According to this study, the best songs to listen to before asking for a raise are songs with heavy bass. Science says that heavy bass makes people more confident, making them become more decisive and powerful.
In the study, participants who listened to a playlist containing songs like: Queen's “We Will Rock You,” 2 Unlimited’s “Get Ready for This” and 50 Cent’s “In Da Club" seemed more confident than participants who listened to a playlist that included songs like: Fatboy Slim’s “Because We Can,” Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out,” and Notorious BIG’s “Big Poppa.
”During a word activity where participants were shown an incomplete word - in this case the word was "P__ER" - participants who listened to the bass-heavy playlist were likely to write "POWER" and the other participants were more likely to write, "PAPER."
So if you need to get hyped up for your next business meeting, songs with a lot of bass are the way to go.