Nick Troop's research 

 

David Bowie is a huge star but his popularity has waxed and waned over the course of his 26 studio albums. There are lots of things that might have influenced this (fashion, the amount of promotion given to the album, the music itself). But it turns out that the words Bowie uses also seem to be related to how long his albums stay in the charts. This is a website where Doctor Nick explores this issue in more detail.

 

Although people have emotional responses to music, it is not just the music that causes this effect. The expectation that people have about a song can also influence precisely what this reponses will be.

Other psychomusicology research 

 

There's so much to choose but here are some things that caught my eye and piqued my interest.

 

Pop music is a dangerous business. Bellis and colleagues show just how dangerous it is and why but exploring mortality in musicians

 

Some genres have been accused of increasing suicide rates. This is a summary of a flurry of papers from the 1990s on the effects of Country music on suicide