BPM chart by genre

Is 120 BPM fast?

It is brisk, not fast. Two beats a second puts 120 in the middle of where most songs live, and the bands this chart uses say so: below 80 slow, 80 to 110 medium, 110 to 130 brisk, above 130 fast. In a club, 120 is the slow end of house and the heart of deep house; on a score it is where moderato hands over to allegro. Is 100 BPM fast? Medium: the pace of afrobeats and a lot of pop. Is 140 fast? Yes, the speed of trance, dubstep and grime, even when it feels half as quick.

What genre is 140 BPM?

Set the line to 140 and the chart lights trance, dubstep, trap and breakbeat, with psytrance at its lower edge; techno and garage sit just below. The same works for any number: 128 is tech house and techno country, 150 is hardstyle, 160 is footwork, 174 is drum and bass, 90 is reggaeton and hip hop, 75 is lo-fi.

Half time: why 70 and 140 are the same song

Dubstep and trap are written at 140, but the snare lands on the third beat only, so most people nod along at 70. That is why the chart lights them in blue when you set half their tempo: the music is at 140, the body feels 70. Drum and bass does the same at 174 against 87. When a BPM counter or a DJ program shows a number half or double what you expected, this is usually why.

Where the ranges come from

Each bar is the range where two published sources agree, read for the genre pages in October 2026; every genre's page names both sources and plays a groove at its tempo on the app's own drums. Real tracks stray outside these bars, and genres drift over the years. To measure a song rather than look it up, use the BPM counter, or tap along on tap tempo; to practise at a tempo, the metronome.

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