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Music is more than the food of love – it is  better than sex.

Britons say that music is more likely to make  them feel good than making love – and Abba’s Dancing Queen is the most upbeat  track.

Some 40 per cent of the 2,000 men and women  questioned said that listening to their favourite songs lifted their mood,  compared with the 20 per cent who said that having sex put a spring in their  step.

In fact, romantic moments only scraped third  place in the poll, with gorging on foods such as chocolate our second favourite  way of making ourselves feel happy.

And women were more likely than men to choose  songs over sex.

‘Most people are not happy with their  relationship status – whether they are in a relationship or not.

‘Music is a more selfish activity because it  is just about you and you can immerse yourself it.

‘It is very self-indulgent.’Energising: Music can excite and motivate the  listener

Those surveyed, for Upbeat, a high-protein  fruit drink, also rated  Dancing Queen as the song most likely to put them  in a good mood.

Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl, Gloria Gaynor’s  disco anthem I Will Survive, The Beatles’ Hey Jude and the theme from Fame, sung  by Irene Cara, complete the top five.

The other songs in the top ten are Ride on  Time by Black Box, Rhianna’s Only Girl (In the World), I Feel Love by Donna  Summer, Somebody that I Used to Know by Gotye featuring Kimbra, and Gnarls  Barkley’s Crazy.

Professor Chamorro said that uplifting songs  are mid-paced and comfortingly familiar.

Typically, they have around 110 beats per  minute – a pace quick enough to energise us without being so fast that it makes  us feel anxious or stressed.

Familiarity is also important, with songs  that we know from films, Christmas parties and summer holidays particularly  likely to hit the right buttons.

The professor said: ‘Very few songs have any  significant effect on people the first time they hear them.

‘If they do, they are not likely to be  successful or popular because it means we become bored of them very  quickly.’

Songs rated as being uplifting also tend to  be in the major key and, not surprisingly, have positive lyrics.

Almost half of  said they listen to  music while doing housework and more than a quarter of men said they’d rather  give up watching sport than stop listening to music.

EUROPE HOPING TO BAN PEEING WHILE STANDING

Peeing standing up could become illegal for men in Europe.

The movement to create “sitting only” public restrooms started in Sweden and is gaining steam, with socialist and feminist political groups aiming to make restrooms cleaner.

Some of these activists have actually begun carrying signs saying, “Drop your trousers and sit” – with a picture of a man peeing standing up covered by a big red “X.” More HERE