We know it because we feel it: Music has a powerful influence upon movement. In fact, there are direct connections among neurons related to hearing and to movement.

As Jessica Grahn, a cognitive neuroscientist at Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute in Ontario, Canada, pointed out to Scientific American, the neural connection that prompts you to jump when you’re startled by a loud sound is also at work when we clap, tap our feet, or otherwise move our bodies in time to music.

That response also can help us go a little longer or a little harder in our workouts. That’s probably why so many of us love to exercise to music, and why so many of us continually seek the perfect playlist and keep it fresh. Kayla Brianna is one new artist whose latest single is bringing some “fitspiration” to workouts.

She’s no stranger to basketball, as she’s the daughter of NBA legend Kenny Smith, and a familiar face from the TBS reality series “The Smiths.”

Here are more artists and songs that are getting plenty of play in the gym:

POP

• TAYLOR SWIFT
  Style
• DEORRO x CHRIS BROWN
  Five More Hours
• CARLY RAE JEPSEN
  I Really Like You
• MARTIN GARRIX ft. USHER
  Don’t Look Down
• ARIANA GRANDE
  One Last Time
• MAROON 5
  Sugar
• ELLIPHANT
  Love Me Badder
• TORI KELLY
  Nobody Love
• MARK RONSON ft. BRUNO MARS
  Uptown Funk
• ALESSO ft. ROY ENGLISH
  Cool

HIP-HOP

• DIRTYPHONICS and UZ ft. TRINIDAD JAMES
  Hustle Hard
• FETTY WAP
  Trap Queen
• YOUNG DRO
  We In Da City
• KAT GRAHAM
  1991
• RICH HOMIE QUAN
  Flex (Ooh,Ohh,Ooh)
• PITBULL ft. NE-YO
  Time of Our Life
• BEYONCE
  7/11
• THE GAME ft. DEJ LOAF
  Ryda
• JORDIN SPARKS ft. 2 CHAINZ
  Double Tap

ROCK

• FALL OUT BOY
  Centuries
• JOHNNYSWIM
  Diamonds
• FOO FIGHTERS
  Congregation
• LIFEHOUSE
  Hurricane
• LAWSON
  Roads
• IMAGINE DRAGONS
  I Bet My Life
• THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
  Drum + Fife
• AWOLNATION
  Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)
• EETHER
  Words As Weapons
• TRAIN
  Bulletproof Picasso