• The query “When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go?” was posed by Billie Eilish.
• Return in 2019. The pop star’s album catalogue.
•  However, may now even be to blame for drawing crowds, say researchers.

Billie Eilish, BTS, and other artists are some of the best to go asleep to after reviewing more than 200,000 songs on more than 1,000 Spotify sleeping playlists, researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark discovered that tracks.

According to assistant professor Kira Vibe Jespersen of the Center for Music in the Brain, “It was astonishing to learn how many various genres of music people utilise for sleep.” Not only diverse genres, but also different audio qualities, from upbeat, energising pop music to quiet, calming instrumental compositions.

The study, which was published in the journal PLOS One, reveals that fans frequently turn to well-known songs to aid in sleep instead of the more traditional slower tracks with few features that would generally aid listeners in falling asleep. The features of the songs on the site were compared to features from a dataset representing music in general using the Spotify API, which was used by researcher Rebecca Jane Scarratt and her team.

Despite the fact that sleep music is typically softer, slower, instrumental, and more frequently played on acoustic instruments than other music, the study’s authors discovered that people utilise a wide range of music for sleep, including music with high energy and tempo.

The research team noted “considerable diversity” in songs that helped listeners fall asleep, and laid out six distinct sub-categories outside of such songs, with three of them lining up with typical characteristics (like ambient music).

Songs like “Dynamite” by BTS and “Lovely” by Eilish ft. Khalid fell into the other three categories of sleep music, as both songs are considered higher energy. The Post reported that “Jealous” by Labrinth, “Falling” by Harry Styles and “The Scientist” by Coldplay are also popular inclusions in sleep playlists.

“The study can both inform the clinical use of music and advance our understanding of how music is used to regulate human behavior in everyday life,” the team concludes.

More research is needed to determine why listeners chose such songs to help them sleep, as there is no “one-size-fits-all” playlist for sleeping, per the study.

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