The pop songs you love might feel so catchy they’re magic, but their ability to get stuck in your head isn’t fairy dust and sparkles: it’s melodic math. Music researchers use melodic math to refer to ...

A Minnesota startup's shortcut for finding the most emotional moment in songs? Math. Minnetonka-based MIIR found a way to search mathematically rather than instinctively for the parts in songs that ...

But if the DJ threw on a song they didn't like, it was as if a giant vacuum had sucked them all off the dance floor, and the room grew quieter than a math test. A catchy song, it seems, can completely ...

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 ...