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Sunday, January 29, 2023

Billie Eilish, BTS Songs Among Best Music To Fall Asleep To, Study Says

A study by Aarhus University researchers ranks songs from Billie Eilish and BTS to be among the best music that can help people fall asleep.

The researchers reportedly analyzed over 200,000 songs on over 1,000 Spotify sleeping playlists to rank the tracks.

"It was surprising to see how many different types of music people use for sleep," Kira Vibe Jespersen, an assistant professor at the Center for Music in the Brain, told the New York Post. "Not only different genres, but also different audio characteristics . ranging from slow, soothing instrumental tracks to more energetic uptempo pop music."

The research, shared in journal PLOS One, suggests that fans often turn to familiar songs to help them fall asleep.

"In this study, we investigated the characteristics of music used for sleep and found that even though sleep music in general is softer, slower, instrumental and more often played on acoustic instruments than other music, the music people use for sleep displays a large variation including music characterized by high energy and tempo," the study authors said in a release.

The research team noted "considerable diversity" in songs that helped listeners fall asleep, and laid out six distinct sub-categories outside of such songs, with three of them lining up with typical characteristics (like ambient music).

Songs like "Dynamite" by BTS and "Lovely" by Eilish ft. Khalid fell into the other three categories of sleep music, as both songs are considered higher energy.

The study said more research is needed to determine why listeners chose such songs to help them sleep, as there is no "one-size-fits-all" playlist for sleeping.

(Photo: Mason Poole)

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Grammys Reveal First Wave Of 2023 Performers

The Recording Academy recently revealed the first wave of performers at the 2023 Grammys.

Current nominees Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile, Luke Combs, Steve Lacy, Lizzo, Kim Petras, and Sam Smith will take the Grammy stage at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 5.

The event, to be hosted by Trevor Noah, will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on the CBS and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

Prior to the Telecast, the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater at 12:30 p.m. PT and will be streamed live on live.Grammy.com.

Additional performers will be announced in the coming days, according to the Academy.

On Grammy Sunday, fans can access exclusive, behind-the-scenes Grammys content, including performances, acceptance speeches, interviews from the Grammy Live red-carpet special, and more via the Recording Academy's digital experience on live.Grammy.com.

(Photos Courtesy Of The Artists)

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Peter Gabriel Shares 'Dark-Side Mix' Of Latest Single 'Panopticom'

Legendary singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel recently released a brand new mix of his latest single, "Panopticom."

"Panopticom (Dark-Side Mix)" arrives after the release of "Panopticom (Bright Side Mix)," which was the first new music from Gabriel's upcoming album, i/o. "Panopticom (Bright Side Mix)" featured contributions from Brian Eno.

Gabriel previously announced that his music would be released in correlation to the lunar cycle, with a new song arriving each full moon. i/o is his first record since his ninth album, New Blood, which arrived in 2009.

"I'm lucky to have two of the world's best mix engineers; Tchad Blake and Mark 'Spike' Stent, working with me on the music from i/o. R ather than choosing only one of their mixes to release I have decided that people should be able to hear all the great work that they are both doing," Gabriel said in a newsletter to his Full Moon Club.

"I intend to ask them to mix each month's song, with Spike's mixes being called the Bright-Side and Tchad's the Dark-Side. Whether you hear the Bright-Side or the Dark-Side first will vary each full moon, depending on the order we decide to release them," he added. "I know this amount of detail is not for everyone, but I hope those that are into their music production will enjoy their different interpretations."

(Photo: Skoll World Forum)

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