I love these presentations by Data is Beautiful, they really show the staggering significance of things we feel we already know. Country and then Jazz soared in the teens and twenties; fast forward to 1955 and the arrival of rock 'n' roll swept all else aside in a matter of months. And how quickly styles are dropped like hot bricks, no gradual decline for the likes of ragtime, which fell like a stone in the mid-forties.
It's worth mentioning that whatever is currently in vogue is considered pop, hence no catch-all category for that. I am somewhat surprised by the tenacity of Techno but this is an American study, hence the mumbling/swearing/angry chart topper of the past decade.
People like what they like and, as in all life, a favoured minority style cannot be artificially boosted.
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