Some days, getting a song stuck in your head can be a pleasure, as you hum along to a tune and joyfully go about the world. Other times, the last thing you want is to have an annoyingly repetitive track playing on a loop in your mind. This is especially true if you have a lot on your mind, or if you’re facing some stressful challenges in the day. Pop music is particularly well known for its ability to entrench melodies into the minds of the masses in an addictive, almost scientific manner. Needless to say, these songs can also be overly sappy and romantic, which touches a nerve with people from all corners of the earth. Although there are billions of songs out there in the world, there are a couple that was designed to be able to get stuck in the listener’s head. Our list here looks at 50 of the peskiests tunes of them all, which you should avoid like the plague if you don’t want to be humming them in your head for the rest of the day.
The Proclaimers — “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” (1988)
“I’m Gonna Be Me” is one of the biggest earworms in history, and has become a cultural phenomenon in the time since it was released over thirty years ago. The track is taken from the Proclaimers’ 1988 album ‘Sunshine on Leith’, and the band has never been able to produce another hit as popular. It’s the kind of song that truly gets stuck in your brain right from the first line, and carries you along with it all the way to the end.
The Proclaimers
Axel F — “Crazy Frog” (2005)
No greater storm hit the radio in the early 2000’s as the “Crazy Frog” remix, which was used for many promotional campaigns for cell phone services around the world. The song itself was nothing to write home about, but the remix ignited a fire among the young, and ended up being played in nightclubs everywhere you went at the time. We blame the Swedish group who decided to make the remix for it now being one of the most played songs of all time.
Axel F
