There was a This American Life about this and they went into the methodology for how they arrived at this wonderful monstrosity. I hope someone else here can remember the name of that episode

The survey produced a companion piece "The most wanted song". It was 2 and odd minutes long, guy/girl duet about love and god, sounded almost exactly like everything on R&B pop adult contemporary radio, except more so. I tried listening to it a couple of times, it was like aural camo in that I could not pay attention to it because it was so common and bland. Oddly enough, Vernon Reid from Living Color is credited as the session guitarist.

When I ended up at a German Lord of the Rings convention they were very serious about not mixing up their fandoms. We got to play with medieval rock band Schelmish who did a medieval bagpipe version of Ring of Fire.

Happy der Osterhase!