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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever been ambushed by an irresistibly catchy tune? One minute you're driving calmly, the next a tune like Wannabe by the ...

How come some songs make us want to sing along and dance, while others just don't grab our attention? Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to what makes a song the kind of timeless classic that people will sing along to for decades to come, it can be hard ...

Ever had a song just…lodge itself in your brain? You’re not alone! That’s an earworm, and science has figured out why they happen. Researchers at the University of St Andrews developed a formula based ...

The 1970s produced more than a few one-hit wonders across many genres, from pop to rock to disco. Many of those one-hit wonders from the 1970s have been lost to time, which is a shame, because some of ...

What makes that earworm an earworm? Musicologists at the University of Amsterdam recently set out to find out, collecting data from 12,000 participants who listened to a random selection from 1,000 ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

When it comes to what makes a song the kind of timeless classic that people will sing along to for decades to come, it can be hard to pinpoint what makes one tune more popular than another...but ...