Have you noticed the recent surge in interest in songs played on TV shows, like “Grey’s Anatomy”, the short-lived “Moonlight”, “Army Wives” etc?

Fans are frantically searching online for titles of songs they’ve heard on their favorite shows within minutes of the shows having aired, often while the shows are still on, using their laptops or iPhones during the commercials!

Fan forums are buzzing with many viewers confidently claiming they know who the singer was, only for other committed fans to knock that down and come up with their own suggestions.

The producers of the shows have to pay royalties to the artists whose songs they play. Budget restraints tend to lead to the songs featured often being by lesser-known artists, which is great for up-and-coming acts, like The Kin, or the UK’s Headway, for example, both of which have had many of their songs featured on various shows.

But this means that the arguments over which group it was can rage for days as very few can immediately identify the singers. But once the song and artist are identified, there is a rush to download it from iTunes, or from Amazon.

One website specializes in supplying the names of the artists and the songs that they sing in every episode of dozens of popular TV shows, past and present. That’s www.TunesOnTheTube.tv

So give them a try next time you and your partner are arguing over who sang the song you both just heard and loved!