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How popular are different genres?
How popular are different genres?
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nacoran
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Jan 18, 2014
11:40 AM
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Via io9, a Google chart that tracks the popularity of different music genres over time.
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Original Google Chart (interactive)
https://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/
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Last Edited by nacoran on Jan 18, 2014 11:42 AM
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SuperBee
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Jan 18, 2014
1:35 PM
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It's kind of cool to look at. But i don't believe it. Apart from the insurmountable problem of trying to consistently accurately categorise things which defy categorisation, as the back catalogue expands so does the retrospective identification of sub-genres.
Jazz...jazz is just jazz. Ditto country..but rock, pop, metal, hip hop, alternative/indie are all separate genres.
Alternative/indie? Would that be alternative rock or alt pop or indie folk?....
So you have to examine the detail to see what it really means, and when you do that, the bigger picture is no longer meaningful, thus it's just really a fairly random way to find yourself lost in trivial data and nostalgia. Which is cool but essentially BS
It's only one mans opinion though; I know I might be wrong
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nacoran
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Jan 18, 2014
11:21 PM
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I agree to an extent. They don't really go into the methodology and some of the distinctions seem strange. Alternative/Indie, in particular, is kind of odd. That would include bands from U2, include grunge, some punk, Radiohead and Cold Play, which could all go into the rock category, as could a lot of pop.
You've got the Stones and Zeppelin and Floyd in the same category (although Zepp seems to be in both the metal and rock genres), and Rage Against the Machine off in Metal even although they would probably get airplay on the same station as grunge. NIN is metal, but they don't highlight bands like Judas Priest or Deep Purple or Metallica and I have know idea what they would do with the hair bands or a rap metal band.
Still, if you look at it as a very vague outline, it might be useful, even if it's just 'what genre do bands say they are to sell records'.
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