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Hello, good morning! — A lot us wake to music – and sometime sit sets the tone for our day. What’s the best song to wake up to? Well, streaming service Spotify’s got together with music psychologist David Greenberg to come up with a top 20. They say a song that builds is best. And, It should have positive lyrics, along with a strong beat. Greenberg and Spotify’s experts used those criteria to rank the 20 best wake-up songs. They say Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” is the best theme music for the start of your day. Coming in at the bottom of the list at number 20 is iHeart Memphis’s “Hit The Quan.” Here’s the entire list…I don’t know a lot of these…where’s the obvious choices like “Hello Good Morning” Diddy-Dirty Money?!
- Coldplay – Viva La Vida
- St. Lucia – Elevate
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Downtown
- Bill Withers – Lovely Day
- Avicii – Wake Me Up
- Pentatonix – Can’t Sleep Love
- Demi Lovato – Confident
- Arcade Fire – Wake Up
- Hailee Steinfeld – Love Myself
- Sam Smith – Money On My Mind
- Esperanza Spalding – I Can’t Help It
- John Newman – Come and Get It
- Felix Jaehn – Ain’t Nobody (Loves Me Better)
- Mark Ronson – Feel Right
- Clean Bandit – Rather Be
- Katrina & The Waves – Walking on Sunshine
- Imagine Dragons – On Top of the World
- MisterWives – Reflections
- Carly Rae Jepsen – Warm Blood
- iLoveMemphis – Hit The Quan
