Songs were sad, they were as slow as they'd ever been, and energy levels were down, but songs were the best they'd ever been to dance to.Along with the skyrocketing tempo changes, valence, the measure of positivity, increased every year between 2019 and 2021. The countdown of 2021 was the most positive year for the Hottest 100 in more than a decade, and the number one song for that year — a Wiggles cover of Tame Impala — was one of the most positive songs to ever top the countdown.
"Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, it lives in a place at a time in a society and is listened to and made by a particular bunch of people at any given time," she said.Dr O'Regan also suggested the impact of COVID-19 on music might be felt for years to come as many artists chose to delay releases because of the devastating impact of lockdowns on the music industry.
But as tastes changed and the ability to discover and share music through the internet emerged, the genres began to diversify. "We started to get disco and punk, and new spaces to allow for different kinds of music to be made as part of either the mainstream or not the mainstream. And I think that's absolutely continued, almost on a micro level these days."Looking at the genre data, we're able to see rock music hit a low in 2018 and 2019, with just six songs from that genre making it into the count in those years. But since then, it has been steadily creeping back in.
'Is the guitar making a comeback? yeah I guess so, if you've had your head up your backside for the last decade
Well done... The first article decent article I've read on the ABC for a while! An interesting analysis of the trends.
Lol the meme is now the headline 😹
Youth station, 'is it the kids that are wrong?'. Um it's for them, so no, no matter what the data says. All the data is swayed by older programmers and directors and an ageing listener base. You should let unearthed high submissions drive your programming and see what happens
You still have the same music director you had 30 years ago, the 60 yo Richard Kingsmill. It's no wonder the music is so our of touch.
People are still voting for what they are told to listen to then.
Just end the hottest 100 it’s nothing now like the abc as a whole the sooner we realise it’s detrimental to society the better
Lost interest when Dennis Leary took the top spot.
It's evolved into autotuned elevator music
I stopped listening to the hottest 100 after the wiggles got number 1
I'm out of touch and I don't care
The ABC is participating in social programming. Why is it that Aboriginal kids in particular are so enamoured with US hip hop culture? Because our national broadcaster has pushed it out to the bush to the point that many youths feel more affiliation with black Americans than Aus.
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