This is the most popular song to sing along to in the car

It's the little things in life, right, that make it special. Like being able to sing along loudly in your car when your favorite jingle plays on the radio.

Moment of happiness. No one hears you, no one sees you – the world consists for a moment only of you and your music. It's not so strange that we sing along an average of 3,917 times in our lives in the car with nice songs. Or with songs we half know, that's fine too, of course. By the way, we sing while driving a lot more often than we kiss in the car: we only get intimate with our mouths 2,432 times. No, no, let that mouth sing off-key, we can kiss on the couch. Or in bed.

What do we love to sing then? Or scream? At number one of favorite songs for in the car is – how could it be otherwise, just look at any top 1000 list ever – Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. The single is already from 1975 but is still good for some enthusiastic screaming in traffic. What the somewhat peculiar lyrics – ‘Mama, just killed a man’ – actually refer to? Singer Freddie Mercury preferred not to go into that. In interviews, he always found those kinds of questions a bit silly. But hey, no one really cares. It's the second most played song ever on British radio. And that ‘oehoeheoehhh’ works every time, you know.

Other favorites that are most often sung along to in cars worldwide are:

Livin’ on a Prayer – Bon Jovi

Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond

Dancing Queen – ABBA

Don’t Stop Believin’ – The Journey

I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor

Wonderwall – Oasis

Hotel California – The Eagles

Hey Jude – The Beatles

Eye of the Tiger – Survivor

Oh yes: ‘And after aaaalllllll...’. And: ‘Just a small town giiiiiirl’. I'm still going on vacation by car. Just because I want to.

FACTS

• On average, we spend four years and one month of our lives in our car
• We thank and greet other road users about 10,000 times in our lives
• Check: we have sex about four times in a lifetime in the car