Heartbeat

Heartbeat or heartbeats may refer to:

Physiology

• Cardiac cycle, of the heart
• Contraction of the muscles of the heart, or a perceived effect of it, such as:
  • Heart sounds, the noises generated by the beating heart and the resultant flow of blood through it
  • Pulse, the beat caused by the pumping action of the heart
  • Heartbeat, contraction visualized on echocardiography

Computing

• Heartbeat (computing), a periodic signal to indicate normal operation or to synchronize parts of a system
• Heartbeat (program), clustering software from Linux-HA project
• Heartbeat network, a network of cluster nodes which monitors each node and facilitates communication
• a piece of software by Edward Snowden

Film

• Heartbeat (1938 film), a French comedy, remade in 1999 as Le schpountz
• Heartbeat (1946 film), an American film by Sam Wood, with Ginger Rogers
• La Chamade (film) (English title: Heartbeat), a 1968 French film by Alain Cavalier
• Heart Beat (film), a 1980 American film about the love triangle between Jack Kerouac, Carolyn Cassady and Neal Cassady
• Heart Beats (film), a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language film
• Heartbeats (2010 film), a 2010 Canadian French-English film by Xavier Dolan
• Heartbeats (2017 film), a 2018 Indian film by Duane Adler
• Heartbeat (2010 film), a South Korean film about the illegal trade in human organs
• Heartbeat (2012 film), an Austrian short film
• Heartbeat (2014 film), a Canadian film

Television

• HeartBeat (1988 TV series), a 1988–1989 American medical drama that aired on ABC
• Heartbeat (British TV series), a 1992–2010 British period drama
• Heartbeat (1993 film), a 1993 NBC TV film
• Heartbeat (2016 TV series), a 2016 American medical drama that aired on NBC

Music

Bands

• The Heartbeats, a 1950s American doo-wop group
• The Heartbeats (big band), an American jazz ensemble
• The Heart Beats, a 1960s all-female garage rock band

Albums

• Heartbeat (Bad Boys Blue album), 1986
• Heartbeat (Curtis Mayfield album) or the title song, 1979
• Heartbeat (Da' T.R.U.T.H. album) or the title song, 2014
• Heartbeat (Don Johnson album) or the Wendy Waldman title song (see below), 1986
• Heartbeat (G.E.M. album) or the title song, 2015
• Heartbeat (Jasmine Rae album) or the title song, 2015
• Heartbeat (Jeremy Rosado album) or the title song, 2015
• Heartbeat (The Oak Ridge Boys album), 1987
• Heartbeat (Ruby Lin album) or the title song, 1999
• Heartbeat (Ryuichi Sakamoto album) or the title song (see below), 1991
• Heartbeat (Sarah Engels album) or the title song, 2011
• Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat by The DeFranco Family, or the title song, 1973
• Heartbeat: The Abbreviated King Crimson or the title song (see below), 1991
• The Heartbeat, by Bellarive, 2012
• Heart Beat (Wang Leehom album) or the title song, 2008
• Heartbeats – Chris Rea's Greatest Hits, 2005
• Heart Beats (Dami Im album), 2014
• Heart Beats (Danny album), 2007
• Heart Beats (Keystone Trio album), 1995
• Heartbeat, by Chris & Cosey, 1981
• Heart Beat, by Space Tribe, 2002
• Heartbeats, by Grum, 2010

Songs

• "Heartbeat" (2PM song), 2009
• "Heartbeat" (Annie song), 2004
• "Heartbeat" (BTS song), 2019
• "Heartbeat" (Buddy Holly song), 1958
• "Heartbeat" (Can-linn song), 2014
• "Heartbeat" (Carrie Underwood song), 2015
• "Heartbeat" (Childish Gambino song), 2011
• "Heartbeat" (Enrique Iglesias song), 2010
• "Heartbeat" (The Fray song), 2011
• "Heartbeat" (Girlfriend song), 1993
• "Heartbeat" (Wendy Waldman song), 1982; covered by Helen Reddy, 1983 and Don Johnson, 1986
• "Heartbeat" (Jimmy Somerville song), 1995
• "Heartbeat" (Justs song), 2016
• "Heartbeat" (King Crimson song), 1982
• "Heartbeat" (Late of the Pier song), 2008
• "Heartbeat" (Margaret song), 2015
• "Heartbeat" (Nina Sky song), 2012
• "Heartbeat" (Nneka song), 2008
• "Heartbeat" (Richard Orlinski and Eva Simons song), 2016
• "Heartbeat" (The Runaways song), 1977
• "Heartbeat" (Scouting for Girls song), 2008
• "Heartbeat" (Steps song), 1998
• "Heartbeat" (Taana Gardner song), 1981
• "Heartbeat" (Wilkinson song), 2013
• "Heartbeat" (Wire song), 1978; covered by Big Black, 1987
• "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)", by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian, 1992
• "Heartbeat Song" (The Futureheads song), 2010
• "Heartbeat Song" (Kelly Clarkson song), 2015
• "Heartbeats" (song), by The Knife, 2002
• "Heartbeatz", by Styles & Breeze, 2005
• "Heartbeat", by Carly Rae Jepsen from Dedicated Side B, 2020
• "Heartbeat", by Christopher from Closer, 2016
• "Heartbeat", by David Cook from Digital Vein, 2015
• "Heartbeat", by James Blunt from The Afterlove, 2017
• "Heartbeat", by Leona Lewis on her single "I Got You", 2009
• "Heartbeat", by Madonna from Hard Candy, 2008
• "Heartbeat", by Marcus & Martinus from Together, 2016
• "Heartbeat", by New Kids on the Block from Thankful, 2017
• "Heartbeat", by Paris Hilton from Paris, 2006
• "Heartbeat", by Plan B from Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose, 2018
• "Heartbeat", by the Psychedelic Furs from Mirror Moves, 1984
• "Heartbeat", by Red 7, 1985
• "Heartbeat", by Ruby Murray, 1954
• "Heartbeat", by Tahiti 80, 2000
• "Heartbeat", by Vicetone, 2013
• "Heartbeat", by Wham! from Make It Big, 1984
• "Heartbeats", by Matoma from One in a Million, 2018
• "Heartbeats", by Tom Walker from What a Time to Be Alive, 2019

Other uses

• Heartbeat (novel), a 2004 novel by Sharon Creech
• Heartbeat (Steel novel), a novel by Danielle Steel
• Heartbeat (company), a video game developer
• Heartbeat (video game), a 2018 video game created by Team Chumbosoft
• Heartbeat 1521, a defunct radio station in Northern Ireland, formerly called Radio 1521
• Heartbeat Productions, a British record company
• Heartbeat Tour, a concert tour by Jessie J

See also

• Heartbeat International
• Beating Heart (disambiguation)
• Hartbeat, a BBC television children's programme featuring Tony Hart