Why the key change has disappeared from top-charting tunes
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Why the key change has disappeared from top-charting tunes

NPR  

Why the key change has disappeared from top-charting tunes A data analyst listened to decades of Billboard's top tunes and discovered that a once-ubiquitous compositional tool, the key change, has all but disappeared from modern hits. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The biggest hits in pop music all used to have something in common - a key change, like Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." DALLA RIVA: Basically, they'll shift up the key one or two notes - a half step or a whole step - during the last chorus, and it sort of injects energy into the song. DAN CHARNAS: Not everybody can rock a key change like Stevie Wonder - you know?

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