The data collection process for this project was intensive. In fact, rap is on pace to occupy more than 30% of Hot 100 spots this year, higher than its previous peak in 2004. Meanwhile, rap has come on strong in the last two years. Pop has owned the largest share of Billboard spots dating back to 2006, but has seen its popularity decline slightly since 2011. Music trends have swung in favor of pop and hip-hop in the 2010s.Since 1999, however, it's seen a noticeable resurgence. It enjoyed middling popularity through the mid-'80s, when it all but dropped off the charts. Country has had a tumultuous ride in the history of popular American music.Acts like Boyz II Men and Janet Jackson propelled the genre's popularity and ingratiated it with the masses. Despite all the attention paid to boy bands in the late '90s, it seems like R&B had no problem flourishing.Its run from 1982-86, when rock musicians occupied nearly 60% of available Hot 100 spots, is by far the most dominant stretch for any one genre. But as soul peaked in 1974 and slowly began to fade, rock continued to climb. Rock and soul were the most popular music genres from the mid-60s to mid-70s.Given that we only have data stretching back to 1958, we probably haven't even captured the genre's peak years.
The genre provided the largest percentage of Hot 100 entries for the first three years of the chart's existence.
Here's a brief look at how a few music genres have evolved: Given the trajectories that various genres have followed, it's clear that there's no "one-size-fits-all" genre lifecycle. You can toggle genres on and off the graph by adjusting the "Filter Genres" option in the upper left corner. We think that this is the most complete dataset of Hot 100 songs matched to their respective genres publicly available. To determine a genre for each song, we leaned heavily on the Spotify API, with supplemental data from, , and Wikipedia for songs missing from the streaming service. We've paired each of the 27,000+ songs that have appeared on the Hot 100 with an appropriate genre. according to airplay, streams, and physical sales. In this way, we hope to capture the "lifecycle" of major genres in American popular music.Įach week since 1958, Billboard magazine has released its Hot 100 chart - a list of the 100 most popular songs in the U.S. We aim to look at the trends of music genres that have broken into the mainstream - the years that genres like rock or rap or country spent climbing onto America's radar, the golden era of each genre when it was adopted and enjoyed by the masses, and the decline older genres suffered as they fell out of favor. Rock's fall from grace is the impetus for this project on the evolution of music. Rock’s popularity has fallen dramatically in America, replaced by pop, rap, and country. Only five other rock musicians have broken into the Hot 100 at all this year (through August).
This time, however, Bowie's resurgence represents a nostalgia for a bygone era in music. After he passed away in January, four of his hit records reemerged on the Hot 100 for a brief period. Over 60% of the songs that reached the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983 can be categorized as some form of rock 1.įast forward to 2016 and David Bowie is once again on the charts. Bowie was just one of numerous rock acts at the time wielding an enormous influence over popular music. His pop rock album Let's Dance had dropped in April of that year, spawning three singles that reached the top 15 in the U.S. Back in the summer of 1983, David Bowie was enjoying a spell of incredible commercial success.
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