What Is The World’s Most Relaxing Song?

At the end of a hard day, many of us like to kick back and relax. Some like to use music to help accomplish this. But which song is best suited for the purpose? Is there a song that qualifies as “most relaxing”?

The World’s Most Relaxing Song

According to a group of researchers, the award goes to a band called Marconi Union for their song titled ‘Weightless’ (You can listen to the song below at the bottom of the article).

Marconi Union is a British band consisting of three members, Duncan Meadows, Jamie Crossley, and Richard Talbot. Their music contains elements of jazz, electronica, dub and ambient.

In October of last year, Marconi Union collaborated with the British Academy of Sound Therapy to create the eight minute track ‘Weightless’. In a recently released scientific study done by Radox, it was labelled as the “most relaxing song ever”.

The Science Behind It

The scientists at the Mindlab institution showed that the song induced a 65% reduction in overall anxiety and also brought the test subjects resting pulse rates down 35% lower than their usual resting rates. The song features piano, guitar, and manipulated field recordings. The song is also marked throughout by low tones that can help to induce a trance-like or ‘zoning out’ state. This is because the intervals of the beats are at a continuous rhythm of 60 BPM. The 60 BPM rhythm causes the brain and heart rate to synchronize. A process called as ‘entrainment’.

After Weightless was made available as a free download, it quickly became a hit with over 60,000 downloads in the first 36 hours. Back in November, Marconi Union was featured in Time magazines’ list of Inventors of the Year, for creating ‘Weightless’. The song is so relaxing that drivers are being warned not to listen to it while driving.

Source: Time Magazine