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What the Gold Standard Song List Looks Like: Graphic Images
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A 3-D Bird's
Eye View of the Gold Standard Song List
Figure 1: Gold Standard Songs by Genre and
Decade
Genre Popularity
Over Time
Figure 2: Typical Popularity Profile of a
Genre Over Time
Genres Emerging
Over Time
Figure 3: Genre Breakouts in Historical
Perspective
Gold Standard
Songs Year by Year
Figure 4: 100 Years of Gold Standard Songs
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A
3-D
BIRD'S
EYE
VIEW
OF THE
GOLD
STANDARD
SONG
LIST
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FIGURE 1:
Gold Standard Songs by Genre and Decade
GENRE
POPULARITY
OVER
TIME
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The Gold Standard Song List, if taken as a more or less representative
data sample of genre popularity, reveals a characteristic "genre popularity
profile." This profile applies to most musical genres over time (Figure
1 above and Figure 2 below).
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Instead, with few exceptions, it remains a permanent mainstream genre,
co-existing, influencing, and being influenced by, many others. Every so
often a long-established mainstream genre experiences a period of renewed
popularity ("revival") that may extend for some years.
FIGURE 2:
Typical Popularity Profile of a Genre Over Time
GENRES
EMERGING
OVER
TIME
FIGURE 3:
Genre Breakouts In Historical Perspective
GOLD
STANDARD
SONGS
YEAR
BY YEAR
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The large bulge from the late 1950s to
the early 1970s reflects the breakout and cresting of several genres
concurrently: country/bluegrass, the folk/roots revival, the blues
revival, reggae, R & B/soul, and rock/pop (see Figure 1 above).
FIGURE 4:
100 Years of Gold Standard Songs
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