Listening to hold music is a universally unenjoyable experience — that is, unless it takes place on Pizza Hut’s line. On Feb. 9, TikToker @noraeinhellll posted a video calling Pizza Hut to “hear the ...

Meet Harriet Goldberg, a late bloomer who went from a career in social work to the queen of hold music with her 2011 song “My Time to Fly.” By Sal Cataldi Harriet Goldberg is the composer of what may ...

A major new psychological study could spell the end of the hold music as we know it. Led by music psychologist Dr Mimi O'Neill, researchers at the University of York put 2,540 participants ‘on hold’ - ...

We live in a state full of great musicians, yet hold music remains so bad. Why can't we get Willie Nelson to soundtrack an endless wait on the phone with one of our bureaucratic systems? This is a ...

Someone is late for the conference call, so the music starts. "Well, I've been sitting here all day," the song begins, sort of croony, with a vaguely country affect — the kind of opening that leads ...