The most popular songs to work to - from in the office to working from home

The Chainsmokers hit featuring Halsey: ‘Closer’, is the most popular song for office workers, featuring in more office-related playlists than any other track, with Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ following close behind with 40 playlist features. 

Ed Sheeran places multiple times in the top five - ranking in fourth place with a second track: ‘Thinking out Loud’. Both of these songs have low BPMs compared to other songs featured in the top ten, showing that office workers may prefer slower songs to help keep them concentrating and doing their best work in the office. 

‘Happier’ by Marshmello, and the classic ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey ranked third and fifth respectively for the most popular office songs. 

The top 50 most popular songs to listen to while office working averaged a BPM of 110, with more ‘classic’ artists including Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison and Journey featuring in the list.  

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Using data from the ‘remote’ and ‘office’ playlists, we were also able to identify the most popular songs for the modern hybrid worker. 

‘STAY’ emerged as the overall most popular song for workers, with featuring artist Justin Bieber ranking as the third most popular hybrid artist. Harry Styles’ ‘Watermelon Sugar’ and The Weekend’s ‘Blinding Lights’ also made the overall top five, each with over 160 features across both working from home and office playlists. 

The average BPM of this combined playlist was unsurprisingly midway between both playlists at 115.

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Taylor Swift came out on top as the most popular artist featuring in remote working playlists, with more than double the number of features compared to artists Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber who ranked in second and third place.

BTS and Ariana Grande made up the top five most popular artists amongst home workers, while The Weeknd, Drake, Billie Eilish, Harry Styles and Maroon 5 completed the top ten most popular artists to listen to while working from home.

With four songs featuring in the top 50 most popular working from home songs, Olivia Rodrigo ranked in 11th position. 

When looking at which artists are featured the most in office-related playlists on Spotify, Ed Sheeran takes the top spot with 320 of his tracks appearing across office working playlists with Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift placing in second and third place respectively, each with over 220 features.

Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Coldplay all had their tracks appearing in 162 playlists, while the artist of the number one most popular song for office workers - The Chainsmokers - ranked in 12th position with 128 playlist features. John Mayer and The Beatles completed the top 15 most popular artists, each with 126 features in office working playlists.

Taylor Swift was revealed as the most popular artist for all workers with a whopping 2,264 features across both office and working from home playlists. T-Swift (as she’s known to fans) was followed by Ed Sheeran (1,303 features) and Justin Bieber (1,127 features), with Ariana Grande and BTS making up the top five artists for the hybrid worker. 

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Most popular artists and songs were calculated by scraping the song data of playlists containing “office” and “work from home” keywords, and the top 50 most common songs in both WFH and office playlists were combined to reveal the most popular hybrid artists.

All results are based on Spotify data correct as of December 2021.