Artist profile
The Chainsmokers are an electronic music duo known for blending dance and pop sensibilities into radio-friendly productions. Their work spans electronic dance music with vocal-driven songwriting, establishing them as prominent figures in the modern dance-pop crossover space.
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The Chainsmokers is a moderate-energy and a balanced bright/warm production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical Dance pocket.
Across 39 analysed tracks, The Chainsmokers averages 58% groove — straighter than 76% of individual Dance tracks — and 60% energy, harder than 65%.
Measured against 14,418 Dance tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 80–155 BPM with a median of 128 · predominantly major keys (49% minor) · most common key: 7B (F Major) with 5 tracks.
How The Chainsmokers’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 The Chainsmokers's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~115 to ~124 BPM; groove has deepened.
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We scored every transition between The Chainsmokers’s 39 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 314 catalogues clear the bar — a transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number you’ll see on any track page. The 8 with the widest margin over chance are below.
Chance is measured, not assumed: 0.573% of transitions between two randomly drawn tracks by different artists in this catalogue reach 80. Listed alphabetically — the set is reproducible, the order inside it is not.
40 of the 1,560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.9. They come from 14 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
#SELFIE - Botnek Remix → Bass Is Kicking - Extended Mix · 7B → 7B · same BPM · 90 chemistry
33 of the 1,170 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.7. They come from 13 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
My Bad → Voices (feat. TZAR) - Extended Mix · 7A → 8A · +2 BPM · 90 chemistry
37 of the 1,560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.9. They come from 15 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
Echo - Beatport Exclusive Extended Version → True Feeling · 1A → 12B · same BPM · 88 chemistry
30 of the 1,131 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.5. They come from 11 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
Don't Lie - The Knocks Remix → The Heat - Extended Mix · 8A → 8A · −2 BPM · 88 chemistry
36 of the 1,560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.9. They come from 13 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
Love Is Kind - Extended Version → Salt Water - Extended Mix · 3A → 4A · +1 BPM · 91 chemistry
34 of the 1,404 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.1. They come from 14 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
Let You Go → Carry Me Home (feat. Jake Reese) - Extended Mix · 7B → 8B · +2 BPM · 88 chemistry
37 of the 1,560 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.9. They come from 12 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
My Bad → One In A Million - Extended Mix · 7A → 6B · same BPM · 90 chemistry
32 of the 1,131 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.5. They come from 15 different The Chainsmokers tracks.
My Bad → My Little Heart - Extended Mix · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 90 chemistry
Chemistry weighs harmonic, rhythmic, energy, groove, mood and vocal compatibility. Tempos are as analysed from the recording — where a genre is habitually detected an octave down, this is how we handle it. Different measurement from the audience-overlap list further down the page.
DJs and producers closest to The Chainsmokers 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 The Chainsmokers, 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.
The Chainsmokers's tracks in our catalog range from 80 to 155 BPM, with a median of 128 BPM. Across 39 tracks, the most common range falls in the 130–135 BPM bucket.
The Chainsmokers's tracks are mostly in major keys (49% minor across 39 tracks). The most common single key is 7B (F Major) with 5 tracks.
We scored every transition between The Chainsmokers's 39 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 314 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Afrojack, Brooks, Galantis are three of them — listed alphabetically, because the set is reproducible and the order inside it is not. A transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number shown on a track page. One measured example: #SELFIE - Botnek Remix into Bass Is Kicking - Extended Mix, 7B to 7B, 90 chemistry.
The Chainsmokers sits closest to Martin Garrix, Gryffin, Jonas Blue 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 The Chainsmokers releases spanning 2005 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2010s.