97% of pop is in 4/4... let’s look at the 3% that’s not
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Most pop music is in 4/4 time, but not all of it. I’ve listened to each of the 40 best selling songs (on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart) from each year of the 21st century and taken note of which time signature(s) they use. So that’s a sample size of 933 songs (it would be 960 but sometimes the same song is in the top 40 best selling two years in a row so I didn’t count those twice in the data). Out of those 933 songs, only 32 diverged from pure 4/4 time, so let’s take a look at them today and see what other options exist beyond good old reliable 4/4.
The outro music to this video is my track “Clap“ which you can hear in full on Spotify:
And, an extra special thanks goes to Douglas Lind, Vidad Flowers, Ivan Pang, Waylon Fairbanks, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇
0:00 Introduction
0:40 2000
0:49 2001
1:28 2002
1:53 2003
2:09 2004
3:45 2005
4:09 2006
4:59 2007
5:10 2008
5:28 2009
5:48 2010
6:14 12/8 vs. Swung 4/4
7:50 HDpiano
8:22 2011
8:55 2012
9:14 2013
9:19 2014
9:45 2015
10:26 2016
10:36 2017
10:57 2018
11:19 12/8 vs. 6/8
11:47 2019
11:53 2020
12:03 2021
12:15 2022
13:00 2023
13:38 Review
15:05 Patreon
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