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05/16/2026

It's here for 2026. Please forward to every Eurovision fan you know!

Joe Bennett analyses the songs, and tries to predict a winner before voting begins. Read the blog while you watch the final, or catch up later.

05/13/2026

Preparing to present my songwriting characteristics analysis research at the University of Vienna. Eurovision blog will be here on Saturday with musicology analysis of every song, and an attempt to predict the winner before the voting begins. Joebennett.net/blog .

05/07/2026

04/15/2026

For on this evening we were joined by the mighty . Congratulations Billy on being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame!

01/23/2026

Keeping it Boston with the students.

01/21/2026

So I gave a talk at the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association today. We reviewed recent music copyright infringement case law and talked about what it means to be an ethical musicologist, committed to reviewing the musical evidence fairly and accurately. This, apparently, was their takeaway.

12/16/2025

About to go on air with BBC 5 Live with a whole show about the ukulele. Featuring Billie Eilish, Sufjan Stevens, and of course Tiny Tim.

12/15/2025

I spoke to CBS TV this week about christmas songs. Live sleigh bells!

https://joebennett.net/2025/12/15/christmas-2025-research/e t

Joe Bennett appears on CBS This Morning with David Pogue to discuss what makes Christmas songs endure across the decades, drawing on forensic musicology research into holiday hits and listener behaviour.

12/03/2025

‘‘Tis the season

11/22/2025

"If You Could Read a Prayer to The Greatest Wolf of All"

A bunch of non-exact partial topline matches, key-compensated and mashed up to demonstrate that partial melodic similarity happens all the time in popular music.



Mashup by Joe Bennett
Research by .waters and
As featured on "Midnight Musicology" Nov 18, 2025

If I Could Read Your Mind (Gordon Lightfoot, 1970)
Hungry Like The Wolf (Duran Duran, 1982)
The Greatest Love Of All (Whitney Houston cover, 1986)
Save a Prayer (Duran Duran, 1982)

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