Your Study Playlists

Can music help you to study? This is one of the most cited questions both online as well as by those desperate for any help to aid their concentration levels. The answer can fall anywhere between “Listening to Mozart makes you a genius” and “Just be quiet and work.” We look at why study playlists can work.

Many people will advocate for The Mozart Effect. The Mozart Effect suggest that listening to music, most especially Mozart, and that of a similar calibre, is able to boost one’s spatial-temporal reasoning, or simply put, aids one’s ability to remember things on a more long term basis as well as in finding solutions to various logical problems. However, certain studies refute this Mozart Theorem, calling it exaggerated and overblown. Other doctors’ mention points that validate both sides to the question.

In one study, researches of the University of Illinois found that listening to music in all types of work increased work output by 6.3% over a control group. In another study, dissected at MetaFilter, 56 employees working on basic computer tasks were found to be more productive when there was no music playing over the same period tested with music. Supposedly any one study could either negate or validate the question either proving or disproving the Mozart Theory. Realistically speaking, findings derived across various studies are also not necessarily applicable to each and every person. Ultimately, the answer depends on each individual’s workspace, state of mind, personal attention span, ability to focus on one or more tasks at a time, and more.

But if you are one of those people who enjoy listening to music while working, studying, being tutored or completing a task; then these study playlists could be just the thing for you! Find your perfect study playlists below.

Super Chilled:

The XX – Missing

Ben Howard – Promise

Daughter – Youth

Any Other Name – Thomas Newman

Mr Probz – Waves (The original and not the radio mix)

James Vincent – Wicked Game

Of Monsters and Men – Slow and Steady

London Grammar – Hey Now

Blue Foundation – Eyes on Fire

Iron and Wine – Such Great Heights

Brenden Canning – Bullied Days

Enya – Watermark

Trance and Electro

Bar 9 – Dancin With the Devil

Phobia – Phobia (DJ Hell mix) [1991/2007]

Stefan Goldmann – Sleepy Hollow [2006]

Berlin Inc – Berlin (Peace Mix)

Feathers of Sound – Water

Above & Beyond – Above & Beyond Live @ ASOT

Airstream – Electra

DJ Shah – Mellomaniac (The chill out mix)

Marcconi Union – Weightless

Classical

SinfiniMusic – Sergei Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43

pietrogold – Chopin Nocturne

SeamlessR – [Old] SeamlessR – Sunset

Saimonse – Saimonse – Without You I’m Nothing

Chronos Archipel – Brain Harmonies, Vol.2

The Girl with the Flaxen Hair – Sleep Music, Vol.1

Nimrod from the “Enigma Variations” arranged for piano

Mozart – Canzonette Sull’aria