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 many people around the world adjusting their fitness plans and adopting a home exercise routine right now, we have created our own home workout playlist - PureGym Home Workout - available on Spotify to help members stay active from home.

Listen to the playlist here:

The playlist combines 50 of the most popular workout songs so you have plenty of songs to tune into and help keep you motivated and energised when working out at home.

To find out what the most popular soundtrack is to a home workout we looked at Spotify data, analysing over 900 playlists with the words ‘exercise at home’, ‘home workout’ and ‘home exercise’ in the name. We then scoured the songs themselves, over 27,000, and totted up the most popular tracks and artists by seeing which ones were featured the most.

Most popular home workout songs

The data revealed that the most popular track to workout at home to is ‘Don’t Start Now’ by Dua Lipa, with this song being featured in 117 home workout playlists. Next on the list of songs you’re sweating to at home is ‘Blinding Lights’ by The Weeknd and ‘Stupid Love’ by Lady Gaga.

Some of the track names in the top 20 seem particularly suitable for a good home workout – with ‘Physical’ by Dua Lipa, ‘POWER’ and ‘Stronger’ by Kanye West and ‘Motivation’ by Normani all on the top 20 list.

See them all here:

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 Ricch	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 Bitch - 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

We also looked into the artists that people listen to the most whilst getting moving at home and, perhaps surprisingly, it’s Eminem that is the number one artist. The rapper appears in a whopping 1 in 3 home workout playlists – which puts him head and shoulders above the next artist on the list, Dua Lipa.

See the full top 20 here:

Artist	No. of playlists featured in
1.     Eminem	305
2.     Dua Lipa	259
3.     Kanye West	246
4.     Drake	234
5.     Beyoncé	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

If you’re stuck for what workout to do at home, we have a huge range to choose from - head over to our home workout section.