Spotify analysis reveals the ultimate plant growing playlist

It has long been debated whether playing music to your plants can aid their growth, and which specific songs or genres might be most successful at it. To find out what the public think, SaveOnEnergy.com/uk took to Spotify to find the perfect plant-growing song based on existing playlists designed for growing plants.

They looked into which music genres, songs and artists were most common in 100 plant-growing playlists on Spotify, as well as finding the average BPM and length of songs.

SaveOnEnergy.com/uk can reveal that the ideal plant-growing song has a tempo of 114 BPM, lasts an average of 4 minutes, and is pop. 

The best music genres:

SaveOnEnergy.com/uk found that the most common genre used for growing plants is pop! Out of all artists featured on the playlists, 1,233 were pop artists.

In second place is indie folk with 733 featured artists, followed closely by indie pop with 721.

Places four to six are all occupied by rock music! Rock features 651 times, modern Rock features 600 times, and indie rock 595 times.

Stomp and holler takes seventh place – a niche category introduced by Spotify which features artists such as Ed Sheeran, The Lumineers and Mumford and Sons.

Eighth is hip hop (498), ninth is dance pop (497), and 10th is alternative R&B (465).