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The majority of pop music remains in 4/4 time, but not all of it. I have actually listened to each of the 40 best selling tunes (on the United States Signboard chart) from each year of the 21st century and remembered of which time signature( s) they use. So that's a sample size of 933 tunes (it would be 960 however in some cases the same song remains in the top 40 finest selling two years in a row so I didn't count those two times 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 trusted 4/4.
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0:00 Intro.
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 Evaluation.
15:05 Patreon.
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‘Chapel Perilous’ by Feed Me Jack is a great song that switches from 6/8 to 4/2 to 7/4 you should check it out
What an oddly specific song title to have multiple with the same name. The “Chapel Perilous” I know is by Mild High Club, and is in 12/8.
Wow another feed me jack fan, there are 2 of us! Promiscuity is another unusual one by them
You listened to all that pop music so we don’t have to. I commend you for your sacrifice!
There are songs in here that I would be surprised anybody managed to avoid, but there are plenty of songs here that I’ve honestly never heard before. I didn’t expect there to be so many.
not that I was going to in the first place
its so interesting that a lot of pretenious fans of art are so adverse to forming their own opinion and listening to music on their own (if they want of course) theres lots of good pop music, or dont forget we call beatles and all those bands rock but they were defintley pop back then
What a great concept for a video!! Awesome to put actual stats behind this
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Wow i actually didnt realise there would even be 3 percent of not 4/4 music in the 21st century charts lol
I’m a 3/4 / 6/8 / 9/8 truther. Triplets for life.
Saame
In the 60s there was likely a surge of huge hits not in 4/4 because of the Beatles.
Yeah, I can’t think of a single Beatles song in 4/4. They were basically a commercially successful Dream Theater.
Btw Avril and Chad are divorced…
For 9 years at this point lol
I obviously don’t keep up to date with my Canadian pop rock romance drama!
Oh finally someone made a video about this, cant wait to watch
Now it’s time to do Progressive Metal songs that ARE in 4/4
Thats a good idea ngl
Was thinking about this just today. There’s always two or three prog songs that are basicilly pop songs in 4/4 and those are usually the hit the band is known for. Then there’s the rest of the album that are all 17 minute soundscapes that go through every key and a dozen time signatures and 200bpm parts and the casual fans will have no idea that’s what the band is actually like. Yes comes to mind.
Pull me under – Dream theater
Sober – Tool
yes please, I’d watch that video
Would just be a list of Djent
Just for giggles, can you do this for the 20 years *before* 2000?
You don’t find pop songs in odd meters because you can’t dance to them. You can dance to 4/4, 6/8, 12/8, and 3/4.
Wrong, people in the Balkans often dance to odd 9/8 meters.
@@FairyCRat I did know that, but no American or British teenager who mainly listens to pop is going to be trying to dance in 5/8 or 7/8 anytime soon, unless they are in marching band or winter drumline and routinely play and march to things that are in weird meters. I don’t mention any other countries because their top 40’s weren’t the ones he was looking at.
People try. I used to go to a Turkish-Canadian band, and we could dance in 9/8, no problem. Some of the more difficult time signatures are difficult… do people dance at King Gizzard or Sungazer shows? Both of those bands like to throw in some little timing surprises, and it’s funny to see crowds dancing along to a normal section, and then it gets weird, and it’s like watching a slow motion crash on the dance floor🤣
@@actipton80 yeah, I guess we need another song like Take Five in order to launch an odd time signature onto the dance floor.
@@actipton80 15 Step by Radiohead is in 5/4 and you can perfectly dance to it. Even american or british teenagers can do this.
Great video! Love the song at the end. Clap!
Once again Nickelback fearlessly pushing musical boundaries.
Would be cool with two more videos, “90’s and 80’s” and “70’s and 60’s”. Then we could see if the % 4/4 time is changing over the decades.
videos like this makes me aware how little of the music that I listen to is from the top 40.😢
There should be an award for “Second Song in 7/4 that hit the Top 40” cuz the first one was probably _Solsbury Hill_ and that was decades ago
Always amazes me how I think all those as 3/4 but they are 6/8. I’m not surprised by the quantity of 12/8. I hear it everywhere and it’s so catchy to my ears.
Today I learned two things. I learned about 97% of the songs in the top 40 in this century are in 4/4 and I peaked in the early 2000’s.