Revealed: 20 Best songs to clean to – is YOUR favourite on this list?

• The band’s 1984 track appears to have inspired music lovers to start cleaning 

It is one of Queen’s most recognisable and popular songs.

And now the band’s iconic single ‘I Want To Break Free’ has been voted the best tune to clean to.

The 1984 track, which featured on the British outfit’s eleventh studio album The Works, stunned fans when its music video came out, featuring band members Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon dressed as housewives in a suburban home.

Queen hoovering and cleaning in drag appears to have inspired music lovers four decades later, as a survey of 2,000 Britons crowned it as the best clean-up hit.

Other favourites in the list of tracks that crank up the cleaning energy were ‘I Will Survive’ by Gloria Gaynor, ‘Take on Me’ by a-ha, and ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper.

Also included in the top tunes are ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ by Bonnie Tyler.

Queen’s I Want To Break Free stunned fans when its music video came out, featuring band members Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon dressed as housewives in a suburban home

Other favourites in the list of tracks that crank up the cleaning energy included Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper 

‘I Will Survive’ by Gloria Gaynor is also a firm favourite for Brits doing a spring clean

Dan Barfield, head of domestic appliances UK and Ireland for Samsung, which commissioned the study, said: ‘The right tune and tech can be the perfect companions to get you into the cleaning mood, infusing that extra boost of energy and motivation needed to tackle the task with gusto.’

Other tracks Brits love to groove to when getting out the vacuum include ‘September’ by Earth, Wind & Fire, and ‘Shut Up and Dance’ by Walk the Moon.

Meanwhile, 17 per cent of people love nothing more than to crank up Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit Shake it Off.

And 31 per cent of those polled have ended up doing more cleaning than they had planned, because they were vibing to the music.

Londoners are most likely to listen to music while they clean, while residents in Yorkshire and the Humber are least, according to the data.

The north west is home to the UK’s most conscientious carpet cleaners – vacuuming on average seven times a month while Northern Ireland in contrast ranks lowest, averaging four.

The top 20 songs to clean to  

1. I Want to Break Free – Queen

2. Don’t Stop Believin – Journey

3. ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) – Whitney Houston

4. Happy – Pharrell Williams

5. Girls Just Want to Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper

6. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor

7. Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars

8. I Want to Know What Love Is – Foreigner

9. Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler

10. Shake It Off – Taylor Swift

11. Take On Me – a-ha

12. I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith

13. Can’t Stop the Feeling! – Justin Timberlake

14. September – Earth, Wind & Fire

15. November Rain – Guns N’ Roses

16. Is This Love – Whitesnake

17. I’ll Be There for You – Bon Jovi

18. Shut Up and Dance – Walk The Moon

19. Alone – Heart

20. Heaven – Bryan Adams

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