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 ...

From the Spice Girls to The Macarena, AI chatbots and DJs say these are the songs we can't get out of our heads. Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, ...

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 ...

A new TikTok song is going viral for capturing the political anxiety of 2025 in just 30 seconds—and even John Oliver is calling it “the single catchiest song ever.” Todd (@agiftfromtodd), a musician ...

That’s according to Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, as they warble on their 1958 jazz classic, “Summertime.” The song captures the very essence of the season — warm and enchanting. Every year, ...

At their peak, nobody could deliver an earworm pop song with the consistency of ABBA. You could make an argument that their peak came in the neighborhood of 1977, the year they uncorked 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 ...