![]() ![]() "Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, it lives in a place at a time in a society and is listened to and made by a particular bunch of people at any given time," she said. Jadey O'Regan is a lecturer in contemporary music at the University of Sydney who specialises in the analysis of pop music.ĭr O'Regan - a confessed music data nerd - said that, while there were many variables that could influence the sound of music at any given time, it was hard not to speculate on the impact a global pandemic had on music in the 20 Hottest 100s. Those data offer a fascinating insight into the musical evolution of the Hottest 100 and, in turn, the changing tastes of young Australians. ![]() The algorithm calculates exact data, such as a song's tempo, key and its duration, as well as less-tangible features, such as its emotional valence (a feeling of positivity or negativity), its energy (energetic tracks feel fast, loud and noisy) and how good a track is to dance to (danceability is determined by a song's tempo, rhythm stability, beat strength and overall regularity). When a song is uploaded to Spotify, it is analysed and assigned data that helps power the streaming platform's recommendation algorithm. The findings are based on 30 years of audio data collected from the streaming platform Spotify, and include nearly every one of the 3,000 songs to have been voted into the countdown by triple j listeners. The winning track - Flume's Say Nothing, featuring MAY-A - was also the least-dancey track to win the countdown since Muse's six-minute, prog rock epic Knights of Cydonia in 2007.ĭata also shows that the average tempo of the 2022 Hottest 100 was the second-fastest on record since counting began back in 1993.
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