Top 10 150-160 BPM Songs

It's the top song of her album 1989 & her most intense there. It's a true 160 bpm (40 measures/bars/notes per minute) & is the symbol of such songs. Despite the Toni Basil & Avril Lavigne vibes (thanks to songs like Mickey & Girlfriend), it topped the pop & dance charts along with the Billboard yet it's her biggest selling & most successful hit to this day.

It's 160 bpm (40 measures/bars/notes per minute) & is viewed as the brother of Shake It Off by Taylor Swift. Although it sounded cheesy, it blew up on the charts including #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 & surpassed I Got a Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas as the highest selling single of the 21st century at the time.

It's obviously his most famous hit & it was 159.6 bpm (39.9 measures per minute) in the single version though the album version played at 159.8 bpm (39.95 bars/notes per minute) & it was made back when Michael Jackson was young & a member of the Jackson 5. R.I.P. Joe Jackson.

The grand hit by Portugal the Man earned its title, though it was 157.8 bpm (39.45 measures per minute) & honestly it would've sounded better at 160 bpm (40 bars/notes per minute) especially given the instruments & melody & it would've become a top sibling of 3 songs (including Happy by Pharrell Williams & Shake It Off by Taylor Swift). It's his only high charting & selling song, therefore he's a 1 hit wonder.

It was a smash hit to children & teens when it came out, though it was 158 bpm (39.5 measures per minute) which's a somewhat uneven pace compared the potential of 160 bpm (40 bars/notes per minute) which more people of all ages understand & would've been the girly teen pop mark of it. It did go high on multiple charts & streams yet was their most successful hit to this day, even leading to an explicit & modern version for the TikTok audience & slander towards 2020.

It's a 1 of a kind hit by Joji though it was almost like a homage to the Prodigy's music (R.I.P. Keith Flint) break dance music. It was 158 bpm (39.5 measures per minute) though 160 (40 bars/notes per minute) would've sounded good too.

The most successful song by The Who. It played at 156.4 bpm (39.1 measures/bars/notes per minute) though, but rock music is usually uneven in pacing since it's commonly made with regular instruments.

Mariah Carey's music is usually slow & R&B, but her Christmas songs including this are major exceptions. This was a dance song that might remind you of Mickey by Toni Basil in holiday form, though this was faster paced, at 156 bpm (39 measures per minute) compared to Mickey's 148.8 bpm (37.2 bars/notes per minute). This song was also played by Jennifer Hudson & Ariana Grande, making it Jennifer's fastest & Ariana's 3rd fastest (only behind Faith & The Light is Coming ft. Nicki Minaj - which would've honestly sounded better at 200 bpm or 50 notes per minute given it's a pop song).

It's Carly Rae Jepsen's fastest song to date, playing at 155 bpm (38.75 measures per minute) though if she made it 156 bpm (39 bars per minute) then it would be in the vivace range whereas this's still in the allegro & molto allegro ranges. Yet 160 bpm (40 notes per minute) could've been cool as many people also understand that pace & it's of course pop music which's popular. It has an 80's synth pop vibe & is 1 of the songs in side B of her album Dedicated (which hit #1 on U.S. iTunes that time).

It's perhaps the most intense dance song they ever put out & it's certainly within this category, at 153.6 bpm (38.4 measures/bars/notes per minute). It directly sampled Dick Dale's surf rock cover of Misirlou & became a top hit of theirs in 2006 (though it was record in 2004 & demonstrated in 2005). R.I.P. Dick Dale the king of surf guitaring & rock.

150 bpm (37.5 measures/bars/notes per minute). The lead single from her 2011 album Goodbye Lullaby.

It was 160 bpm (40 measures/bars/notes per minute) & it was the biggest hit by her. Yet it was even the biggest examples of songs at that pace until Shake It Off by Taylor Swift (which became her biggest hit as well).