Travelodge announces the top tunes Sheffield residents clean to - Including Bohemian Rhapsody and The Best

Travelodge has announced the top tunes Sheffielders listen to while cleaning their homes. Britons spend roughly two years of their lives cleaning, and a lot of them turn to music to make the dull tasks more enjoyable.

Songs such as Tina Turner’s The Best, Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer and Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want To Have Fun top the list of songs that the hotel chain’s housekeeping staff listens to while working. Another favourite is I Want To Break Free by Queen, which features Freddie Mercury fittingly dressed as a maid in the music video.

The survey, which included 2,000 British adults as well as Travelodge’s housekeeping staff, shows that 80 percent of us enjoy listening to their favourite songs while cleaning. And 63 percent enjoy a good singalong, which might show on the most popular songs on the list.

Three out of four housekeepers say that listening to music helps them with stamina and motivation as well as makes cleaning more fun. And more than half reported that songs with a high beat per minute increase their speed.

What songs are Sheffielders listening to while cleaning their homes?

The most popular song Sheffielders listen to while cleaning their homes is The Best by Tina Turner from 1989. The songalong-friendly tune is followed by Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

Queen is the only band to feature more than once among Sheffield’s favourites. Joining Bohemian Rhapsody is I Want To Break Free and Another One Bites The Dust in fifth and fourteenth place.

Sheffielders spend an average of four hours and 24 minutes a week doing cleaning chores, with laundry ranked as the most enjoyable and cleaning the microwave the least.

Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge Spokesperson said: “Our housekeeping teams are certainly the heroes of our business. Collectively these teams spend nearly one million hours a year cleaning 581 UK Travelodge hotels, which includes seven properties in South Yorkshire, and over 43,000 rooms and the key to their success is listening to music whilst they work according to our research findings.

“Our housekeeping teams reported that cleaning to music has many benefits; such as boosting your productivity which can speed up your cleaning time, increase happy endorphins in your body and even help you lose weight.

“With just a quarter of Sheffielders knowing this secret, our housekeeping teams have collated their favourite cleaning songs and created a playlist to help Sheffielders make the most of their cleaning time.”

Sheffielders 30 most popular songs to listen to while cleaning

1. The Best - Tina Turner
2. Livin’ on a Prayer - Jon Bon Jovi
3. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
4. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
5. I Want To Break Free - Queen
6. Wake Me Up Before you Go Go - Wham
7. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
8. That Don’t Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
9. Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
10.  I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
11. Don’t Stop Believing - Journey
12. Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson
13. Young Hearts, Run Free - Candi Station
14. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
15. Mr Brightside - The Killers
16. Happy - Pharrell
17. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
18. Shake it Off - Taylor Swift
19. Respect - Aretha Franklin
20. Don’t Stop ‘Til you get Enough - Michael Jackson
21. We Found Love - Calvin Harris and Rihanna
22. Spinning Around - Kylie Minogue
23. Love Shack - B-52
24. Blinding Lights - The Weekend
25. I’m a Survivor - Destiny’s Child
26. Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
27. Toxic - Britney Spears
28. Livin La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
29. Car Wash - Ross Royce
30. Crazy in Love - Beyonce