Analysis of Popular Music Charts

The music industry has undeniably evolved over time and through the betterment of technology, music has the ability to be heard worldwide. Most artists become popularized through the internet and social media, but numerous composers have become well-known through the music they produce for movies. Soundtracks are extremely popular today, especially with the ever growing entertainment industry. One cannot simply hum a tune from a classic Disney film or any other well-known film without others recognizing the piece. The relevance of soundtracks in our culture today would make the main theme from the film “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” a perfect piece to include in this course.

Popular music is often one of the best lenses we have through which to view our own cultural orientation. Many of the artistic and experimental shifts in popular music have mirrored changes in our own society. For instance, the emergence of Elvis Presley as a public figure would signal the start of a sexual revolution and the growth in visibility of a rebellious youth culture. Similarly, the folk and psychedelic music of the 1960s was closely entangled with the Civil Rights, anti-war and social protest movements. In this regard, we can view popular music as an artifact through which to better understand the time and place in which it is produced. In light of this, the state of popular music today may suggest troubling things about our society.

From bell bottoms to Barbies, every generation has its own distinct trends. While various fads have cropped up in each era, music has always been a key element of culture. Starting in the 1950’s, music became integrated within the American culture as the favored form of expression. The popular types of music found on the Top 100 lists today however, have changed dramatically since then. What has promoted this obvious change in music choice? While rock ‘n’ roll still holds its own in the music billboards of 2010, the general public now prefers the mechanical sounds of hip hop and

The instant response to this question is often that the commercialization of hip is a negative phenomenon. Many hip hop fans seem to hold this opinion because they believe that the quality of music from today’s rappers has drastically decreased. However, the difficulty arises in determining whether the ‘commercialization’ of hip hop should be considered a positive or negative phenomenon. There are strong advocates for both of these judgements with convincing points to support their beliefs.

In Australia, there are around 23, 869, 122 people. With the wide range of access to technology, including radio, and streaming services, music is more available than a decade ago. The Australian Music Industry is vastly controlled by ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association). ARIA is supported by many recording studios, which in turn have their artists promoted by ARIA.

Duality, a rather whimsical alternative rock album produced by the exuberant band Set It Off, truly encaptures the attention and ears of many because of its ability to make the thirty-seven minute experience feel like a mind-blowing journey through different genres of music such as pop punk, pop rock, and general rock. Released in October of 2014, Duality hastily found its way to Rock Sound's "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list, landing at number 5. In addition, this cross-genre compilation is Set It Off's best album to date because of its unique sound and fresh style along with the notion that it was completely unexpected. Beginning with "The Haunting," a song that contains a sound similar to the band's older material, the album carefully introduces an eerie feel with a mischievous twist that swiftly transitions into a playful tune with songs such as "Forever Stuck In Our Youth" and "Why Worry." Duality, an upbeat, wild album released by the playful band Set It Off to symbolize limitless and unavoidable life experiences such as a breakup, has

John Covach, the author of What’s That Sound, distinguishes the cultural elements of pop-culture/music within four distinct categories: social, race, business, and technology. Without a doubt, all four of these traits within pop-culture have been evolving and changing ever since the emergence of any pop-culture. The cultural themes of the always-changing society, business, and technology have indefinitely changed pop-culture and vice-versa. In my essay, I want to discuss how the technology and the evolution of technology affected the growth and modernization of popular music.

Rapper Tupac was a highly well-liked rapper and is consider a role model to many musicians today. Canadian rapper Drake is considered one of the most popular rapper in 2016. The dance move Macarena was a fun and thrilling dance move in 1996. In contrast to 2016, The Nae-Nae dance was and is still a widely known dance that is still dance today. Donna Lewis’s 1996 hit song, I Love You (Always Forever) was named of the best songs by billboard during the year that it debuted and it’s considered to be an Adult Contemporary. In 2016, Rihanna’s song This Is What You Came For featuring Calvin Harris is considered to be one the of the year’s best song, the song is categorize as a Dance-pop song. Therefore, people’s music and dance taste have certainly transition into a more edgy and daring

Hip hop is one of the most popular genres around the world. There are many kinds of genres besides hip hop but this is one of the most listened genre around the world. This genre is increasing its popularity since it is streaming everywhere. Nielsen notes that “on-demand audio streams have reached over 184 billion streams so far in 2017, a considerable 62.4% increase over the same time period in 2016.” Although with the top streaming songs all having a direct connection to hip-hop and R&B, and everything seamlessly comes together for the tides to change in hip-hop’s direction.

“...it should be remembered that the gendered character of the music industry… and music generally both reflects and serves to constitute the gendered character of wider social and cultural realities.” William A. Hamlen Jr. writes in his article, “Superstardom in Popular Music: Empirical Evidence”, about the music industry market. Hamlen’s article expresses how the music industry is male dominated because the “lack of female role models” allows for masculine culture to continue. Thus, male domination in the music industry creates a space that is difficult for women to enter. Female singers navigating through this male dominated space may have to compromise the brand, image, and music they would like to create for their own self.

This is an annotated bibliography for research on how Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is being misinterpreted by the judging ranks of society. I am researching how society views EDM as a culture, from the negative reviews of drug use that it receives.

A commonality among all civilizations and cultures has been, and will always be, music. Throughout the Middle, Baroque, Romantic, and Modern ages of music, these civilizations’ varied widely in music type and in the way it sounded. With music in the present-day, pop and rap have taken a higher stance among genres of music. Psychology applies heavily to the topic of music. Especially today, scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists are attempting now to better understand how our brain works while people listen to music. Studies are conducted among teens and adolescents to learn how they perceive the music they listen to, and analyses of brain waves and other activity is conducted. Some psychologists have suggested that today’s music - rap,

Sunday night November 20, 2016. This is the night the American Music Awards (AMA’s) opened in 2016. The American Music Awards is a huge event in the music industry. This event is sometimes compared to the Grammys. As we all know, the opening and closing acts are the most important because you have to start the show off right to get everyone in that good and exciting mood, then it is also important to end the show with that special performance to remember until next year's event comes. At the 2016 American Music Awards, Bruno Mars stole the show with this amazing opening of to the show. He performed with his so called “comeback song” known as 24k Magic. “24k Magic is a retro funk and R&B song (24k

The popular culture of music has changed dramatically over the course of sixty five years. Since this time, new genres of music have been introduced, existing genres have changed, and fixed stereotypes have been associated with certain genres of music. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and is portrayed almost everywhere in first world societies, including on television, radio, at shopping centers, sporting events and in every area of popular culture. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and continues to strive and develop into more and diverse areas of culture.

The music industry has been around for over two centuries (PBS). Its volatility can be measured by its ability to shift and change according to its time period, the technologies that arise through the ages and the public’s shift in musical taste. The music industry is comprised of many different components, organizations and individuals that operate within it. Some of these components include the artists who compose the music themselves, the producers that engineer the sounds created by the artists, the companies that handle distribution and promotion of the recorded music, the broadcasters of the music such as radio