Virtual Strides’ Ultimate Running Playlist

Virtual Strides is a community of people who participate in virtual races all over the world. It’s not just about earning great medals while raising money for charity, but also motivating each other to reach our individual fitness goals. There’s lots of encouragement, support and congratulations.

We recently put a call out to the Virtual Strides community (via this Facebook post) to see if we could put together the ultimate virtual race playlist – music you love to listen to while you’re out running and walking to earn your virtual race bling. What we’ve ended up with is nearly five hours of energizing and diverse songs, creating possibly the most eclectic running playlist you’ll ever encounter!

Yet, somehow, it all works. There’s old school, hard core, hip hop, rock, classic hits, and a few songs with explicit lyrics. From Bruno Mars, Sia, and Survivor to Disturbed, Halestorm, Pitbull, and Jay Z. And it works!

One of the great things about our Virtual Strides community is its diversity, so it shouldn’t be surprising that together we’ve all created a playlist that reflects both our collective spirit and our individual passions.

You can listen to Virtual Strides’ Ultimate Running Playlist on Spotify. We’d love to hear your feedback about how to improve this virtual running playlist, so leave a comment below or in this Facebook post. Let us know if you’ve got a favorite song that needs to be added or if there is a song on the list that simply has to go. We’ll listen to your feedback and continue to modify this playlist over time.

Try out the Virtual Strides’ Ultimate Running Playlist during your next run or walk. It’s an opportunity to discover something new to energize your virtual race, and a chance to try some new pacing as well. We may make a playlist specific for walkers and another for runners someday, but for now, we’ve lumped everything together. Let the beat guide your (virtual) stride!

Here’s the list of what you will hear, with each song’s BPM in parenthesis:
[Last updated 2/27/17]

AC/DC: Back In Black (188)
AC/DC: For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) (134)
Adele: Rolling in the Deep (105)
AWOLNATION: Sail (119)
Beyoncé: Run the World (Girls) (127)
Bill Conti: Gonna Fly Now (Theme From “Rocky”) (96)
Black Eyed Peas: Let’s Get It Started (105)
Black Eyed Peas: Pump It (154)
Bruno Mars: 24K Magic (107)
Bruno Mars: Runaway Baby (164)
BTS: Danger (112)
BTS: 불타오르네 FIRE (200)
BYU Noteworthy: Vivir Mi Vida (125)
C & C Music Factory: Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (114)
Cake: The Distance (184)
Charlie Daniels Band: Devil Went Down to Georgia (135)
Collective Soul: Run (96)
David Guetta: Rise (feat. Skylar Grey) (130)
Demi Lovato: Confident (130)
Depeche Mode: Just Can’t Get Enough (128)
Disturbed: Indestructible (180)
Eminem: Lose Yourself (171)
Eminem: ‘Till I Collapse (171)
Fall Out Boy: Centuries: Remix (176)
Fall Out Boy: My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) (152)
Fall Out Boy: The Phoenix (138)
Flo Rida: Good Feeling (128)
Foster The People: Pumped Up Kicks (128)
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive (116)
Godsmack: 1000hp (92)
Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc (139)
Halestorm: I Miss The Misery (164)
Hazell Dean: Searching (I Got To Find A Man) (128)
Imagine Dragons: Radioactive (136)
Imagine Dragons: Selene (95)
JAY Z: On To the Next One: Live (91)
Jennifer Lopez: On The Floor (130)
Journey: Keep on Runnin’ (166)
Justin Timberlake: Can’t Stop The Feeling (113)
Kenny Loggins: Footloose (174)
Kesha: TiK ToK (120)
Know Your Enemy: Poison (feat. Eryn Shewell) (166)
Lady Gaga: Bad Romance (119)
Letters To Cleo: I Want You to Want Me (104)
LMFAO: Party Rock Anthem (130)
M/A/R/R/S: Pump Up The Volume (113)
Mark Ronson: Uptown Funk (115 bpm)
Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough (119)
Miley Cyrus: The Climb (161)
Mötley Crüe: Kickstart My Heart (89)
OneRepublic: I Lived (120)
Owl City: Good Time (126)
Pat Benatar: All Fired Up (148)
Pitbull: Timber (130)
Rachel Platten: Fight Song (176 bpm)
Sawyer Brown: The Race Is On (180)
Scott & Brendo: Reverie (125)
Seether: Broken (124)
Shakira: Try Everything (115)
Sia: The Greatest (192)
Skillet: Feel Invincible (126)
Skillet: Monster (135)
Smash Mouth: All Star (104)
Struts: Could Have Been Me (160)
Sum 41: Still Waiting (192)
Survivor: Eye of the Tiger (109)
The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army (124)
Theory of a Deadman: Angel (76)
Theory of a Deadman: Got It Made (155)
Thousand Foot Krutch: Courtesy Call (164)
We The Kings: Check Yes Juliet (Run Baby Run) (167)
Woodkid: Run Boy Run (134)