According to Spotify data, commissioned and analyzed by PassMeFast, the study finds Billie Eilish’s hit has the lowest “distraction score” (8.1%) out of the songs in Spotify’s 20 most popular driving playlists. That’s a list of nearly 1,500 songs!
The team ranked each tune’s ability to distract a driver based on three key scores: danceability, high energy, and how emotionally charged the music is. Songs that researchers consider extremely distracting were more energetic and emotionally charged but had a low danceability score.
The PassMeFast team averaged these scores together to create an overall distraction score. Using Spotify API’s popularity score, they then matched their list against the songs with a popularity of more than 80 to find the top 50 hits which are either “safe” or distracting.
- Least Distracting:
Billie Eilish, Bad Guy
Noah Cyrus, July
Lewis Capaldi, Bruises
Bruno Mars, When I Was Your Man
- Most distracting
Outkast, Hey Ya!
The Killers, Mr. Brightside
Jay-Z, Empire State of Mind
Watch the FULL breakdown below.
Photo| Reuters – MONICA ALMEIDA
