls

1943

Paper Doll

Mills Brothers

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ As Time Goes By Oklahoma!

Rudy Vallee

Alfred Drake

I’ve Heard That Song Before Sentimental Lady

bpm

102

Bing Crosby

Harry James

Duke Ellington

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore That Old Black Magic Stormy Weather

The Ink Spots

Glenn Miller

Lena Horne

Taking a Chance on Love

Benny Goodman

1944

bpm

113

Swinging On A Star Bing Crosby Trolley Song Judy Garland Besame Mucho Jimmy Dorsey Always Hurt The One You Love Mills Brothers Mairzy Doates Merry Macs I’ll Be Seeing You Bing Crosby Twilight Time Les Brown It’s Love-Love-Love Guy Lombardo My Heart Tells Me Glen Gray I Love You Bing Crosby

1945

The Andrews Sisters Les Brown

Sentimental Journey

Perry Como Les Brown

Till The End of Time My Dreams Are Getting Better

Johnny Mercer

bpm

94

Rum & Coca-Cola

On the Atchison

Harry James

It’s Been a Long, Long Time

Bing Crosby

I Can’t Begin to Tell You

Johnny Mercer Sammy Kaye

Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive Chickery Chick

Vaughn Monroe

There! I’ve Said it Again

1946

bpm

94

Perry Como

Prisoner Of Love

Eddy Howard

To Each His Own

The Ink Spots

The Gypsy

Frank Sinatra

Five Minutes More

Frankie Carle

Rumors Are Flying

Frankie Carle

Oh! What It Seemed To Be

Johnny Mercer

Personality

Bing Crosby

Take It Away

Dinah Shore

The Gypsy

Frank Sinatra

Oh! What It Seemed To Be

1947

Francis Craig

Near You

The Harmonicats Ted Weems

Peg O’ My Heart

Heartaches

Ray Noble and Buddy Clark Tex Williams

bpm

101

Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette

Vaughn Monroe The Three Suns Al Jolson

Linda

I Wish I Didn’t Love You So Peg O’ My Heart

Anniversary Song

Larry Green Sammy Kaye

Near You That’s My Desire

1948

bpm

112

Pee Wee Hunt Twelfth Street Rag Peggy Lee Manana Bing Crosby Now Is The Hour Margaret Whiting A Tree In The Meadow Jon and Sondra Steele My Happiness Ken Griffin You Can’t Be True, Dear Dick Haymes Little White Lies Al Trace You Call Everybody Darlin’ The Pied Pipers My Happiness Art Mooney I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover

1949

bpm

111

Vaughn Monroe Riders In The Sky Frankie Laine That Lucky Old Sun Vic Damone You’re Breaking My Heart Perry Como Some Enchanted Evening Jimmy Wakely Slipping Around The Andrews Sisters I Can Dream, Can’t I Russ Morgan Cruising Down the River Evelyn Knight A Little Bird Told Me Frankie Laine Mule Train Al Morgan Jealous Heart

1950

bpm

117

Gordon Jenkins Goodnight Irene Nat King Cole Mona Lisa Anton Karas Third Man Theme Gary and Bing Crosby Sam’s Song Gary and Bing Crosby Simple Melody Teresa Brewer Music, Music, Music Guy Lombardo Third Man Theme Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Sammy Kaye Harbor Lights Sammy Kaye and Don Cornell It Isn’t Fair

1951

Nat King Cole

Too Young

Tony Bennett

Because Of You

Les Paul and Mary Ford Rosemary Clooney Mario Lanza

bpm

108

Weavers

Come On-a My House

Be My Love

On Top Of Old Smoky

Tony Bennett Perry Como Mario Lanza Patti Page

How High The Moon

Cold, Cold Heart If Loveliest Night Of The Year

Tennessee Waltz

1952

bpm

111

Leroy Anderson Blue Tango Kay Starr Wheel Of Fortune Johnnie Ray Cry Jo Stafford You Belong To Me Vera Lynn Auf Wiederseh’n, Sweetheart Rosemary Clooney Half As Much Eddie Fisher Wish You Were Here Patti Page I Went To Your Wedding Al Martino Here In My Heart Percy Faith Delicado

