Also, any comedy where something is small (e.g., Alvin and the Chipmunks).
blink-182's "All the Small Things" is a popular choice for teen comedies starring actors in their late 20s. The use of big beat has become a Dead Horse Trope in advertising now, and has contributed the death of classic, Fatboy Slim-style big beat. Up until the mid-2000s, a handful of tracks ("Name of the Game", for example) by The Crystal Method and The Prodigy were very popular in ads for everything from energy drinks to action movies. Gary Jules' cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" is becoming popular for Horror/Action trailers during fast-paced montages of violence and/or desolation, as evidenced by its use in commercials for Gears of War and The Crazies. In fact, its status as a cliché was lampshaded in Tropic Thunder. As mentioned above, James Brown's "I Feel Good" is the go-to song for inane kids' comedies based around Toilet Humor and Eddie Murphy playing all the characters. America's Got Talent is particularly fond of using Two Steps From Hell, particularly Heart of Courage. 
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Listen to enough music from companies like Two Steps From Hell, Audiomachine, Epic Score, and Globus, and you'll start recognizing a LOT of the songs used in previews, both on TV and on the big screen. According to, it is the fifth most-commonly used cue for a trailer. This includes its sequel ( Alien³), The Abyss, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, From Dusk Till Dawn, XXX, Dante's Peak and many more. "Bishop's Countdown" from Aliens (also an example of Recycled Trailer Music) has been seen in many action-oriented films that were released over the last three decades. Recycled Trailer Music is a close sister trope, but for film scores instead of songs. Simply put, many editors of trailers find it easy to use famous songs to elicit a specific mood within a two- or three-minute duration.
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