Sublime

“Every bit of consumer research we’ve ever done shows only one consistent thing: Radio is the number one driver of sales and the biggest predictor of a song’s success,” says Dave Bakula, senior vice president of analytics at Nielsen, which tracks music sales and airplay. “You almost invariably see the biggest songs hit radio first, then pick up [in

The inability to enjoy music of any kind is so rare that brain specialists consider it a neurological condition: “Musical anhedonia” affects roughly 3 to 5 percent of us. People with this abnormality have glitches in the auditory-processing and reward systems of the brain.