What BPM is every genre?

Atmospheric, bass-led, melodically rich. Long blends, patient mixing.

Gospel-rooted vocals, live-feel instrumentation, emphasis on songwriting.

Cinematic synths, restrained groove, festival-friendly emotional peaks.

Tribal percussion, organic rhythms, vocal samples. South African and Latin diaspora roots.

Filtered loops over disco samples. Nu-disco's house-ier sibling.

Built around the TB-303 squelch. Hypnotic, repetitive, foundational.

Four-on-the-floor with soul. The foundation everything else builds on.

Rolling percussion meets restrained techno energy. Modern dancefloor staple.

Extended builds, emotional breakdowns, architected peaks. Long-form sets.

Drum-heavy, percussive, groove-first. The original "tribal" sound from NYC and Latin America.

Vocal-led house from Paradise Garage and the early NYC scene. Soulful, dance-floor focused.

House structure with dubstep-influenced bass. Aggressive, drop-driven.

Dub-influenced reverb, slow movement, deep atmospheric pads.

Techno with cinematic synths and emotional breakdowns. Festival-scale peak time.

Stripped-back, micro-detail focused. Long blends, slow evolution.

The original. Funk, soul and machine futurism from the genre's birthplace.

Mechanical, hypnotic, industrial. Subtraction over addition.

Techno built around the TB-303. Sharper, more aggressive than acid house.

Distorted kicks, harsh textures, dystopian atmosphere. Berghain canon.

Faster, darker, more aggressive. Berlin and Eastern European peak-time energy.

Trance restraint with longer, more melodic builds. Bridges to progressive house.

Trance built around lead vocal performances. Anthem-driven peak-time.

Euphoric melodies, driving arpeggios, breakdowns that define peak time.

The euphoric peak-time strain. Fast, melodic, breakdown-focused.

Trance energy with techno textures. Driving, less melodic, peak-friendly.

Acid lines, complex layers, hypnotic forest-festival aesthetic.

2-step rhythms, syncopated swing, vocal hooks. Bridges house and DnB tempos.

Sample-driven non-4/4 grooves. From electro through nu-skool breaks to modern mutations.

Half-time feel at 70 BPM, written at 140. Sub-bass dominant.

Aggressive American dubstep evolution. Big drops, festival energy.

EDM trap — half-time hip-hop drums (~70 feel) at 140 BPM grids. Festival-scale.

Wobble synths, vocal chops, melodic drops. Trap-influenced melodic bass.

DnB's ancestor — ragga vocals, Amen breaks, sub-bass.

Melodic, vocal-friendly drum & bass with a softer attack. Daytime DnB.

Fast breakbeats over heavy bass. Half-time feels at 85-90.

Aggressive, technical drum & bass. Reece basses and complex sound design.

Distorted kicks, dramatic synth leads, big-room hands-up energy.

Harder hardstyle — distortion-forward, screech-leads, less melody.

High-energy, vocal-led, melodic hardcore. UK rave scene staple.

Vocal hardcore from the UK rave continuum. Melodic, energetic, anthem-driven.

Distorted kicks, faster than hardstyle. Rotterdam roots.

Faster than hardcore, wood-kick-driven, French free-party scene.

Vocal-driven, soul-rooted, modern productions span tempo and feel.

Sample-driven beats over rapped vocals. The genre that birthed DJing.

Atlanta-born hip-hop with 808 sub-bass and hi-hat rolls. Half-time feel at ~70.

Syncopated grooves, slap bass, horn lines. Disco's less polished cousin.

Modern disco revival — analog warmth, contemporary production, dancefloor focus.

Four-on-the-floor with strings, horns and live grooves. The genesis of dance music.

Texture-led, often beatless. Brian Eno's definition still applies.

Slow, atmospheric beats. Trip-hop adjacent, beach-bar friendly.

The post-club after-hours genre. Soft, atmospheric, beat-light.

Massive Attack, Portishead. Slow hip-hop with cinematic atmosphere.

Dem Bow rhythm, Latin vocal traditions, modern global pop influence.

1980s-aesthetic instrumental synthpop. Cinematic, retro-futurist.

Modern West African pop fusion. Lagos / Accra-rooted, global reach.

South African house derivative with deep log drums and jazz piano.

Mainstream pop spans the dance-music tempo range; the open-format DJ's palette.

TR-808 driven, robotic, breakbeat-rooted. The link between hip-hop and house.