The Story Behind The World’s Most Common On-Hold Music

The raging beats of Opus Number One

Grant Piper
4 min readMay 27, 2024
Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash

People are put on hold all of the time. In fact, it is rare that anyone calls customer service without being thrown onto a hold. Sometimes, holding on the phone can take agonizing minutes or even hours. According to a recent study, Americans will spend a ridiculous 900 million hours on hold collectively during a…

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Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.