Teens Brain Response To Music Can Predict The Song's Popularity

Latest study has shown interesting results that the teen age's brain response to a song can predict the popularity of song.
A song that is expected to go famous differently lights up teen's brain when listening to a song. Brain regions positively correlated with the average likability of the song.

The brain responses could predict about one-third of the songs that would eventually go on to sell more than 20,000 units. The data was even clearer for the flops: About 90 percent of the songs that drew a mostly weak response from the neural reward center of the teens went on to sell fewer than 20,000 units.

The data was originally collected to study how peer pressure affects teenagers’ opinions in 2006 but now used to see how famous these songs became.