Funk songs at 120 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 480 funk songs with a verified tempo of 120 BPM: syncopated, bass-forward funk. Here are some of the best known.
120 BPM is the heart of dance music: house, disco, and most of the pop charts live within a couple of clicks of it. It keeps spin warmups and gym floors moving without redlining anyone.
Popular 120 BPM funk songs
Annie Wants a Baby
Red Hot Chili Peppers (2011)
Sex Machine
James Brown (1992)
The Dance
Prince (2003)
Tonight
Kool & the Gang (1983)
Greenfields
Faith No More (1995)
The Fun Tracks
Herbie Hancock (1982)
Too Hot Ta Trot
Commodores (1983)
Columbine Sept Heures
Riva Starr (2013)
No One Knows About a Good Thing
Curtis Mayfield (1996)
Good Life
Eric Benét (2010)
Yesterday
Diddy – Dirty Money (2010)
Look Into My Eyes
Janelle Monáe (2013)
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Marcus Miller (2001)
Hard to Get
Rick James (1982)
The Heckler
Primus (1989)
Ship
Level 42 (2006)
Love Won’t Let Me Wait
Isaac Hayes (1988)
I Just Want to Be
Cameo (1992)
Black Byrd
Donald Byrd (1973)
Comin’ Round the Mountain
Funkadelic (1976)
The Bottle
Gil Scott‐Heron (1990)
Zabadoobeedé?
Stanley Clarke (1993)
Solace of You
Living Colour (1990)
Naked
Marques Houston (2005)
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