For the first time ever, Mike Frumin posts this cool graph showing how pop songs open big and then decline. So much for “climbing the charts” — looks like most music does best on the opening week. Thanks to Mike for releasing the graph which was originally created for a top secret research project at a hedge fund. Andy Baio’s interesting recent work on pop songs reminded me of Mike’s chart. We are in the midst of a pop music chart Renaissance.

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The Best Links:

1. The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity (Cool Graphs!)
2. “Climbing The Charts” Is Bunk, Albums Hit Their Peak Soon After They Are Released
3. Chart Humor!
4. The Science of Music Popularity — No Charts But Interesting

Gangsters don’t dance, they “c-walk”. Crip walking was big in the 90s before BuzzFeed even existed. It was started by mostly black gangsters in Compton, but these days the best C-Walkers seem to be suburban Asian kids on YouTube. And BIG UP to Michael Frumin who is my only friend who can actually c-walk.

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The Best Links:

1. Old School C-Walking From Compton
2. Crip Walking In London, England
3. How To C-Walk (Tutorial Video!)
4. Crip Walk on Wikipedia
5. How To C-Walk From The Kid With Millions of YouTube Views

MUSIC BUZZ: Rap lyrics as graphs, pie charts and venn diagrams. We’re just suckers for visual information. We like these even better than those indie rock infographics , though they’re not as pretty.

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The Best Links:

1. Some Nice gRAPhs
2. Map: “Area Codes In Which Ludacris Claims to Have Hoes”
3. A Graphical Dissertation on “This Is Why I’m Hot”
4. Rap Equals Ha Ha
5. Hip hop loving MIT grad student Mike Frumin makes some new rap graphs
6. Post (And Long Discussion!) On The Science of Gangsta Rap
7. The Stats Of Rap