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TIL in 1998 there were 153 jingles in a sample of 1,279 national commercials; by 2011, the number of jingles had dropped to 8 jingles out of 306 commercials. The once popular jingle has increasingly been replaced by advertisers with a mixture of older & recent pop music to make commercials memorable

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