1953

Percy Faith

Song From Moulin Rouge

Les Paul and Mary Ford Patti Page

Doggie In The Window

Eddie Fisher

bpm

107

Vaya Con Dios

I’m Walking Behind You

Ames Brothers

You, You, You

Teresa Brewer

Till I Waltz Again With You

Les Baxter

April In Portugal

Perry Como

No Other Love

Perry Como

Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes

Frankie Laine

I Believe

1954

Kitty Kallen

Little Things Mean A Lot

Perry Como

Wanted

Rosemary Clooney Crew Cuts

bpm

104

Hey There

Sh-Boom

Jo Stafford

Make Love To Me

Eddie Fisher

Oh! My Pa-pa

Four Knights

I Get So Lonely

Four Aces

Three Coins In The Fountain

Doris Day

Secret Love

Archie Bleyer

Hernando’s Hideaway

1955

Perez Prado Bill Haley

Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White

Rock Around The Clock

Mitch Miller

The Yellow Rose Of Texas

Roger Williams

bpm

107

Autumn Leaves

Les Baxter

Unchained Melody

Bill Hayes

The Ballad Of Davy Crockett

Four Aces

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

McGuire Sisters Pat Boone

Sincerely

Ain’t That A Shame

Georgia Gibbs

Dance With Me Henry

1956

bpm

114

Elvis Presley Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley Don’t Be Cruel Nelson Riddle Lisbon Antigua Platters My Prayer Gogi Grant The Wayward Wind Les Baxter The Poor People Of Paris Doris Day Whatever Will Be Will Be Elvis Presley Hound Dog Dean Martin Memories Are Made Of This Kay Starr Rock And Roll Waltz

bpm

131

1957

ElvisBoone Presley Love All Letters Shook Up Pat In The Sand Diamonds Little Darlin’ Tab Hunter Young Love Jimmy Dorsey SoForbid Rare Pat Boone Don’t Me Guy Mitchell Singing The Blues Sonny James Too Young Love Elvis Much PerryPresley Como Round And Round

1958

bpm

113

Domenico Modugno Volare Everly Brothers All I Have To Do Is Dream Elvis Presley Don’t David Seville Witch Doctor erez Prado Patricia Billy Vaughn Sail Along Silvery Moon Perry Como Catch A Falling Star Champs Tequila Tommy Edwards It’s All In The Game Dean Martin Return To Me

1959

bpm

118

Johnny Horton The Battle Of New Orleans Bobby Darin Mack The Knife Lloyd Price Personality Frankie Avalon Venus Paul Anka Lonely Boy Bobby Darin Dream Lover Browns The Three Bells Fleetwoods Come Softly To Me Wilbert Harrison Kansas City Fleetwoods Mr. Blue

bpm

127 1960

Percy Faith Theme From “A Jim Reeves He’ll Cathy’s Have ToClown GoSummer Place” Everly Brothers Johnny Preston Running Mark Dinning Teen AngelBear Brenda Lee I’m Sorry Elvis Presley NowMan Or Never Jimmy Jones It’s Handy Elvis Presley Stuck OnTwist You Chubby Checker The

1961

bpm

121

Bobby Lewis Tossin’ And Turnin’ Patsy Cline I Fall To Pieces Highwaymen Michael Roy Orbison Cryin’ Del Shannon Runaway Jive Five My True Story Chubby Checker Pony Time String-a-longs Wheels Dee Clark Raindrops Joe Dowell Wooden Heart

1962

bpm

114

Mr. Acker Bilk Stranger On The Shore Ray Charles I Can’t Stop Loving You Dee Dee Sharp Mashed Potato Time Bobby Vinton Roses Are Red David Rose The Stripper Shelley Fabares Johnny Angel Little Eva The Loco-Motion Sensations Let Me In Chubby Checker The Twist Shirelles Soldier Boy

1963

bpm

121

Jimmy Gilmer Sugar Shack Beach Boys Surfin’ U.S.A. Skeeter Davis The End Of The World Cascades Rhythm Of The Rain Chiffons He’s So Fine Bobby Vinton Blue Velvet Paul and Paula Hey Paula Little Stevie Wonder Fingertips Village Stompers Washington Square Impressions It’s All Right

133 1964

I Want To Pretty Hold Hand Beatles She Loves You Your Louis Armstrong Hello, Dolly!

