Hold, Please -- And Enjoy the Music The American Music Center has commissioned six composers to write original compositions for its phone system.

Case in point is “Opus No. 1,” probably the most earworm-y song in the hold-music genre. It was composed in 1989 by a ...

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As much as it frustrates us, hold music may be a necessary evil. Imagine waiting on a call for any amount of time and having no music at all, just a sound void.

A vast majority, 90%, opt for music over advertisements, seeking a more soothing wait time. However, more than half would rather listen to a voice than be greeted with silence, highlighting the ...

Goldberg’s journey from a career in social work to the queen of hold music is an unlikely one. It’s the product of a passion that wasn’t acted on until she was in her late 40s.

Please hold, your call is important to us. Please hold, your call is important to us. Skip to main content Skip to site footer. ... It was in the 1980s that the first rival to on-hold music started.

Listening to hold music is a universally unenjoyable experience — that is, unless it takes place on Pizza Hut’s line. On Feb. 9, TikToker @noraeinhellll posted a video calling Pizza Hut to ...

"What REALLY gets my goat with hold music, is bad music and then the message that says, 'Please respect and speak kindly to our operators,' when the music just increases the blood pressure and ...

A professor in music therapy gives her take on the phenomenon of hold music and how it is designed to either calm us or potentially makes us edgy and impatient.

"Hold Me Closer" was released last week, and quickly climbed the charts, reaching No. 1 on iTunes upon its release. Spears expressed her excitement over its success in a video on Twitter, in which ...

The Hold Steady celebrated their 20th anniversary on Saturday night with a hometown blowout in Brooklyn. It was a fittingly rowdy birthday bash for these guys. The Hold Steady might have started ...