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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the challenges, Phineas and Ferb accomplished an extraordinary feat — incorporating at least one original song into every episode for over 200 segments. This impressive achievement resulted in ...

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 ...

Disney paid tribute to the Sherman Brothers by unveiling a new “Last Verse” written for the catchy and infectious earworm song that plays on a continuous loop in It’s a Small World — but will ...

Have you ever been ambushed by an irresistibly catchy tune? One minute you're driving calmly, the next a tune like Wannabe by the Spice Girls comes on the radio, and suddenly you're a full-on pop star ...

You probably haven’t thought about this hit song in a while, but the second you hear that intro, you’ll know exactly what song it is. “Two Of Hearts” by Stacey Q was released in 1986 and was a ...