Roy Orbison Oh, Woman Beach Boys I Get Around Dean Martin Everybody Loves Mary Wells My Guy Gale Garnett We’ll Sing TheSomebody Sunshine J. Frank Wilson Last Kiss Supremes Where Did OurInLove Go

1965

bpm

117

Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs Wooly Bully Four Tops I Can’t Help Myself Rolling Stones (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction We Five You Were On My Mind Righteous Brothers You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ Petula Clark Downtown Beatles Help!

Herman’s Hermits Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat Elvis Presley Crying In The Chapel Temptations My Girl

1966

bpm

115

Sgt. Barry Sadler The Ballad Of The Green Berets Association Cherish Righteous Brothers Four Tops Reach Out I’ll Be There ? and The Mysterians 96 Tears Monkees Last Train To Clarksville Mama’s and The Papa’s Monday, Monday Supremes You Can’t Hurry Love Johnny Rivers Poor Side Of Town Mama’s and The Papa’s California Dreamin’

1967

bpm

115

Lulu To Sir With Love Box Tops The Letter Bobby Gentry Ode To Billie Joe Association Windy Monkees I’m A Believer Doors Light My Fire Nancy Sinatra Somethin’ Stupid Turtles Happy Together Young Rascals Groovin’ Frankie Valli Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

1968

bpm

111

Beatles Hey Jude Paul Mauriat Love Is Blue Bobby Goldsboro Honey Otis Redding The Dock Of The Bay Rascals People Got To Be Free Cream Sunshine Of Your Love Herb Alpert This Guy’s In Love With You Hugo Montenegro The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Simon and Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson Archie Bell and The Drells Tighten Up

1969

bpm

120

Archies Sugar, Sugar Fifth Dimension Aquarius Temptations I Can’t Get Next To You Rolling Stones Honky Tonk Women Sly and The Family Stone Everyday People Tommy Roe Dizzy Sly Hot Fun In The Summertime Tom Jones I’ll Never Fall In Love Again Foundations Build Me Up Buttercup Tommy James Crimson And Clover

1970

bpm

108

Simon and Garfunkel

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Carpenters

Close To You

Guess Who

American Woman

B.J. Thomas

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head

Edwin Starr

War

Diana Ross

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Jackson 5

I’ll Be There

Rare Earth

Get Ready

Beatles

Let It Be

Freda Payne

Band Of Gold

1971

Three Dog Night Rod Stewart Carole King

bpm

107

Joy To The World

Maggie May I Feel The Earth Move

Osmonds

One Bad Apple

Bee Gees

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart

Raiders

Indian Reservation

Donny Osmond

Go Away Little Girl

John Denver

Take Me Home, Country Roads

Temptations

Just My Imagination

Dawn

Knock Three Times

1972

bpm

111

Roberta Flack The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Gilbert O’Sullivan Alone Again Don McLean American Pie Nilsson Without You Sammy Davis Jr. Candy Man Joe Tex I Gotcha Bill Withers Lean On Me Mac Davis Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me Melanie Brand New Key Wayne Newton Daddy Dont You Walk So Fast

1973

bpm

116

Tony Orlando Tie A Yellow Ribbon Jim Croce Bad Bad Leroy Brown Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly With His Song Marvin Gaye Let’s Get It On Paul McCartney and Wings My Love Kris Kristofferson Why Me Elton John Crocodile Rock Billy Preston Will It Go Round In Circles Carly Simon You’re So Vain Diana Ross Touch Me In The Morning

