How Many Of ‘The 20 Catchiest Songs Of All Time’ Have Been Stuck In Your Head?
Have you ever wondered which hit songs have the most unforgettable hooks? Yeah, me either, but researchers have answered the question we didn’t ask. Researchers at The Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester, England) and The University of Amsterdam have enlisted 12,000 people to listen to the hook of 280 chart-topping songs (the 40 best-sellers from each decade from the 1940s onward) and name the song as quickly as they could.
Here’s the list of damnable earworms the researchers came up with, ranked by how quickly the 12,000 respondents could recognize each chart-topping song when played from the hook (the timestamp in parenthesis):More