MMMBop
It's from 1997, before you were born.
- Artist
- Hanson
- Genre
- Pop
- Released
- 1997
- Note
- breakout hit by teen brothers
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About
As of 2026, it's 29 years old.
MMMBop is three brothers, a chorus made mostly of nonsense syllables, and one of the most relentlessly cheerful earworms ever recorded — Hanson's 1997 smash was so catchy and so wholesome that it became inescapable, while the band fielded endless surprise that they were actual musicians and not a manufactured pop product. (They wrote and played it themselves.)
That 'mmmbop, ba duba dop' hook lodged itself permanently in the global brain and topped charts around the world.
Sunny, irresistible, and impossible to dislodge, MMMBop is the song that made three teenage brothers superstars and proved nonsense syllables can conquer the planet.
