This Is the Ultimate 2015 Boston Marathon Playlist
Ever wonder what music people listen to while training for a marathon? In Boston,
you can put money on Maroon 5’s “Sugar.’’
Spotify crunched its data to determine the Ultimate Boston Marathon playlist, and that’s the song that comes up most often in the results. The music-streaming service analyzed approximately 1,000 playlists that contain the word “marathon’’ in the title belonging to users with “anonymized IP addresses from Boston,’’ according to Eliot Van Buskirk, a data storyteller and editor for Spotify Insights.
Here’s the 25-song Ultimate Boston Marathon playlist, ranked in order of most appearances on the playlists from the city’s listeners:
1. Sugar — Maroon 5
2. I Want You To Know — Zedd, Selena Gomez
3. Uptown Funk — Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars
4. Ghost — Ella Henderson
5. Love Me Like You Do — Ellie Goulding
6. Shut Up and Dance — Walk the Moon
7. Lean On — Major Lazer, MØ, DJ Snake
8. GDFR — Flo Rida, Lookas, Sage The Gemini
9. FourFiveSeconds — Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney
10. Elastic Heart — Sia
11. Once In a Lifetime — Flo Rida
12. Jubel (Original Mix) — Klingande
13. Truffle Butter — Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne
14. Forbidden Voices — Martin Garrix
15. Thinking Out Loud — Ed Sheeran
16. All Day — Kanye West, Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom, Paul McCartney
17. Take Me to Church — Hozier
18. Letting Go — FMLYBND
19. Somebody — Natalie La Rose, Jeremih
20. Want To Want Me — Jason Derulo
21. Open Heart — Morgan Page, Lissie
22. 7/11 — Beyoncé
23. Could Tell a Love — blessthefall
24. Time of Our Lives — Pitbull, Ne-Yo
25. Firestone — Kygo, Conrad Sewell
For what it’s worth, the top spot on a handful of playlists just titled “Boston Marathon’’ goes to Nantucket-bred Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass.’’
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