What's working in Funk
This page turns into a live chart of real funk songs, ranked by Songbrain's virality score.
No funk songs on the public leaderboard yet — the chart opens at 10.
Counted: real uploads whose artists put them on the public leaderboard. Last update Oct 19, 2026.
Funk basics
General genre knowledge — not from the chart above.
4 things that make a funk track work
- 1The bass carries the track. Funk is a bassist's genre.
- 2Keep some human timing in the drums. Perfect quantising kills the feel.
- 3Horns and keys should colour the groove, not crowd it.
- 4Aim for warm, not sterile, production.
Funk questions
Is funk carioca the same as funk?
No. Funk carioca (Brazilian funk) is a Rio de Janeiro style built on the tamborzão beat and heavy bass. It shares the name, not the sound.
Is disco funk?
They are close relatives. Disco took funk's grooves and put them on a steady four-on-the-floor kick.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
From Songbrain's public leaderboard: songs that artists uploaded for analysis and chose to show publicly. Reference tracks from commercial releases are not counted. Each song gets a 0–100 virality score from its audio. The page refreshes weekly, and a genre's chart opens once it has 10 songs.