According to Google Google Play provides a dataset for interrogating the rise and fall of musical artists and genres.
By Alexis C. Madrigal
The Atlantic - Jan 16 2014
Drawing on the songs that reside in the collections of millions of
Google Play users, the company created a visualization of the popularity
of various artists and genres from 1950 to today.
That time period captures the explosion of guitar-based music in the
form of country and rock, and all their variants. It charts the rise of
hip hop and the various resurgences of R&B. It even tries to parse
the many sub-genres of rock with the kind of are-you-serious precision
employed by teenage aficionados everywhere. Here, in bright green, you
can see the brief, glorious ascendance of psychedelic rock.
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