The Verve Have The Saddest Ever Song Written

3 Elton John Sorry Seems to be the hardest word 74.8
4 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You 75.4
5 Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U 75.8
6 Will Young Leave Right Now 76
7 Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight 77.2
8 Christina Aguilera Beautiful 77.7
9 James Blunt Goodbye My Lover 77.9
10 Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees 78.1

TOP TEN EXHILARATING SONGS: TTQ Rating

Measured by increase in breaths per minute****

1 Blur Song 2 18.7
2 Girls Aloud Love Machine 16.9
3 Killers Somebody Told Me 16.5
4 Prodigy Firestarter 16.2
5 Razorlight Rip It Up 16.1
6 Rolling Stones Rolling Stones 15.8
7 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 15.7
8 U2 Beautiful Day 15.6
9 Oasis Roll With It 15
10 Take That Relight My Fire 14.3

Simon Lloyd, Head of Marketing for Nokia UK, said: "Digital music and digital music players have revolutionised the way we listen to and consume music. The fact that we can listen to music and make calls from the same device makes our playlists even more significant. We know that music does get us talking - that's why we decided it was time to bring in the experts and get a real insight into what it was about particular songs that aroused different emotions."

Dr. Harry Witchel said: ''Music is undeniably powerful at triggering different emotional states. Changes in tempo and frequencies induce profoundly different emotional states. A slow tempo song like the Verve's The Drugs Don't Work slows down the heart compared to most of the other songs and compared to white noise - in other words, it works like the emotional state of sadness. Also, I have to say there were many powerful and exhilarating songs we tested, and I was surprised that Blur's Song 2 could be such a clear winner among our participants." page << 1 2 3 >>