[OC] Prevalence of Artists Using Weird Punctuation and Capitalization in Their Names

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1. Source: Billboard

   Tools: Excel, Datawrapper

   Sorta a weird thing to track. I wrote about it more extensively [here](https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/thats-our-band-name-period). Note explains a bit more detail, but I was looking for artists with names like fun. or P!nk or alt-j.

2. Overlay this with a graph charting the increasing importance of SEO.

3. Understandable. As time goes by it’s getting harder to pick a unique name.

4. Interestingly, ee cummings’ gravestone is in all caps

5. Looks like 2018 was peak stupidity.

6. All thanks to s.mouse
   https://youtu.be/Kgzevfxq0SY?t=94&si=wFMVj86WYj56AWcS

7. Rise of the typing quirks

8. I’ve been curious about the prevalence of all-caps song titles, which is very common these days. And all lowercase.

9. It’s important to appear YOUniQu3

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