![]() And as you can see, those days are way long gone. In the olden days, the optimal time limit for a 7-inch single was three minutes, max. Seriously guys, good job on making the Top 40, I can’t remember if I’ve seen you here since like, The Doors. And then the space odyssey minor modes of Dorian and Phrygian for dessert. Then Harmonic Minor, which is the tonality where you throw in the leading tone (raised 7th scale degree) for functionally delicious V chords. Natural Minor (a.k.a., Aeolian) tallies it way up to win the day, and good old Major holds its humble berth, as expected. Seriously though, Millennials - is everything okay?Īgain, there were so many minor tonalities, we had to split them up. Chalk it all up to Ed Sheeran’s capo I guess. You can almost always count on these keys in the Top 40 (as E and A are the lowest two strings on a guitar). ![]() The glaring absence here is the lack of E or A major keys. There was nothing special about G, C, or A(m) - those are the keys of the people. That’s right, more than 60% of our Top 40 songs (and 80% of the songs that reached #1) are in minor or minor mode keys! Depressed much, 2017?Īs for roots, compared to some other macro-music-stat studies I’ve done, last year’s biggest ground gainers were the tonal centers of D and A♭. Wow! Move over do re mi, it’s time to drop the “la ti do.” (Incidentally “latido” in Spanish means “musical beat”… where’s a “mind-blown” gif when you need one?) First up, we present the data charts themselves: nine humble music theory analyses of everything from tonalities, keys, and lead singer genders, to total number of appearances of Don Cheadle. Then after that (below), you can find individualized what’s-whats for all of your favorite songs. Enjoy! Now, this breakdown is a beast remember it’s a year’s worth of radio hits. But then we felt bad for Shawn Mendes - who tried as best he could with his prolific “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back,” only to make it as far up as #6 - so we made him a fake ID and snuck him in through the back. Apparently, there was something holding you back Shawn, 39 other pop songs. Well, besides this number’s significance in pop music as a result of the Billboard/Nielsen lists, it also just happens that the number of songs in 2017 that cracked the Billboard Top 5 (did I mention that was the primary methodology?) was 39. The Top 40 song charters that is, but why 40? ![]() Alright songwriters and song-guzzlers alike, strap on your boots for a knowledge voyage with more divergent rectangles than the NYC skyline: that’s right, the top pop charters have now become 2017’s top pop graphed. ![]()
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