Heard this one earlier than? If you're a music fan it's a query you might have been asking your self just lately. More and more artists seem to be utilizing samples - snippets of older tracks - to create new ones. From Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice's Barbie World to Issey Cross' Bittersweet Goodbye, our summer season playlists have been filled with throwbacks. And evaluation shared with BBC Newsbeat exhibits that about one in 4 current UK Top forty hits uses samples. Bou's Closer takes us again to the 90s, recycling dance anthem Children by Robert Miles. And Charlie XCX needs to remind us of Toni Basil's 1981 hit Hey Mickey with Speed Drive, which also samples Robyn's Cobrastyle. The dance monitor makes use of the hook from 1997 hit Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve, a monitor which, ironically, sampled Rolling Stones hit The Last Time. You would possibly assume that the sampling phenomenon is a results of our current fascination with the 90s and noughties. Whether it is all the way down to nostalgia or social media exposing a new technology to the period, it's inspiring tendencies in film, Tv and trend. And it would be simple to assume the rise in musical throwbacks is solely all the way down to younger folks rediscovering older music online. While that's undoubtedly performed a part, US journalist Jayson Greene tells BBC Newsbeat the truth "is more fascinating than that". Jayson, who works for revered music webpage Pitchfork, seemed into the issue of "making old hits new once more", external. His investigation started with music publishing companies - once a "sleepy sector of the music enterprise" however one that is seen big investments recently. Within the US, two firms have snapped up the rights to dozens of tracks by legendary artists such as Bob Marley, Prince, James Brown, and Whitney Houston. Jayson spoke to their bosses and found that the businesses will look for alternatives to advertise the fabric within the hope it will get used. If it does, they receives a commission, and the songs that sell are those that folks already know. Hearing familiar songs "hits like a node in your lizard mind that recognises something you already love", he says. That's good for enterprise, however potentially much less useful for creativity, says Jayson. It's only fair to level out that one in four tracks using samples signifies that the other three are original compositions. And singer-songwriter Katie Gregson Macleod feels there's still an appetite for authentic music, especially on social media platforms. Katie has been writing songs since she was a teenager and balanced her music profession between university and a job in an Edinburgh coffee shop. The Scottish singer finally got her massive break final yr when her tune Complex went viral - and she was then signed to the same record label as Adele and nominated for an Ivor Novello award. Music journalist Jayson is not quite so convinced. He sees similarities with present cinema tendencies - and solutions that persons are getting tired of superhero motion pictures. Jayson says lots of people have reacted to his article, and he is seen a rise in folks calling out overuse of samples on social media. Follow Newsbeat on Twitter, external and YouTube, exterior. Take heed to Newsbeat stay at 12:Forty five and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here. The BBC just isn't answerable for the content of exterior sites.