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Country Remains Tied With Pop on Top Over the first nine months of 2023, country and pop tied as the most common primary genres in the Hot 100’s top 10, each contributing to 21% of all top 10 hits.

The Spotify Wrapped feature lists some pretty obscure genres, like dance pop, bubblegrunge, freak folk, country dawn and Dream SMP. Here is what they mean.

The chart below plots genres over time (oldest to youngest genres), showing the average age of death of popular musicians by genre and gender against life expectancy (LE) for US males and females ...

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