Top 10 Songs Featuring Heartbeat Sounds

Many songs use actual heartbeats, pulsating beats or pulse-like instrumentation.
What are the best songs and what songs used it in the best way?
The Top Ten
1 It's My Life - Bon Jovi

In the intro to the video clip version. Very suitable use - heartbeat means life.

2 Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson

Heartbeat appears in the intro and throughout.

3 That Was Just Your Life - Metallica

In the intro and throughout.

4 In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
5 Heartbeat - Seduction

Just play the song sample.

6 Straight to Number One - Touch & Go
7 Pandemic - Accept
8 Eclipse - Pink Floyd

In the second half of the song.

9 Follow Me - Muse

Heartbeat is in the intro.

10 Pink Maggit - Deftones

The heartbeat starts at around 6:16.

The Contenders
11 The Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis & The News

Heartbeat appears several times in the song.

12 Sex in the Summer - Prince

Heartbeat is mixed into the percussion.

13 Closer - Nine Inch Nails

Heartbeat appears in the intro and throughout.

14 Beautiful Day - U2

Introduction and throughout.

15 Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift
16 Heartbeat Song - Kelly Clarkson

In this song Kelly used her daughter's heartbeat, recorded while she was still in the womb but the beat was slowed down for the rhythm of the track.

17 Teardrop - Massive Attack

This one is available throughout the entire song.

18 Cry Little Sister - Gerard McMann

It appears in the introduction and throughout.

19 Activation Synthesis Theory - Blotted Science
20 Feel Again - Onerepublic

It's at the beginning. Frontman Ryan Tedder also used hand-clapping and percussion to mimic a heartbeat.

21 Cosmic Love - Florence + the Machine
22 Sitting on the Moon - Enigma
23 Raise the Dead - Bathory
24 Lust. - Kendrick Lamar
25 Anywhere in the World - Mark Ronson & Katy B

It's mixed into rhythm section throughout.

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