Google Research timeline shows the rise and fall of music genres since the 1950s

[Mud]

[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;43575019]Dude, Led Zeppelin are like the fathers of Heavy Metal[/QUOTE]

Their sound is hard rock if anything though

[lazyguy]

[video=youtube;atKrDrvS6Us]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKrDrvS6Us[/video]
Billy Fury invented ska!

[Rangergxi]

[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;43579663]Until you actually turn on a radio and actually listen to the music. Shitty rap, corporate country, awful pop songs all following the same damn formulas, and not a jazz in sight.[/QUOTE]

The internet.

[Uzbekistan]

[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;43579663]Until you actually turn on a radio and actually listen to the music. Shitty rap, corporate country, awful pop songs all following the same damn formulas, and not a jazz in sight.[/QUOTE]

Most radio stations cater to the younger markets because they're the most profitable and in no way represent an accurate cross-section of music. Radio stations play songs that are guaranteed to drag in a large amount of listeners, Quelle suprise!

[DrTaxi]

this is kinda cool but
does google research really not have anything better to do

[soccerskyman]

No punk 1/10 would not read

[oxooon]

What I'm perplexed about is Holiday's massive lapse between 1950-1960ish in the OP's picture (top-most line). What's up with that?

[Mio Akiyama]

[QUOTE=mchapra;43579786]Their sound is hard rock if anything though[/QUOTE]

implying metal didn't derive from hard rock

[plants]

How does electronic have that little popularity? Almost everyone I know listens to electronic music and little else.

[Del91]

"metal"

[img]http://puu.sh/6pQ3H.jpg[/img]

[Papytendo]

[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;43587230]What I'm perplexed about is Holiday's massive lapse between 1950-1960ish in the OP's picture (top-most line). What's up with that?[/QUOTE]
president eisenhower declared a ban on holidays

[MachiniOs]

[QUOTE=J!NX;43570361]Jazz started a massive revolution of sound. Jazz was not only [B]huge[/B], but it really changed a lot.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fvJEpdq8a8"]also, fun fact; the beatles is what helped make metal[/URL][/QUOTE]
Relevant:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOrddRaSM8[/media]

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;43579663]Until you actually turn on a radio and actually listen to the music. Shitty rap, corporate country, awful pop songs all following the same damn formulas, and not a jazz in sight.[/QUOTE]

Consider that a hundred and fifty years ago, music was less diverse than what you hear on the radios these days.

[Smartlord]

[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;43587230]What I'm perplexed about is Holiday's massive lapse between 1950-1960ish in the OP's picture (top-most line). What's up with that?[/QUOTE]
A lot of holiday music was first created years ago, with not a lot of newer ones or covers getting much attention since we're all used to listening to the same ones every single year.

Who goes looking for a holiday song by a modern group, and doesn't just download the older ones?

[M.Ciaster]

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43570036]Looks like Indie is going down and HipHop/Rap are going up. Would hate for my favorite genre of music to die out like Jazz did.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, bud, Jazz never died and neither will your favorite genre :v:

[Dasein]

Jazz is a pretty disrespected genre nowadays with people thinking it's slow. Yeah its got easy listening but it also has this:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK_xMCsYtBI[/media]

[Venezuelan]

The 50s: When Soundtracks were bigger than Country.

[editline]19th January 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=Irockz;43572018]It's fun to find your favourite band
(also two compilations come before one of Muse's six albums for some reason, one of which never was released physically)[/QUOTE]

no, what is fun is [I]not [/I]finding your band and being overwhelmed with smug hipster self-satisfaction

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Del91;43587863]"metal"

[img]http://puu.sh/6pQ3H.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

it's like a slow motion train wreck starting at about half way

[Killuah]

[QUOTE=booster;43568642]I couldn't find any info on my favorite genre.

Doom funeral symphonic industrial gothic metal.[/QUOTE]

Death-Ambient for life

[Ninja Duck]

Gothic/Industrial (under Alt) and Industrial (under Metal) saddens me.

It's mostly just slight increases in popularity whenever Nine Inch Nails released an album.

I'm questioning the accuracy though too.

[Killuah]

[QUOTE=matt000024;43579085]Am I the only one questioning the accuracy of this?

Here's a few things to think about:

1. Google Play cannot overshadow iTunes, Youtube, and pirating combined which make up a pretty big chunk of modern music listening. The data therefore is more affected by extreme highs and lows.

2.Google Play does not have a massive range of music compared to other places.

3. It can only tell what music from what time people are listening to now. They can normalize statistics, but it still cannot compensate fully for not gathering the data when it occurred. Along with that a lot of people who were alive for the older genres are usually more prone to listen on Vinyl or CD.

4. A lot of artists don't really seem to be under very accurate genres. Genre naming is usually tough though.

Feel free to refute my points. I'm not a statistics expert, but these are some things that popped into my head after reading their "About" page.[/QUOTE]

this is from songs uploaded to google play, not from the store