Maybe it’s time to add some high-energy pop music to your restful sleep playlist.
A team of Danish researchers have found that there is no “one size fits all” genre of music that people play to help them fall asleep.
“I’m amazed at how many different types of music people use to sleep,” Kira Vibe Jespersen, assistant professor at Aarhus University’s Brain Music Center, told The Post in an email. rice field.
“Not just different genres, but also different audio characteristics…from slow, soothing instrumental tracks to more energetic, up-tempo pop music.”
The study, published this week in the journal PLOS One, analyzed more than 200,000 songs from nearly 1,000 Spotify playlists related to sleep.
The researchers say they haven’t collected data on whether uptempo music actually helps people sleep, but they do know people use uptempo music to help them sleep. increase.
They were able to identify six different subcategories of music that people turn on when it’s time to close their eyes.
Co-author Rebecca Jane Scarratt told the South West News Service that the three subcategories, including ambient music, match typical characteristics found in sleep music. The three subcategories of music were louder and more energetic.
“These tracks included some popular songs like ‘Dynamite’ by the band BTS and ‘Lovely’ by Billie Eilish and Khalid,” said Scarratt.
The author also cites Labrinth’s “Jealous,” Harry Styles’ “Falling,” and Coldplay’s “The Scientist” as popular additions to sleep playlists.
In some cases, familiarity with singing, even loud songs with vocals, can help you relax.
“Our hypothesis is that familiarity with music makes it highly predictable to the brain, and that this predictability may enable sleep despite the music being upbeat and energetic. There is,” Jespersen told PA news agency.
“We are currently working to test this hypothesis.”
Researchers still have data to collect. Without sleep data from music lovers, Jespersen said he wasn’t sure whether more energetic music would help induce sleep.
“There are many reasons for listening to music at bedtime. One reason is to promote relaxation, but music can also be used for mood regulation, distraction, or masking external noise,” she says. Added.
Scarratt said these findings “could inform the clinical use of music and advance our understanding of how music is used to control human behavior in everyday life.” says.
