Alternative songs at 155 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 640 alternative songs with a verified tempo of 155 BPM: left-of-center rock and pop. Here are some of the best known.
155 BPM is prime running tempo. 155 BPM also lines up with a running cadence of about 155 steps per minute, right in the range coaches suggest for an efficient stride. Drum and bass also lives here, if you want the energy without the pop.
Popular 155 BPM alternative songs
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Nirvana (1993)
What Was I Made For?
Billie Eilish
Don’t Wanna Fall in Love
Green Day (1995)
Renegade
Paramore (2011)
Throw Those Trolls Away
R.E.M. (2010)
(Coffee's for Closers)
Fall Out Boy (2008)
Charmer
Kings of Leon (2008)
Battle Born
The Killers (2012)
Spiteface
The Smashing Pumpkins (1989)
Pretty Boy
The Neighbourhood (2020)
She's a Sensation
Ramones (1981)
I, Carrion
Hozier
Cold Bitch
Soundgarden (1994)
Father's Son
3 Doors Down
Kitty Litter
Placebo (2009)
It's Working
MGMT (2010)
Planet of Sound
Pixies (2006)
How Long
The Black Keys (2022)
Dig
Incubus (2006)
Where It Belongs
Mumford & Sons (2025)
MX
Deftones (1997)
You're All I Got
The Lumineers (2025)
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
Weezer (2008)
People, I've been sad
Christine and the Queens (2020)
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