What the world is listening to during their home workouts

We know how important music is when working out. In fact, science has actually proven that listening to music when exercising can help improve endurance and your mood. So, it’s understandable that lots of people can spend hours curating the perfect playlist for their workout.

With that in mind, and as many people around the world had to adjust their fitness plans in March 2020 and adopt a home exercise routine, we analysed the songs added to home workout playlists on Spotify the most. In turn providing anyone struggling to get in the mood for a workout, a sure-fire hit of a playlist, sourced directly from the song choices of those keeping fit at home.

Now we’re almost a year removed from when the first lockdown restrictions were imposed, and many are in the midst of yet another lockdown. This time in the winter and after a difficult year, re-capturing the motivation can be tough, and after so many home workout sessions, our playlists could all probably do with a bit of a refresh! So we’ve looked back at the data to see what’s changed, and created a new 2021 edition of our PureGym Home Workout playlist. Give it a listen here:

As before, this new playlist combines 50 of the most popular workout songs, so you have plenty of music to tune into and help keep you motivated and energised when working out at home.

To find out the most popular songs to soundtrack a home workout, we looked at Spotify data, analysing over 145,000 songs found in playlists with the words ‘home workout’ and ‘workout at home’ in the name. This alone puts into perspective just how many people are working out at home now, as when we first looked at the data around this, there was only 27,000 songs in our research!

Most popular home workout songs - 2021 edition

The most notable change in our chart rankings, is that Dua Lipa and her song Don’t Start Now has been knocked off the top spot by SAINt JHN’s Roses (the Imanbek remix), which has moved up from 6th! Elsewhere, London’s own Joel Corry and his tune Head & Heart is a new entrant at fourth, alongside the likes of Turn Me On by Riton, the Newcastle born DJ and producer.

Song and artist	No. of playlists featured in
1.       Roses - Imanbek Remix - SAINt JHN	382
2.       Blinding Lights - The Weeknd	363
3.       Don't Start Now - Dua Lipa	322
4.       Head & Heart (feat. MNEK) – Joel Corry	269
5.       Physical - Dua Lipa	253
6.       Lose Control - MEDUZA	235
7.       Boss B*tch - Doja Cat	183
8.       Dance Monkey - Tones and I	179
9.       Breaking Me - Topic	178
10.     'Till I Collapse - Eminem	177
11.     Rain On Me (with Ariana Grande) - Lady Gaga	171
12.     POWER - Kanye West	157
13.     Stronger - Kanye West	152
14.     Ride It - Regard	148
15.     Higher Love - Kygo	147
16.     Turn Me On (feat. Vula) - Riton	143
17.     Stupid Love - Lady Gaga	131
18.     Say So - Doja Cat	130
19.     Mood (feat. iann dior) - 24kGoldn	129
20.     Savage Remix (feat. Beyonce) - Megan Thee Stallion	127

 

The Most popular home workout artists - 2021 edition

It’s not all bad news for Dua Lipa though, as the impressive amount of times her music is featured in home workout playlists, has helped her to claim the crown of the most popular artist for home workouts. Previously number one, Eminem drops to third, while top artists such as Justin Bieber and Travis Scott drop out of the top 20 altogether, with newer names like Megan Thee Stallion taking their spot!

Artist	No. of playlists featured in
1.     Dua Lipa	1,337
2.     Drake	1,047
3.     Eminem	903
4.     Kanye West	884
5.     David Guetta	778
6.     Tiesto	704
7.     The Weeknd	693
8.     Calvin Harris	690
9.     Megan Thee Stallion	686
10.   Ariana Grande	679
11.   Beyonce	672
12.   Lady Gaga	667
13.   Rihanna	629
14.   Doja Cat	593
15.   JAY-Z	525
16.   Post Malone	517
17.   Kygo	512
18.   SAINt JHN	498
19.   MEDUZA	493
20.   Lizzo	492

 

The most popular home workout songs - 2020 edition

If you want to compare our new findings from January 2021 to what we previously found when we first researched the most popular home workout songs when lockdown hit in Spring 2020, take a look at the most popular songs and artists from that period below!

Song and artist	No. of playlists featured in
1.       Don't Start Now - Dua Lipa	117
2.       Blinding Lights - The Weeknd	101
3.       Stupid Love - Lady Gaga	82
4.       Physical - Dua Lipa	77
5.       Dance Monkey - Tones and I	66
6.       Roses - Imanbek Remix - SAINt JHN	61
7.       The Box - Roddy Rich	53
8.       Lose Control - MEDUZA	49
9.       ROXANNE - Arizona Zervas	47
10.     'Till I Collapse - Eminem	43
10.     RITMO (Bad Boys For Life) - Black Eyed Peas	43
11.     Higher Love - Kygo	41
12.     POWER - Kanye West	40
13.     Boss B*tch - Doja Cat	38
13.     Can't Hold Us - feat. Ray Dalton - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	38
13.     SICKO MODE - Travis Scott	38
14.     Godzilla (feat. Juice WRLD) - Eminem	37
15.     Life Is Good (feat. Drake) - Future	36
16.     Say So - Doja Cat	34
17.     I Like It - Cardi B	33
18.     Motivation - Normani	31
18.     Juice - Lizzo	31
19.     Stronger - Kanye West	30
19.     High Hopes - Panic! At The Disco	30
19.     Piece Of Your Heart - MEDUZA	30
20.     Ni**as In Paris - JAY-Z	29
20.     bad guy - Billie Eilish	29

 

Most popular home workout artists - 2020 edition:

Artist	No. of playlists featured in
1.     Eminem	305
2.     Dua Lipa	259
3.     Kanye West	246
4.     Drake	234
5.     Beyonce	223
6.     David Guetta	203
7.     The Weeknd	190
8.     Calvin Harris	172
8.     Lady Gaga	172
9.     Rihanna	171
10.   Ariana Grande	160
11.   Lizzo	159
12.   Bad Bunny	141
13.   Post Malone	139
14.   Ed Sheeran	128
15.   Justin Bieber	126
16.   Doja Cat	123
17.   Travis Scott	122
18.   Tiësto	120
19.   J Balvin	112
20.   Britney Spears	110

More than enough music to get you in the mood for a workout, however if you’re stuck for a workout routine to do at home, we have a huge range to choose from – just head over to our home workout section, check out these free workouts, or for ultimate ease from your phone, download our free PureGym app – this features over 400 workouts from the PureGym pros!