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Song challenge: Scientists identify brain's music pleasure zone

Suggest a song related to the news story. We'll pick our favourite suggestion and send the reader who made it some CDs as a reward
A healthy brain, as seen on an MRI scan. Photograph: Science photo library

In the tradition of countless afternoon radio phone-in features (see, for example, Mark and Lard's Cheesily Cheerful Chart Challenge), and the Guardian's own Readers recommend, this week we're launching a new musical challenge. We'll pick a story from the day's news, and we'd like you to suggest the most appropriate songs that relate to the story.

At 5pm BST today we'll select the song we like best, and send the reader who suggested it a handful of CDs from around the Guardian's music desk as a reward.

For today's challenge, our story is:

Brain's music pleasure zone identified


Researchers scanned the brains of subjects while they listened to new songs and asked how much they would spend on buying the tracks. They found that the most popular songs - those which people were prepared to pay more for - were also the ones that elicited the strongest response in the nucleus accumbens, a structure in the centre of the brain that is involved in reward processing.

Read the whole story here, post your song suggestions below, and come back after 5pm to see the song we've picked as the winner.


And the winner is

Chemical Brother – Music Response

Good suggestion mcgenius - drop an email to and we'll get some CDs in the post

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