The sound of a decade
Songs are shorter. Genres are blending. Explore how music changed.
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Since TikTok launched in September 2016, the average Billboard Hot 100
has lost more than 10 seconds. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
followed, rewarding brevity and punishing anything that takes more than three seconds to land the hook.
The attention economy has reshaped pop music.
Pop music no longer belongs to fixed categories. Styles overlap, blend, and evolve faster than ever. What used to be distinct scenes now share the same playlists.
Turn the knob to switch between audio features, and watch how a decade of pop hits shifts across every metric.