Visualizing the Changing Sound of Music

An experiment to understand how genres and collaborations have shifted over the last decade

Each dot represents a song. The colour represents its year. The genre of the song is represented on the Y axis and the Billboard ranking on the X axis. By comparing the position of the dots against each other, you can find which genre topped the charts between both the years.

Rap was a top charting genre in 2008 but has been taken over by pop in 2018. Country and rock music are losing their spots in the top 100 songs on the Billboard charts.

The chart below represents the number of singles, collaborations, and group songs that hit the Billboard Top 100 chart in 2008 and 2018. There were no artist-collaborated songs in the 2008 Billboard charts. However, they hit the charts in 2018. As social media plays an important role on how we discover new things in the recent times, collaborations have helped reach a wider audience.

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