Listening to Sabrina Carpenter Will Reduce Your Flight Anxiety
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If you're an anxious flier, what's better than drumming up a good playlist with all your favorite songs ahead of a long flight? Listening to any kind of music can help you distract yourself, destress, and relax, right? Well, actually, that's wrong.
A new study by Netflights revealed that the music you listen to before and during your flight can impact your anxiety both in a good and bad way. It all depends on what music you're listening to, or more accurately, it depends on its beats per minute (BPMs).
The correlation is simple: The lower the number of BPMs of a song, the more calming it will be, with results including a reduce heart and respiratory rates, lower blood pressure, and less tension on your muscles.
And since most travelers tend to download the latest chart-topping hits ahead of a flight, it might be beneficial to do so based on their BPMs, especially if you tend to get nervous ahead of a flight.
To help you in this musical quest, the travel experts at Netflights analyzed the most popular songs of the moment, and compiled two lists highlighting both the best and the worst songs to listen to when flying, depending on their BPMs.
These are the top 10 songs to listen to when flying:
1. "Birds of a Feather," Billie Eilish—105 BPM
2. "Please Please Please," Sabrina Carpenter—107 BPM
3. "Taste," Sabrina Carpenter—113 BPM
4. "It's ok I'm ok," Tate McCrae—115 BPM
5. "I Love You, I'm Sorry," Gracie Abrams—116 BPM
6. "we can't be friends," Ariana Grande—116 BPM
7. "Too Sweet," Hozier—117 BPM
8. "Good Luck, Babe!," Chappell Roan—118 BPM
9. "Timeless," The Weeknd and Playboi Carti—120 BPM
10. "Night Changes," One Direction—120 BPM
Below, instead, you can find the worst 10 songs to listen to when flying:
1. "Apple," Charli XCX—126 BPM
2. "Somedays," Sonny Fodera—128 BPM
3. "Sympathy is a Knife," Charli XCX—132 BPM
4. "Sailor Song," Gigi Perez—139 BPM
5. "HOT TO GO!," Chappell Roan—140 BPM
6. "Thick Of It," KSI—146 BPM
7. "Wildflower," Billie Eilish—148 BPM
8. "APT.," ROSÉ and Bruno Mars—149 BPM
9. "Diet Pepsi," Addison Rae—150 BPM
10. "Die with a Smile," Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars—158 BPM
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