Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Spice Girls' song Wannabe made just about every catchy song list out there. They wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah ...

Researchers find these songs get stuck in your head. — -- From Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off," to Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time," to “Mambo No 5,” to Rihanna's "Umbrella," they are the pop ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Can't get the Spice Girl's "Wannabe" out of your head 18 years later? You're not alone, a new study says. The research, out of the University of Amsterdam, is founded on the basis that all catchy ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Catchy songs can be transformative bits of happiness. You love a song, you want to sing it, right? Or hum it, or maybe bang some pretend drums to the tune. But the opposite could happen too. You might ...

“Shake It” by Metro Station was quite the earworm back in 2008. Released during the particularly mainstream revival era of emo and neon pop music, “Shake It” was the band’s very first charting single.

Earworms, also known as involuntary musical imagery, are brief snippets of music that repetitively play in our minds. They can be as short as 15 to 30 seconds and often feel like they loop without end ...

The 1970s produced more than a few one-hit wonders across many genres, from pop to rock to disco. Many of those one-hit wonders from the 1970s have been lost to time, which is a shame, because some of ...

How come some songs make us want to sing along and dance, while others just don't grab our attention? Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our ...