Alternative songs at 144 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 737 alternative songs with a verified tempo of 144 BPM: left-of-center rock and pop. Here are some of the best known.
144 BPM pushes into workout territory: uptempo rock, dance, and faster hip hop. 144 BPM also lines up with a running cadence of about 144 steps per minute, on the quicker side of an easy jog.
Popular 144 BPM alternative songs
Molly’s Lips
Nirvana (1994)

Destroyed
Imagine Dragons (2025)

Fancy Sauce
Green Day (2024)

There’d Better Be A Mirrorball
Arctic Monkeys

Blackbird
Foo Fighters (2002)

My Hero
Paramore (2006)

Wendell Gee
R.E.M. (1985)

The Face
Kings of Leon (2010)

Be Still
The Killers (2012)

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
The Cranberries (2011)

Behold! The Night Mare
The Smashing Pumpkins (1998)

Kick It
Lil Nas X (2019)

June
Florence + the Machine (2018)

London Calling
The Clash (1979)

Don't Go
Ramones (1981)

Bing Bing Goes to Church
Soundgarden (2014)

Living in Your Hell
3 Doors Down (2016)
Paycheck
Placebo

Love & Destroy
Franz Ferdinand (2004)

Dead and Gone
The Black Keys (2011)

Midnight Swim
Incubus (2009)
Butterfly
Weezer (2005)

Intro
alt-J (2012)

No Future
Sex Pistols (1977)
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