Spotify reveals top running songs of 2015 on ‘biggest workout day of the year’

TODAY is the ‘biggest workout day of the year’. Let’s look at 2015’s most-streamed running songs, to help keep you on track with your new year’s resolution.

The world’s favourite running songs

DID you make a new year’s resolution to get fit?

You’re certainly not alone. Today, Friday January 8, 2016, has been called the “biggest workout day of the year” (according to streams of workout playlists on Spotify). And it’s not surprising, given that it’s just after January 1 and everyone’s all about fitspiration.

In 2008 researchers confirmed “carefully selected music can significantly increase a person’s physical endurance and make the exercise experience far more positive”. In a 2012 review of the research, Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University in London (one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of exercise music) wrote people could think of music as “a type of legal performance-enhancing drug.”

So what are the tunes that people are downloading to motivate them to keep their 2016 fitness goals?

If you look at the world’s most-streamed running songs of 2015 on Spotify, it’s largely dominated by women.

Seven of the 10 top tracks come from female artists, ranging from current chart toppers to Missy Elliott and TLC. Run the World (Girls) by Beyonce led the pack, followed closely with Chandelier by Sia and Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson.

You can view the most popular running songs for Australia (and globally) in the lists below.

The top running songs in Australia

The top running songs in the world