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10 Popular Songs You Shouldn't Listen To Behind The Wheel

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Roll the car windows down and turn the volume up; Select Car Leasing has revealed a list of the most popular driving songs, and whether you should be listening to them behind the wheel of a car.

To produce a definitive list of the most popular driving songs and artists, Select Car Leasing analysed over 39,000 songs across 600 Spotify playlists, all of which mention ‘driving’ in their name.

Using this study on the effects of music on driver temperament, Select Car Leasing revealed anything higher than a BPM of 120 could impact drivers enough to cause an accident.

With this understanding, they’ve revealed that 10 of the 20 most popular driving songs are in fact, dangerous enough to affect a motorist’s driving – with Harry Styles’ latest banger As It Was deemed the most impactful of all.

#	Title	Artist	Occurrences	BPM
1	As It Was	Harry Styles	45	174
2	Blinding Lights	The Weeknd	34	171
3	Stay (With Justin Bieber)	The Kid LAROI	48	170
4	good 4 u	Olivia Rodrigo	52	169
5	Mr Brightside	The Killers	57	148
6	drivers license	Olivia Rodrigo	52	144
7	Pompeii	Bastille	35	127
8	Bad Habits	Ed Sheeran	35	126
9	Dreams – 2004 Remastered	Fleetwood Mac	34	120
10	Dynamite	Tiao Cruz	34	120
11	Don’t Stop Believin’	Journey	44	118
12	Payphone	Maroon 5, Wiz Khalifa	35	110
13	Riptide	Vance Joy	43	102
14	Sweet Home Alabama	Lynyrd Skynyrd	33	98
15	Hey, Soul Sister	Train	37	97
16	Party In The U.S.A	Miley Cyrus	38	96
17	Africa	TOTO	50	92
18	Replay	Iyaz	35	91
19	Heat Waves	Glass Animals	52	81
20	Hey Ya!	Outkast!	33	80

Methodology: Spotify playlists mentioning ‘car’, ‘commute’, ‘driving’, ‘motorway’, ‘road’ and ‘roadtrip’ were analysed – covering 600 playlists and 39,399 songs. The songs and artists were then ordered by those appearing the most in our research, highlighting the most popular.

https://www.selectcarleasing.co.uk/news/article/most-popular-driving-songs