A Retromatic History of Music (or Love), 2023–1960
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This is an algorithmically-generated retroactive history of popular music. It is calculated by taking the currently most-popular songs (as of 2023-11-16) from each year back to 1960, finding the genres to which their artists correspond (sometimes in hindsight), and then ranking those genres according to their share of streams of that year's music. This process is neither wholly accurate nor wholly precise, but neither is music, yet they both often seem to work.
Click the » next to a genre to highlight its rise and fall across the years.