How well do you know your music?
While most people are able to sing along to iconic chorus’ in well-known songs, how many of us are able to know the tune just by listening to the first few seconds of a song?
A survey conducted by “Hooked On Music” asked over 12,000 participants to give the name of a song that was randomly selected out of a list of 1,000 iconic tunes.
While many were able to be recognized instantly, here were the top 20 songs that were ranked most well-known and the average time they were able to be identified:
- Spice Girls – Wannabe: 2.29 seconds
- Lou Bega – Mambo No 5: 2.48 seconds
- Survivor – Eye of the Tiger: 2.62 seconds
- Lady Gaga – Just Dance: 2.66 seconds
- ABBA – SOS: 2.73 seconds
- Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman: 2.73 seconds
- Michael Jackson – Beat It: 2.80 seconds
- Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You: 2.83 seconds
- The Human League – Don’t You Want Me: 2.83 seconds
- Aerosmith – I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing: 2.84 seconds
- Lady Gaga – Poker Face: 2.88 seconds
- Hanson – MMMbop: 2.89 seconds
- Elvis Presley – It’s Now Or Never: 2.91 seconds
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet: 2.94 seconds
- Michael Jackson – Billie Jean: 2.97 seconds
- Culture Club – Karma Chameleon: 2.99 seconds
- Britney Spears – Baby One More Time: 2.99 seconds
- Elvis Presley – Devil in Disguise: 3.01 seconds
- Boney M – Rivers of Babylon: 3.03 seconds
- Elton John – Candle in the Wind: 3.04 seconds
How many of these songs do you know well?
