Can't Get Much Higher

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I looked through 100s of Grammy speeches to find out what musicians are thankful for.
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We often associate popular music with young people. But do youthful artists really dominate the pop charts?
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17 years after the release of her debut LP, Taylor Swift is more popular than ever before. Is that rare or just run-of-the-mill for a global superstar?
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The evolution of Sirius XM's channel list gives us deep insight into how we remember (and forget) popular music.
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Netflix pioneered video streaming during the 2000s. Did they also kill the TV theme song?
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Stat Significant takes over Can't Get Much Higher to show us how radically popular music has changed over the last few decades.
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Nobody would let me write a history of song titles. So, I wrote it here.
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Using data provided by Vivid Seats and Instagram, I learned that social media clout isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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With controversy swirling around Jason Aldean's "Try That In a Small Town", I wanted to figure out how many country artists are really from small towns.
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With The Pudding, I catalogued the history of gender representation among songwriters. The results are depressing.
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Song titles are an unexpected way to uncover when certain styles lose culture hegemony.
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I spent the weekend wishing I went to a music festival in 2013. I then realized I was romanticizing the past without reason.
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