How the Workout Songs bracket works
Best workout songs ranked without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Lose Yourself or Stronger? Eye of the Tiger or Till I Collapse? — and after 23 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 24 tracks in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 24-slot size (Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 24 tracks in the field. 24 is not a power of two, so 8 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
23 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 248 matchups
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-3 minutes start to finish.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Lose Yourself, Stronger, Eye of the Tiger and Till I Collapse.
Lose Yourself
Eminem
Stronger
Kanye West
Eye of the Tiger
Survivor
Till I Collapse
Eminem
POWER
Kanye West
Thunderstruck
AC/DC
Work Bitch
Britney Spears
Can't Hold Us
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Run the World (Girls)
Beyonce
Pump It
Black Eyed Peas
Physical
Dua Lipa
Remember the Name
Fort Minor
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
Don't Stop Me Now
Queen
Run Boy Run
Woodkid
HUMBLE.
Kendrick Lamar
Jumpman
Drake & Future
X Gon' Give It to Ya
DMX
Levels
Avicii
Bangarang
Skrillex
God's Plan
Drake
Move Your Body
Sia
We Will Rock You
Queen
Born This Way
Lady Gaga
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 24 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 2 completed Workout Songs brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Thunderstruck
6W - 1L · won 1 bracket
86%
win rate
- 2
Can't Hold Us
6W - 1L · won 1 bracket
86%
win rate
- 3
Pump It
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 4
Levels
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 5
We Will Rock You
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 6
Till I Collapse
2W - 2L
50%
win rate
- 7
Born This Way
2W - 2L
50%
win rate
- 8
Eye of the Tiger
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 9
Physical
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 10
HUMBLE.
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Go with the track you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- 2The default run puts all 24 tracks in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Workout Songs bracket FAQ
How many tracks are in the Workout Songs bracket?
The pool holds 24 tracks. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 23 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 8 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which tracks are included?
Lose Yourself, Stronger, Eye of the Tiger, Till I Collapse, POWER, Thunderstruck, Work Bitch, Can't Hold Us, Run the World (Girls), Pump It, Physical and Remember the Name, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the best workout songs ranked take?
About 2-3 minutes — 23 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a workout songs tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other track grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 23 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two tracks that never met. If you would rather place the tracks into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community workout songs ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Workout Songs community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which tracks are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own tracks, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.