Artist profile
Pop producer and DJ.
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Plan a set with Pretenders tracks scored against the rest of the catalog
Mixgraph for iOS — chemistry-scored DJ planning.
Pretenders is a restrained and a balanced bright/warm production — mostly instrumental artist.
Unusually low energy and drive for Pop.
Across 3 analysed tracks, Pretenders averages 26% energy — gentler than 93% of individual Pop tracks — and 58% groove, straighter than 56%.
Measured against 1,071 Pop tracks on 11 August 2026.
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DJs and producers closest to Pretenders 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 Pretenders, 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.
Pretenders's tracks in our catalog range from 83 to 153 BPM, with a median of 102 BPM. Across 3 tracks, the most common range falls in the 100–105 BPM bucket.
Pretenders's tracks are mostly in major keys (0% minor across 3 tracks). The most common single key is 11B (A Major) with 1 track.
Pretenders sits closest to The Cars, Blondie, Squeeze 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 Pretenders releases spanning 1982 to 1988, with the most tracks from the 1980s.
