![]() But even with that freedom, songs are still getting shorter. With an industry largely focused on streaming ( it made up 85% of the music industry revenue in 2020, according to the Recording Association of America), the technological limits of releasing a long song are no longer present. And artists would work within that, and it defined, to some extent, the length of the album - and relatedly, the length of the song.” “78 vinyl, 33 vinyl, 45 vinyl and then cassettes and later CDs - all of these formats had a finite duration. The lengths of most popular songs have hovered around 3 minutes for decades, at first due to the limitations of physical media we had in the 20th century, Bennett said. ![]() That second-most-played track is a 5:29 cut of the same song.Īll of this is exciting to music scholars like Joe Bennett, a musicologist and professor at the Berklee College of Music.Ĭreating a popular 10-minute song bucks the trends established over decades of commercially released music and more recent trends since the rise of streaming, Bennett told LX News host Nik Z during an interview. It’s been played 57 million times on Spotify, more than double the plays of the second-most-played track on the album. 5 Playlists Guaranteed To Ease Tension at Any Holiday Gatheringīeyoncé's Choreographer JaQuel Knight Talks ‘Single Ladies,' TikTok and Creative Control for Black Artists
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