Here's a look at key trends in the Hot100's top 10 throughout 2021.
Hit Songs Deconstructed noted in its year-end report, “This trajectory closely mirrors the rise and fall of hip-hop songs, which are most often in a minor key.”
While the overall split among Hot 100 top 10s in 2021 was minor key at 59% and major key at 39%, among No. 1s it swung 67% major and 33% minor, due to pop’s dominance at No. 1, as noted above.“Looking outside the hip-hop genre, the 1980s skyrocketed” as an influence among Hot 100 top 10s,” in 2021, Hit Songs Deconstructed highlights. Sonically, the ’80s impacted no Hot 100 top 10s in both 2018 and 2019, inched to 8% for 2020 and soared to 31% in 2021.
Hit Songs Deconstructed co-founder Dave Penn defines an ’80s influence as leaning “more toward the earlier side of the decade” and is heard “mainly through instrumentation [such as] ’80s-sounding synths and drums.”
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