New research reveals the songs people make babies to!

There’s nothing like a good song to get you and your special someone in the mood for love, and a new report1 by greetings card marketplace, thortful.com, reveals the songs people make babies to.

To create the list, thortful analysed live births data from the Office of National Statistics to reveal the most common dates babies were conceived. From this, they found the songs that were number one on each date.

Having analysed the findings, the top 20 tracks are as follows:

Rank	Song	Artist	Babies Born
1	Somethin' Stupid	Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman	24715
2	Mad World*	Michael Andrews and Gary Jules	17961
3	Patience	Take That	17228
4	Do They Know It’s Christmas?	Band Aid 20	16255
5	Love Yourself	Justin Bieber	15189
6	Can We Fix It?	Bob the Builder	15023
7	Sound of the Underground	Girls Aloud	13698
8	Bad Romance	Lady Gaga	13465
9	Hallelujah	Alexandra Burke	13220
10	Impossible	James Arthur	13094
11	A Moment Like This	Leona Lewis	12919
12	Stickwithu	Pussycat Dolls	12545
13	Saturday Night	Whigfield	12365
14	Love Is All Around	Wet Wet Wet	12302
15	Too Much	Spice Girls	1214
16	Wannabe	Spice Girls	11945
17	Killing in the Name	Rag Against the Machine	11441
18	Wherever You Are	Military Wives with Gareth Malone	11440
19	Cannonball	Little Mix	11328
20	Somewhere Only We Know	Lily Allen	10915

The findings show that plenty of people were getting cuddly over Christmas, as many of the top songs were Christmas number ones.

The song that comes out on top was ‘Somethin’ Stupid’, the kitschy Christmas duet between Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. Yes, really. There was a baby boom of 24,715 births nine months after Christmas 2001!

Other songs to make the list include Bob the Builder’s ‘Can We Fix It?’, ‘Bad Romance’ by Lady Gaga, and ‘Love Yourself’ by Justin Bieber – whoever said romance was dead!?

There are also a few sad songs on the list like ‘Wherever You Are’ and ‘Mad World’, the shock Christmas hit from 2003 – potentially responsible for the birth of 17,961 babies, all blissfully unaware of their mournful start in the world.