As long as there are eye-catching songs, they already exist musicbut it’s still a mystery, which makes a song in our minds.
I recently accompanied my daughter’s high school for a full-night graduation party. Until 2 a.m., after wandering around the entire bike-free arcade, we took the graduates to the charter bus to a private New Year’s Club in downtown Seattle. It has free unlimited fountain soda and snacks, a photo booth with props, trivia contests, glowing necklaces and, most importantly, a dance floor with DJ spin music until 5 a.m.
I was fascinated as the crowds on the dance floor gradually disappeared and flowed. These teenagers have been walking all day long, celebrating their endless poses at the graduation ceremony of Space Needle photohug friends and grandparents, play with laser tags and drive a kart, laugh at Red Bull. They have the right to be exhausted and dragged down.
But if the DJ plays the right song (Chappell Roan’s hit is a favorite song), they scream and drown the dance floor, spin and spin, and spread out the lyrics so loudly that I Apple Watch Light the yellow and warn me to protect my ears. But if the DJ throws out songs they don’t like, it’s like a giant vacuum sucking them all out of the dance floor, the room is quieter than the math test.
It seems that this song can completely eliminate 22 hours of sleeplessness. But what makes the song fascinating and which songs are the most attractive?
Seeking answers, I turn to human experts and AI chatbot. Tools such as Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini and confusion are increasingly becoming our message and with lightning-booming summary in authoritative but humanized voices. At the same time, there is even an AI DJ Spotifythe main music streaming service, so AI has to have a good deal of making the tune attractive, right?
As for humans, they have actually tilted the music on the dance floor, and they are those who have learned firsthand the power of the earworm.
The most attractive song list
Lou Bega’s fifth Mambo is adorned with a list of female names and has been on several fascinating lists of tunes.
As early as 2014, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England released a list of 20 songs. The most attractive song ever. It gets there by bringing people to online games where they recognize as many songs as possible and those songs are recognized as the fastest songs.
The game collects data from over 12,000 people who found on average the most well-known songs by Spice Girls’ Wannabe (“Tell me what you want, what you really, what you really want”). Lou Bega’s No. 5 Mambo (“Monica of My Life”) came out with a 2.48 second advantage, while Survivor’s Eye of The Tiger ranked third in 2.62 seconds. The average total time to identify a clip is 5 seconds.
Here are the top 10 songs in this study:
- Spice Girl: Miss
- Lou Bega: Mambo No.5
- Survivor: Tiger Eye
- Lady Gaga: Just dancing
- ABBA: SOS
- Roy Obison: Beautiful woman
- Michael Jackson: Beat it
- Whitney Houston: I will love you forever
- People Alliance: You don’t want me
- Aerosmith: I don’t want to miss one thing
I came into contact with the museum and sadly there was no plan to re-do the research.
And the more I think about it, the more I wonder if the results of the survey are really accurate. Can you quickly recognize the most attractive songs? I can identify Happy Birthday and National Anthem, but they won’t take me to the dance floor. For me, a engaging song has irresistible hooks, appealing lyrics and a little extra to make it out of the rest.
AI is talking about the most popular songs
The late Michael Jackson was on display here in 1988 and has a lot of appealing songs including Billie Jean and beat it!
Although some are certain Concerns about generating AI (Illusion, Robot Overlord, etc.), I asked Openai’s love or annoying chatbot chatgpt What makes the song appealing.
(Disclosure: CNET’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April, accusing Ziff Davis of infringing on Ziff Davis’ copyright in training and operating its AI system.)
“The attraction in music is part of science, part of psychology and part of cultural background.” “The ‘Striking’ songs can easily stick to your head (earworm), making you want to sing, buzz or move on.”
The AI chatbot continues to quote repetitive choruses and hooks, simple melodies and strong rhythms, which help to attract, also noting: “If the average person can block it in a car or shower without much effort, it’s more likely to stick with it.” Not sure I need the AI to tell me, but yes, it makes sense.
Chatgpt’s most attractive song list
That said, I asked Chatgpt to choose the list of the most popular songs of the past 50 years.
Do I trust AI, just like I believe in the seniors who are about to graduate and their instant dance floor reaction? I don’t, but chatgpt There is no list A noticeable hallucination Or weird choice. And, in fact, the list includes the first song on the list of Museums of Science and Industry, The Spice Girl’s Thoughts. This may be because Chatgpt ingested the study list, but again included the top songs from the study.
- Country people: YMCA
- Aba: Dancing Queen
- Michael Jackson: Billy Jean
- Cyndi Lauper: Girls just want to have fun
- Spice Girl: Miss
- Los del Río: Macarena
- OUTKAST: Hey, yes!
