Music can help you get into the right headspace. But what music is best for that?

We all use music to regulate our emotional temperature throughout the day, ranging from material to help us focus and concentrate to those tunes that help get us through a particularly brutal workout. A new article at Inc offers up some stats.

• Listening to music had home will make you on average 11% happier and 24% less irritable.
• When you’re looking for music to increase your productivity when it comes to repetitive tasks, the best choices are…songs you like the best. There’s no one-fits-all solution.
• If you’re looking for music to boost your creativity, go with music between 50 and 80 beats per minute. That helps induce the “alpha state” with the brain, a zone in which we’re both calm and alert. Our imagination is fired up and we can concentrate more deeply.
• Happiness? This list was created by a group of music therapists.
• If you need to study for an exam or something similar, don’t use music at all. British researcher says that studying in a quiet room could boost your final mark by up to 60%. Then again, if you’re looking to improve your memory, try this list.

In another study–this time looking at 9,000 twins–found that some people are just wired to connect with music on levels deeper than everyone else. This may be a genetic thing, too. Some people get the full dose of those genes while others are only provided with a small serving. The difference in music connection can be as much as 70%.

In other words, if you have a friend with terrible taste in music–or a disinterest in most music–it’s may not be their fault. They were born that way. It was all written in the genes.