1974

bpm

116

Barbra Streisand The Way We Were Terry Jacks Seasons In The Sun Love Unlimited Orchestra Love’s Theme Redbone Come And Get Your Love Jackson 5 Dancing Machine Grand Funk Railroad The Loco-Motion MFSB TSOP Ray Stevens The Streak Elton John Bennie And The Jets Mac Davis One Hell Of A Woman

1975

bpm

111

Captain and Tennille Love Will Keep Us Together Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy Elton John Philadelphia Freedom Freddy Fender Before The Next Teardrop Falls Frankie Valli My Eyes Adored You Earth, Wind and Fire Shining Star David Bowie Fame Neil Sedaka Laughter In The Rain Eagles One Of These Nights John Denver Thank God I’m A Country Boy

1976

bpm

116

Wings Silly Love Songs Elton John Don’t Go Breaking My Heart Johnnie Taylor Disco Lady Four Seasons December, 1963 Wild Cherry Play That Funky Music Manhattans Kiss And Say Goodbye The Miracles Love Machine Paul Simon 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover Gary Wright Love Is Alive Walter Murphy A Fifth Of Beethoven

1977

bpm

115

Rod Stewart Tonight’s The Night Andy Gibb I Just Want To Be Your Everything Emotions Best Of My Love Barbra Streisand Love Theme From “A Star Is Born” Hot Angel In Your Arms Kenny Nolan I Like Dreamin’ Thelma Houston Don’t Leave Me This Way Rita Coolidge Higher And Higher Alan O’Day Undercover Angel Mary MacGregor Torn Between Two Lovers

1978

Andy Gibb Bee Gees

Shadow Dancing Night Fever

Debby Boone Bee Gees Exile

bpm

107

You Light Up My Life

Stayin’ Alive

Kiss You All Over

Bee Gees How Deep Is Your Love Player

Baby Come Back

Andy Gibb

Thicker Than Water

A Taste Of Honey Commodores

Boogie Oogie Oogie

Three Times A Lady

1979

bpm

117

Andy Gibb Shadow Dancing Bee Gees Night Fever Debby Boone You Light Up My Life Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive Exile Kiss You All Over Bee Gees How Deep Is Your Love Player Baby Come Back Andy Gibb Thicker Than Water A Taste Of Honey Boogie Oogie Oogie Commodores Three Times A Lady

1980 bpm

124

Blondie Call Me Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall Olivia Newton-John Magic Michael Jackson Rock With You Captain Do That To Me One More Time Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love Paul McCartney Coming Up Lipps, Inc. Funkytown Billy Joel It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me Bette Midler The Rose

1981 bpm

123

Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes Diana Ross and Lionel Richie Endless Love Kenny Rogers Lady John Lennon Starting Over Rick Springfield Jessie’s Girl Kool and The Gang Celebration Daryl Hall and John Oates Kiss On My List Eddie Rabbitt I Love A Rainy Night Dolly Parton 9 To 5 REO Speedwagon Keep On Loving You

1982

bpm

114

Olivia Newton-John Physical Survivor Eye Of The Tiger Joan Jett and The Blackhearts I Love Rock N’ Roll Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder Ebony And Ivory J. Geils Band Centerfold Human League Don’t You Want Me John Cougar Jack And Diane John Cougar Hurts So Good Steve Miller Band Abracadabra Chicago Hard To Say I’m Sorry

1983

bpm

120

Police Every Breath You Take Michael Jackson Billie Jean Irene Cara Flashdance… What A Feeling Men At Work Down Under Michael Jackson Beat It Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse Of The Heart Daryl Hall and John Oates Maneater Patti Austin Baby Come To Me Michael Sembello Maniac Eurythmics Sweet Dreams

1984

bpm

114

Prince When Doves Cry Tina Turner What’s Love Got To Do With It Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson Say Say Say Kenny Loggins Footloose Phil Collins Against All Odds Van Halen Jump Lionel Richie Hello Yes Owner Of A Lonely Heart Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters Culture Club Karma Chameleon

