Typical tempo ranges for the genres DJs and mashup makers work with most, sourced from production references — not guesswork.
These are conventional working ranges, not hard rules — plenty of tracks sit outside them. Ranges reflect what producers and DJs commonly treat as the genre's home tempo.
A wide range — boom-bap and lo-fi styles sit toward the bottom, while more upbeat modern hip-hop leans toward 90–100.
Overlaps heavily with hip-hop's laid-back end, which is part of why R&B/hip-hop mashups blend so easily.
Pop doesn't have one strict range, but 120 BPM shows up more often than any other single tempo across mainstream pop and dance-pop.
The steady four-on-the-floor groove that house music later inherited almost wholesale.
Most modern house sits toward the upper half of this range, around 124–128.
A broad family — trance tends to sit higher and more driving, techno spans the full range depending on style.
Trap is usually programmed at this written tempo, but the hi-hats and half-time kick/snare pattern make it feel roughly half as fast.
Half-time feel: ~65–75 BPMSame half-time logic as trap — the track is written and labeled at this tempo, but the beat itself lands like a much slower song.
Half-time feel: ~70 BPMDefined more by its dembow rhythm than by tempo alone, but the vast majority of tracks land in this window.
One of the fastest common genres — jungle and DnB evolved together and still share this tempo range.
Genres like trap and dubstep are written and labeled at a fast tempo, but the kick and snare only hit on every other beat — so a 140 BPM dubstep track can feel just as danceable as a 70 BPM song. This "half-time feel" is also a useful mixing trick: a 174 BPM drum & bass track and an 87 BPM hip-hop track share the same underlying pulse, since 87 × 2 = 174. Doubling or halving tempo this way is a common technique for bridging genres that look incompatible on paper.
Ranges reflect commonly cited production conventions as of 2026 and may shift as genres evolve. Treat these as a starting point, not a rulebook — always trust your ears over a chart.
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