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10 songs that feel like Hello

Matched to Hello by Adele on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Hello
The song you love
Hello
Adele
intense 63/100 intensity 79 BPM
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Civil War — Guns N' Roses moderate 90 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (60/100).

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Black Republican — Nas intense 92 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (60/100). Same complex texture.

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Love the Way You Lie — Eminem intense 87 BPM

Keeps the same heavy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (64/100). Measured 98% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (87 BPM).

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Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely — Backstreet Boys intense 75 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (63/100). Same complex texture.

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No Quiero Saber — Selena intense 85 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (60/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (85 BPM).

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Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers — Wu-Tang Clan moderate 85 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (60/100). Same complex texture.

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Holy Grail — Jay-Z intense 82 BPM

Keeps the same heavy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (60/100). Measured 92% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (82 BPM).

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No Time To Die — Billie Eilish moderate 67 BPM

Measures 95% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (58/100). Same complex texture.

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Would? — Alice in Chains moderate 90 BPM

A 91% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and sits a little calmer at 56/100.

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Ten Crack Commandments — The Notorious B.I.G. moderate 90 BPM

91% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 56/100. Same complex texture.

…and if you want it calmer

Same feeling, measured gentler — for when Hello is more than you want right now.

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Undoing a Luciferian Towers — Godspeed You Black Emperor moderate 90 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but it measures markedly calmer overall. Intensity 55/100, down from 63.

Voices by Sturgill Simpson
Voices — Sturgill Simpson moderate 85 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 7 where the original climbs to 9, so it lands at 50/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Two Little Boys by The Last Poets
Two Little Boys — The Last Poets moderate 90 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 9. Reads 40/100.

Pieces of a Man by Gil Scott-Heron
Pieces of a Man — Gil Scott-Heron moderate 90 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 7 where the original climbs to 9. 50/100, versus the original's 63.

I Ain't Superstitious by Howlin' Wolf
I Ain't Superstitious — Howlin' Wolf moderate 90 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 9. Intensity 46/100, down from 63.

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Anti-Matter — King Geedorah featuring MF DOOM and Mr. Fantastik moderate 92 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 9, so it lands at 47/100 — the pull without the edge.

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Da Art of Storytellin' Pt. 1 — Outkast moderate 92 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 7 where the original climbs to 9. Reads 50/100.

Killing for Love by José González
Killing for Love — José González moderate 70 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 3 where the original climbs to 9. 11/100, versus the original's 63. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Hello” by Adele?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Civil War” by Guns N' Roses, “Black Republican” by Nas, “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem — the top match scores 95% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

What songs are like “Hello” but calmer?

“Undoing a Luciferian Towers” by Godspeed You Black Emperor, “Voices” by Sturgill Simpson, “Two Little Boys” by The Last Poets keep a similar feel while measuring gentler — lower dynamic swing, fewer sudden shifts, or a calmer overall level.

How intense is “Hello”?

It measures 63/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 9/10, complex texture, mild sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 79 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This is one of the more intense things in our library — more energetic than 83% of the 19,209 songs we've measured. Its intensity reading of 63/100 comes from a dynamic range of 9/10, complex texture, mild shifts, and dynamic vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a huge quiet-to-loud swing: more extreme on that axis than 96% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on near-total stillness — steady volume, no surprises, a slow and unhurried pulse — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep1/10
Focus6/10
Workout4/10
Dinner6/10
Party / hype5/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

2015 in context

The 373 songs we’ve measured from 2015 average a dynamic range of 6.3/10. At 9/10, this track is louder and more dynamic than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity63
Dynamics89
Tempo22
Surprise25
Density60
Predictability50
Vocal force75
Trigger load0

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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