Wannabe named UK’s catchiest song
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Catchy … Spice Girls with the hit song, Wannabe. Picture: Supplied.
Source: News Corp Australia
THE Spice Girls’ debut song, Wannabe, has been named the UK’s catchiest song beating out some surprising competition.
researchers for an online interactive game called Hooked on Music say that people could name the girl power anthem within 2.3 seconds of hearing it — compared with an average of five seconds for other popular songs.
The results were unveiled at the Manchester Science Festival overnight, which studied data from 12,000 participants.
More than 1000 songs were played from the 1940s to today with participants asked if they recognised a song.
Remember him? Lou Bega with mambo No 5. Picture: Supplied.
Source: News Corp Australia
Wannabe, which spent seven weeks at number one in the UK during 1996, beat out Lou Bega’s Mambo No 5, which people could name within 2.48 seconds.
Third was Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger, followed by Lady Gaga’s Just Dance and Abba’s SOS and Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woman tied for fifth.
Two songs … Lady Gaga was the only artist in the top 10 to appear twice. Picture: Paul Kane/WireImage.
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How Long It Takes To Name That Song:
1 — Spice Girls, Wannabe — 2.29 seconds
2 — Lou Bega, Mambo No. 5 — 2.48 seconds
3- Survivor, Eye of the Tiger — 2.62 second
4 — Lady Gaga, Just Dance — 2.66 seconds
5 — Abba, SOS and Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman — 2.73 seconds
6 — Michael Jackson, Beat It — 2.8 seconds
7 — Whitney Houston, I Will Always Love You and The Human League, Don’t You Want Me — 2.83 seconds
8 — Aerosmith, I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing — 2.84 seconds
9 — Lady Gaga, Poker Face — 2.88 seconds
10 — Hanson, Mmmmbop — 2.89 seconds
On list … US singer Whitney Houston. Picture: Supplied.
Source: News Limited