1985

bpm

115

Wham! Careless Whisper Madonna Like A Virgin Wham! Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Foreigner I Want To Know What Love Is Chaka Khan I Feel For You Daryl Hall and John Oates Out Of Touch Tears For Fears Everybody Wants To Rule The World Dire Straits Money For Nothing Madonna Crazy For You A-Ha Take On Me

1986

bpm

114

Dionne and Friends That’s What Friends Are For Lionel Richie Say You, Say Me Klymaxx I Miss You Patti Labelle On My Own Mr. Mister Broken Wings Whitney Houston How Will I Know Eddie Murphy Party All The Time Survivor Burning Heart Mr. Mister Kyrie Robert Palmer Addicted To Love

1987

bpm

119

Bangles Walk Like An Egyptian Heart Alone Gregory Abbott Shake You Down Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody Starship Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now Robbie Nevil C’est La Vie Whitesnake Here I Go Again Bruce Hornsby and The Range The Way It Is Bob Seger Shakedown Bon Jovi Livin’ On A Prayer

1988

bpm

118

George Michael Faith INXS Need You Tonight George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up Guns N’ Roses Sweet Child O’ Mine Whitney Houston So Emotional Belinda Carlisle Heaven Is A Place On Earth Tiffany Could’ve Been Breathe Hands To Heaven Steve Winwood Roll With It

1989 bpm

123

Chicago Look Away Bobby Brown My Prerogative Poison Every Rose Has Its Thorn Paula Abdul Straight Up Janet Jackson Miss You Much Paula Abdu Cold Hearted Bette Midler Wind Beneath My Wings Milli Vanilli Girl You Know Its True Will To Power Baby, I Love Your Way-Freebird Anita Baker Giving You The Best That I Got

1990

bpm

113

Wilson Phillips Hold On Roxette It Must Have Been Love Sinead O’Connor Nothing Compares 2 U Bell Biv Devoe Poison Madonna Vogue Mariah Carey Vision Of Love Phil Collins Another Day In Paradise En Vogue Hold On Billy Idol Cradle Of Love Jon Bon Jovi Blaze Of Glory

1991

bpm

121

Bryan Adams I Do It For You Color Me Badd I Wanna Sex You Up C+C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat Paula Abdul Rush Rush Timmy T One More Try EMF Unbelievable Extreme More Than Words Hi-Five I Like The Way Surface The First Time Amy Grant Baby, Baby

1992

bpm

113

Boyz II Men End Of The Road Sir Mix A-lot Baby Got Back Kris Kross Jump Vanessa Williams Save The Best For Last TLC Baby-Baby-Baby Eric Clapton Tears In Heaven En Vogue My Lovin’ Red Hot Chili Peppers Under The Bridge Color Me Badd All 4 Love Jon Secada Just Another Day

1993

bpm

116

Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You Tag Team Whoomp!

UB40 Can’t Help Falling In Love Janet Jackson That’s The Way Love Goes Silk Freak Me SWV Weak Shai If I Ever Fall In Love Mariah Carey Dreamlover Wreckx-N-Effect Rump Shaker Snow Informer

1994

Ace Of Base All-4-One

I Swear

Boyz II Men

I’ll Make Love To You

Celine Dion

The Power Of Love

Mariah Carey

bpm

108

The Sign

Hero

Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories Toni Braxton

Stay

Breathe Again

Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting Ace Of Base

All That She Wants

Ace Of Base

Don’t Turn Around

All For Love

1995

bpm

118

Coolio Gangsta’s Paradise TLC Waterfalls TLC Creep Seal Kiss From A Rose Boyz II Men On Bended Knee Real McCoy Another Night Mariah Carey Fantasy Madonna Take A Bow Monica Don’t Take It Personal Montell Jordan This Is How We Do It

