You know what an "earworm" is- it's that song you...  ...he scientific term for an earworm is "involuntary musical imagery." Anyone who watched The Walking Dead thi...  ...orary, caused by listening to the actual external music . However, if you listen to a variety of songs, sa...  ...melodic shapes that are com...

pop songs all started sounding the same to me, I thou...  ...just because I was getting old. But according to musician Patrick Metzger, it may be because there’s...

An animated graph of Billboard’s top songs from Polygraph lets you watch the top five songs rise and fall over time. Not only that, but it plays the number one song while it’s at the top! This covers the year...

Lost in Your Eyes, Debbie GibsonLittle Sam Burnett...  ...effect on him, and he began to obsess over 1980s music after that. The next song that Sam's mom (also an...  ...r that. The next song that Sam's mom (also an 80s music enthusiast) intoduced him to was "Hold Me Now" by...  ...years. His charming visual int...

When you think of the worst songs of all time, wha...  ...hink of the worst songs of all time, what kind of music do you think of? What is great about that questio...  ...of? What is great about that question is that bad music is subjective. Coldplay being a perfect example b...  ...ore them, and some people thi...

Japanese musicians have always held a special place in their hearts...  ...held a special place in their hearts for American music , and rock & roll has made a particularly larg...  ...de a particularly large impact on their homegrown music scene, but one of the elements com...

[http://youtu.be/Da4V5vKcGl8] (YouTube link)The No...  ...st government cultural ministry by creating a new pop song. To do that, they pull out all the sure-fire...

Rock critic and music memorabilia collector Simon Reynolds is the autho...  ...ssing over the past is holding back creativity in music .Reynolds: I wonder why we’re so obsessed wi...  ...quo;re so obsessed with the past, particularly in music , because that’s my thin...

If you're over 35 years old, the...  ...ve probably thought to yourself how all pop music sound the same and that they're all very loud....  ...o data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010. A team led by a...  ...the Spanish National Research Council...

(YouTube link) Did someone say disco was dead? YouTube user Vissagan said, I was listening to the radio when I realized I could mix every song I had just heard. And so he did. Now if he had only laid Pachelbel's "Ca...