The catchiest song is " Wannabe , " by the Spice Girls ! At least that ’s the conclusion researcher in the UK have come to after ayear - long study .
In the experiment , developed by the UK’sMuseum of Science and Industry , people played an synergistic on-line secret plan calledHooked on Music , created by computational musicologist John Ashley Burgoyne and a squad at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht . The game contained 1000 clipping of best - selling Sung dynasty spanning seven decades , from the 1940s until the present day . There were four different ways to bet , as Cnet describes :
Researchers analyze the data of 12,000 participant , which revealed that , on average , it took user just 2.29 seconds to recognise " Wannabe . " Here ’s the full list :
1 . " Wannabe , " Spice Girls - 2.29 seconds2 . " Mambo No . 5 , " Lou Bega - 2.48 seconds3 . " Eye of the Tiger , " Survivor - 2.62 seconds4 . " Just Dance , " Lady Gaga - 2.66 seconds5 . " SOS , " ABBA - 2.73 seconds6 . " Pretty Woman , " Roy Orbison - 2.73 seconds7 . " Beat It , " Michael Jackson - 2.80 seconds8 . " I Will Always Love You , " Whitney Houston - 2.83 seconds9 . " Do n’t You need Me , " The Human League - 2.83 seconds10 . " I Do n’t Want to Miss a affair , " Aerosmith - 2.84 seconds11 . " Poker Face , " Lady Gaga - 2.88 seconds12 . " MMMbop , " Hanson - 2.89 seconds13 . " It ’s Now or Never , " Elvis Presley - 2.91 seconds14 . " You Ai n’t Seen Nothin' Yet , " Bachman - Turner Overdrive - 2.94 seconds15 . " Billie Jean , " Michael Jackson - 2.97 seconds16 . " Karma Chameleon , " Culture Club - 2.99 seconds17 . " Baby One More Time , " Britney Spears - 2.99 seconds18 . " Devil in Disguise , " Elvis Presley - 3.01 seconds19 . " river of Babylon , " Boney M - 3.03 seconds20 . " taper in the Wind , " Elton John - 3.04 seconds
The researchers hope to fancy out not only what induce a song catchy but how musical memory work , which could help people with dementedness . " There has already been some inquiry that demonstrate that if you’re able to bump the right objet d’art of music , something that had a very hard substance , playing that musical composition of medicine can be very therapeutical , " game Divine Burgoyne said . " But the challenge is reckon out what is the best piece of medicine . "
[ h / tThe Science of Us ]
