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10 songs that feel like Lay All Your Love on Me

Matched to Lay All Your Love on Me by ABBA on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Lay All Your Love on Me
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Lay All Your Love on Me
ABBA
moderate 37/100 intensity 100 BPM
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Back to You — Selena Gomez moderate 90 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same intimate pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (36/100).

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Always — Blink-182 moderate 85 BPM

97% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (36/100). Same layered texture.

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So Many Tears — 2Pac moderate 85 BPM

Keeps the same intimate pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (40/100). Measured 95% alike.

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I Get Lonely — Janet Jackson moderate 82 BPM

Measures 94% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (32/100). Same layered texture.

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The Blower's Daughter — Damien Rice moderate 70 BPM

A 94% feel-match — carries the same intimate pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (34/100).

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Your Eyes Tell — BTS moderate 70 BPM

94% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (34/100). Same layered texture.

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Sky's the Limit — The Notorious B.I.G. safe 88 BPM

Keeps the same melancholy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (36/100). Measured 98% alike.

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LUST. — Kendrick Lamar moderate 102 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (33/100). Same layered texture.

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It’s Probably Me — Sting moderate 90 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same intimate pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (32/100).

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Ababazi — Ladysmith Black Mambazo safe 90 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (32/100). Same layered texture.

…and if you want it calmer

Same feeling, measured gentler — for when Lay All Your Love on Me is more than you want right now.

Chega de Saudade by Joao Gilberto
Chega de Saudade — Joao Gilberto safe 100 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 3 where the original climbs to 7. Intensity 14/100, down from 37. Nearly the same tempo, too.

The Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian
The Boy with the Arab Strap — Belle and Sebastian safe 90 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 7, so it lands at 17/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

You're Beautiful by James Blunt
You're Beautiful — James Blunt safe 90 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while it stays in our safe band start to finish. Reads 30/100. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Lately by Stevie Wonder
Lately — Stevie Wonder safe 85 BPM

Holds the same feel while it stays in our safe band start to finish. 28/100, versus the original's 37.

Tennessee Homesick Blues by Dolly Parton
Tennessee Homesick Blues — Dolly Parton safe 90 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 5 where the original climbs to 7. Intensity 34/100, down from 37. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Photograph by Ed Sheeran
Photograph — Ed Sheeran safe 80 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 7, so it lands at 16/100 — the pull without the edge.

Let Her Go by Passenger
Let Her Go — Passenger safe 75 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 5 where the original climbs to 7. Reads 19/100.

Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken by Camera Obscura
Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken — Camera Obscura safe 120 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 5 where the original climbs to 7. 23/100, versus the original's 37.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Lay All Your Love on Me” by ABBA?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Back to You” by Selena Gomez, “Always” by Blink-182, “So Many Tears” by 2Pac — the top match scores 98% 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 “Lay All Your Love on Me” but calmer?

“Chega de Saudade” by Joao Gilberto, “The Boy with the Arab Strap” by Belle and Sebastian, “You're Beautiful” by James Blunt keep a similar feel while measuring gentler — lower dynamic swing, fewer sudden shifts, or a calmer overall level.

How intense is “Lay All Your Love on Me”?

It measures 37/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 7/10, layered texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 100 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

On our 19k-song scale this lands in the middle band — more energetic than 25% of songs, calmer than the other 75%. Its intensity reading of 37/100 comes from a dynamic range of 7/10, layered texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. It shares this stretch of the spectrum with thousands of other tracks, so the finer fingerprint below is what really separates it.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is deep calm: more extreme on that axis than 75% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — 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

Sleep7/10
Focus10/10
Workout2/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype2/10

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

1980 in context

The 257 songs we’ve measured from 1980 average a dynamic range of 6.3/10. At 7/10, 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

Intensity37
Dynamics67
Tempo33
Surprise0
Density33
Predictability50
Vocal force25
Trigger load0

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

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