One hit wonders

May 18, 2008 at 4:56 pm · Filed under Pop Culture

A cool study on how pop culture and music have changed in the past 50 years.

A couple interesting observations… Looking at the very bottom of the chart, you can see that in the last couple years, it’s become very common for a single to appear in the Top 50 and fall out of the Hot 100 within four weeks. Prior to the mid-1990s, this almost never happened.

Check out the study with more graphs here.






  • http://hareega.blogspot.com Hareega

    I like this new trend, specially after spending three years listening to Macarena on every single station

  • http://www.ThisIsJoe.net Josef J.

    this shows you how commercial life, music, art and culture have become!! :)