Artist profile
Grimes is a Canadian electronic artist known for experimental dance and pop production that blends industrial, hyperpop, and ambient influences. Her work spans dystopian aesthetics and genre-fluid songwriting, establishing her as a distinctive voice in contemporary electronic music.
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Mixgraph for iOS — chemistry-scored DJ planning.
Grimes is a high-energy artist.
Sits right in the typical Dance pocket.
Across 10 analysed tracks, Grimes averages 57% groove — straighter than 77% of individual Dance tracks — and 64% energy, harder than 73%.
Measured against 14,418 Dance tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Grimes’s production has shifted across their catalog. The radar overlays earlier and recent eras as one shape, the year-by-year chart shows every metric move, and the tempo trend tracks the BPM migration against the typical Dance tempo.
Across Grimes's catalog, production has darkened; groove has deepened; energy has lifted.
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DJs and producers closest to Grimes by audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play. It’s a taste signal, not a measured key-and-tempo match: good for shortlisting crates when you’re prepping a set around Grimes, then check the chemistry on the pair you actually mix. Eligible names link to their own page.
Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.
Grimes's tracks in our catalog range from 100 to 156 BPM, with a median of 127 BPM. Across 10 tracks, the most common range falls in the 125–130 BPM bucket.
Grimes's tracks are mostly in major keys (40% minor across 10 tracks). The most common single key is 2B (F♯ Major) with 2 tracks.
Grimes sits closest to Grimes & I_o, Eartheater, Arca in our catalog. That ranking is audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play — rather than a measured key-and-tempo match, so treat it as a shortlist worth digging through, not a promise that any two tracks will beatmatch. The full list, with track counts, is in the Related artists section above.
Our catalog has Grimes releases spanning 2012 to 2025, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
