Best songs to wake up to The Weeknd
Top 10 The Weeknd 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
Save Your Tears
Die For You
Save Your Tears
Sound profile
Across these ten tracks The Weeknd averages 127 BPM with high intensity, ranging from 85 BPM on the calmest cut to 186 on the most uptempo one.
Audio range
- Tempo
- 85–186 BPM avg 127
- Energy
- 52–82% avg 68%
- Mood (valence)
- 14–64% avg 43%
About The Weeknd
Abel Tesfaye started as an anonymous Toronto act in 2011 with the House of Balloons mixtape, all murky synths and afterparty atmosphere. By After Hours in 2020, the project had absorbed eighties synth-pop wholesale: Blinding Lights, with its arpeggiated Daniel Lanois-style hook, became one of Spotify's most-streamed songs ever. That eighties palette is the wake-up sweet spot. The drums hit hard, the synths are bright, and the falsetto vocals carry the melody without demanding much from a half-asleep listener. Darker cuts from Dawn FM and the Trilogy era exist, but the alarm-friendly slice runs Save Your Tears, Take My Breath, and Can't Feel My Face. Built for a clean, neon-lit start.
Full ranking
Ordered by Spotify popularity, filtered for energy over 50%.
One Of The Girls (with JENNIE, Lily Rose Depp)
Starboy
Timeless (feat Playboi Carti)
Blinding Lights
The Hills
Save Your Tears
Die For You
Love Me Harder
São Paulo (feat. Anitta)
Save Your Tears (Remix) (with Ariana Grande) - Bonus Track
Why these The Weeknd 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 The Weeknd'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 127 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 Die For You 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 Save Your Tears 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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