Pop BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 80–104 BPM. Each in its own words:

• Splice, 5 music producer trends (2016): 80–104 BPM
• Orphiq, BPM Chart by Genre (2026): 60–140 BPM

The groove on this page

Pop has no tempo of its own, but its hits have a habit: they got slower. Splice counted tempos of 80 to 104 trending among number ones in 2016, and the averages since sit near 90, 92.6 for the 2018 top five by Rolling Stone's count and 91 for the 2019 top ten by Hit Songs Deconstructed. A pop beat at 98 often feels faster because the hats and the vocal run at double.

On this page: the app's Bright kit at 98 BPM, straight 16ths.

Delay and LFO values

A delay in time with the track repeats once per note value: a quarter note lasts 60,000 divided by the BPM, in milliseconds. Dotted is one and a half times that, triplet two thirds. An LFO synced to a note value cycles at 1,000 divided by those milliseconds, in Hz. The table follows the tempo above: − and + move it, and so does a tempo you tap.

Genres near this tempo

• R&B: 80–90 BPM
• Hip-hop: 85–95 BPM
• Reggaeton: about 90 BPM
• Afrobeats: 100–115 BPM

Then make something of it

The door opens Brumm, a club track with a beat and a bass, with this groove's low end in it. The app runs between 90 and 150 BPM, so a faster or slower tempo goes in at half or double. No account, no upload: it travels inside the link. Hum a line over it, and it becomes an instrument.

Nothing is recorded: no microphone, only your taps, counted in the browser. The groove's sounds are the app's own samples, fetched when you tap Play. How the site counts visits.