1996

bpm

121

Los Del Rio Macarena Mariah Carey One Sweet Day Celine Dion Because You Loved Me Tony Rich Project Nobody Knows Mariah Carey Always Be My Baby Tracy Chapman Give Me One Reason Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Tha Crossroads Donna Lewis I Love You Always Forever Toni Braxton You’re Makin’ Me High Keith Sweat Twisted

1997

Elton John Jewel

Candle In The Wind 1997

Foolish Games

Puff Daddy

I’ll Be Missing You

Toni Braxton

Un-Break My Heart

Puff Daddy

bpm

105

R. Kelly

Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down

I Believe I Can Fly

En Vogue

Don’t Let Go

Mark Morrison LeAnn Rimes Spice Girls

Return Of The Mack How Do I Live

Wannabe

bpm

130 1998

Next Too Brandy andClose Monica The Mine Shania Twain You’re Still Boy The Is One SavageRimes Garden How Truly LeAnn DoMadly I Live Deeply Janet Together Again K-Ci JoJoCandle All My Life Eltonand John The Wind Usher Nice & Slow In Paula Cole I Don’t Want To Wait

1999

bpm

114

Cher Believe TLC No Scrubs Monica Angel Of Mine Whitney Houston Heartbreak Hotel Britney Spears Baby One More Time Sixpence None The Richer Kiss Me Christina Aguilera Genie In A Bottle Sugar Ray Every Morning Deborah Cox Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here Ricky Martin Livin’ La Vida Loca

2000

bpm

113

Faith Hill Breathe Santana feat. Rob Thomas Smooth Santana feat. The Product GandB Maria Maria Joe I Wanna Know Vertical Horizon Everything You Want Destiny’s Child Say My Name Savage Garden I Knew I Loved You Lonestar Amazed Matchbox Twenty Bent Toni Braxton He Wasn’t Man Enough

2001

Lifehouse Alicia Keys

Hanging By A Moment Fallin’

Janet

All For You

Train

Drops Of Jupiter

Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule matchbox twenty

bpm

95

If You’re Gone

Eve feat. Gwen Stefani Dido

I’m Real

Let Me Blow Ya Mind

Thank You

Lenny Kravitz Destiny’s Child

Again Independent Women Part I

2002 bpm

122

Nickelback How Your Remind Me Ashanti Foolish Nelly Hot in Herre Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland Dilemma The Calling Wherever you Will Go Vanessa Carlton A Thousand Miles Linkin Park In the End Fat Joe feat. Ashanti What’s Luv? Usher U Got it Bad Puddle Of Mudd

2003

50 Cent

In Da Club

R. Kelly

Ignition

Sean Paul

Get Busy

Beyonce feat. Jay-Z 3 Doors Down

bpm

104

Crazy in Love

When I’m Gone

Matchbox Twenty Chingy

Right Thurr

Aaliyah

Miss You

Unwell

Kid Rock feat. Sheryl Crow Evanescence

Picture

Bring me to Life

2004

bpm

115

Usher Yeah!

Usher Burn Alicia Keys If I Ain’t Got You Maroon5 This Love OutKast The Way You Move Hoobastank The Reason Mario Winans I Don’t Wanna Know OutKast Hey Ya! Ciara Goodies Terror Squad Lean Back

2005

bpm

119

Mariah Carey We Belong Together Gwen Stefani Hollaback Girl Mario Let Me Love You Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone Ciara feat. Missy Elliott 1, 2 Step Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx Gold Digger Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams 50 Cent feat. Olivia Candy Shop The Pussycat Dolls Don’t Cha Kelly Clarkson Behind These Hazel Eyes

2006

bpm

120

Daniel Powter Bad Day Sean Paul Temperature Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland Promiscuous ames Blunt You’re Beautiful Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean Hips Don’t Lie Natasha Bedingfield Unwritten Gnarls Barkley Crazy Chamillionaire Ridin’ Justin Timberlake Sexyback Beyonce feat. Slim Thug Check on It

bpm 2007

126

Beyonce Irreplaceable Rihanna feat.

Jay-Z Umbrella Gwen Stefani feat.

