Best songs to wake up to Dua Lipa
Top 10 Dua Lipa tracks most likely to actually get you out of bed, ranked by a blend of Spotify popularity, tempo, and energy. Every song here works as your iPhone alarm with Alarmify.
Our top 3 picks
Levitating
Training Season
Cold Heart - PNAU Remix
Sound profile
Tempo across Dua Lipa's alarm-friendly catalog stays uptempo (mean 115 BPM), energy high, mood warm.
Audio range
- Tempo
- 103–124 BPM avg 115
- Energy
- 59–88% avg 78%
- Mood (valence)
- 47–93% avg 74%
About Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa's pop is built on disco scaffolding and a controlled, lower-register vocal that rarely shouts at you. Future Nostalgia reframed her catalog around four-on-the-floor tempos and clean basslines, and Radical Optimism kept that motor running with a slightly looser, more psych-pop edge. The numbers bear it out: tempos cluster tightly between roughly 103 and 124 BPM, with consistently bright valence. Don't Start Now, Levitating, and Houdini all open with rhythm before the hook lands, which gives an alarm a beat to lock onto before you do. Useful when you want to wake up at the pace of a slow jog rather than a sprint, with the mood already pointed in the right direction.
Full ranking
Ordered by Spotify popularity, filtered for energy over 50%.
Don't Start Now
Levitating (feat. DaBaby)
Houdini
Training Season
Levitating
Dance The Night - From Barbie The Album
Break My Heart
One Kiss (with Dua Lipa)
Cold Heart - PNAU Remix
New Rules
Why these Dua Lipa songs work as alarms
Not every hit track is a good wake-up track. A slow ballad hiding in someone's top 10 can sabotage a morning, and a song that starts with 12 seconds of silence defeats the whole point. So this list is filtered. We start from Dua Lipa's top tracks on Spotify, drop anything with energy below a reasonable wake-up threshold, then rank by how popular they are with listeners. Ten tracks guaranteed to actually pull you out of bed without making the morning feel like punishment.
Tempo matters more than people think. Research on sleep inertia points to music between 100 to 130 BPM as the sweet spot for shaking off grogginess without shocking your system. Slower than 90 BPM and you're still half-asleep at minute two. Faster than 150 and it's aggressive before coffee. This artist's average is 115 BPM, which sits right in that sweet spot.
How to actually use this
Pick a track that matches how you want to feel at 7 AM. If you hate mornings, start with something mid-energy like Training Season and pair it with Alarmify's gradual volume ramp so it fades in over 90 seconds instead of hitting at full blast. If you need an aggressive start, set Levitating and skip the ramp. Either way, the song plays from Spotify in the background, the alarm still fires through Do Not Disturb, and you're not relying on the iOS Clock app to do something it literally can't do.
Alarmify+ vs free
On the free plan you get 30-second clips of any of these songs as your alarm, unlimited alarms, and the iOS 26 AlarmKit integration. On Alarmify+ ($49.99/year, week free trial) you get the full track playing until you dismiss, Smart Wake with a 30-minute window so it catches you during light sleep, the sleep-cycle calculator, and the gradual fade-in. Both plans need a Spotify Premium or Apple Music subscription if you want the full song instead of clips.
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