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Musical Key Changes Have Gone Extinct- Shocking Analysis of Billboard Hot 100 Hits

What happened to them? Experts debate.

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Mar 01, 2025
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From Culture Critic:

Very cool, but here’s what Culture Critic got wrong:

The guy tweeting says that lack of key changes is loss of complexity in music. This is not true, it’s correlated to drop in popularity in rock music among #1’s where there was commonly a key change in the bridge.

From a pure waveform standpoint music has gotten more complex imho.

That…

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