single was the only one of four to enter the top 10, featuring the magic of one of prog’s most distinctive voices ...

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 ...

Though there are conflicting experiments out there, these three songs routinely end up on lists of the catchiest songs ever.

When it comes to what makes one song "better" than another, definitive judgments can be hard to come by. After all, personal preference weighs heavily in what makes one melody more appealing than ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You know that feeling when you just can’t get a song out of your head—just a short part of it playing over and over?

Reflecting upon a study made by St. Andrews University in Scotland from 2016 which named the ten most catchy songs of ...

Think about a song that’s gotten stuck in your head. Maybe it’s Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” the State Farm theme song, or, ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly — considering stadiums full of fans have been chanting the lyrics at sporting events for years — Queen ...