Had a bad day? Need a pick-me-up?
A 2015 study conducted by Dr Jacob Jolij of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands created a playlist of feel-good and uplifting songs — and a formula for finding them.
“A feel-good song is rather tricky to define. Music appreciation is highly personal and strongly depends on social context, and personal associations.”
“In that respect, the idea of a feel-good formula is a bit odd — factoring in all these personal aspects is next to impossible, in particular if you want to come up with a quantitative feel good formula.”
However, there is one element that stood out above all others.
“The pattern was very clear — the average tempo of a ‘feel-good’ song was substantially higher than the average pop song,” Jolij writes.
“Where the average tempo of pop songs is around 118 BPM, the list of feel good songs had an average tempo of around 140 to 150 BPM.”
Check out the results of her findings below:
1. Queen – Don’t Stop me Now
2. Abba – Dancing Queen
3. The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
4. Billie Joel – Uptown Girl
5. Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
6. The Monkees – I’m a Believer
7. Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
8. Jon Bon Jovi – Living On A Prayer
9. Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
10. Katrina and The Waves – Walking on Sunshine
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