Current hit songs in the UK are happier, more danceable, and
more likely to be sung by women than songs which fail to make it
to the charts. Songs were considered successful if they made it
into Top 100 charts.
The new 2018 study, based on 500,000 songs released in Britain
between 1985 and 2015, found that as happy music declined, so
did the popularity of songs sung by men. The
study analyzed the sound characteristics of popular tracks,
but not their lyrics.
It also discovered trend that there is less happy music, while
people clearly prefer happy music. "More and more unhappy songs
are being released each year," a research team from the
University of California Irvine reported in the journal Royal
Society Open Science. Overall, they found that happiness in
music has declined, while sadness increased during the last 30
years.
However, hit tunes defy
the trend, and tend to be much happier than unsuccessful tunes.
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