Alternative songs at 160 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 607 alternative songs with a verified tempo of 160 BPM: left-of-center rock and pop. Here are some of the best known.
160 BPM is prime running tempo. 160 BPM also lines up with a running cadence of about 160 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 160 BPM alternative songs
In Pieces
Linkin Park (2008)
Levitate
Imagine Dragons (2016)
Ballyhoo
Green Day (2024)
Lane Boy
twenty one pilots (2016)
America's Suitehearts
Fall Out Boy (2008)
Tyson vs. Douglas
The Killers (2017)
Electric Blue
The Cranberries (1996)
Venus in Furs
The Smashing Pumpkins (2012)
This Is War
Thirty Seconds to Mars (2010)
The Modern Age
The Strokes (2020)
Cheapskates
The Clash (1978)
Daytime Dilemma
Ramones (1984)
First Time
Hozier
Audacious
Franz Ferdinand
976‐EVIL
Deftones (2010)
If I Ain’t Got You
James Bay
She's My Queen
Stone Temple Pilots (2020)
La ventura
Mano Negra (1988)
Tuna in a Can
Of Monsters and Men (2025)
Everyone
Mitski (2022)
Just a Lover
Hayley Williams (2021)
Rolling Off the Stone
Lifehouse (2012)
Zombie
YUNGBLUD
Lay Me Low
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (1994)
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