Akon The Sweet Escape Fergie Big Girls Don’t Cry T-Pain feat.

Yung Joc Buy U Drank Carrie Underwood Before HeA Cheats Plain White T’s Hey There Delilah Akon feat. Snoop I Wanna Love You Nelly SayDogg It Right FergieFurtado feat. Ludacris Glamorous

2008

bpm

121

Flo Rida feat. T-Pain Low Leona Lewis Bleeding Love Alicia Keys No One Lil Wayne feat. Static Major Lollipop Timbaland feat. OneRepublic Apologize Jordin Sparks No Air Sara Bareilles Love Song Usher Love In This Club Chris Brown With You Chris Brown Forever

2009

bpm

120

The Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow Lady Gaga Poker Face Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis Just Dance The Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling Taylor Swift Love Story Flo Rida Right Round Jason Mraz I’m Yours Beyonce Single Ladies Kanye West Heartless The All-American Rejects Gives You Hell

2010

bpm

112

Ke$ha TiK ToK Lady Antebellum Need You Now Train Hey, Soul Sister Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg California Gurls Usher feat. will.i.am OMG B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams Airplanes Eminem feat. Rihanna Love The Way You Lie Lady Gaga Bad Romance Taio Cruz Dynamite Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris Break Your Heart

2011 bpm

123

Adele Rolling In The Deep LMFAO Party Rock Anthem Katy Perry Firework Katy Perry feat. Kanye West E.T. Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo Give Me Everything Bruno Mars Grenade Cee Lo Green F**K You Nicki Minaj Super Bass Maroon 5 Moves Like Jagger The Black Eyed Peas Just Can’t Get Enough

2012

bpm

119

Gotye feat. Kimbra Somebody That I Used To Know Carly Rae Jepsen Call Me Maybe Fun. feat. Janelle Monae We Are Young Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa Payphone Ellie Goulding Lights The Wanted Glad You Came Kelly Clarkson Stronger Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris We Found Love Nicki Minaj Starships One Direction What Makes You Beautiful

2013

Macklemore Baauer

Can’t Hold Us

Harlem Shake

P!nk Featuring Nate Ruess

Just Give Me A Reason

Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. + Pharrell Lorde

bpm

107

Blurred Lines

Royals

Miley Cyrus Katy Perry

Wrecking Ball Roar

Justin Timberlake

Mirrors

Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams Miley Cyrus

We Can’t Stop

Get Lucky

2014

Pharrell Williams

Happy

Katy Perry feat. Juicy J John Legend

Dark Horse

All Of Me

Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX

bpm

110

OneRepublic

Counting Stars

Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz MAGIC!

Fancy Talk Dirty

Rude

Meghan Trainor

All About That Bass

Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea Sam Smith

Stay With Me

Problem

2015

Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars Ed Sheeran

Thinking Out Loud

Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth Ellie Goulding Major Lazer

bpm

102

Silento

Lean On

Weeknd

Shut Up and Dance

Blank Space

Watch Me

Sam Smith

See You Again

Love Me Like You Do

Walk The Moon Taylor Swift

Uptown Funk!

I’m not the only one

The Hills

2016

Justin Bieber

Love Yourself

Justin Bieber

Sorry

Drake feat. WizKid and Kyla Rihanna feat. Drake

bpm

95

One Dance

Work

twenty one pilots

Stressed Out

twenty one pilots

Heathens

Sia

Cheap Thrills

Chainsmokers feat. Daya Justin Timberlake

Don’t Let Me Down

Can’t Stop The Feeling!

Chainsmokers feat. Halsey

Closer

2017

Shape of you Despacito

Ed Sheeran

Luis Fonsi/Daddy Yankee/Bieber

Castle on the hill Unforgettable Galway Girl Perfect

bpm

95

French Montana ft Swae Lee

Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran

Wild thoughts Human

Ed Sheeran

Dj Khaled & Rihanna

Rag n bone Man

Something just like this It ain’t me

Chainsmokers & Coldplay

Kygo & Selena Gomez

2018

2019

2020

2021