Does chatgpt count as one or five plus? Pretty sure that is going to dominate this graph going forward
What happened around 1975? Change in how credit was determined?
Why on earth would you treat a continuous variable like “number of writers” as a discrete legend variable? Very strange way to present this data.
Edit: yes OK, it’s an ordinal variable rather than continuous. Point still stands, the visualisation is treating it as a nominal variable.
Stock, Aitken and Waterman I think it was, responsible for so much generic pop
I feel like without the context of what percentage of songs overall are written by each number of writers this isn’t saying much. If 5x the songs hit number 1 with 1 writer but 20x the songs are being written with just one writer I feel like it’s misleading.
Wow, these numbers are looking terrible for the Tories. Where’s Reform, btw?
2005: the rise of stars powerful enough to demand songwriting credit in exchange for singing the song, regardless of their actual contribution
![[OC] The Number of Songwriters on Number One Hits](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/dqhiu5x29fld1.jpeg)
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Source: Billboard, Tidal
Tools: Excel, Datawrapper
I wrote a bit more about this chart [here](https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/does-apple-music-sound-better-than). I considered doing this as a stacked line chart, but I always find those very hard to interpret.
Does chatgpt count as one or five plus? Pretty sure that is going to dominate this graph going forward
What happened around 1975?
Change in how credit was determined?
Why on earth would you treat a continuous variable like “number of writers” as a discrete legend variable? Very strange way to present this data.
Edit: yes OK, it’s an ordinal variable rather than continuous. Point still stands, the visualisation is treating it as a nominal variable.
Stock, Aitken and Waterman I think it was, responsible for so much generic pop
I feel like without the context of what percentage of songs overall are written by each number of writers this isn’t saying much. If 5x the songs hit number 1 with 1 writer but 20x the songs are being written with just one writer I feel like it’s misleading.
Wow, these numbers are looking terrible for the Tories. Where’s Reform, btw?
2005: the rise of stars powerful enough to demand songwriting credit in exchange for singing the song, regardless of their actual contribution