- Shakira: The hips don’t lie
- Pharrell Williams: Happy
- Taylor Swift: Shake
List of the most attractive songs for Gemini
I’ll ask too Google’s Gemini AI For its most appealing song list. It only agrees with two songs with Chatgpt, including Wannabe of Spice Girls and “Happy” of Pharrell Williams – it is more consistent with the museum’s 2014 research, including Mambo No. 5 on Lou Bega and Survivor of Whitney Houston, and I will always love you. It also adds some more appealing songs to the mix:
- Journey: Don’t stop believing
- Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
- Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk
- Bon Jovi: Pray
- Beyoncé: Single Lady (with a ring on it)
List of the most attractive songs from Copilot
Microsoft’s Copilot AI Include some familiar titles in its list of most engaging songs, while Wannabe is on top. It also overlaps with the lists of Gemini and Chatgpt, but throws some new lists including:
- Ed Sheeran: Your Shape
- Carly Rae Jepsen: Call me maybe
- Adele: Go deeper
- Killer: Mr. Bright
- Backstreet Boy: I want that
Overall, the list provided by AI is better than I thought. The girls just want to have fun in my Gen X, which is an irresistible bop that should be on any engaging music list. It probably had been taking up a month when I called me, from Harvard baseball teams to Cookie Monsters releasing lipstick videos. This can be a fun way for party planners to build a Spotify playlist to keep everyone dancing.
But, to really watch the most compelling songs, I want to go back to the real human beings, whose business is to get people dancing.
New Jersey DJ on what makes the song fascinating
Kool and the gang’s celebrations are a fascinating party song from weddings to birthday parties to parties.
If there is any profession that should know which songs are appealing and which are fools, it is a record jockey. Mark Pomeroy spent 35 years working for a wedding in New Jersey (DJ), Bar Mitzvahs, private parties and other events, starting his career in the 1989 vinyl record era.
“At that time, there was no Spotify, no Napster, no online streaming, we didn’t even have CDs,” he told me with a smile. But one thing is the same: music brings people together.
“It’s all about connection,” he said. “Whether you’re a low bar, Mitzvah DJ or Elton John playing among the snap-up crowds in Madison Square Garden, you’re always trying to connect with the crowd.”
As far as appealing songs are concerned, Pomeroy says they can span all genres. What matters is the ability of the song to build emotional connections with the listener.
His attractive music list includes:
- Van Morrison’s brown eyes (often requested by girls with brown eyes)
- Cool and the Gang Celebration
- Los del Rio’s legendary line dance Macarena
- And, because his activities are often in New Jersey, home to legendary rock band Bon Jovi, Livin’s prayer will always attract the Jersey crowd. The song also pops up two of the three most popular songs provided by AI chatbots.
What makes the song catch up? “The beat per minute has a lot to do with it,” Pomeloy said. He knows the beat per minute of the song he plays and quotes an old-fashioned DJ motto, “No speeding before midnight”, which means it’s best to play the speed at which a club or party really starts to jump in the evening.
Chatgpt agrees that BPM is important in attracting songs, noting: “Our brains like to move in sync with rhythm. Rhythms that match natural human rhythms – such as walking (about 100 to 120 bpm) or heartbeat (60 to 100 bpm) – feel particularly attractive.”
The big word for a robot walking from a robot and lacking a heart, but I agree with it too.
Atlanta DJ on Tiktok, atmosphere and ear bug
Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club and Hot to Go are one of the latest songs mentioned when the striking music comes along.
Atlanta-based DJ Sloan Lee, Owner of Sloan Lee Musichas been in business for 11 years, and DJs from female activities are still rare.
“I always tailor my scenes to the atmosphere of every customer and crowd,” she told me. “Over the past few years or so, my audience has become more diverse and refined in musical flavors, full of American and international influence.”
She has seen many songs over the years.
“Uptown Funk is being eliminated, but sometimes it still needs to be asked, obviously, for a long time,” she said.[Chappell Roan’s] Over the past few years, Pink Pony Club has been asked a lot along with Bad Bunny’s Titi MePreguntó. ”
Social media has an impact on what happens.
“The tendency to come up with anything that tends toward tiktok,” Lee said. She quoted the dream of Fleetwood Mac, a song that dates back to 1977 but made a comeback a few years ago thanks to Tiktok Play.
But while Lee notes that Tiktok’s reputation doesn’t seem to keep the songs in the public mind that long, she’s seen other songs in the business consistently demanding. Her list also includes:
- OUTKAST: Hey
- Neil Diamond: Sweet Caroline
- Whitney Houston: I want to dance with someone
- Aba: Dancing Queen
- Taylor Swift: Shake
While AI, DJ and museum surveys can all tell exactly which songs are most compelling, it is clear that the overall list of the most popular songs of all time will change and change forever, with some constants.
“Even if you don’t want them there, any earworm songs get stuck in your mind,” Lee said.
