A mash-up of 2008's top pop songs—minus Beyoncé, who is inexplicably absent. Otherwise, it's kind of catchy and probably the only 2008 retrospective that will not reference Obama in any way. That T.I. song does remind me of the rapping kids, though. I just cannot escape The Change.
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.
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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