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10 songs that feel like Waiting on a Miracle

Matched to Waiting on a Miracle by Lin-Manuel Miranda on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

The song you love
Waiting on a Miracle
Lin-Manuel Miranda
safe 45/100 intensity 180 BPM
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A Spoonful of Sugar — Disney safe 175 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same uplifting pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (45/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (175 BPM).

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A Spoonful of Sugar — Sherman Brothers safe 175 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (45/100). Same smooth texture.

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious — Sherman Brothers safe 165 BPM

Keeps the same uplifting pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (45/100). Measured 97% alike.

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One Fine Day — Carole King safe 160 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (45/100). Same smooth texture.

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious — Disney safe 165 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same uplifting pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (45/100).

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Spicks and Specks — Bee Gees safe 136 BPM

91% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Same smooth texture.

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Move On — ABBA moderate 180 BPM

Keeps the same uplifting pull — runs a little hotter at 51/100. Measured 88% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (180 BPM).

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Jubilee — Louis Armstrong safe 140 BPM

Measures 92% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Same smooth texture.

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Man Overboard — Blink-182 moderate 150 BPM

A 94% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (44/100).

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Iris (Hold Me Close) — U2 moderate 128 BPM

84% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (47/100).

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Waiting on a Miracle” by Lin-Manuel Miranda?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “A Spoonful of Sugar” by Disney, “A Spoonful of Sugar” by Sherman Brothers, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” by Sherman Brothers — the top match scores 99% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “Waiting on a Miracle”?

It measures 45/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 180 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 42% of songs, calmer than the other 58%. Its intensity reading of 45/100 comes from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild shifts, and dynamic 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 a fast, driving tempo: more extreme on that axis than 98% 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.

Dial the feeling up or down

Same feeling, bigger: Paranoid — Black Sabbath

What it’s good for

Sleep4/10
Focus8/10
Workout3/10
Dinner9/10
Party / hype5/10

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

2021 in context

The 410 songs we’ve measured from 2021 average a dynamic range of 6.2/10. At 6/10, this track is right in line with its year.

Mixes smoothly with

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

The fingerprint

Intensity45
Dynamics56
Tempo78
Surprise25
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force75
Trigger load0

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

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