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![]() I’m not sure if it’s interesting or anti-interesting that our meter chart matches almost exactly with last year’s, at thirty-seven 4/4s, two 12/8s, and instead of the uncommon gatling gun 24/16, we found a somewhat-rare-in-its-own-right 2/4 meter.ģ/4 time is still at large - anyone with information as to its whereabouts please contact: The Pianoman at 555-Lala-didada-dadum. From 71-72 BPM there is still a gap in the chain, similar to last year, and from 113-118 BPM is still a very curious drought-land, at least when compared to all the tempos found in Rolling Stone’s Greatest 500 Songs of All Time list. Looks like a pretty even tempo spread this year with 77-78 BPM eeking out a win. But when you can listen to basically whatever you want, whenever you want, without going to the record store with a million bucks, you know that the days when songs-for-the-masses had to be on the shorter side and, I don’t know, be by different people - yeah, those days are gone. Why?īecause of streaming, because of fancy new Corolla dashboards that talk to you and stuff - that’s why. What’s this have to do with song lengths? Mainly, this unheard-of achievement outlines, among other things, that song lengths, album lengths, and music video lengths just don’t matter as much anymore. The week his shipping container of beats and buddies dropped (Billboard week of July 14), His Eminent Drakiness had 22 - spell it out: twenty-two effing tracks - that made the Billboard Hot 100 that week. The most improved category is the 2:41-3:00 song, increasing its presence sevenfold! And, as long as we’re talking songs and lengths of things, can we talk about Drake already? This is like the seventh paragraph and we still haven’t mentioned the length and breadth of Drake’s magnum double-album opus, Scorpion. Similar to last year, songs lasting between 3:21-3:40 remain on top. Maybe the V chord is coming back in style after all? Worth a shout are the upticks in Lydian and Phrygian, and it’s also interesting that harmonic minor scales doubled their representation from four songs to eight. The major mode gained a little ground this year, chalking one more song, but it’s those sneaky-sultry minor modes that are still dominating. Very similar tonalities used this year, as compared to 2017. Since we had some Lydian keys this year, and Lydian is technically a major mode, I lumped these songs in with the major column - above, at least. “To B, or not to B.” That is… not a question this year, because none of our songs were in the key of B! It was E♭- minor, specifically - that was our huge winner this year ( black keys on the piano in general, really), with low showings for the keys of D and E, once again proving that nobody writes Top 40 pop songs on their guitars anymore. POP N MUSIC 16TH PARTY CRACK SERIES(If you find yourself lost in all the music theory below, check out our free series of courses, Theory for Producers, and catch up on the fundamentals, even if you can’t read sheet music!) ![]() And below all these veritable knowledge bombs, you’ll be amazed to find individual stats and commentary for all 40 songs! Just like last year, our master song specs charts are up first, including: 2018’s trendiest tonalities, keys, tempos, meters, triads, song lengths, chord totals, form sections, and singer genders (compared, of course, to the number of times Drake himself shows up in this list). Yep, there were 40 songs “Boo’d Up” in the Billboard’s Top 5 in 2018. ![]() Speaking of Top “40,” that’s literally what this year’s list totaled (all by itself this time!). POP N MUSIC 16TH PARTY CRACK HOW TONice for What? Nice for showing any Childish Young Bunny how to craft a song XXXTensive enough to bang its way into a Top 40 slot, next year and beyond. That’s right - we sent an even Better Now, out-of-this- WRLD probe past all the FEFE’s and ZEZE’s that were Meant to Be in the Top 5 of 2018’s Billboard Hot 100 charts, and what we got back was a tally of data and stats Grande enough to satiate all you Nonstop audiophiles’ consonance curiosity. Welcome back, pop music scholars, and Look Alive… because we did it again. POP N MUSIC 16TH PARTY CRACK FOR FREE+ Looking to produce better music and make more fluent use of the emotional capabilities of chord progressions and harmonic theory? Preview Soundfly’s Unlocking the Emotional Power of Chords course for free today. “My Mount Rushmore is me with four different expressions.” – Drake. ![]()
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