Just like a good beat is required to properly dance, a steady rhythm is necessary when performing CPR. While “The Office” helped make the song “Staying Alive” a popular life-saving soundtrack, you might be getting tired of the Bee Gees. For a change of pace, we’ve compiled a list of songs ranging from 100 to 120 bmp, the recommended range to perform CPR.
Do you have a go-to song you hum when you’re administering compressions that we don’t have?
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Add these songs to your music library, or listen with our Spotify playlist below.
- “Glory Days” – Bruce Springsteen: 117 bpm
- “The Real Slim Shady” – Eminem: 105 bpm
- “Bad Romance” – Lady Gaga: 119 bpm
- “Purple Rain” – Prince: 113 bpm
- “Billie Jean” – Michael Jackson: 117 bpm
- “Rumor Has It” – Adele: 120 bpm
- “Rock Your Body” – Justin Timberlake: 101 bpm
- “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – Nirvana: 117 bpm
- “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” – Toby Keith: 112 bpm
- “All Star” – Smash Mouth: 104 bpm
- “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” – Backstreet Boys: 108 bpm
- “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” – Whitney Houston: 119 bpm
- “Eye of the Tiger” – Survivor: 109 bpm
- “Ring of Fire” – Johnny Cash: 105 bpm
- “Ice Ice Baby” – Vanilla Ice: 116 bpm
- “Monday Morning” – Fleetwood Mac: 106 bpm
- “Baby Shark” – Pinkfong: 115 bpm
- “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” – Will Smith: 108 bpm
- “Country Girl” – Luke Bryan: 106 bpm
- “Can’t Stop the Feeling” – Justin Timberlake: 113 bpm
This article, originally published in July 2022, has been updated.
