The popularity of musical genres has changes quite a bit of the years... and yet in many ways it's stayed constant. Looking at the data pulled together by Marianos Silver (called 'MusicOSet'), which calculates song and artist popularity based on Billboard chart success and radio and Spotify plays, the least popular music in the years 1960 to 2019 was, perhaps unsurprisingly, 'Bagpipe'! 'Halloween' also scored badly. 'Country Dawn' had the worst single score but featured in more than one decade. Figure 4.1 shows the five least popular musical genres by decade.
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Fig. 4.1. Least popular musical popular by decade |
For the most popular genres, ‘Album Rock’ and ‘Dance Pop’ had the highest ratings overall. Album Rock features in the top 5 most popular genres from the 1960’s to the 1990’s. Dance Pop is in the top 5 most popular from the 1990’s to the 2010’s.
Another way of looking at musical genre is a treemap (figure 4.2). Here we can see a mapping of genre where the area is proportional to the popularity and colours correspond to artist type. Both Dance Pop and Album Rock are present in the 'Singer' and Band' genres.
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