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Trying to get a crying baby to sleep can be difficult on the best of days, but science might be able to help.
One of U2's most iconic tracks has been revealed as the perfect song for parents to play to get any young children off to sleep.
Cuckooland, a kids be specialist found that U2's track 'One' scientifically helped children drift off to sleep.
Researchers from Durham University analysed Spotify data linked to over 4,500 songs that regularly featured on lullaby playlists.
They were able to calculate that the average beats per minute, most common key and time signatures that work best for a lullably.
According to IrishPost, researcher at the Music & Science Lab at Durham University Annaliese Grimaud said:
“The function of a lullaby is to soothe a baby and put them to sleep, so common features we would expect to see in lullabies would be, a slow(ish) tempo, relatively quiet dynamics, simple rhythm pattern - potentially one that imitates a rocking movement - a simple melody that’s easier to memorise and easier to sing, predictability achieved by repetitive phrases and verses, and a high pitch due to the connotations that mothers/females usually sing lullabies.”
The study concluded that 'One' contained all the properties of the "perfect lullaby".
Bono previously explained One was:
"a song about coming together, but it's not the old hippie idea of 'Let's all live together.' It is, in fact, the opposite. It's saying, We are one, but we're not the same.
“It's not saying we even want to get along, but that we have to get along together in this world if it is to survive. It's a reminder that we have no choice".
