A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance s ...

Dr. Grierson of Goldsmiths University, London, once conducted a study to reveal the 50 most iconic songs of all time, according to science.

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 ...

Along with being a musician, one iconic band's lead singer is also a scientist, which led him to a miraculous day in the lab when the idea for a hit song emerged. Truly, a band never knows when the ...

A song description like the “catchiest of all time” is always going to have a bit of hyperbole behind it, but a 1977 signature song by Queen is one notable exception. From television and film to ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You know that feeling when you just can’t get a song out of your head—just a short part of it playing over and over?

When it comes to what makes one song "better" than another, definitive judgments can be hard to come by. After all, personal preference weighs heavily in what makes one melody more appealing than ...

While working out what the happiest songs of all time are isn't an exact science, these are the tracks which will most likely ...